Airline Meal Used to Feed, Kill, Passenger

Oct 10th, 2007 | By Jared Blank

The former head of Garuda Indonesia is on trial for murdering an activist by feeding him an arsenic-laced meal during a flight. The activist had ordered the low-arsenic meal, and the rest is now history.

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