She had taken a cyanide pill. Many believe that she had seen an advanced copy of the story, and that it was the last straw. Her mother-in-law was one of those.

A string of deaths in 1982 – linked to cyanide-laced Tylenol – prompted drug makers to adopt some of the packaging we have today.

"The world is awaiting your apology or for you to swallow a cyanide pill. Either or we'll take it," he wrote.

Cyanide is a lethal chemical that was commonly used in suicidal pills throughout World War II to prevent captured spies and high-government officials from leaking their country's secrets to the enemy, ...

Registered sex offender Robert Lindsay, a fugitive on the run from Maryland for two years, slipped out of a Denver-area motorcycle painting shop where he worked when police arrived to arrest him ...

Suicide pills are a common element of spy thrillers and works of fiction, but only decades ago they were manufactured and distributed by the U.S. government, with shellfish poison and cyanide ...

Oh, Those Movie Spies and Their Cyanide Pills Wired Science blogger Deborah Blum does a quick fact-check on the disfigurement-by-cyanide plot in Skyfall.

Former Wall Street banker committed suicide in court by taking cyanide pill after arson conviction: autopsy An Arizona man who collapsed in court and died shortly after being convicted of ...

New details are emerging that appear to back up the theory that a former wall street trader committed suicide by taking a cyanide pill in court on June 28, shortly after being convicted of arson ...