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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: flowers on October 20, 2013, 06:06:18 pm

Title: Cyanide killed potential Bulger trial witness, medical examiner says
Post by: flowers on October 20, 2013, 06:06:18 pm
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/20/cyanide-killed-potential-bulger-trial-witness-medical-examiner-says/?intcmp=latestnews

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BOSTON –  The Massachusetts medical examiner's office says cyanide poisoning killed an alleged extortion victim of James "Whitey" Bulger who had hoped to testify at Bulger's trial.

A spokeswoman for the Middlesex District Attorney's Office said Sunday that the medical examiner concluded that acute cyanide toxicity killed 59-year-old Stephen Rakes of Quincy in July. His death was ruled a homicide.

Rakes learned before his death that he wouldn't be called as a witness against Bulger, the Boston gangster convicted of murder in August.

Authorities say Rakes' death wasn't related to the Bulger case.

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Title: Re: Cyanide killed potential Bulger trial witness, medical examiner says
Post by: happyg on October 20, 2013, 06:17:01 pm
How do they know it's not related? Unless they have evidence otherwise, I will believe it's related.
Title: Re: Cyanide killed potential Bulger trial witness, medical examiner says
Post by: flowers on October 20, 2013, 06:19:51 pm
How do they know it's not related? Unless they have evidence otherwise, I will believe it's related.
Hey it is NOT RELATED!!!!  They told us so then it must be!   :smokin: