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A man became violently ill after drinking wine his estranged wife had tampered with, authorities say.
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A man became violently ill after consuming a beverage that had been tampered with by his estranged wife, Connecticut authorities say.
The 34-year-old victim, from Ridgefield, was brought to a hospital in early August after he was “slurring his words, staggering and vomiting,” according to a Connecticut State Police affidavit.
He told troopers he had drank part of a leftover bottle of wine, and he suspected his estranged wife, 33-year-old Kristen Hogan, had poisoned it when he wasn’t home, the affidavit says.
“Victim #1 stated that Kristen Hogan has full unrestricted access to his home,” troopers said. “Victim #1 believed that a motive for him being poisoned is the fact that Hogan would become the full owner of the residence and would gain full-time custody of their child.”
Testing indicated a toxic chemical — ethylene glycol— was in the wine and the man’s blood, state police said. Ethylene glycol is among the ingredients listed in antifreeze.
In the days before her estranged husband became ill, Hogan had searched for various chemicals and asked how much of them “would kill you,” according to the court documents.
The man believed Hogan poisoned his wine on Aug. 7 when they were scheduled to appear in court together, troopers said. A day earlier, Hogan, who never arrived in court, had searched on Google “penalty for not appearing for court hearing for your own motion,” court records show.
Interviewed by troopers, Hogan said she missed the court date because she was in Rhode Island with her family, investigators said.
But cell phone analysis showed Hogan was in the immediate area of her estranged husband’s Ridgefield home when she was supposed to appear in court, state police said.
She was asked about the chemicals she searched and said she purchaseda bottle of monoethylene glycol to clean her mother’s carpet.
Hogan initially denied poisoning her estranged husband, according to police, but later changed her story.
Investigators said Hogan admitted to putting an “unknown amount” of the chemical into the wine, as well as an iced tea bottle on a separate day.
“(She) stated that she never intended to kill him, but just wanted to make him sick as payback for him being mentally abusive,” state police said.
Hogan was arrested Oct. 3 and charged with two counts of attempted murder and one count of interfering with an officer, court records show. She was jailed on a $1 million bond.
Ridgfield is about a 30-mile drive northwest from Bridgeport.
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