Episode

She Killed Her Husband With His Own Pills—And Started a National Crisis

Podcast: Yore Town
Published: Mar 2, 2026
Duration seconds: 1675
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Summary

The Auburn cyanide murders shocked a quiet Washington suburb and changed how America seals its medicine bottles. In 1986, Stella Nickell poisoned Excedrin capsules with potassium cyanide, killing her husband and an innocent neighbor in one of the most chilling product tampering cases in U.S. history.