Nope. I was kinda being a smartass (imagine that?). The Tylenol case was never solved!! (S)he may be someone you know.
ETA: what’s that they say about great minds thinking alike? 
Are you maybe thinking of Claus von Bulow?
He may be thinking about Bruce Melig who in 1993 poisoned his wife with cyanide in Sudafed capsules, then put five other poisoned boxes on the shelves to divert suspicion.
Or, with genders of poisoner and victim reversed, Stella Nickel who in 1986 poisoned her husband with cyanide in Excedrin, and put tampered-with boxes in three local stores.
Melig’s wife lived, two other people died. Nickel’s husband a second person died.
(Source: Tylenol Murders | Snopes.com)
Riiiiight Melig. That’s the one I couldn’t think of. von Bulow did the insulin overdose thing.
Heh…haven’t been to Los Alamos NL, have you?
Stranger
That was the lab that had insane misuse of corporate credit cards and purchase orders, right? Including someone purchasing a Mustang?
I believe that was where the top secret disks containing detailed wiring diagrams for foreign nuclear weapons were “lost” for several weeks then mysteriously reappeared slipped behind a cabinent in a room previously searched. The disks were part of the equipment of the techs who have the job of disarming any live nuclear weapons found just lying around. They need the foreign diagrams since everyone knows that the US never loses nuclear weapons (except for the Air Force of course). As I read the story, the FBI agents assigned to find the missing disks pressured the techs pretty hard and severely damaged any possible working relationship between the FBI and the DOE techs. Which doesn’t bode well if the FBI ever has to call on their services…
I’d rather they take 7 years and get it right, then to rush the job and prosecute the the wrong guy (which it seems they almost did).
Joe Meling, perhaps. Local boy makes good.
Tip of the iceberg, dude. The people I have known who have come out of LANL have nothing but bad words for the work culture, the politics, and the town itself, which is one of the most insular communities outside of northern Utah. Or, as a friend of a friend once reported from a Lab employee: “What I hate about people in this town is that they don’t understand wife swapping,” noted a 20-year Lab employee. “You aren’t supposed to keep the other guy’s wife! One guy in my neighborhood was down in Espanola and some Hispanic teenager stole his 357 Magnum out of his car. Like an idiot, he chases after the kid and the kid shoots him with his own pistol. He’s in the hospital recuperating for six months and in the meantime his wife starts an affair with his neighbor across the street. When he gets out of the hospital, his wife marries the neighbor and he marries the neighbor’s discarded wife.”
Stranger
I used to work for the DoE, and visited LANL on many occasions. Odd people, odd town. Was even offered a job there. I thought about it for a full 3 seconds, then declined the offer.
Thanks for the LANL info – that was interesting.
As far as the Amerithrax case, there are some interesting new reports. His therapist filed a restraining order against him and she reported that he had a detailed plan to kill some of his co-workers.
Considering the notes were handwritten, wouldn’t it be possible to establish a link between his handwriting and the notes? I assume the FBI had writing samples from everyone at the lab and anaylzed them back in 2002. This implies that a link wasn’t obvious. Should it have been? Or is it possible to disguise your handwriting completely?