Richard Meckler was a patent one-time lawyer who was sought out by Bradley Foster to help protect his new invention, a self-cleaning. Instead, Meckler plotted with Kurt Pressman in stealing the idea. First, he murdered Foster by pushing him into a garbage compactor. The next day, both men held an event for the vacuum. Only problem was Pressman didn't want to share the glory, so he murdered Meckler by poisoning his glass with ice cubes tainted with sodium fluoroacetate.