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The Maricopa County medical examiner's office confirmed the expected this morning -- "Burning Man" Michael Marin definitely ingested some of the cyanide that was later found in his car.
Marin collapsed in the courtroom a few minutes after he was declared
guilty of burning down his Biltmore Estates mansion, and was later
pronounced dead at a hospital.
It was pretty clear he popped something in his mouth after the verdict was read, and Maricopa County Sheriff's Office investigators later found a canister of sodium cyanide in his car.
MCSO said Marin ordered a canister of sodium cyanide off the Internet in
2011, before the trial, and had it sent by Fed-Ex straight to his
doorstep.
After Marin died, his son found an email his father had sent him, saying
to check his car -- which he had left in Mesa -- if things didn't go
his way in court.
Marin's family got this information over to MCSO, and investigators found the clearly labeled canister of cyanide in his car.
