In regard to "taste": Here's a similarity: Remember that Perper said the Chloral Hydrate had a terrible taste...And yet she "intentionally" took her "killer dose", too. It looks like BOTH "killer doses" were "deliberate and masked" by some means. Damn right KE would know.
I found an old rape case where chloral hydrate was masked via iced tea. And if I can find it...so can KE.
One of the big things with chloral hydrate is still the fact that it is rarely tested for in an autopsy...and the earliest results for Anna were leaning toward the flu..as all other drugs were at non-killer doses.
Also, BOTH victims were "long dead" before discovered.
I'm still guessing that KE had an expertise or love in college....in Pharmaceuticals....and maybe even an obsession with "mind altering" drugs. Wonder if she was a hippie??
Some people from her home town in Ohio or class mates at Ohio State U should know.