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Bristol-Myers Squibb chemist Tianle Li accused of using thallium to kill husband

BY ALICIA CRUZ
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

A Bristol-Myers Squibb chemist has been charged with fatally poisoning her estranged husband using an extremely toxic compound, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

Tianle Li, 40, did not appear in New Brunswick, N.J. Superior Court Wednesday, instead her attorney entered a not guilty plea on her behalf.

Investigators say Li, who goes by the name Heidi, was charged with murder after an autopsy confirmed the presence of Thallium, a chemical element commonly used in the pharmaceutical and electronics industries as well as glass manufacturing. Thallium, considered highly toxic, was used in rat and ant poisons during the 1970s.

Li's husband, Xiaoye Wang, fell ill with flu-like symptoms in January and was admitted to University Medical Center in Princeton, N.J.. For two weeks, Wang baffled doctors when his condition failed to improve. On January 25, a series of tests returned showing Wang had been poisoned by Thallium.
The 39-year-old computer engineer died January 26, and special agents from Newark's FBI office and the State Police launched a thorough investigation to find out who poisoned the Monroe Township man and why.

The trail led to his wife who was in the process of divorcing Wang. She was initially charged with hindering her own apprehension after she made false statements to investigators on Jan. 28, two days after her husband died, The Star-Ledger reported.

The New Jersey State Police and Middlesex County Hazardous Materials Units conducted a search of the Wang's Middlesex County home and concluded that no one else had been exposed to the toxic metal.

According to the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, Li obtained an undetermined amount Thallium and fed it to her husband sometime in December 2010 or January 2011. Nicholas Sewitch, deputy assistant Middlesex County prosecutor, declined to release specifics on how Li allegedly poisoned Wang.

At room temperature, Thallium is a very pliant, dissolvable metal you can cut with a knife. It is easily absorbed through the skin by inhalation, or ingested orally. Thallium dissolves quickly in liquids so if one were to use it as a poison; its salts are colorless, odorless and tasteless, therefore making it undetectable in food or soft drinks. Thallium poisoning takes several days to manifest so one would not know they have been poisoned right away.

Dr. Anil Aggrawal, professor of Forensic Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of the Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology said the amount of Thallium needed to kill a human being would be about 0.6 to 0.7g, considered the somewhat less than the average dose, and death would likely occur within 11 to 16 days.

Some of the corollary effects of thallium poisoning include lethargy, diarrhea, vomiting, severe pain, hair loss, and damage to peripheral nerves. Poisoning can affect multiple organs including the heart, lungs, kidneys, and liver. A person poisoned by Thallium can live up to two weeks or more with medical treatment (antidote Prussian blue), but any damages to their organs would be permanent, said Dr. Aggrawal. Doctors test hair follicles to determine poisoning by Thallium.

Doctors administer Thallium stress tests to check for heart disease or to see how well blood is flowing to the heart muscle, and where the heart muscle may not be getting a normal blood supply.

Bruce Kaplan, the Middlesex County prosecutor, said in a press release that the Wangs marriage became onerous a year after the Chinese natives had a son and moved into their Monroe Township home in 2008. Kaplan also said there were several domestic disturbance calls made from the Stanley Drive home in 2009.

"My client adamantly denies any involvement in her husband's death," Li's attorney Steve Altman told The Courier Post. Altman said Li, employed at the New York based biopharmaceutical company since 2001, and Wang had recently come to an agreement on a property settlement related to their divorce and Wang was paying for support of his son.

"She has no reason or motive to want him dead," said Altman. A representative at Bristol-Meyers Squibb, which has research sites in Princeton, Hopewell and New Brunswick, refused to make any comment to NewJerseyNewsroom.com concerning Li's arrest.

Li was arraigned around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, and is currently being held at the Middlesex County Adult Correction Center in New Brunswick in lieu of $4.15 million bail. Superior Court judge Bradley Ferencz set Li's hindering apprehension bail at $150,000 and $4 million for the murder charge.

When Li was arrested, her 2-year-old son was given to the state Division of Youth and Family Services and placed in a foster home, the NJ Press Media reported.

"She [Li] has no family in the United States,'' said Altman. "We're waiting for family to come from China to help with the child.''

Anyone with further details on this case should call Sgt. Jason Grosser of the Monroe Township Police Department at 732-521-0222 or Investigator Jeffrey Temple of the Middlesex County Prosecutor's office at 732-745-3373.

[ 本帖最后由 funnybird 于 17-2-2011 13:12 编辑 ]

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There are numerous recorded cases of fatal thallium poisoning.[9] Because of its use for murder, thallium has gained the nicknames "The Poisoner's Poison" and "Inheritance Powder" (alongside arsenic).

    * In 1953, Australian Caroline Grills was sentenced to life in prison after three family members and a close family friend died. Authorities found thallium in tea that she had given to two additional family members.[10]

    * In 1957, Nikolai Khokhlov, a former KGB assassin, was poisoned with thallium.[11] Khokhlov fell ill with stomach cramps and nausea and within days his hair had fallen out and he was covered with marks on his skin. He fled the Soviet Union to Germany where doctors suspected thallium poisoning and tried every known antidote without success. Khokhlov was then taken to the US hospital and treated with hydrocortisone, steroids, and blood and plasma transfusions and he eventually recovered.

    * In 1960, Félix-Roland Moumié, a Cameroonian leader, was assassinated in Geneva in on 3 November 1960 by the SDECE (French secret services) with thalium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix-Roland_Moumi%C3%A9)

    * In 1971, thallium was the main poison that Graham Frederick Young used to poison around 70 people in the English village of Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, of whom 3 died.[12

    * In 1988, members of the Carr family from Alturas, Polk County, Florida fell ill from what appeared to be thallium poisoning. Peggy Carr, the mother, died slowly and painfully from the poison. Her son and stepson were critically ill but eventually recovered. The Carr's neighbor, George J. Trepal, a chemist and member of Mensa, was convicted of murdering Mrs. Carr and attempting to murder her family and sentenced to death. The thallium was slipped into bottles of Coca-Cola at the Carr's home and Trepal's.[13]

    * In 1995 Zhu Ling was the victim of an unsolved thallium poisoning in Beijing, China. In 1994, Zhu Ling was a sophomore in Class Wuhua2 (Physical Chemistry) at Tsinghua University in Beijing. She began to show strange and debilitating symptoms at the end of 1994, when she reported experiencing acute stomach pain, along with extensive hair loss. Ultimately she was diagnosed on Usenet with poisoning by thallium. To this date speculation of the true poisoner is still discussed by many Chinese expatriates overseas.

    * In January 1999, 40 year old Inger Lise Bakken of Norway was admitted to hospital and diagnosed with thallium poisoning. She died in February, and ex-husband Terje Wiik was sentenced to 21 years in prison. He intentionally murdered her by repeatedly poisoning her, the final time by adding the toxin to a bottle of cognac, and continuously pretending ignorance as to what had caused her excruciating condition. He acquired the thallium through his job within the petroleum industry.

    * In June 2004, 25 Russian soldiers earned Honorable Mention Darwin Awards after becoming ill from thallium exposure when they found a can of mysterious white powder in a rubbish dump on their base at Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East. Oblivious to the danger of misusing an unidentified white powder from a military dump site, the conscripts added it to tobacco, and used it as a substitute for talcum powder on their feet.[14]

    * In 2005, a 17-year-old girl in Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan admitted to attempting to murder her mother by lacing her tea with thallium, causing a national scandal.[15]

    * In February 2007, two Americans, Marina and Yana Kovalevsky, a mother and daughter, visiting Russia were hospitalized for thallium poisoning. Both had emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1989 and had made several trips to Russia since then.[16]

    * In February 2008, members of Iraqi air force club and some of their children were poisoned by cake laced with thallium.[17] Two of the children died.

    * In 2011, a chemist at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Li Tianle (Pinyin, Li Tianle; simplified Chinese, 李天乐; traditional Chinese, 李天樂), was charged with murder of her husband. According to an investigation by the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, Li Tianle was able to obtain a chemical containing thallium and feed it to her husband.[18] Li was a chemistry student at Tshingua University at the time of the highly publicized thallium poisoning of Zhu Ling in 1995.[19]

Source: Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thallium_poisoning

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