Stella Nickell's Collapse Of Cyanide

Stella Nickell used Cyanide to kill her victims. Sue Snow collapsed in her bathroom of her home in the Seattle, Washington, suburb of Auburn. Paramedics found her unconscious and gasping for breath. They had thought it was drug overdose, but she was not a known user, and had taken only a couple of Extra - Strength Excedrin. Strength Excedrin is a safe medication. But they found Cyanide in the pills. The Food and drug administration and the manufacturer, Bristol - Meyers, moved quickly to remove all Extra - Strength Excedrin bottles from the shelves across the …show more content…
The victims had taken it as a regular pill and did not realized it had Cyanide. Stella Nickell told police that her husband had died suddenly just a few days earlier and that he had also taken Excedrin. Since her husband, Bruce Nickell’s was already dead and buried they could not do anything. But then they found out that he was an organ donor and a sample of his blood had been retained. That made an exhumation Unnecessary. The test they did of his blood sample showed that he too died from ingesting cyanide. For both Bruce Nickell’s and Sue Snow is was an Accidental death because they did not know what was going on. The date Sue Snow collapsed was on June 11, 1986. She later on that day died. Bruce Nickell’s died June 17, just days after taking Excedrin. While the police searched for a connection between Sue Snow and Bruce Nickell, The FDA examined more than 740,000 Excedrin capsules from