It didn’t start with a dramatic confrontation, a weapon, or a crime scene.
It started with something familiar… a bottle of Excedrin sitting next to a bathroom sink. Something ordinary. Something trusted.
But inside those capsules wasn’t relief, it was cyanide.
And the woman behind it wasn’t a stranger lurking in the shadows.
She was a wife. A mother. Someone who believed the world owed her more. She was someone who was willing to kill to get it.
In this episode of GBRLIFE Of Crimes, we dive into the chilling case of Stella Nickell, the woman whose calculated poisoning shook the country in 1986 and changed U.S. product safety forever. Her crime wasn’t impulsive, it was planned, researched, layered, and disturbingly detached. What looked like grief was performance, and what looked like coincidence was strategy.
Blog Post: https://www.gbrlife.com/blog/the-wife-who-poisoned-excedrin-the-stella-nickell-case
🎧 In this episode:
• The poverty, instability, and emotional detachment that shaped Stella’s worldview
• How entitlement replaced empathy and strategy replaced morality
• The calculated murder of her husband and the random killing of a stranger
• Why Stella escalated from murder to mass public product tampering
• The psychological profile behind offenders who kill for personal gain
• How Stella’s actions led to national reforms in packaging and safety laws
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