Cyanide deaths, explained
An autopsy will be performed on Urooj Khan's body to determine how cyanide wound up in his system. Murder by cyanide poisoning is extremely rare, experts say. Khan died in July, the day after the lottery issued him a check for about $425,000 after taxes. He won the money playing a scratch-off game a month earlier. "We are investigating it as a murder, and we're working closely with the medical examiner's office," Chicago police spokeswoman Melissa Stratton said last week. On the day Khan died, he ate dinner and went to bed, according to an internal police document obtained by the Chicago Tribune. His family later heard him screaming and took him to the hospital, where he died. A coroner initially ruled that he died from natural causes, but the medical examiner's office revisited the case at a relative's urging and found a lethal amount of cyanide in Khan's system.
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Urooj Khan
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Dr. Robert Geller
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| -0.249983 | "Like everything else, dose makes the poison," said Dr. Robert Geller, ... |
| 0 | "In terms of intentional poisonings, you don't have a lot of that with cyanide," Geller said. ... |
| -0.122141 | "Because it is so rare and is used so infrequently, the medical profession may have a difficult time recognizing cyanide poisoning," Geller said. ... |
| -0.0563685 | "The harder you want to find something, the more expensive it is, and this country's forensic labs run on a shoestring budget," Geller said. ... |
| -0.0836201 | "Cyanide does break down in the body fairly quickly, so they may not find much," Geller said. ... |
| -0.0316745 | "Many people think, with this kind of poisoning being rare and something that may not be seen, that this would be a murder someone could get away with," Geller said. ... |
| 0.288785 | "Many people think, with this kind of poisoning being rare and something that may not be seen, that this would be a murder someone could get away with," Geller said. "But clearly it is not, since they did figure out this was cyanide, and there is a very good likelihood someone will get caught." |
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Dr. Daniel J. Spitz
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| -0.166659 | "Now that he's been buried and embalmed, you don't have the ideal situation," said Dr. Daniel J. Spitz, ... |
| 0.0137393 | "If this were me, I'd be hoping with an autopsy every other cause of death is rejected," Spitz said. ... |
| 0 | "If this were me, I'd be hoping with an autopsy every other cause of death is rejected," Spitz said. "You don't want to have a competing cause of death when you present your case in court." |
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Melissa Stratton
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| -0.0187711 | "We are investigating it as a murder, and we're working closely with the medical examiner's office," Chicago police spokeswoman Melissa Stratton said ... |
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The body of an Illinois lottery winner was exhumed Friday by the Cook County medical examiner's office after toxicology results showed he died of cyanide poisoning.
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