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Texas Woman Who Sent Ricin Letters To Obama, Gets 18 Years In Prison

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TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman who had minor acting roles in film and television was sentenced Wednesday to 18 years in prison for sending ricing-laced letters to President Barack Obama and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

A judge sentenced Shannon Guess Richardson, 36, in federal court in Texarkana, Texas, on a federal charge of possessing and producing a biological toxin. She had pleaded guilty to the charge in December in a deal her attorney said capped the sentence at 18 years. Richardson also must pay restitution.

Prosecutors say Richardson mailed three letters from New Boston, outside Texarkana, then went to police and claimed that her estranged husband had done it. Richardson was arrested last June after authorities said she tried to implicate Nathan Richardson, who had had filed for divorce.

Prosecutors say investigators noted inconsistencies in Richardson's statements and later learned that she had purchased materials online to produce ricin, a toxin that can cause respiratory failure if inhaled.

Richardson has had minor roles in the television series "The Walking Dead" and the movie "The Blind Side." She also is the mother of six children — including one born prematurely while she was in custody.

She acknowledged in a signed plea agreement that she ordered castor beans online and learned how to process them into a substance used to make ricin. She obtained an email address, a PayPal shopping account and a post office box in her husband's name without his knowledge, according to the document.

On the morning of May 20, 2013, she said she waited for Nathan Richardson to go to work.

"After he left the house, I printed the mailing labels for President Barack Obama, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Mark Glaze with The Raben Group," Richardson said in the document. At the time, Glaze was director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Bloomberg's group advocating for tougher gun control.

The letter to Obama read, "What's in this letter is nothing compared to what ive got in store for you mr president," according to the document. "You will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns. Anyone wants to come to my house will get shot in the face."

After mailing the letters, she admitted to trying to blame her husband and lying to authorities.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/16/shannon-richardson-ricin-letters_n_5592109.html
 
^ Not really, It was a bit of a stretch to post it here, but Ricin in a chemical, granted with no recreational value.

I thought it was worthy of a post.
 
She should of got firing squad for treason. Like him or not Obama is our President and you cannot do these types of things or even threaten them.
 
Yeah, I thought it would qualify as treason to, or attempted murder/assasination. I wonder what the legal definitions of these are.

Surely though, she would have made the assumption that the white house would have security measures in place for this kind of thing, I wonder even if the president opens any of his mail himself?

It's also in the Guardian (and alot of other places) doesn't really shed much more though - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/16/texas-woman-ricin-obama-18-years
 
Oh great, she's gonna stigmatize my beans.

Not cool trying to poison the president, nor anyone else for that fact.
 
ro4eva said:
Oh great, she's gonna stigmatize my beans.

Not cool trying to poison the president, nor anyone else for that fact.
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Wtf are castor beans used for anyway? I heard 8 beans is a fatal dose. Are they the ones you have to boil forever before eating?
 
_DankOpiAmp_ said:
Wtf are castor beans used for anyway? I heard 8 beans is a fatal dose. Are they the ones you have to boil forever before eating?
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Well, they contain castor oil, which is used in many applications, such as food, medicine, transportation, cosmetics, and several other industries.

Sorry to link you a page, but it's explained quite well here (I know wikipedia may not be the most reliable resource, but, I'm trying): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_oil#Food_and_preservative

Edit - In truth, I'm more of a Navy beans fan (they help keep me regular - too much info?).
 
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So... she worked on "The Walking Dead", which is on AMC. I don't watch the show, seemed pretty dull to me what I did see of it. However, I did watch and LOVED "Breaking Bad", also on AMC. Anyone else think she drew her inspiration from the several episodes which involved Walt cooking up some ricin from castor beans?
 
I bet if she was a Muslim the headlines wouldn't be calling her "a Texas woman" :\
 
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