Sweetened, Condensed Poison — The Case of Mirna Salihin
A vengeful best friend spiked her drink and became infamous
Sipping her drink, Mirna Salihin had decided to see her somewhat-estranged friend, Jessica Wongso, at the Olivier Café in Jakarta, Indonesia. Going with her other companion, a woman named Hani Juwita Boon, she sat at the Swiss restaurant in an upmarket shopping center called Grand Indonesia Mall.
Almost instantly, the reunion was short-lived, because Salihin’s head rolled back against the seat, desperate fanning motions of her hand an indication that the foul-tasting Vietnamese iced coffee plunged her into a catatonic state. Between seizures, the employees and customers panicked.
“What did you put in her coffee that made her like this?” Wongso accused the manager, even though the staff thought Salihin suffered from epilepsy rather than a deliberate act of poisoning. Taken immediately to a nearby hospital, she died.
At Olivier, that manager kept the drink, her suspicions raised.
Later, the cup was revealed to have been lethally dosed with cyanide.
Born Wayan Mirna Salihin, the deceased woman, 27, attended Billy Blue College of Design in Sydney, Australia, with Wongso. The two shared friends, majors, and being the children of…
