The Foxglove Stake: How a Gardener Quietly Poisoned a Neighbor
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The Foxglove Stake: How a Gardener Quietly Poisoned a Neighbor
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概要
A handmade wooden label that read FOXGLOVE was pressed into a kitchen herb bed beside a woman who had not planted it - and by spring the stake was gone while traces of Digitalis stayed in the soil. A homeowner collapsed face-down among rosemary and thyme; her autopsy cited cardiac arrhythmia, but forensic chemistry later found plant-based cardiac glycosides concentrated where the label had been. Who put foxglove into a kitchen herb bed, and why did the evidence disappear?
In this episode, we lay out the timeline from the first sighting of the label to the later soil tests and missing stake. You’ll hear how neighbors, a landscaper who became a regular presence, and an initial medical conclusion intersect with a later chemical finding that reframes the death.
Person: Judith Clark
Age: 44
Date: November 14 (found), late August (symptoms began)
Location: 4 Collier Lane, Stokely, Missouri
Toxin: Digitalis glycoside (Digitalis purpurea)
- The wooden stake labeled "FOXGLOVE" was photographed in place beside Judith’s hand on November 14.
- Judith lost 11 pounds and developed slowed heart rate and yellowed vision starting in late August.
- The medical examiner’s initial cause of death was cardiac arrhythmia secondary to underlying cardiac disease.
- Forensic soil testing in March found digitalis glycoside residue concentrated in a six-inch radius around the herb bed’s northeast corner.
- The foxglove label photographed in November was missing when investigators returned in March.
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