Case 239

Peggy Carr

When 41-year-old waitress Peggy Carr succumbed to a mysterious illness in October 1988, doctors in Alturas, Florida, struggled to figure out what was wrong with her.

As other members of Peggy’s family became sick too, one neurologist came to suspect they were dealing with a case of poisoning. Tests soon confirmed the family had been deliberately poisoned with the rare heavy metal thallium, but no one could understand why. 

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RESOURCES

 

COURT DOCUMENTS

Trepal v. Secretary Florida Department of Corrections

 

BOOKS

Poison Mind – Jeffrey Good and Susan Goreck

 

DOCUMENTARIES

The murder of Peggy Carr – Dateline Mystery

Forensic Files – Bitter Potion

Murder She Solved – The Mensa Murders

 

ARTICLES

The Mensa Murder – South Florida Sun-Sentinel

The justice story – NY Daily News

Grim milestone: 20 years on death row – The Ledger

Poisoning victims’ children have come to accept death – The Ledger

 

WEBSITES

Murderpedia – George James Trepal

 

 

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