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Forensic Files

Penchant For Poison

Forensic Files

HLN

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Three seemingly unrelated deaths proved to be serial murders. The killer had been careful; he used poison which has no taste or odor. Fortunately for investigators, it also had a unique chemical signature.  

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0:00.0

When a person is cremated, the heat usually destroys any evidence of foul play.

0:07.0

At least, that was the theory, until a scientist in Texas found a way to test cremated remains,

0:15.0

and in so doing, made forensic history. San Angelo, Texas, known for its oil, cotton, and

0:22.6

it's a lot of rural area to it. Of course, the biggest problem they have. cotton fields, and extremely hot weather. It's great country.

0:38.4

There's a lot of rural area to it.

0:40.4

Of course, the biggest problem they have out there is you don't get a whole lot of rain.

0:44.6

Olgy and Lita Nobles ran the town's air conditioning business, and they had no shortage of customers.

0:52.5

Perhaps it was the strain of both living and working together,

0:56.0

but the two didn't always see eye to eye.

1:00.0

It was that kind of different relationship,

1:02.0

but there was love involved, but you couldn't tell it from the outside.

1:06.0

Mr. Noble had a real drinking problem,

1:08.0

and they argued like cats and dogs.

1:15.7

At the age of 70, Old G. died after a lengthy illness.

1:20.9

Shortly after the funeral, his wife, Lita, checked herself into a hospital.

1:23.3

She hadn't been feeling well for weeks.

1:26.5

I just sick. Just vomiting all the time.

1:33.3

Just deathly sick at my stomach, I just get weaker and weaker. Lita blamed the stress of her husband's death for her illness, but doctors found nothing wrong

1:39.3

and released her.

1:41.3

Within days, the nausea and vomiting returned, and Lita developed another symptom, numbness in her fingers and toes.

1:51.8

I woke up one night, and I was so sick, and I got up, tried to get in the chair, and, of course, my lady didn't hold me, and I just went down the floor.

2:02.6

Lita went to the hospital once again.

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