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Sarah E.B. Scheffer (Cole County Jail) and the lily of the valley plant she allegedly used to try and kill her husbsand (YouTube|Plant Speak screenshot)

Sarah E.B. Scheffer (Cole County Jail) and the lily of the valley plant she allegedly used to try and kill her husband (YouTube|Plant Speak screenshot)

A 37-year-old Christian teacher in Missouri has been arrested after she allegedly tried to kill her husband by poisoning his smoothies every day for nearly two months. Sarah E.B. Scheffer was taken into custody on Wednesday and charged with one count of first-degree attempted murder and one count of armed criminal action, authorities announced.

Scheffer allegedly admitted to surreptitiously giving her husband the “lily of the valley” plant, all parts of which authorities say “slow down the heart,” and “cause irregular heart rhythm.” It is categorized as having “major toxicity.”

According to a probable cause affidavit filed in Cole County Circuit Court, the woman’s husband had been suspicious that his wife was putting “poisonous and/or toxic substances in his food and beverages without his knowledge for the past six weeks.”

The husband said there were about eight occurrences in which his wife had provided him with a food or beverage that tasted strange. Shortly after ingestion, he claimed to experience “extreme fatigue, confusion, blurred vision, severe cotton mouth, and nausea.

He told authorities that his wife on Dec. 31 gave him a smoothie that tasted unusually bitter. When he confronted her about the taste and accused her of putting something in his smoothie, she allegedly responded by claiming “she urinated in it,” then “admitted to putting an industrial strength adhesive in it,” and later “denied putting anything in the beverage,” per the affidavit.

Growing increasingly wary of his wife, the husband said he installed a concealed surveillance camera in the kitchen. Reviewing the footage, the husband said at about 6:50 a.m. on Jan. 16, he “observed a bag labeled ‘lily of the valley’ sitting on a table in Scheffer’s work area within the home.” Also on the table was a green bowl “containing what he described as a root from the bag.” He photographed the bowl and its contents, which he showed to police along with the surveillance footage.

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