Thallium poisoning of Zhu Ling | |
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Location | Tsinghua University, Beijing |
Date | October 1994 – April 1995 |
Victim | Zhu Ling |
Zhu Ling[a] (Chinese: 朱令; pinyin: Zhū Lìng, 24 April 1973 – 22 December 2023) was best known as the victim of an unsolved 1995 thallium poisoning case in Beijing, China. Her symptoms were posted to the Internet via a Usenet newsgroup by her friend from Peking University, Bei Zhicheng, and were subsequently proven to be caused by thallium poisoning. Her case was then reviewed by physicians in many different countries who examined her symptoms and made suggestions as to diagnoses and treatment. This effort was recognized as the first large-scale tele-medicine trial.[6] Her life was ultimately saved, but she suffered serious neurological damage along with permanent physical impairment, and died in December 2023.[7]
This case drew great attention in the Chinese media, because the victim and the suspect were living in the same dormitory in the most prestigious university in the People's Republic of China, and in addition the case was never solved. Internet discussion of the crime has continued since then and became a hot topic on major online Chinese communities very frequently as a high-profile cold case.
北京公安发表的微博通篇都把朱令称为朱令令。[lit. “Beijing Police called Zhu Ling as Zhu Ling-ling in the whole article of their Weibo post.”]
朱令令,女,时年22岁,北京市人,清华大学化学系92级学生。Cited in: 王嘉宁 (20 April 2013). "铊中毒案结办? 朱令家属称不知". 新京报. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013.
后来,大家得知是她的姐姐出了事。等到朱令再回来时,沉默寡言了好一阵,还把自己的名字从"朱令令"改成了"朱令"。同学们私下推测原因,有种说法是,这是为了跟姐姐吴今的笔划一样,都是11划。
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