Connecticut mother poisoned husband with antifreeze amid custody battle: Officers

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A mother in Connecticut allegedly poisoned her husband with antifreeze whereas the 2 had been combating for custody of their baby.

Kristen Hogan, a 33-year-old Ridgefield resident, was arrested by the Connecticut State Police on Friday and charged with two counts of tried homicide and a cost of interfering with an officer, based on paperwork launched by the company.

Her husband, who's not named in courtroom paperwork, went to a courtroom listening to relating to their baby on Aug. 7, however Hogan wasn't there. Authorities stated that whereas he was in courtroom ready for Hogan, he received a notification that she was importing knowledge to the Wi-Fi router at his residence. When he returned residence, she was not there.

That very same day, Hogan's husband drank a "small quantity" of wine that was in his fridge, however awoke within the "nighttime" and have become "more and more unwell." At 6 a.m., his mom got here to assist him, solely to search out he was "slurring his phrases, staggering and vomiting," and was taken to the hospital.

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Kristen Hogan, 33, allegedly poisoned her estranged husband with ethylene glycol. (Connecticut State Police)

After ruling out a stroke, docs believed he was poisoned by ethylene glycol, the ingredient utilized in antifreeze, based on courtroom paperwork.

The husband advised detectives that Hogan had entry to his residence and was "the final individual apart from himself to be within the residence previous to him ingesting the already opened wine."

The wine examined optimistic for ethylene glycol when it was taken for testing by authorities.

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Kristen Hogan is accused of poisoning her husband's wine, police stated. (Getty Photographs)

When detectives seized Hogan's telephone, they allegedly discovered searches for a number of chemical compounds, together with monoethylene glycol, based on courtroom paperwork, which detailed how she additionally searched how a lot of the substances "would kill you."

"Hogan was confused in regards to the chemical substances after which acknowledged she acknowledged the phrase cyanide from the tv present ‘Psych,’" authorities wrote in courtroom paperwork.

Whereas Hogan initially denied poisoning her husband with antifreeze, she finally admitted to placing ethylene glycol in her husband's wine bottle however "by no means meant to kill him, however simply needed to make him sick as payback for him being mentally abusive," based on authorities.

Authorities stated that Hogan put ethylene glycol in a bottle of tea on a separate event, including she was making an attempt to make her husband sick. Their baby was additionally hospitalized in September and introduced related signs because the husband, based on authorities.

"Hogan acknowledged it was solely the wine and the iced tea, and no person else knew she was tampering with [the victim’s] drinks," based on the arrest affidavit.

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Connecticut State Police arrested Kristen Hogan after she allegedly poisoned her husband with antifreeze whereas the 2 had been in a toddler custody battle. (Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Photographs)

When her husband was requested why Hogan would poison the wine , he "believed {that a} motive for him being poisoned is the truth that Hogan would turn into the complete proprietor of the residence and would achieve full-time custody of their baby," based on the arrest affidavit.