Friday, March 1, 2013

Autopsy of Chicago lottery winner yields no new clues on poisoning

The body of Urooj Khan is carried to a hearse for forensic autopsy by the Cook County Medical Examiners office in Chicago,CHICAGO (Reuters) - A post-exhumation autopsy of a Chicago man who died from cyanide poisoning shortly after winning a $1 million lottery prize yielded no clues in the murder case, authorities said on Friday. Because of decomposition, there was no trace of cyanide found in the tissues of Urooj Khan, 46, or in his stomach, according to Cook County Medical Examiner Dr. Stephen Cina. Authorities found a lethal level of cyanide in a blood sample soon after his death last summer. ...


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