she used her ampersands quite extensively through her writing, so every fifth, sixth line would have an ampersand on it, in her known handwriting, where richard always used the a-n-d for the verbiage and. kittel also noticed that nancy and richard made their capital i differently. richard used one down stroke like a 1, whereas nancy used a down stroke and then a cross at the top and bottom. she was willing to take a lot more time in executing them than richard was. their lowercase fs were different as well. richard used a clockwise motion coming down from the top of the f down to the bottom. he would swing off in a clockwise motion to finish off the lower loop of the f, whereas nancy always came down and went counterclockwise to finish off the f. kittel concluded richard wrote the diary entries about nancy s brother, bill.
Her family strongly suspected richard was the killer since they knew he was having an affair with another woman. i did not poison my wife, nancy dillard lyon, nor did i have anything to do with her tragic death. so there was no shortage of suspects. who sent the wine to nancy s home? who sent the threatening letter? why did nancy accuse her brother of sexual abuse, and would he kill to keep her quiet? and was nancy planning to divorce her husband? in the event that this case becomes a murder charge, this will be an honest to goodness perry mason-style whodunit.
There is no way to kill yourself that way. when a person ingests arsenic, the poison attaches itself to the hair follicles. as the hair grows, the poison residue remains on the hair shaft and becomes a permanent record. so scientists cut nancy s hair into 7-millimeter pieces. each piece corresponded to a two-week period. each piece was placed in a separate vial and then exposed to radiation in a nuclear reactor. the sample can be analyzed as is in most cases, just simply weighed into a radiation vial. most other methods require dissolution of the sample. when scientists examine the hair with gamma ray spectrophotometry, they discovered a startling piece of
No one granted him the power of god to take her life. she was slowly poisoned to death. probably one of the most hideous things that you can do to someone. this wasn t done in a moment of passion or anger of picking up a weapon that was handy to him. this was done with slow premeditation and over a period of time, and it s a hideous, hideous way to murder somebody. richard lyon insisted he had nothing to do with the poisoning death of his wife, nancy. as proof, he offered a receipt for arsenic that he said nancy had signed. prosecutors asked forensic experts whether this was, in fact, nancy s signature. i wasn t able to reach a conclusion as to authorship.