This past summer’s headlines about a man and woman charged in Dane and Rock counties with attempted intentional homicide by use of poisons — including cyanide — had many longtime Madison area residents remembering the name Barbara Hoffman.
Her story was the first thing I thought of.
“Me, too,” says James “Jim” Doyle, the former two-term Wisconsin governor who was Dane County’s district attorney in June 1980 when Hoffman was tried for two cyanide murders…