The Nation - News from Jan. 9, 1989

Authorities acting with search warrants found cyanide at the Haddonfield, N.J., home of a teen-ager who lapsed into a coma after eating the poison in yogurt, a newspaper reported. The report in the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill said also that samples of the poison have been recovered from the laboratory of the boy’s father, Hsin-Yi Lee, the chairman of the biology department at Rutgers University’s campus. Investigators would not comment on the report. Thomas Lee, 17, fell into a coma last week after eating the poison from a container of Breyer’s yogurt while riding in a friend’s car on the way to school. He remains hospitalized at West Jersey Hospital in Voorhees, where he is being kept alive by life-support equipment, officials said.