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From Autopsy 3: Voices From The Grave |
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The Black Widow
-- In 1989, a North Carolina minister, the Reverend Dwight Moore, came within an inch of losing his life to a "mystery" illness, ultimately diagnosed as arsenic poisoning. Suspicious that the Reverend's wife of just two weeks, Blanche Taylor Moore (pictured left), may have been responsible for the poisoning, detectives investigated the woman's past -- and discovered other premature family deaths.
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After Medical Examiner John Butts argued that doses of arsenic can be discovered in the dead's hair and fingernails, the bodies of Blanche's former boyfriend, as well as her first husband, her mother-in-law and her father, were exhumed.
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(Center and lower left are the fingernails and hair x-ray from one of the exhumed victims). Sure enough, lethal levels of arsenic were discovered in all the bodies. Brought to trial, Blanche was found guilty of murder -- and is currently on death row.
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