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It took jurors only three hours to convict Marguerite Bork of Second degree murder. She’s facing 25 years to life in prison when she get sentenced in May, 2007. Married for over 20 years to Terrance Bork, Marguerite claims that she didn’t do it. Prosecutors, however, allege that she’d found out that the love of her life was having an affair with one of her friends and was about to leave her — so she decided to collect on his life insurance policy With a tummy full of antifreeze, the unsuspecting husband was rushed to a hospital from his mother’s house … and died. Soon afterwards, Marguerite began spending the life insurance proceeds.
During the trial the defense attorney suggested that hubby had committed suicide, depressed over his declining health. Apparently the arguments were not strong enough, because the jury sided with the prosecutors.
Which is exactly what a Dalton, Georgia, jury did in the case of Lynn Turner, a former 911 operator who was also convicted of Death by Antifreeze. Turner may have done it twice; a true double shot. In 1995, Cobb County police officer Glenn Turner died and in 2001 Forsyth County firefighter Randy Thompson met the same fate. Both men had been with Lynn Turner the last time they had ingested food.
The black widow was first convicted for Thompson’s death and received a life sentence. Shortly thereafter, the 1995 death was looked at again — and the similarities were unmistakable. Prosecutors said tests on their bodies revealed ethylene glycol poisoning. Ethyl glycol is a sweet but odorless chemical in antifreeze; one could easily spike it with a shot or two of rum and pass it off as an exotic drink. The taste is rumored to be similar to Gatorade.
Would be killers can cross this method off of the “How to Commit a Murder” list because a new additive is now being put into all antifreeze. It’s a bittering agent that replaces the sweet pleasant taste with a “phew” (spit it out) taste. It costs an extra few cents, but the Marguerite Borks and the Lynn Turners are out of the “collect on the life insurance” business.
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