Once people figured out they could kill each other with special substances instead of sharp sticks, the proverbial poison cookie was born. However, there are only so many times you can use the same trick. As people caught on to how poisons worked, and moved them to the forefront of investigations, certain poisons fell out of fashion.
Actor Robert Culp Dies at Age 79. Robert Culp, best remembered as Kelly Robinson in the â60s TV show I Spy and more recently as father-in-law Warren Whelan on Everybody Loves Raymond, has died. The actor, 79, was rushed to Queen of Angels Hospital on Wednesday morning after falling outside his Hollywood home, authorities said.
On November 21, 1963, Robert Stroud died at the Springfield Medical Center at the age of 73, having been incarcerated for the last 54 years of his life, of which 42 were spent in solitary confinement. He had been studying French near the end of his life. Stroud is buried in Metropolis, Illinois (Massac County).