Can Forensics Establish Whether Pablo Neruda Was Poisoned?
Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 09:30
in Health & Medicine
The body of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was unearthed from his tomb in Isla Negra, Chile, this week. The exhumation marks the beginning of a forensic analysis aimed at clarifying whether the Nobel prizewinner’s death in 1973 was from prostate cancer -- as has been believed -- or from poisoning, as a key witness has claimed. [More]