A Connecticut mother is accused of poisoning her estranged husband with antifreeze because the pair was locked in a bitter custody battle for his or her youngsters.
Kristen Hogan, 33, was arrested in Ridgefield and charged with two counts of tried homicide and one depend of interfering with an officer on Friday, in keeping with paperwork launched by the Connecticut State Police.
Hogan allegedly poisoned wine and iced tea at her estranged husband’s residence with ethylene glycol, the principle ingredient in antifreeze.
Her husband — who was not named in court docket paperwork — drank a “small quantity” of wine saved in his fridge on Aug. 10, however quickly realized one thing was improper after repeatedly waking up sick all through the night time.
The following day, he continued to vomit and really feel ailing, so he known as his father, who suggested him to have his mom, who was close by, test on him.
His mom arrived and located him “slurring his phrases, staggering, and vomiting,” then instantly rushed him to the hospital.
On the hospital, medical doctors initially suspected a stroke, however after monitoring his signs, they recognized indicators of ethylene glycol poisoning.
He was transferred to the ICU and positioned on dialysis for renal failure, the place he knowledgeable medical doctors about consuming the wine.
The bottle of wine was initially opened 5 days earlier than he fell ailing whereas having folks over for a cocktail party. It was then corked and saved in his fridge.
The husband then met with Ridgefield Police detectives and instructed them he believed Hogan had poisoned the wine on Aug. 7, the day he was supposed to fulfill Hogan at a court docket listening to, which she by no means confirmed up for.
Whereas he was at court docket, he obtained an alert displaying Hogan’s cellphone had linked to his Wi-Fi and uploaded knowledge.
The daddy defined that Hogan, with whom he shares a toddler, had full, unrestricted entry to the house.
He additionally instructed investigators she was “the final particular person apart from himself to be within the residence previous to him consuming the already opened wine.”
Hogan initially denied wrongdoing when confronted by police.
Detectives seized the wine and submitted it to the Connecticut Forensic Laboratory, the place it examined constructive for ethylene glycol.
Investigators additionally discovered that Hogan’s cellphone contained searches for a number of poisonous substances — together with “potassium cyanide” and “monoethylene glycol” — in addition to questions on “how a lot of those substances would kill you.”
She then claimed she “was confused in regards to the chemical substances after which acknowledged she acknowledged the phrase cyanide from the tv present ‘Psych,’” in keeping with the arrest affidavit.
Hogan additionally acknowledged shopping for a bottle of monoethylene glycol in late July, however insisted “she was utilizing that particular chemical to wash the carpet at her mom’s home.”
When questioned in regards to the bottle of wine and her husband testing constructive for ethylene glycol, she denied poisoning the wine.
Ultimately, she confessed to mixing the poisonous liquid into her estranged husband’s wine, allegedly stating that she “by no means needed to kill him however simply needed to make him sick as payback for being mentally abusive.”
“Hogan acknowledged she didn’t know the way a lot ethylene glycol she put into his drink, however acknowledged it was not a lot however she simply poured it in,” in keeping with the affidavit.
“[An investigating officer] then requested how a lot wine was within the bottle, to which she acknowledged it was largely full. Hogan described the wine as the colour purple and confessed to bringing the bottle of ethylene glycol and dumped an unknown quantity into the wine bottle.”
Detectives additionally knowledgeable Hogan that their baby, who she shares along with her estranged husband, might have probably consumed a few of the poison, which she “adamantly denied” being attainable.
Nevertheless, their baby was hospitalized in late September for signs just like these of his father.
“Hogan acknowledged it was solely the wine and the iced tea, and no person else knew she was tampering with [the victim’s] drinks,” the arrest affidavit mentioned.
Her estranged husband instructed police he believes her motive for poisoning him was “the truth that Hogan would turn into the complete proprietor of the residence and would achieve full-time custody of their baby.”
Hogan is presently being held on a $1 million bond.
