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A poster with photographs of Joanne Chesimard. (Julio Cortez/AP/Press Association Images)
A WOMAN WHO killed a police officer 40 years ago and later fled to Cuba has been placed on the FBI’s list of “most wanted terrorists,” US officials said Thursday.
Law enforcement officials said Joanne Chesimard is the first woman ever to make the list, and one of only two to make the list accused of crimes carried out on US soil.
“Joanne Chesimard is a domestic terrorist who murdered a law enforcement officer execution-style,” said FBI agent Aaron Ford, in a statement issued four decades to the day after the death of the New Jersey State Police trooper.
“We want the public to know that we will not rest until this fugitive is brought to justice,” he said.
Black Liberation Army
US authorities say that on May 2, 1973, Chesimard, a member of the radical Black Liberation Army group, along with two accomplices, fatally shot the highway police officer during a traffic stop.
She was convicted of first-degree murder, armed robbery, and other crimes in 1977 and sentenced to life in prison.
Chesimard escaped prison less than two years later, and lived underground before surfacing in 1984 in Cuba, where she had sought political asylum, the FBI said.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to the capture of Chesimard, while the state of New Jersey is offering a separate $1 million reward.
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Somebody being murdered is not “antics”.
I saw Coveney & Vradkar in Boots yesterday
@3monkey: lol old arsenic and lace..
I get some of those symptoms when I eat the wife’s dinners. She’s either a bad cook, or genuinely tryin’ to get rid of me.
@Paul Culligan: So you didn’t read the instructions when you purchased the goods…..
She does the shopping as well Chris, so I’m caught either way.
Joffreys death on Game of Thrones made it cool again!
Wait! Joffrey dies…., ah here… spoiler alert! Although it’s game of thrones so it’s probably more shocking if a character actually doesn’t get killed….
The borgias used to take small quantities of poison over time till the built up resistance to it. Then when they invited victims to a meal they could all eat the same food and only the guests would die
Second most deadly poison in the world is platytoxin from zoanthids, a species related to coral and anemones and which is an hazard to marine aquarium keepers, coming in on coral frags. A single gram is enough to to kill 300,000 mice, or 80 people.
Or even pure nicotine, a favourite of the assassins of the Court of Louis Roi du Soleil, who would coat their dagger blades with it, knowing that their victim need only sustain a slight nick to be killed. The deadly poison, there’s enough in a single cigarette to kill several, if it be extracted and administered direct to the blood, suppresses the respiratory system and kills within minutes.
End of the day it could have been a lot of things. “Tout est poison, rien n’est pas poison. La poison c’est la dose.” Paracelsus.
Btw smoking a cigarette doesn’t kill one (short-term) because the absorption of nicotine through the cheek cells allows the body to metabolise the tiny amounts before it kills. Not so with direct injection or administration via an open wound.
By bottle or by tongue, a joke about malicious gossip lol. But the Romans use to carry arsenic into battle incase they lost the battle as they could retreat and dump the arsenic into the wells they came across and that is where poisoning the well expression came from.
http://www.rferl.org/a/wikileaks_cables_add_to_speculation_over_litvinenko/2254821.html
The juice of gone-off prawns has been used to get rid of the occasional inconvenient husband in Asia too. Mixed in with a curry.
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