The Godiva Chocolate story is a bit different. Neil knew the perpetrator, who was an anthro prof at NYU. He had his students unwittingly making LSD in his lab. He got busted and sentenced to life in prison.

Much later, when nearly dead of AIDS, he convinced the powers that be to let him out for a weekend to see an opera in Chicago (he was incarcerated in Wisconsin, I think). They let him go . While he was free, he put into place a diabolical plan he had been working on, from prison, for years.

He procured a wide range of effective, exotic poisons. He got the chocolate. He put different poisons in all the different chocolate. He sent them to the jury, judge, prosecutor,etc. It was around Valentine’s day, so it was not odd to get a box of chocolate in the mail.

The judges wife was the first person to open and eat the chocolate. She became ill (she survived) but the authorities put 2 and 2 together very quickly (I guess they expect retribution attacks on federal judges) and intercepted the poisoned chocolates that were sent to all of the others.

He told me all about his trips to Africa and South America. In Africa, the Cercopithecus monkeys had very long tails which hung down from trees in the forest which is how he got a bead on the monkeys.

One funny story he told was about a, I think, Professor of Mathematics who flipped out from his studies and blamed some other professor. He sent a box of Godiva Chocolates to the man’s house whom he blamed, and the wife ate some and got very sick. The police grabbed the Mathematician and he is in prison now. So we were wary of Godiva Chocolates from that point on.

I was very close to him, even taking my kids to visit him at their house in Milwaukee many times, and I sincerely regret not having contacted him or visited him since he moved to Minnesota. I give my condolences to you, and I have missed him so much since he moved, and now I will miss him eternally.

Liza Kimball, Anthropologist.