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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 09:26 PM
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"Georgia Woman Convicted of Murder by Antifreeze..." (wait for it)... "Again!"
Hey, if you find something that works for ya, you stick with it.

Ga. jury convicts woman in antifreeze death
Former 911 operator faces death penalty in boyfriend’s killing

DALTON, Ga. -
A former 911 operator was convicted Saturday of murdering her boyfriend by poisoning him with antifreeze....

She is already serving a life sentence for the 1995 death of her husband, Glenn Turner, a Cobb County police officer. The murder charge in Thompson’s death was filed after that 2004 conviction....

Defense attorney Jimmy Berry indicated the verdict was not unexpected. “You know when you’ve got one conviction already it’s really tough to convince a jury she had nothing to do with the second (death),” he said....
Yes, it's like that old parable about the boy who cried "antifreeze poisoning"


Prosecutors said tests on their bodies showed they were poisoned with ethylene glycol, a sweet but odorless chemical in antifreeze. During Turner’s 2004 trial they suggested it could have been placed in foods such as Jell-O.

Penn said during her closing argument Friday that even though no one saw her do it, Turner was the last person with both men before they became ill and was the last person to give them anything to eat or drink.

Defense lawyer Vic Reynolds said the prosecution’s evidence adds up to character assassination, not murder. “They can predict. They can assume, but that isn’t the law,” Reynolds said.


"What? Lime Jello again?"
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 09:40 PM
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1. ?
:wtf: else would anyone in Georgia need antifreeze for?
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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 09:44 PM
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2. Cooling their car during the obscenely hot summer months?
Edited on Sun Mar-25-07 09:45 PM by Nevernose
Cooling their car during the obscenely hot summer months?

Just sayin' it works both ways is all, both to cool your car and to heat it. Ethylene glycol has a very low/high freezing/boiling point.

Plus it REALLY helps you out if you're into serially murdering old men because you want the life insurance money. Or if you're bored. Damn, why aren't they in the mall?
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Generic Brad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 10:24 PM
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3. Anti-freeze is poisonous?
If I had known that I wouldn't have had a second helping tonight!
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