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Sep. 5th, 2018 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutBest quote: "authorities say they are reexamining the crossbow situation".
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/05/south-carolina-police-allege-murder-it-was-the-wife-in-the-foyer-with-the-eye-drops/
Short form: guy dies, looks like he fell down the stairs, funeral everyone sad, then autopsy results come back and wife is charged with using ingredient in visine to poison him. The crossbow thing is a previous incident in which he was sleeping and she shot him in the head with a crossbow "by accident". As one does.
"Lana Clayton did tell authorities her husband was mentally abusive and had “mood swings,” according to the paper." That was before he died, in the coverage from the crossbow incident, apparently.
Not sure what lessons to take from this, other than if you stumble across a stockpile of visine in the house, don't eat or drink anything until you find out what the hell is going on.
Beyond that, I suppose we'll have to wait and see if there are further details forthcoming. It sounds like there was a pretty solid indication that the wife was not happy with the relationship; I would think that if that popped up as a result of being shot in the head, one should probably take it seriously. OTOH, who knows what judgment or faculties might be impaired by being shot in the head with a crossbow.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/05/south-carolina-police-allege-murder-it-was-the-wife-in-the-foyer-with-the-eye-drops/
Short form: guy dies, looks like he fell down the stairs, funeral everyone sad, then autopsy results come back and wife is charged with using ingredient in visine to poison him. The crossbow thing is a previous incident in which he was sleeping and she shot him in the head with a crossbow "by accident". As one does.
"Lana Clayton did tell authorities her husband was mentally abusive and had “mood swings,” according to the paper." That was before he died, in the coverage from the crossbow incident, apparently.
Not sure what lessons to take from this, other than if you stumble across a stockpile of visine in the house, don't eat or drink anything until you find out what the hell is going on.
Beyond that, I suppose we'll have to wait and see if there are further details forthcoming. It sounds like there was a pretty solid indication that the wife was not happy with the relationship; I would think that if that popped up as a result of being shot in the head, one should probably take it seriously. OTOH, who knows what judgment or faculties might be impaired by being shot in the head with a crossbow.
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Date: 2018-09-05 06:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-09-05 11:08 pm (UTC)http://animatedamerican.tumblr.com/post/177698525912/butts-for-days-blad-the-inhaler
More on-topic, I'll have to share the WaPo article with a friend of ours. Back when he was a prosecutor, he handled a case where the victim had been poisoned with Visine. (I think is also the one where the suspect tried to argue that the victim poisoned and stabbed himself -- because so many people who stab themselves then clean and put away the knife!)
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Date: 2018-09-06 02:45 am (UTC)