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title: "Unique Ricin usage?"
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date: "2026-07-30T21:07:06+00:00"
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#  Unique Ricin usage?

 Written on 06 March 2025.

An Arkansas tree cutter who made jars of the lethal poison ricin on his rural property was recently sentenced to eight years in prison for possessing a biological agent.

According to court filings Jason Kale Clampit, 44, made his own ricin, to keep away a “group of thieves” staying in the woods by his home! His sister told investigators that Clampit talked about knowing how to do plant extractions, according to court records. His girlfriend said he would listen to podcasts on toxins and read about them online.

However, text messages mentioned in prosecutors' filings show that he didn't trust everything he read about the compound. "A lot of the recipes try to mislead people. So then we have to figure it out, which makes it dangerous," he wrote. "But I've figured out the code now."

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