Woman Synthesizes Ricin, Breaking Bad-Style, To Poison Neighbors (Then Kills Again)
The fictional plot:
As time goes by, we have to acknowledge that Breaking Bad was a deeply flawed show, because at no point did they properly teach us how to cook meth. Sure, they’d include subplots about stealing methylamine or using some catalyst or another, but when the time came to actually demonstrate the cook, they’d always cut away or do a montage rather than giving us a true tutorial. Why, a cynic might say the show was intended purely as entertainment and never aimed to instruct us on meth production at all!
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The writers did slightly better with a different chemical substance: ricin. Here too, they neglected to offer us as much detail as they could have, but they did reveal that you can synthesize the powdered poison ricin from castor beans, a fact few of us knew. Breaking Bad was really proud of its ricin. It introduced the poison to deal with a very specific situation, but it kept bringing it back right until the finale. By this point, Walt also had millions of dollars, criminal contacts, a Nazi-killing robot, etc., but they knew we wanted to see him kill using homemade ricin, out of nostalgia.
The real-life plot:
In 2012, Wisconsin woman Kore Adams made ricin from castor beans, to kill her neighbors. We have quite a lot of evidence for this. We have the testimony of her husband, who said “she was brewing ricin for use against their enemies.” We have a storage unit she rented, containing a safe stolen from the neighbors, and inside the safe, she stored castor beans. We have Word documents that she created on her computer, titled “Making Ricin,” containing the steps for making ricin.
However, it took a while to catch her. It was 2014 when she broke into her neighbors’ home, stole a credit card, and scattered a bunch of ricin dust. But the neighbors didn’t ingest enough to get sick, so even after they figured out Adams was the burglar, no one realized she’d also tried to murder them. No, that only came out years later, when Adams also got in trouble for murdering her roommate.
Apparently, the roommates “didn’t get along” (this was the same motive eventually presented for her trying to kill her neighbors), so Adams beat her to death. Lacking hydrofluoric acid to dispose of the remains, she then cut off the head and chopped the body into pieces, stored the pieces in a freezer, and dumped the freezer in the Arkansas wilderness.
Police found the remains, traced them to Adams, and then discovered the safe and the other ricin evidence. It was now that the neighbors said, “Hey, she left a bunch of dust in our home during the burglary. Could someone check whether it’s ricin?” Testing was possible because the dust was still there, in the wife’s underwear drawer where Adams had sprinkled it. That meant the neighbors hadn’t cleaned the underwear drawer in six years. Which makes sense. That drawer contains nothing but fresh laundry; it’s the cleanest part of the house (but for the occasional pile of deadly ricin).
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