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sl8

(16,276 posts)
Thu Jun 27, 2024, 04:24 AM Jun 2024

Mad' wife poisoned husband's Mountain Dew with Roundup just 'to be mean' since he 'was not appreciative' of 50th birthda

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'Mad’ wife poisoned husband’s Mountain Dew with Roundup just ‘to be mean’ since he ‘was not appreciative’ of 50th birthday party: Cops

JERRY LAMBE
Jun 26th, 2024, 3:17 pm

A 47-year-old woman in Missouri is facing multiple felonies after she was allegedly caught on video spiking her husband’s Mountain Dew with Round Up weed killer because he was “not appreciative” of the 50th birthday party she threw for him. Michelle Y. Peters was taken into custody on Monday and charged with one count of first-degree domestic assault and one count of armed criminal action, authorities announced.

According to a probable cause affidavit, Peters’ husband on the morning of Monday, June 24, notified the Laclede County Sheriff’s Office that he believed his wife was poisoning him.

He told investigators he was the only person in the home who drank Mountain Dew, but said that around May 1, he noticed the beverage tasted “odd” and he became sick shortly after. He ignored the “weird” taste at first, but said that after a couple of weeks, he had a sore throat, diarrhea, vomiting, and was coughing up a “brown/yellow thick mucus.”

The husband said that when he drank Mountain Dew outside of his home, it tasted normal, but all of the two-liter bottles in the garage had the same strange taste. He then became suspicious that someone was putting something in those bottles and decided to check footage from a camera set up in the garage.

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Mad' wife poisoned husband's Mountain Dew with Roundup just 'to be mean' since he 'was not appreciative' of 50th birthda (Original Post) sl8 Jun 2024 OP
Wasn't the adulterated Dew flat? bucolic_frolic Jun 2024 #1
if she opened the bottles quickly, put the stuff in, then closed them up, most of the bubbles would still stay in LymphocyteLover Jun 2024 #2
Why did he keep drinking it for a couple weeks if it tasted weird? tanyev Jun 2024 #3
Someone better check Joe's Mountain Dew before the debate, Trump might have really jacked it up. sop Jun 2024 #4

LymphocyteLover

(6,987 posts)
2. if she opened the bottles quickly, put the stuff in, then closed them up, most of the bubbles would still stay in
Thu Jun 27, 2024, 06:33 AM
Jun 2024

pretty gross story overall though

sop

(11,619 posts)
4. Someone better check Joe's Mountain Dew before the debate, Trump might have really jacked it up.
Thu Jun 27, 2024, 07:25 AM
Jun 2024
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