A woman from Connecticut faces charges of attempted murder after she purportedly laced her estranged husband’s beverages with ethylene glycol, a substance commonly found in antifreeze.
Kristen Emily Hogan has also been charged with resisting arrest, Connecticut State Police said.
The husband began feeling unwell on August 10 after consuming wine stored in his refrigerator. He informed investigators that he suspects Hogan tampered with the wine on August 7, as indicated by a notification from his phone showing she accessed the data through his WiFi router, according to an affidavit.
Despite divorce proceedings, Hogan still has “full unrestricted access to the home.” They were scheduled to attend court on that particular day, but she was absent.
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The husband mentioned sipping “a small amount” of wine on August 10, which resulted in waking up several times feeling progressively worse. Eventually, upon waking and experiencing severe nausea, he contacted his mother. She observed him “slurring his words, staggering, and vomiting” and promptly took him to the hospital.
Initially, doctors suspected he was having a stroke but quickly identified symptoms of ethylene glycol poisoning. They treated him with dialysis to remove the toxin from his body.
Hogan initially denied any involvement when approached by authorities, yet investigators discovered internet searches on her phone for “potassium cyanide, potassium ferrycide, citrate-cyanide, potassium thiocyanate, and monoethylene glycol,” along with queries about the lethality of these substances.
Then, she admitted buying a bottle of monoethylene glycol in late July but said she was using it to clean the carpet at her mother’s house.
Later, she admitted putting the poison in her husband’s wine, which ultimately tested positive for the chemical, as did a bottle of iced tea.
“Hogan stated it was only the wine and the iced tea, and nobody else knew she was tampering with [the victim’s] drinks,” the arrest affidavit said.
The victim surmised that Hogan’s motive was “the fact that Hogan would become the full owner of the residence and would gain full time custody of their child,” the affidavit said.
She told detectives she didn’t intend to kill him, just make him sick as “payback for him being mentally abusive.”
Hogan is being held on a $1 million bond.
