Once people figured out they could kill each other with special substances instead of sharp sticks, the proverbial poison cookie was born. However, there are only so many times you can use the same trick. As people caught on to how poisons worked, and moved them to the forefront of investigations, certain poisons fell out of fashion.
Actor Robert Culp Dies at Age 79. Robert Culp, best remembered as Kelly Robinson in the â60s TV show I Spy and more recently as father-in-law Warren Whelan on Everybody Loves Raymond, has died. The actor, 79, was rushed to Queen of Angels Hospital on Wednesday morning after falling outside his Hollywood home, authorities said.
A culprit is a person who does something wrong, like committing a crime. When your wallet got stolen out of your pocket, there was a culprit to blame in the crowd. The word culprit comes from the Anglo French words cul prit, a contraction of culpable, which means deserving blame.. A culprit isn't always a person; it can be anything that caused something bad to happen â even a sock left on the steps can be a culprit if it makes you slip and fall. Don't confuse culprit with scapegoat, which is a person or thing that gets blamed for something it didn't do.