Aunt Thally
Christina Mickleson and a family friend Angeline Thomas both died in 1947. Both women were in their eighties so they seemed like natural deaths and there were no suspicions. Only a year later another relative of Christina Mickleson died but since John Lunderbergs was only 63 there were suspicions especially since while he was sick his hair began to fall out. Again another relative fell sick and died. There was one common factor with all four deaths, Caroline Grills. She was the old step-daughter-in-law who has married Christina Mickelson’s stepson forty years earlier. Caroline Grills was the one who helped and care for the people getting sick one way she helped them was by making them drink endless amounts of tea. In 1948 the lives of John Lundbergs wife and daughter were both threatened by this puzzling “sickness”, even with Caroline Grills care. They were having troubles moving theirs limbs and were losing hair.
The local police received a call from a suspicious relative. They went to the house and removed a cup of tea that was prepared to be drunk by the ill women and took it in for testing. Looking at the symptoms the women were having like their hair falling out suggested that they had been poisoned by Thallium. The tea had a large amount of Thallium that was identified after the lab used a Reinsh test. Although Mrs. Lundberg lost her sight due to the poison, both women’s lives were saved. The supposed helper of these women Caroline Grills was found guilty of the attempted murder of Mrs. Lundberg. She was sentenced to life in prison. Weirdly enough the inmates became quite fond of her and started to call her Aunt Thally.
The local police received a call from a suspicious relative. They went to the house and removed a cup of tea that was prepared to be drunk by the ill women and took it in for testing. Looking at the symptoms the women were having like their hair falling out suggested that they had been poisoned by Thallium. The tea had a large amount of Thallium that was identified after the lab used a Reinsh test. Although Mrs. Lundberg lost her sight due to the poison, both women’s lives were saved. The supposed helper of these women Caroline Grills was found guilty of the attempted murder of Mrs. Lundberg. She was sentenced to life in prison. Weirdly enough the inmates became quite fond of her and started to call her Aunt Thally.