GUILTY LA - Shannon Richardson for sending ricin-laced letters, Shreveport, 2013

[momtective]

A pregnant Texas actress who told FBI agents her husband had sent ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been arrested for orchestrating the scheme herself, a law enforcement official said Friday.

http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Authorities-Texas-actress-arrested-in-ricin-case--210617251.html

 

[mysteriew]

Where are people getting ricin? Isn't that pretty impossible to come by?

Ricin comes from the castor bean plant. It is a beautiful plant. Easy to get the seeds. Most of the plant is poisonous if you eat it. But it doesn't become ricin until the bean has been ground and refined.

Ricin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[mysteriew]

I guess she didn't think ahead. If he was in jail he couldn't pay child support. Or alimony if the court ordered it.

 

[momtective]

A federal complaint filed against Shannon Richardson shows that she is charged with mailing a threatening communication in connection with the ricin investigation that brought federal agents to her New Boston home last week.

After being confronted with all of the inconsistencies and evidence gathered by investigators Thursday morning at a hotel in Mt. Pleasant, the complaint says Shannon admitted to ordering the syringes and lye in the mail, printing the mailing labels for the letters and mailing them knowing they contained ricin - but continued to claimed that her husband was the one who ordered the ricin and typed the letters.

If convicted, Richardson faces up to 10 years in federal prison.

http://www.ksla.com/story/22531795/sources-wife-arrested-in-new-boston-ricin-investigation

 

[wfgodot]

Here's Daily Mail's account (with pictures of course, including arrestee in a bikiki holding what appears to be an automatic rifle, of course)

Actress arrested 'for sending ricin letters to Bloomberg and Obama' - two weeks after she claimed her own HUSBAND was behind poison plot

 

[momtective]

I guess she didn't think ahead. If he was in jail he couldn't pay child support. Or alimony if the court ordered it.

Here's Daily Mail's account (with pictures of course, including arrestee in a bikiki holding what appears to be an automatic rifle, of course)

Actress arrested 'for sending ricin letters to Bloomberg and Obama' - two weeks after she claimed her own HUSBAND was behind poison plot

Saw a comment from a neighbor on one of the news sites on facebook stating that "she loves the limelight." Why doesn't that surprise me? :doh:

 

[i.b.nora]

Poisoning is such a 'ladies' crime.

I still wonder about that Indian guy in or near Chicago. His wife, her cooking. Just still wondering.

 

[alwayslooking]

This is so crazy! What kind of woman who is with child, would risk their unborn child to poison.....what about the other children in the house! I know people on meth will do crazy things like cook with their children around, but this woman is sober!!!!!!! She must really hate her ex more then she loves her children! She is one scary woman!

 

[PoirotryInMotion]

The acting job of her life...FAIL.

 

[BrownRice]

One of Ann Rule's best books (imo) was Bitter Harvest.

"Debora Green (born Debora Jones, February 28, 1951) is an American physician who pleaded no contest to setting a 1995 fire which burned down her family's home and killed two of her children, and to poisoning her husband with ricin with the intention of causing his death.

The case was sensational, and covered heavily by news media, especially in the Kansas-Missouri area, where the crimes occurred. Crime writer Ann Rule covered the case in her book Bitter Harvest: A Woman's Fury, a Mother's Sacrifice. Though Green has claimed in recent years that her plea was placed during a period of diminished mental capacity, she has not been granted a new trial."

More...

http://murderpedia.org/female.G/g/green-debora.htm

That is a crazy book and story! Highly recommend it.

 

[PoirotryInMotion]

Latest US News ‏@USNewsCentral 4h

Woman accused in ricin case to undergo psych exam:

TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — A federal judge Thursday ordered a psychological exam for the Texas woman accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in an attempt to frame her estranged husband.

Shannon Richardson's court-appointed attorney, Tonda Curry, requested the exam, saying Richardson, 35, had displayed "a pattern of behavior" that raised the question about whether she could assist in her defense. Curry's wrote in a motion that her belief was based on a series of conversations with Richardson, who has been jailed since her June 7 arrest on a charge of sending a threatening communication to the president. http://yhoo.it/16Q8kVG

 

[PoirotryInMotion]

"Shannon Richardson's attorney says the baby faces serious medical issues due to the premature birth and remains hospitalized. Nathan Richardson's attorney says the boy weighed less than 2 pounds at birth and was four months premature."

http://www.newser.com/story/171426/alleged-ricin-sender-gives-birth-in-custody.html

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

"Woman charged with sending ricin letters to Obama loses custody of her newborn to her husband - whom 'tried to frame for the crimes' - as judge rules her fit to stand trial"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...child-federal-judge-says-fit-stand-trial.html

 

[Reader]

Texas ricin suspect cuts deal, details unknown

http://www.centurylink.net/news/rea...p-texas_ricin_suspect_cuts_deal_details_un-ap

TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank Coan added into the case docket for Shannon Guess Richardson a one-line entry that states "notice of plea agreement," the Texarkana Gazette reported (http://bit.ly/17EiXgr.)...........

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

"Actress and mother-of-6 admits sending ricin letters to Obama after trying to implicate her husband who had filed for divorce"

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ters-Obama-Mayor-Bloomberg.html#ixzz2n8y5Qng4