The Poisoned Muffins

Posted on November 20, 2006 in Strange

How nice of this woman to let Sandra Day O’Connor know that the muffin she sent her was deadly.

Barbara Joan March, a 61-year-old Connecticut resident, was sentenced last month to 15 years in prison for mailing letters “containing either a baked good or a piece of candy laced with rat poison” to the nine justices, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and another bureau official. March’s bizarre scheme is detailed in a government sentencing memorandum filed in U.S. District Court, a copy of which you’ll find below. According to an indictment, a note to O’Connor (which accompanied the spiked treat) stated, “We are going to kill you. This is poisoned.” March placed the names of various acquaintances (former classmates, an ex-roommate, a former co-worker, etc.) on the letters she mailed, in an apparent bid to mask her identity.