Stuart Crum

Stuart Crum was a former ice cream truck driver and criminal who was infamous for the 1989 Ice Cream Poisonings in the Maryland area.
==Biography==
In 1989, Crum was put in a dead-end job as an ice cream truck driver, and fuming over his lot in life as well as his wife leaving him for a Naval officer. He then stole industrial-grade strychnine (a powerful rat poison), slightly opened the wrappers of six Klowny Kakes to inject the poison into them, and then distributed them throughout the Maryland area, resulting in six children being left poisoned, with one, Thomas Larson, dying from the poisoned Klowny Kake, and there being enough of a panic that Eleanor Bishop recalled that, when she was four, her father forbade her and her brothers from going to an Ice Cream truck during that time. In 2017, he also was suspected of conducting a bank robbery, resulting in his DNA being taken by the Maryland police, although he was acquitted and given a full apology.
In 2019, two years after the bank robbery, NCIS after investigating into the cold case managed to ID him via DNA database analysis as the man responsible. They then brought him in for questioning and, in a chilling display of callousness and lack of remorse for the action, he admits to hating ice cream, and that he wanted kids to get sick, while casually pointing out that only one of the kids died and it was three decades ago anyway, with Gibbs presumably having him supply a more sufficient confession via his usual manner. He was then tried for the crime, although the case was ultimately thrown out on a technicality thanks to Maryland Police mishandling the DNA evidence after his being cleared of the bank robbery charges, with Stuart Crum demanding a full apology from NCIS.
Later that night, he while watching a basketball game and giving rude heckling ended up killed by a mysterious assailant by being choked and then having his corpse staged post mortem as if he had overdosed on painkillers. The death was later revealed to be part of a bigger operation funding vigilante murders against criminals who got off via technicalities. Ironically, the assassin who killed Crum was the bailiff who worked in the court that had his trial thrown out.
Jacqueline Sloane, when giving testimony on Crum, speculated that Crum was a clinical sociopath.
==Victims==
*Thomas Larson: One of six kids who ended up eating the Klowny Kakes he had tainted, and the only fatality during that event.
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