It turns out that President Zachary Taylor was not poisoned by political enemies who laced his iced cherries or milk with arsenic after all. He died the old-fashioned way, of natural causes, according to the medical examiner who studied Taylor's remains last week. Clara Rising, an author researching a book on Taylor, had raised the suspicion that "Old Rough and Ready" was murdered.
But there are still plenty of graves to plunder and conspiracy theories to test. A team of scientists is planning to exhume the remains of Carl A. Weiss, the doctor who is believed to have assassinated Senator Huey...
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