On Nkaissery,the hospital initially dismissed reports that he had died of cardiac arrest. This drove theorists wild. What kills like a heart attack but is not? The poisons I know don't mimic heart attack; they induce one. If he came into contact with any, say cyanide at Bomas at the latest 2100H when he left, it must have been in such low dosage to let him get home, have supper before its effects showed up. But if you want to take him out not too fast but far away from you when he's comfortably at home, you got to factor in how fast he can get help. He lived quite near Karen Hospital and this means that's likely to be the first place they rush to.
Now, supposing you struck the next day when he was airborne or well into Kajiado in another village. He's least likely to get help so you succeed. This is my thinking.
In a nutshell. it's hard to see anything in his death that suggested foul play, and am glad the post mortem results almost agree with me
Fair enough. The following is largely for my amusement.
Maybe the killers are smart guys. Like you. So they figure the best place to finish him is at home. Then when the smart guys do their reasoning, they will decide that it couldn't possibly have been done at home, because dot, dot, dot, etc. Smart killers doing smart thinking or something. They figure the local line will be "struck the next day when he was airborne or well into Kajiado in another village. He's least likely to get help so you succeed.". Or something. The "reverse psychology" thing.
As to the poisons ... one of the greatest History books I have ever read is "
The Annals of Imperial Rome" by Tacitus. Great, entertaining stuff ... not the way we learned history: this one discovered that at such-and-such date, and that one did blah on whatever date. Imperial Rome was full of all sorts of skulduggery and debauchery: just about everyone is busy fighting and (especially in the higher echelons) drinking and feasting and f**king and killing everyone else (to and with everyone, including family members). There is a great deal there about poisons, how long they to take effect, what the effects are, and so on.
If you have read Taictus, then you will recall, for example, the specialized and subtle skills used by Agrippina to poison her husband, the emperor Claudius, in contrast with those used to finish his sidekicks. Your statements reminded me that in that case the poison-lady, highly regarded for her skills had to take into account such things as "who", "what time", "distance to doctor", "low dosage", "after supper", etc. [If I recall correctly some of the parameters the poison-lady had to work with were off , and on the first attempt, at supper, Claudius had such a good time--intended to make him lower his guard--- that he got drunk and vomited everything, and it probably didn't help that initially there had been a slight miscalculation in the distance-to-doctor, but that had nothing to do with the physical distance. Minor adjustment were them made.]. So, there are poisons, and then there are poisons. I doubt that we are,
with a reliance on technology, ahead of those Romans. But I would not be surprised to learn that some of our
kienyeji doctors are well up there and among those who are making a killing in this season.
As to the present case, I have little medical knowledge, so I have been doing a bit of Googling: "how long does it take to die from a heart attack?", "how to induce a heart attack", "how to make death look like a heart attack", etc. [American TV is actually full of relevant "real-life" stories ... husband murders wife, police finds record of recent computer searches, etc.] From what I have gathered so far, it seems possible to mimic a hear attack to within an accuracy of under 5 minutes.
So, then. Was Nkaiserry finished or what? I don't know, but I doubt it. Still, I have found the what-if, figuring-out exercise to be an interesting and educational one; and I would be interested to "hear" of other's views.
