'Knew much more than she was sharing': Woman who killed roommate and dismembered her body also tried to kill neighbors with ricin, authorities say

Two abstracted cases acceptable hundreds of miles and much than a fractional decennary isolated appeared to person thing successful communal – until authorities announced they judge the crimes astatine the halfway of them were perpetrated by the aforesaid woman.

Kore Bommelli Adams, 63, was convicted connected June 27 of 2 counts of attempted archetypal grade intentional homicide successful Dane County, Wisconsin. Prosecutors said Adams dispersed ricin – a poison – astir her neighbors location successful the outpouring of 2014 portion they were connected vacation.

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Assistant Dane County District Attorney Jack Schneider asserted that she wanted them to die.

"No 1 is putting ricin successful someone's bed, successful their sock drawer, successful their bureau – if you're not trying to termination them. You're not trying to person them devour a tiny magnitude conscionable to get sick; there's nary conceivable crushed to enactment ricin successful someone's location different than to origin their death," Schneider said, according to Madison-based ABC affiliate WKOW.

It was a abstracted case successful Oklahoma that drew Wisconsin investigators' attraction to Adams.

On April 17, 2020, arsenic the COVID-19 pandemic captured the nation's attention, Adams reported that her roommate, Talina Galloway, was missing. Adams told instrumentality enforcement that Galloway had said she had the coronavirus and was going to "her favourite water to beryllium alone," according to the Wagoner County Sheriff's Office successful the Sooner State.

The fishy besides reportedly told authorities Galloway had been tested for COVID-19 and been told to quarantine. Wagoner County investigators, however, searched astir and learned Galloway "was ne'er screened astatine immoderate infirmary for COVID-19 and determination was nary interaction with her doctor."

Galloway's assemblage was recovered successful January 2021 astir 150 miles distant successful a wood astir Mena, Arkansas.

Polk County Sheriff's Office deputies successful the authorities were tipped astir a freezer successful the woods, and, going to investigate, "discovered what appeared to beryllium dismembered quality remains wrong the freezer," the Wagoner County Sheriff's Office reported successful August of that year.

As it turned out, the aforesaid witnesser who recovered the freezer had contacted the Polk County Sheriff's Office successful June 2020 and reported that a truck's enactment successful the wood was "suspicious" and determination was a "foul odor coming from the trailer, and that determination was a foul-smelling heavy liquid pooled successful the level of the trailer."

The assemblage was aboriginal confirmed to beryllium Galloway.

The Wagoner County Sheriff's Office reported successful August 2021 that, passim its probe into Galloway's disappearance and death, Adams "exhibited suspicious behavior, gave inconsistent statements, and aboriginal was proven to beryllium deceptive successful her reporting of the circumstances surrounding the disappearance."

"Timelines were examined, investigated, and verified," the Oklahoma instrumentality enforcement bureau added. "Investigators soon realized that Kore Bommeli knew overmuch much than she was sharing with investigators."

She past became a idiosyncratic of involvement successful the case.

Bommelii subsequently broke disconnected communications with investigators and "refused to cooperate," the sheriff's bureau said.

They searched for her and recovered that she was successful the country of Dane County, Wisconsin. Deputies determination arrested her and charged her with first-degree execution and desecration of a quality corpse successful the Oklahoma case.

It is unclear however precisely the Oklahoma lawsuit linked investigators backmost to the Dane County, Wisconsin, one, nor is it wide what motives Adams whitethorn person had. Though Adams was convicted of the Wisconsin attempted execution charges, she was scheduled to beryllium transported backmost to Wagoner County, Oklahoma, to look the charges there, too.

In January 2021, Wagoner County District Attorney Jack Thorp said the lawsuit of Galloway's decease was 1 of the worst he'd ever seen.

"Talina Galloway died a brutal death, wherever her slayer had nary respect for her beingness successful immoderate way," Thorp said astatine a property league astatine the time, according to Memphis-based Fox affiliate WHBQ. "While each murders are abhorrent and detestable, the grisly mode successful which Galloway was dismembered and disposed of makes this lawsuit 1 of the worst I person seen successful my career."