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Police Link Poisoning Mystery in Maine to Dead Man
Aired May 04, 2003 - 08:00 ET
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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: First up this hour, new developments in the arsenic poisoning mystery in Maine. It just keeps getting stranger. Police say they've found evidence linking a man who died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the church poisoning that killed one man and left 15 other people hospitalized.
CNN Jason Carroll joins us live from New Sweden with more detail.
Jason, good morning.
JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you Anderson. Church services will be at the Gustav Adolph Evangelical Church that will be happening on later this morning. We are told there will be some sort of ceremony outside the church, then parishioners will go inside for a private ceremony where there are sure to be prayers for the man who died Walter Morrow, 78 years old. He died of acute arsenic poisoning. There will also be prayers for the 15 others who are still hospitalized.
There's also sure to be talk of another man, Daniel Bondeson. Bondeson is at the focus right now of this investigation. Police say they've gathered enough information at Bondeson's farm to link him to the crime. They took pictures at his farm yesterday; also took samples from materials at his home. They also say they may know the reason why Bondeson allegedly put arsenic into the coffee served to parishioners.
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COL. MICHAEL SPERRY, MAINE STATE PATROL: We are looking into the information concerning a motive and we have developed information the last 24 hours that would indicate what the motive may have been, but that's still an open investigation and we're still continuing with that.
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CARROLL: Bondeson died on Friday as you said, of a self- inflicted gunshot wound. People in this small town now having to come to terms with the possibility that one of their own may have been responsible for what happened here -- Anderson.
COOPER: Jason, what do townspeople say about this man, Daniel Bondesman -- Bondeson?
CARROLL: Well, we spoke to a good friend of his yesterday who is really having a tough time trying to really come to terms with what has happened here. He described him as a man who was giving. A man who was gentle and a man who cared about animals. Which is why it's so hard for him to believe that he is at this point the focus of the investigation.
COOPER: All right. The story just keeps getting stranger. Jason Carroll, thanks very much.
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Aired May 4, 2003 - 08:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: First up this hour, new developments in the arsenic poisoning mystery in Maine. It just keeps getting stranger. Police say they've found evidence linking a man who died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the church poisoning that killed one man and left 15 other people hospitalized.
CNN Jason Carroll joins us live from New Sweden with more detail.
Jason, good morning.
JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you Anderson. Church services will be at the Gustav Adolph Evangelical Church that will be happening on later this morning. We are told there will be some sort of ceremony outside the church, then parishioners will go inside for a private ceremony where there are sure to be prayers for the man who died Walter Morrow, 78 years old. He died of acute arsenic poisoning. There will also be prayers for the 15 others who are still hospitalized.
There's also sure to be talk of another man, Daniel Bondeson. Bondeson is at the focus right now of this investigation. Police say they've gathered enough information at Bondeson's farm to link him to the crime. They took pictures at his farm yesterday; also took samples from materials at his home. They also say they may know the reason why Bondeson allegedly put arsenic into the coffee served to parishioners.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
COL. MICHAEL SPERRY, MAINE STATE PATROL: We are looking into the information concerning a motive and we have developed information the last 24 hours that would indicate what the motive may have been, but that's still an open investigation and we're still continuing with that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARROLL: Bondeson died on Friday as you said, of a self- inflicted gunshot wound. People in this small town now having to come to terms with the possibility that one of their own may have been responsible for what happened here -- Anderson.
COOPER: Jason, what do townspeople say about this man, Daniel Bondesman -- Bondeson?
CARROLL: Well, we spoke to a good friend of his yesterday who is really having a tough time trying to really come to terms with what has happened here. He described him as a man who was giving. A man who was gentle and a man who cared about animals. Which is why it's so hard for him to believe that he is at this point the focus of the investigation.
COOPER: All right. The story just keeps getting stranger. Jason Carroll, thanks very much.
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