So Bob sends me this email saying: “figured if you drank gin, you would drink anything — make sure to stay on the wife’s good side :)”
and a link to this story. Thanks for the dig Bob! Heh Gin is quite the polarizing beverage! OK but on to the more serious story.
A woman drew a 23-year prison sentence Wednesday for killing her alcoholic boyfriend by lacing a jug of margarita cocktails with antifreeze at her apartment.
“It’s not as if you were captive in this house,” Judge William Kocher said in imposing a near-maximum penalty on Cynthia Galens, who maintained that victim Thomas Stack was emotionally and physically abusive. “It’s just senseless what you did.”
Galens, 52, was convicted of manslaughter in September and faced anywhere from five years to 25 years in state prison.
In a domestic situation poisoning is a VERY easy way to commit murder, as your victim will be accustom to accepting food and drink presented to you. This goes double if the drink is laced with ethylene glycol which I gather is not unpleasant tasting like many poisons. Children and pets who don’t know better may consume large amounts of it just because it tastes “good”.
Mixed in a cocktail it might not even taste too strange. But again we’re talking about murder by poison, not by gun, that simply doesn’t count!
