http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/cyanide010606.html # # Newly Revealed Documents Prove Woman Innocent of Cyanide Killings, # PI Says # # Stella Nickell has never stopped denying she killed her husband # Bruce with cyanide in 1986. But now her defense team says they # can prove her innocence. # # Nickell, 57, is serving two 90-year prison terms after being # found guilty of putting cyanide in a pain-reliever capsule taken # by her husband and trying to hide the crime by tampering with # other bottles of the over-the-counter drug, which resulted in # a second death. # # Her case came at a time when the country was reeling from a series # of drug-tampering incidents. # # Now, two private investigators who have been digging into the # Seattle case for 14 months say they can prove her innocence with # documents the FBI never turned over to the defense at the time # of the trial. # # If the claim sounds strangely familiar, think again, says Al # Farr, one of the two sleuths who have been working on the case. # "I know when news first got out there that we were doing this, # some people assumed we were just floating on Tim McVeigh's # coattails," Farr said. "That couldn't be further from the truth." # # The FBI has admitted it failed to turn over more than 4,000 # documents in the case of McVeigh, who faces the death penalty # for the deadly Oklahoma City bombing. [snip] # Then, in October, he was contacted by former FBI lab worker # Frederic Whitehurst, who told him he had 1,000 pages of # FBI documents related to the case that were never seen during # the trial. [snip]