Posted on 12/02/2017 11:02:31 AM PST by JoeProBono
The cupboard above the stove in Betty Miller's retirement apartment contained bottles labeled "apple seed," "cherry seed," "castor beans," and "ricin," the FBI says.
The potentially deadly ricin, federal agents allege, was homemade by the 70-year-old to go into the food and drink of her neighbors at a Vermont continuing care retirement community. Earlier this week, the FBI was asked to come to the Wake Robin life care community in Shelburne, Vermont, to investigate a potentially toxic substance. When an agent interviewed Miller, she allegedly told him she was making ricin in her home and testing its effectiveness on other residents of Wake Robin. "On at least three occasions, Miller exposed other residents to the ricin she had produced by placing it on food and/or in beverages she expected them to ingest," Special Agent Mark Emmons wrote in a criminal complaint.
Miller indicated she planned to take the ricin herself one day, Emmons wrote. The FBI searched her home and in the kitchen found a wicker basket that had pill bottles with various writings on the labels. A bottle labeled "ricin" was half full with a yellowish white powder, which tests later confirmed was ricin, the complaint says.
Betty Miller made her initial appearance in a Vermont court Friday on charges she illegally made deadly ricin toxin in her home. Betty Miller made her initial appearance in a Vermont court Friday on charges she illegally made deadly ricin toxin in her home. Miller was arrested and charged with unregistered possession of a select agent. She made her initial court appearance Friday. CNN was unable to reach the public defender who represented her.............
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If nobody died, she didn’t succeed in actually making ricin.
But her nephew did dig a Panama Canal in the basement.
maybe she just gave them less than lethal amount.
Except, it appears she never administered the poison. Ricin production isn’t quite brain surgery.
“Cooking with Betty”
On local access.
Since tests confirmed the substance as ricin, I’d say that the “making” part was successfully completed. Whether or not it was used doesn’t take away from her having made it.
why did i find this headline so funny. I am truly disturbed.
Well, that's nice. One of my co-workers used to bring in home-baked cookies for the office. It's good to share your hobbies with others.
The article says she used it on people, but no people are dead.
And crime labs are notoriously corrupt.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=crime+lab+scandals&atb=v79-5__&ia=web
Gee, is that courtroom sketch artist like 8 years old or something?
No No, that was Elderberry wine. :D
I played one of the policemen in that once. It was fun!
Shouldn't that be Betty Croaker?
LOL! It is pretty bad.
Those clusters are just the thing to leave out
for a visit from Cthulhu Claus!
I was in Vermont yesterday. Only news I have from up there is....
Okemo is open for skiing!
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