Chiropractor found guilty of poisoning wife with lead
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Background: News visuals show Hannah Pettey heading into court to testify against her former spouse, Brian Mann (WHNT). Inset: Brian Mann (Morgan County Sheriff’s Office).

An Alabama man who went on trial for the attempted murder of his wife was found guilty by a jury after she testified against him.

Brian Mann, aged 36, received a guilty verdict on Thursday, following the start of his trial earlier this week. The testimony against him came from his estranged wife, Hannah Pettey, now 25, who has made a recovery after Mann’s attempt to poison her with lead sourced from a construction project at his chiropractic office.

Her testimony revealed how Mann took out several life insurance policies on her after she became ill and discouraged her from going to the hospital.

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This week, the local CBS station WHNT covered the courtroom proceedings, detailing Pettey’s testimony and that of an insurance agent who collaborated with the couple. As per WHNT’s coverage, Pettey explained that Mann had obtained numerous insurance policies, each valued at several hundred thousand dollars.

Pettey reportedly said many of those policies were created after she became ill and was hospitalized for what was later determined to be lead poisoning. While she was in the hospital, Pettey said that her husband seemed more concerned with the policies than her health. Since she had to be in good health to be insured, Pettey said that Mann made her wear ankle weights when she was weighed by doctors to cover up for the weight she had lost from her illness.

Between September 2021 and January 2022, Pettey testified that she had lost 40 pounds. She first began experiencing symptoms in August 2021 including severe, even excruciating pain in her back and abdomen, dizziness, and nausea. She said that Mann was giving her what she believed were multivitamins from his office.

While she was sick, Pettey testified that Mann “was probably the nicest he’d been throughout our marriage during those critical months.” She said he would bring her “vitamins and water” since she was not able to keep food down. He also discouraged her from going to the hospital despite her extreme symptoms. Pettey finally made it to the hospital when her mother brought her to her doctor, who believed she may have stomach cancer.

Mann was unaware of that doctor’s visit.

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