FBI Arrests Elderly Married Couple For Cyanide Poisoning

muciti said:

There are a couple of things I found interesting in this article beyond what has already been stated.



It would seem that the Montorsis had been using cyanide for some time now, being on their 2nd business dealing with the stuff. I think it would be safe to assume that they would have had to have disposed of it prior to this event. We know they tried to have it picked up and it was refused. I am jumping to a conclusion here but I would think that might have been how they had disposed of it up to that point. If they had been disposing it for years in a different manner why would they suddenly change now and when it didnt work why then still not revert to what had been working for years? It would appear to me that the city or trash people or someone changed their policy and that was that.

Reading this thread it would appear as if these people went and dumped the cyanide into the river. That is not what happened.



Montorsi dumped the stuff in the sewer quite possibly expecting that it went to waste water treatment plan and not just emptied into a river. He may also have assumed that sewage is already toxic and adding this would do no harm. The reason I am pointing this out is because his intent is important. If this man was trying to destroy a river, kill the wildlife or even poison a water supply then he deserves prison or even death. However, if his intent to dump it into a sewer was for it to go to a treatment plant and he honestly didn't figure any harm would come it is not the same thing. I think this man's motive needs to be considered and it doesn't appear as though many are. It would seem like a moderate fine and community service directly involved in the clean up would be appropriate.

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Pinkie said:

It's possible the husband did not intend to pollute the river, of course, but I find that hard to believe. This county lost a 20 year battle with the EPA last year and has to build a longer pipeline into Lake Erie for the discharge of sewage, as a result. Our water bills are like 300%+ larger and this has been all over the news here, daily.

So, possible....but very, very unlikely.

If the husband did intend to poison the river, do you think he should get prison time? Or does his age move you to say "naw, that's too harsh"?

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muciti said:

There are a lot of people out there who do not realize that when they dump something down a drain, or into a sewer, on a city street ect where they water goes or the impact of what they are doing. I think a persons intent should be considered in sentencing. If his goal was poison the river in order to kill fish and further destroy that area I think his sentence should be much more harsh than if he ignorantly not understood the full scope of his actions.

I am not factoring his age at all.

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