Authorities say a South Carolina woman has been charged with murder after killing her husband by putting eye drops into his water for several days, the AP reports. York County deputies said 52-year-old Lana Clayton confessed to investigators after an autopsy uncovered a high amount of tetrahydrozoline in her husband’s body. The chemical is found in over-the-counter eye drops such as Visine. Authorities say 64-year-old Stephen Clayton was found dead July 21 in the couple’s home in Clover after apparently falling down the stairs, the Herald reports.
Yes, this guy fell down the stairs, but Visine can most definitely kill you if ingested.
Snopes-
The active ingredient in Visine eye drops is Tetrahydrozoline HCl 0.05%. Swallowing this substance can result in a number of nasty effects, including:
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- Lowering body temperature to dangerous levels
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- Making breathing difficult, or even halting it entirely
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- Blurring vision
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- Causing nausea and vomiting
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- Elevating and then dropping blood pressure
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- Causing seizures or tremors
- Sending the ingester into a coma
This woman never heard of divorce? No, it’s not ideal, but FFS.
How awful.
How soon will a background check and 3 day waiting period to purchase Visine be demanded?
Snopes? Snopes is like fact checking the NYT for the truth. Not happening
At her trial she’ll relate to the jury tales of verbal abuse and beatings that she endured for decades. The weeping jury will find her innocent and off she goes husband hunting again.
It’s rather amazing the deadly substances that can be easily purchased for just a few bucks.
Remember the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in the UK who was poisoned with polonium-210?
A small capsule of Polonium-210 is in a low cost product that can be purchased on Amazon. It’s enough to kill someone with if dropped into someone’s drink. But there’s a good chance you might instead poison yourself trying to open the polonium-210 capsule unless your are very careful. Polonium-210 is an alpha emitter, it quickly decays to polonium-209, an alpha and beta emitter with a half-life of 125 years.
[Polonium has few applications, and those are related to its radioactivity: heaters in space probes, antistatic devices, and sources of neutrons and alpha particles. This radioactivity makes polonium dangerously toxic. ] It’s the antistatic property that is taken advantage of in the product on Amazon.
Her defense will be that she discovered her husband was a Communist, and she was just trying to get the Red out.
TO Blink
And don’t forget: requiring photo ID to buy it.
I bet it wasn’t even name brand Visine. Probably knock-off Dollar General crap. Killed her husband and SAVED $2! Hey Y’all….
She can claim he was doing it to himself, trying to get high, or something.
Polonium
“Weight for weight it is about 2.5 E+11 times as toxic as hydrocyanic acid.”
(CRC “Handbook of Chemistry and Physics”)
(hydrocyanic acid is a.k.a. “Prussic Acid” or, more infamously as Zyklon-B)
Wow. Got off on a tangent, here. Sorry.
izlamo delenda est …
Just cry in court, they’ll let you off.
It works every time.
@Mithrandir,
That’s right. Just ask Susan Smith.
Isn’t it ironic it causes blurred vision?
There goes my hopes of becoming a great visionary. Guess it’s back to coffee.
@Blink September 2, 2018 at 6:30 am
There is no reason, in a civil society, for civilians to ever be allowed to marry.
But did it get the red out?
Her attorney could try the Menéndez brother’s defense strategy.
Ladies & gentlemen the jury have mercy on this poor woman, who as a consequence of this terrible event, is now a widow & alone in the world to face its challenges.
Cold blooded witch. I hope she gets the rest of her life taken away, poisoners are sneaky and manipulative creatures, who knows if she’d slip some to a grandchild or something.
Doing it that many times makes it second nature.
Sob story be damned.
But EYE have to have a prescription for Insulin.
chuffed-beyond-words yes! And not only that, who is to say she wouldn’t set up that grandchild for her criminal act? ‘your honor, my grand daughter really hated her gramps.’
Ben Stein
https://youtu.be/a-IVC0Dk_rQ
👁👁
I told my husband it whitens teeth.
God. Rest. His. Soul.
Too late, doll. 👿