within a 12-month period, scoggins two closest friends, leita and olgie nobles were both poisoned with arsenic, and his friends catherine and cordelia norton also died suspicious deaths within a day of one another. he was the last person alone with cordelia, and he was the last person alone with catherine. he wanted money, he wanted riches and he liked the lavish style of particularly the nortons. i mean they traveled all over the world. they had friends from all over the world come visit them, and he was included in that circle. if scoggin poisoned the norton sisters, no one could prove it. they had both been cremated. all that remained were their ashes. he believed he could burn up the evidence and he would be safe. in the average cremation, the body is subjected to temperatures of more than 2,000 degrees fahrenheit for up to three hours.
the connection to the norton sisters. and nobody would have ever known the difference. tim scoggin was arrested and charged with murder and intent to commit murder. he s a very effeminate kind of a man. in fact, when he talked on the phone, people thought he was a woman, and he passed himself off as secretaries sometimes and called himself kim. by his voice, you couldn t tell the difference. he had to be a cold, calculating individual. i ve talked to a lot of serial killers, but this guy here was the cold-bloodiest, most ruthless killer that i ve dealt with. scoggin was convicted and sentenced to two life sentences. people kill for money. it s the root of all evil. it really is. that is absolutely true. that s all he done it for was money.
scoggin then moved 130 miles away to san angelo where he met the nobles. they lent scoggin the money to buy their air conditioning business. he was to repay them in monthly installments. prosecutors believe he poisoned the couple so he could avoid making those payments. olgie nobles died from the poison, but 69-year-old leita built up resistance to it. this lady was so tough, her inner strength was so strong, her will to live was so strong, and her body was able to absorb this and build up a tolerance to it. but probably if you had ten people out there, you know, nine of those ten would have probably died from it. had leita died, police would never have questioned the cause of her death or her husband s. so they would never have made
tim scoggin was the prime suspect in the murders of cordelia and catherine norton, olgie nobles and the attempted murder of leita nobles. mr. scoggin had no criminal record. he certainly didn t appear like any kind of tv crook. in fact, he was the proverbial wolf in sheep s clothing. he appeared to be completely nonthreatening and a loving friend to all his victims. investigators found arsenic in some antacids in leita s home but couldn t find out where it came from, until the owner of a local supermarket called to offer some information. he said when he saw scoggin s picture in the newspaper, he remembered selling him a large
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