A Murderer Strikes from the Grave

Star-crossed lovers and fatal pills

It was a tale fit for a Shakespearian tragedy. A young couple, thwarted in love, joined in death.

But here ends the resemblance, for this was not a reenactment of Romeo and Juliet. No — in this story, one of the enamored was a murderer.

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