Some Headache by Joanna Gunn https://padlet.com/loadedgunn/SomeHeadache Correlation between two deaths en-us 2019-04-13 01:05:55 UTC 2019-04-13 02:43:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://imgglb.padletcdn.com/v13/image?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f926-2640.png Some Headache Summary Mrs. Frost who is a mother and a wife, wakes up with a horrible headache. She decided to take some medicine (Extra Strength Excedrin) for her headache. Later that day she is found by her husband and Mrs. Frost is unresponsive. On her way to the hospital she is pronounced dead, and the autopsy report concluded that Mrs. Frost had been poisoned from cyanide. The medicine discovered to be tampered with. The manufacturer of Extra Strength Excedrin was contacted about the medication and it was removed shelves. The police did receive a phone call from a women named, Mrs. Stella Penny who told police she had heard about he Extra Strength Excedrin being tampered with that she had seen on the news, and believed the same cause of death happened to her husband, 10 days earlier of Mrs. Frost’s death. The police ran a background check on Mrs. Penny and found some criminal record of her, in her younger years. Police also discovered that Mrs. Penny did go to a pet store and purchased some Algae Destroyer algicide. Mrs. Penny also had two bottles of the Extra Strength Excedrin that had been tampered with and only five total had been discovered to be tampered with. Mrs. Penny and her late husband Bart, were in major debt and she had recently increased her husband’s life insurance. If Bart were to die accidently, Mrs. Penny would receive $176,000 from his life insurance. Mrs. Penny was brought in to take a lie detector test five months after Sue Frost death, and when asked if she laced the pills, her response was “NO!” and immediately requested a lawyer. Mrs. Penny’s daughter Regina, told the FBI that her mother talked about hiring a hit man to kill her father and also mentioned to Regina the use of cyanide to murder Bart. Regina then told the FBI agents how her mother used books at the local libraries to do research on the effects of cyanide on humans. The FBI then went to the local libraries and discovered Mrs. Penny’s had checked out two books. However, she had never returned a book titled, Human Poisoning, and 84 prints of Mrs. Penny were discovered on a book titled, Deadly Harves. Her fingerprints were mostly found on the section of the book, “cyanide and its effects on animals.” Mrs. Stella Penny was convicted on May 9, 1988 and was sentenced to 90 years of imprisonment. loadedgunn https://padlet.com/loadedgunn/SomeHeadache/wish/351336085 Written By: Alisha ]]> 2019-04-13 01:16:45 UTC https://padlet.com/loadedgunn/SomeHeadache/wish/351336085 Part I 1.The FBI has jurisdiction over the Sue Frost poisoning case because other cyanide laced bottles were found in Springville and Auburn Hills. Suspected political terrorist activity and product tampering were suspected motives, and those fall under FBI jurisdiction. 2.Product tampering became a crime handled by the FBI in 1982. 3.The previous case that led to product tampering becoming a crime that falls under FBI jurisdiction is the 1982 Tylenol Murders. 4.The Tylenol Murder case of product tampering occurred in Chicago, Illinois. 5.The person ultimately convicted of the Tylenol Murder case (for extortion) was James William Lewis. It was never proven who actually tampered with the OTC pain reliever and no motive was linked to the deaths. Lewis sent a letter to Johnson & Johnson claiming responsibility for the seven deaths and demanded $1 million ransom to stop more deaths from happening which led to his conviction. 6.The next steps for in the case called “A Headache to Die For” would be to investigate the Bristol-Myers factory where the product was made, as well as any links between the victims and employees of the factory, or any links between the victims themselves. 7.The death certificate from Stella Penny’s husband, Bart, would not have shown cyanide poisoning as the cause of death because he had respiratory problems, and this was assumed was the cause of death. Cyanide poisoning symptoms include shortness of breath and are likened to smoke inhalation from a fire. 8.It was important for FBI agents to determine if there was a possible connection between Sue Frost, a banker, and Bart Penny, a construction worker because it could lead to clues and evidence to locate suspects and the person/s who committed the crime. Part II 1.It was considered unusual or peculiar to find that all the capsules containing cyanide also contained algicide because algicide is not in Extra-Strength Excedrin, so it had to have been added with the cyanide. 2.The algicide (sold in pellet form) and the cyanide could have wound up in the same capsule by either crushing it and adding it on purpose, or by contamination of a vessel or utensil used to mix the cyanide, before it was put in the capsules. 3.The FBI thought it was odd for Stella to have 2 contaminated bottles of Excedrin in her home because if she purchased them from two different stores on two different days, it would be highly unlikely she would get 2 of the only 5 bottles contaminated. 4.The factors that led the FBI to begin considering Stella more as a suspect than a grieving widow were because she had 2 of the 5 contaminated bottles, and she also had a fish tank. loadedgunn https://padlet.com/loadedgunn/SomeHeadache/wish/351336910 Written by : Sandra ]]> 2019-04-13 01:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/loadedgunn/SomeHeadache/wish/351336910 Part III 1.Why did the FBI do a background check on Mrs. Penny? To see if she has a previous record, Mrs. Penny might have a case and see if there is any relation. 2.Was any of the evidence gathered by the FBI sufficient to arrest Mrs. Penny for murder? Why or why not? There was no evidence just hunches. Such as her husband’s life insurance, reaching out personally to a doctor to say what her husband died of, the fish tank, and her previous record. 3.Why would Stella call the doctor who signed her husband’s death certificate asking if he was sure he made the right call? She wanted to make sure that there could be no other proof that could possibly link her to killing her husband. 4.What would you suggest as the next step(s) in the investigation? Investigate her home look for cyanide and see how if there was a tool to make capsules. Part IV 1.What should the agents do to get additional evidence to indict Mrs. Penny? (Hint: think about what the daughter told the FBI agents that her mother told her she had done.) FBI should further question the daughter and search the library for physical evidence like the daughter stated. 2.Speculate on why her daughter did not say anything to the police initially but later contacted them and informed them of her mother’s desire to see her husband dead. The daughter was probably scared and threaten of her mother who has a past of physically harming children. Part V 1.Why was physical evidence needed to build a substantial case against Mrs. Penny? Physical evidence is needed without it Mrs. Penny could be clear on all charges. 2.What are latent fingerprints? Fingerprints by friction of the skin on a surface left accidentally. 3.How do you lift latent fingerprints from a book? You a special dust and a brush to remove excess power, then use a plastic sticker to collect the dust pattern. 4.Could Mrs. Penny have avoided being caught and convicted for her husband’s murder? How? Yes, she could have gotten rid of the cyanide and fish tank, used gloves, and not have told her daughter anything. 5.Would you describe this as potentially a perfect murder “gone bad” due to frustration and greed on the part of Stella Penny? Explain. This would have been a perfect murder had Stella not increased the life insurance to bring suspicion. 6.This case occurred before the passage of the Patriot Act. Even so, libraries are not in the habit of making the records of their patrons readily available to law enforcement agencies. How do you think the FBI obtained the information regarding Stella Penny’s library activities?The FBI got lucky with find the record and if they hadn’t they might have looked at footage inside libraries to see what books she might have checked out. 7.How has the passage of the Patriot Act affected collection of such information by the FBI and other federal agencies? Government agencies can now access electronic information without a warrant. The FBI can narrow down the suspect list and find criminals faster. loadedgunn https://padlet.com/loadedgunn/SomeHeadache/wish/351338088 Written by : Joseph]]> 2019-04-13 01:42:29 UTC https://padlet.com/loadedgunn/SomeHeadache/wish/351338088 Importance of Communication between Agencies An example from the case that shows the importance of communication between different law enforcement agencies is when the officers should have paid attention to the other case, they could have acquired more information that was useful to them. The case should have been connected to Bart Penny’s case as soon as they heard they both had taken Extra-Strength Excedrin the mornings they died. Communication between these law enforcement agencies could have given each of the police more information about the crimes and who did it. Communication within the Bart Penny case and Sue Frost case could have given them specific things to look for in the contaminate pill capsules. Instead they had to link them, which could have taken more time. Communication within law enforcement agencies is very important when dealing with two similar cases. Sue Frost’s death may have never been solved if they did not find out that Stella Perry killed her husband. loadedgunn https://padlet.com/loadedgunn/SomeHeadache/wish/351339315 Written by: Vanessa]]> 2019-04-13 01:59:15 UTC https://padlet.com/loadedgunn/SomeHeadache/wish/351339315 Synopsis of the Crime Mrs. Stella Penny was found guilty on May 9, 1988 and was sentenced to 99 years imprisonment for the following crimes. Mrs. Penny willing and intentionally poisoned her husband, Bart with Cyanide based Algae Destroyer Algicide laced Excedrin from which she claimed to have purchased at two separate occasions and from two separate stores. It was determined through an investigation that Mrs. Penny purchased the Algae Destroyer from a local pet store in which the store clerk picked her out of a photo lineup. During the course of a background check on Mrs. Penny, the FBI determined that she was in fact previously convicted of check fraud, forgery and child abuse in the late 60’s & early 70’s, with no recent instances. However, in a closer look into her finances, it was discovered that Mr. and Mrs. Penny were in significant debt and the bank was in the process of foreclosure on their home at the time of Bart’s death. Also, Mrs. Penny had unexcepted and suddenly increased the amount of life insurance on Bart from $31,000 to $176,000 for an accidental death. Stella was brought in for questioning and submitted to a lie detectors test in which she did not past and promptly requested a lawyer. Regina Hicks, Stella’s daughter told the FBI during questioning that her mother was planned to kill Bart on several occasions, even considered hiring a hitman and going as far as to check out books at the library on the effects of cyanide poisoning in humans. FBI canvased local libraries and found the Mrs. Stella Penny checked out and never returned Human Poisoning and Deadly Harvest before Bart’s death. Fingerprints were lift from the book Deadly Harvest matching Mrs. Penny.Consequently, the discovery of this crime was set off by an earlier case of the same type of cyanide poisoning of Sue Frost, a wife and mother in a Seattle suburb. Mrs. Frost was poisoned in the same manor as Mr. Bart Penny, by ingesting Extra-Strength Excedrin. No direct connection was made between these two crimes, with the exception of the poison type and the manner in which it was ingested. The poison of Mrs. Frost remains unsolved. loadedgunn https://padlet.com/loadedgunn/SomeHeadache/wish/351341974 Written by: Joanna- Lead Detective ]]> 2019-04-13 02:39:15 UTC https://padlet.com/loadedgunn/SomeHeadache/wish/351341974