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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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.
She was getting gift baskets ready for the holiday. A little cheddar wheel. Some nice salami. Nuts. Ricin. All the holiday favorites.
Betty Croaker.....HeeHee
Sounds like it should be one of the cards we used to collect as kids.
Wacky Packs if think I remember correctly.
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“The Call of Cthulhu” came a little later...
Good times, good times...
Pleasant looking Girl...
Vermont based, all natural organic ricin.
Every time I see the name castor I think of the time the doctor told my Ol Man to go home and take two teaspoons full of castor oil. Pap was plugged up.. Anyway, he read the instructions as two Tablespoons and took it.
He had the S#$ts all night. Was not plugged up any longer I tell you that.
Loved that movie, Arsenic & Old Lace. 8>)
“Today, my friends, join me as we make a savory ricin, uhhh, RICE pilaf with psychedelic mushrooms! It’ll send you outta this world!”
“Be sure to send your PBS donation BEFORE you start on this delicious recipe!”
You need to eat a lot of ricin for it to kill you. The lethal oral dose about 1 mg per kg of body weight. Inhaling it or being injected is another matter altogether.
When I first read the headline I thought Bernie Sanders.
Vermont based, all natural organic ricin.
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Label it “small batch” or “artisanal”. People love that.
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