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What that detective claimed doesn’t really fit with what’s at http://writersforensicsblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/dr-james-c-whorton-and-the-arsenic-century/

The arsenic that is used for poisoning is a white odorless tasteless powder that is easily mistaken for flour or sugar. Within 30-60 minutes of ingesting it, the target has sharp burning in the esophagus and stomach, followed by intense diarrhea that lasts for hours. Because the onset of intense symptoms within an hour of ingestion makes it easy to trace who could have done the poisoning, in days past more gradual poisonings were done and the death occurred over weeks.

Since Cormier went to the hospital in the early afternoon with diarrhea and such and believed he had been poisoned, it seems likely that somebody put something in his lunch, in an amount that was geared toward having an immediate violent reaction without worries of anybody figuring out who did it. Maybe because they knew the police wouldn’t check it out.

If he ate lunch at work it was somebody who was there at the coroner’s office at the time, and it should not have been difficult for the police to start pinpointing suspects already the day that he died, based upon the time he felt the burning that he would have reported to the doctor at the hospital the first day. He went to a hospital closer to home the day he died. Seems like he must not have been at home when he decided to go to the hospital when the symptoms came initially, so the poisoning probably happened at work, or wherever he ate lunch that day. Or if he was poisoned by contact or inhalation it would have happened at the office.

I remember reading that the workers at that office were upset that security was so bad there - that it would not be hard for somebody to get in there and do something bad. Which was worrisome to them because they deal with crime victims and there would be people who were interested in revenge, scaring off the coroner, or compromising the evidence.

I can’t see a doctor in an emergency room having a medical-type guy who works at the morgue come in with sudden-onset symptoms like that, saying he thought he was poisoned and showing classic symptoms of poisoning, and sending him away without doing any tests, just telling him to see his regular doctor.

We know that between the doctor and the police, they had “debunked” the Breitbart connection, partially by coming up with a fake story about that first doctor suspecting a perforated bowel when Cormier initially came in. So one or both of them are lying to the public.

Putting all that together, it seems like somebody could well have poisoned Cormier either at his office or wherever he ate 2 days before the Breitbart autopsy came out, knowing that the symptoms would come on suddenly while he was at work and not worried about anybody finding out who did it. The doctor who first saw him seems negligent in ignoring his suspicions which matched his symptoms, especially knowing that he worked in a profession where there could easily be a motive for poisoning. When he died, the police could have had immediate leads because the symptoms show up so soon after ingestion, pinpointing a specific time for the poisoning. We know they immediately suspected arsenic, probably because of a preliminary toxicology test. They checked his home and even now it seems like they would like to make his wife look suspect. But finding out when and where he had eaten would be the critical question - yet it seems like they must not have pursued that.

Instead, when people questioned the possible connection to Breitbart’s autopsy, they “debunked” the connection by feeding the public false information trying to make people think it WASN’T arsenic after all. Now they’re trying to make it look like suicide - even though he had gone to the hospital reporting that he thought somebody had poisoned him.

Smokeyblue, this honestly does NOT look good to me. It looks to me like somebody had the help of the police in doing a blatant poisoning - so a message would be heard loud and clear in that office - without the logical clues ever being followed up on to catch the killer. And then followed up by the police lying about what really happened.

That this article came out shortly after the November election, saying that the toxicology reports had come back just a couple weeks earlier... also stinks to high heaven. An article published in May of 2012 said they expected the complete toxicology results in a couple weeks. Not 6 months later.

Yeah, this one reeks.