A 47-year-old woman faces criminal charges after being accused of trying to poison her husband by pouring the herbicide Roundup into his favorite soda, as she claimed to be angry because her husband “didn’t show up” at the birthday party she organized for him, although The victim indicates that his intention was to collect the life insurance policy.
The Laclede County Sheriff’s Office reported that Michelle Peters was arrested and charged with first-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action. The woman poured the Roundup insecticide used to control weeds and weeds that damage crops into her husband’s Mountain Dew.
“Peters is accused of secretly putting the chemical Roundup into her husband’s Mountain Dew on several occasions during May and June of this year,” the sheriff said.
He caught her tampering with his drink
Authorities said that on June 24, Michelle Peters’ husband spoke to the Sheriff’s Office because he suspected that his wife was putting the herbicide Roundup in his Mountain Dew soda, since he had reviewed videos in which he saw her tampering with his drink.
“The victim began to suspect that the soda was being adulterated after feeling sick, only he drank that soda,” they added.
On May 1, the victim noticed that two liters of Diet Mountain Dew tasted strange, but he still drank it. After several days she began to have symptoms such as sore throat, cough with mucus, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.
It was then that the husband, whose identity was not revealed, looked for the surveillance videos of the house. The man on one occasion told her that he felt sick and she responded that “he probably had Covid.”
“The victim provided surveillance video to the sheriff’s office, indicating what Michelle Peters did with the Mountain Dew stored in a garage refrigerator,” authorities said.
I was angry about a birthday party
When interviewed by Laclede County sheriff’s deputies, Peters admitted she was mixing the weed killer with the drink, and that she was doing it because she was “mad because her husband was selfish” because she had thrown him a party for his 50th birthday and he “didn’t show up.”
Apparently there is another argument that Michelle’s husband told authorities, as FOX 4 News reported, that the victim had the suspicion that she was looking for a way to poison him because she might want to collect on a $500,000 life insurance policy.
Michelle Peteres is being held at the Laclede County Detention Center without bond and is scheduled for a bond review hearing on July 2.
Symptoms when consuming Roundup
Medline Plus indicates that consuming Roundup can cause poisoning, which has the following symptoms: abdominal cramps, nausea, vomiting, anxiety, dizziness, diarrhea, headache, throat irritation, kidney failure, slow heart rate.
If a person accidentally consumed the herbicide, it is important to immediately call 911 and wait for a doctor’s instructions, since any home remedy could be counterproductive and further affect the health of the poisoned person.
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