The ‘suicide tree’ of Kerala: How an innocent-looking fruit became linked to hundreds of deaths and a forensic puzzle

It looks like an ordinary tree growing beside Kerala’s backwaters, its glossy green leaves swaying in the breeze and its white flowers adding to the

Inside that fruit lies a toxin capable of disrupting the human heart. (Photo: The Washington Post) It looks like an ordinary tree growing beside Kerala’s backwaters, its glossy green leaves swaying in the breeze and its white flowers adding to the la... [5403 chars]