According to a criminal complaint, the couple "conspired to gather or create elaborate poisons" and use them to murder women ...

Paul Van Duyne Jr., 43, and Andrea L. Whitaker, 41, spent months researching, acquiring and planting the extremely toxic ...

Thallium sulfate (the inexpensive salt of a metal akin to lead) was used by some dermatologists as late as 1940 to make a patient’s hair fall out—which made it easier to treat ringworm of the ...

Thallium. 5. Thallium: this ... Thallium sulfate is water-soluble and tasteless and they take several days for the symptoms to appear and even then these are generally attributed to other illnesses.

Prosecutors say Paul Van Duyne Jr. and Andrea L. Whitaker conspired to place cyanide in the water bottles of two women Van Duyne briefly dated.

Until it was banned in 1975, thallium sulfate was used in pesticides and rat poison. The toxin can enter the body through ingestion, inhalation or via the skin.

Prosecutors say on April 26, VanDuyne Jr. and Whitaker broke into the Rock County victim's car and filled her gym water bottle with cyanide and thallium. On May 4, they broke into the victim's car and ...

"I’m not sure that I can order thallium sulfate without unwanted attention," VanDuyne texted in part. More in U.S. Gov. Cox tells Utahns to lead a ‘new era of patriotism’ at kickoff ...