5 major product tampering cases

Tampering with products to kill or harm people has a long history.
The cases under investigation by Air Canada and Delta are again focusing on this terrible crime.
Here are five sensational cases starting from the 19 th century.
This is not the first product tampering case of its time, but it is certainly the most famous.
1898-year-old Christmas Eve, Harry Cornwall, director of knickerboker Sports Club in New York, received a package at the club.
Inside is a silver bottle holder and a Bromo-Seltzer bottle.
There is also a small gift envelope with no cards in it.
Cornwall thinks it\'s an interesting tip to avoid excessive drinking during the holidays.
He took the bottle holder and bottle home.
A few days later, a relative of Cornwall who had enjoyed the bottle rack woke up with a headache.
Catherine Adams made some movies.
She said Seltzer tasted bitter.
Then Cornwall took a sip.
The bitter taste of this drink is due to the addition of something in Bromo
Seltzer: cyanide. (See sidebar).
\"This is inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminds him of the fate of a single love.
This is the opening of Gabriel Garcia Marquez\'s masterpiece love during the cholera period.
The novel went on to explain that a doctor summoned to the scene of death noticed the smell and described it as \"aromatic smoke of gold cyanide \".
The victim is his friend and the most compassionate opponent in chess.
\"This is not a case of product tampering, but a case of suicide by cyanide at the end of the 19 th century, around Bromo --Seltzer case.
Adams died an hour later.
Cornwall, though sick, survived.
Another member of the club, Henry Barnett, died in similar circumstances on November.
Newspapers in New York are covering the matter.
The police investigation quickly focused on a former club member and chemist, Roland molinius, who had a dispute with Cornwall and was a romantic rival to Barnett. The 1899-
1900 The trial was one of the longest in the history of New York at that time.
Molino was convicted of the murder of Adams.
He appealed and won a new trial because of the wrong evidence.
Although Barnet was not prosecuted, the prosecution linked Molineux to his death.
The decision of the Court of Appeal was a milestone in the United States. S.
Because it determined that the presumption of innocence meant that previous offences could not be used as evidence in unrelated cases.
In the second trial, it took the jury only 12 minutes to consider it.
Molineux was acquitted.
Today, in the state of New York
The trial hearing on the acceptability of the evidence is called the Molineux hearing.
It is this situation that changes the way drugs are packaged and leads to new product tampering laws.
In the Chicago area, seven people died after taking extra drugs
The strength of Tylenol with cyanide was added.
This is still one of the largest unsolved murders in the United States. S.
It has more than 100 police investigators, more than 6,500 leads and 400 possible suspects.
But there is no known crime scene, and there is no known motive.
Tylenol was recalled, its market share plunged, but after a few years, Tylenol\'s market share plummeted.
1 painkillers in the United StatesS. James W.
Lewis was charged with extortion.
Former tax advisor Lewis moved to New York from Chicago in September 1982. (
The murders took place at the end of September and October. 1. )
Lewis sent a letter to the manufacturer of Johnson & Johnson\'s subsidiary, Tylenol, asking for $1 million to \"stop killing \".
Lewis served 11 years in prison.
In the months after the Tylenol murder, there were 270 cases in the United States suspected of tampering with products. S.
Tylenol started using tamper-
Resistant to packaging.
Still, on February 1986, in New York State, Diane ellesrose died after taking cyanide --laced Tylenol.
The case was not resolved either.
Since April 1985, people in Japan have died after drinking popular drinks that are usually distributed from vending machines.
The death toll across Japan could be as high as 12, which makes
Known as \"vending machine murder\" is probably the most deadly product.
Tampering cases in history
More people are seriously ill. The most-
The drink that is frequently tampered with is the energy drink Oronamin C that contains vitamins.
It sells billions of dollars a year.
A herbicide, the herbicide, was added to these drinks.
At the time, as a marketing strategy, vending machines sometimes sent out two drinks.
Police suspect that the killer usually puts the poison in the dispenser of the machine.
Police also speculated that some of the deaths could have been committed by suicide or imitation killers.
The case remains unresolved.
Broadcaster NHK and CBC News could not find any reports of the arrest.
On 1998, there were another wave of poisoning of drinks sold in vending machines and convenience stores in Japan.
In Washington, 1986, two people died after taking cyanide. laced Excedrin.
The doctor said Bruce Nick was the first person to die from swelling.
Then Susan Snow died after taking extra food.
Strong strength. Bristol-
Miles recalled Excedrin nationwide.
Nickell\'s wife, Stella, then provided information that her husband also took Excedrin, which turned out to have the same batch number.
She filed a wrong death lawsuit against Bristol.
Miles, so did Snow\'s husband.
Product tampering in CanadaCanada is not immune to product tampering.
Here are the four most recent cases: 2004: Adel Arnaout shipped his water bottle injected ricin to modeling agencies, banks and judges in Toronto.
In 2010, he was convicted of 11 attempted murders.
He also sent or delivered three packages full of explosives on 2007.
On March 2012, Arnaout was declared a dangerous criminal and imprisoned indefinitely.
2009: March 17, an undecorated place in Guelph, Ontario.
Mastoora Qezil, a former Maple Leaf Food employee, inserted 13 needles into Maple Leaf meat products.
Later, she returned to the store, claiming that her daughter had found a needle in a meat product.
After the police told her they had a video of her buying needles and tape in the meat area, Qezil admitted that.
She was sentenced to 18 months of house arrest.
2010: in four incidents at Oakridge
At the op supermarket in Calgary, all kinds of food items are inserted.
On April 24, 2012, Tajana Granada was sentenced to three years in prison for tampering with others.
The judge said her actions were in retaliation for her arrest in 2009 for shoplifting in the store.
2010: Five people found the demand in the piler sausage in four different stores in Toronto.
No one was injured. A 78-year-
The old woman was accused of 10 mischief.
2012: between August 2011 and June 2012, more than 30 dirty needles were found in stores in Sherbrooke and l\'évis.
Claude l. turno faces 38 criminal charges.
He pleaded not guilty to all charges.
As many as 22 people were touched or stabbed by used needles or syringes while trying on clothes. Cyanide-
On the shelves of the store in the third district, anaxin, whose share price has risen, was also found.
The indictment was finally received in December 1987.
Stella Nickell was the one who tampered with the three bottles.
She killed her husband in order to buy insurance.
Two other bottles-
Death of snow
It was the result of her efforts to cover up her footprints.
Nickell is currently working for 90-year sentence.
Her conviction and sentence was the first sentence to tamper with the law on products passed after the Tylenol murder.
Kathleen Daneker and Stanley McWhorter died in Washington state after taking cyanide
Laced afed, a solution.
Burroughs wellcom & Co.
Manufacturers of Sudafed recalled the product from all over the United StatesS.
Three other bottles of tampered sudafi were found on the store shelves.
But in fact, there\'s a bottle of six bottles of cyanide. laced Sudafed. On Feb.
1991, before her death, Jennifer Merlin suddenly found out that her husband Joseph had given her to stop her snoring.
Shortly after she was unconscious, Joseph called 911 and Jennifer was rushed to the hospital. She survived.
On August 1992, the police arrested Joseph Malin because he identified with a pseudonym a few weeks before the poisoning that he had purchased sodium cyanide.
According to prosecutors, Mlin\'s motive was to raise insurance money for his wife\'s death, fearing that he would become a suspect of poisoning, and in order to transfer the suspect, he put five other bottles in.
Meiling was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.