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A northwest suburban man has pleaded guilty to trying to kill his wife with poison from a puffer fish.
Edward F. Bachner IV, of Lake in the Hills, apparently wanted to collect $20 million on the life insurance policy for his wife, Rebecca Bachner.
The 2008 federal indictment against Bachner says starting in 2006, he used the alias of Dr. Edmund Backer of EB Strategic Research to purchase four different orders of the deadly puffer fish poison tetrodotoxin from the biochemical manufacturing firm Biotium.
The firm sent Bachner four shipments of tetrodotoxin to a Post Office box he used, totaling at least 64 mg in all.
He also ordered a fifth shipment for 98 mg of the poison from a second biotech firm, Ascent Scientific, which he received by claiming his name was “Dr. Backer” and wanted the tetrodotoxin for “marine antitoxin research purposes.”
Tetrodotoxin has a fatality rate of 50 to 60 percent, and has no known antidote.
Edward F. Bachner IV, of Lake in the Hills, apparently wanted to collect $20 million on the life insurance policy for his wife, Rebecca Bachner.
The 2008 federal indictment against Bachner says starting in 2006, he used the alias of Dr. Edmund Backer of EB Strategic Research to purchase four different orders of the deadly puffer fish poison tetrodotoxin from the biochemical manufacturing firm Biotium.
The firm sent Bachner four shipments of tetrodotoxin to a Post Office box he used, totaling at least 64 mg in all.
He also ordered a fifth shipment for 98 mg of the poison from a second biotech firm, Ascent Scientific, which he received by claiming his name was “Dr. Backer” and wanted the tetrodotoxin for “marine antitoxin research purposes.”
Tetrodotoxin has a fatality rate of 50 to 60 percent, and has no known antidote.
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