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Author: Vincent Marks
ISBN : 1853157600
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Insulin Murders is the first book on the market to describe real life cases of murder (and purported murder) using insulin (and other hypoglycaemic agents) as a murder weapon. Written by a leading authority on insulin and its use as a murder weapon, this is a gripping account of true life crime, intended for doctors and laypeople alike.
Insulin Murders is a unique collection of real life tales and includes details of the evidence that proved the innocence of Claus von Bulow, played by Jeremy Irons in the well known Hollywood film about the case, Reversal of Fortune, in the first criminal trial ever to be televised in the US.
Insulin Murders is written by Vincent Marks, author of the well-known and critically acclaimed Panic Nation and world authority on insulin, and Caroline Richmond, a well known medical journalist and writer, with a foreword by Nick Ross, journalist and broadcaster. It will appeal to both the medical and non-medical communities, and especially to all those with an interest in forensic medicine or true life crime.
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- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: RSM Press; 1 edition (April 26, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1853157600
- ISBN-13: 978-1853157608
- Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 6.5 x 7.6 inches
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I had a physiology professor who said that as a physiologist, he knew many ways of committing the perfect, undetectable murder. He would not tell us what they were, but he joked that he was tempted to go into the business of writing whodunits, except that he didn't know enough bad words. He knew plenty about poisons, of course. The perfect poison would be one that not only produced a death that seemed natural, but was undetectable by the medical examiners thereafter. Many potential murderers have thought that insulin would be perfection. It is a substance produced by the body, and it is available for injection; diabetics use it to prolong life, but given in overdose, it can drive blood sugar down and produce a coma and death. And because it is in everyone's body naturally, a poisoner could count on its presence being overlooked and thus get away with murder. But the poisoner would not be counting on the skills of people like Dr. Vincent Marks, a physician with a special expertise in measuring insulin and in its potential misuse. He has compiled such cases of poisoning, some of which he himself investigated or testified about, in _Insulin Murders: True Life Cases_ (Royal Society of Medicine Press). Dr. Marks writes, "I realized that my writing style was not necessarily conducive to easy reading" (good for you, Dr. Marks) and so he enlisted the help of a co-author, a journalist who has written on medical issues, Caroline Richmond. Some of the book is still not easy reading, but that is part of its appeal. There is a great deal of physiology in these pages, with discussions of laboratory procedures, glucose levels, insulin levels, and more.
If you like reading about true crime and forensics, this book is for you. The book is arranged in chronological order, from the first known case of a killing in which insulin was involved as a weapon (though it didn't directly cause the death) to the present. Dr. Marks is an expert in the field and appears as a witness in a number of such cases.
Perhaps most interesting is the account of the Claus von Bulow trials. Unless you are pathetically young, you probably remember this trial, so sensational for a number of reasons--wealthy, celebrity couple; the wife, Sunny, left in a coma and suspicion falling on the husband; his celebrity actress mistress. (In fact, a feature film called Reversal of Fortune was made, based on this story.) I remember that everyone was certain von Bulow administered insulin to his wife and caused her coma, and in fact, he was convicted at first. However, Dr. Marks was called to testify as an expert witness at the retrial, and after reading the medical reports on Sunny von Bulow, he came to very different conclusions from experts at the first trial. Dr. Marks describes the problems with blood tests and conclusions drawn by other experts that led him to question von Bulow's guilt--or in fact, the idea that Sunny had been poisoned at all. The retrial ended in von Bulow's acquittal.
The book is chock full of bizarre cases, from the men and women who killed multiple spouses for inheritances and life insurance policies, to the nurse who administered lethal doses to babies under her care for no apparent reason. And then there are the puzzlers--the woman thought to have committed suicide by insulin, but if so, how did she manage to give herself an injection in the buttocks? And where were the vials and syringes?