The Nation - News from Sept. 7, 1986
Federal lab tests showed that three out of four packets of soup in a Lipton Cup-A-Soup box bought for a poisoning victim contained massive doses of cyanide, Camden County (N.J.) First Assistant Prosecutor Dennis Wixted said. Louis Denber, 27, of Runnemede, N.J., died Monday about two hours after eating soup prepared from a package bought at a Shop ‘N Bag supermarket. The cyanide in the two unopened packets was detected at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Brooklyn laboratory, Wixted said. The packets were later sent to the FBI laboratory in Washington.
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