Humiliated in a gray jail sweater, handcuffs, and no makeup, Kristen Hogan was worlds away from her sprawling mansion.

The disgraced mother-of-three was in court facing life in prison for an alleged failed attempt to murder her boyfriend, Timothy Scott Lacouture, 34.

At 33, Hogan stands accused of lacing a bottle of wine with antifreeze at the Ridgefield, Connecticut home they shared, valued at $1 million. This was reportedly during a custody dispute concerning their son Ryan, who celebrated his second birthday on Friday.

However, this alleged act is just one element in a complex narrative of deceit, betrayal, inherited wealth, and a passionate affair as revealed in court filings from eight acrimonious cases that the Daily Mail has analyzed.

In these documents, Hogan offers an explanation for the alleged attempted homicide, citing a troubling pattern of abuse over months, which she claims resulted in the loss of an unborn child Lacouture insisted she terminate.

‘She never wanted to kill him but just wanted to make him sick as payback for being mentally abusive,’ police alleged that she told them.

Hogan contended that the abuse she faced from Lacouture was so severe that it compelled her to ‘escape’ their house to reside with her parents at their four-acre estate worth $4 million, where her arrest took place.

Yet for all the chaos and scandal surrounding her now, on the surface, Hogan had it all. 

Hogan (depicted) argued that the mistreatment by Lacouture forced her to ‘escape’ their home and take refuge with her parents at their expansive estate, valued at $4 million, where she was subsequently taken into custody.

Kristen Hogan (illustrated in the Danbury Superior Court) faced charges of two counts of attempted murder for allegedly trying to poison her estranged partner using tainted wine.

She had a charmed upbringing as the daughter of a wealthy family — her father serving as the vice president at a multibillion-dollar packaging company — and spent her teenage years at the leafy family estate in New Canaan.

She graduated from Bates College in 2014 and, in her role as senior development coordinator with the Women’s Business Development Council in 2018, championed female causes.

Hogan later married handsome schoolteacher Anthony Abraham, 34, on March 22, 2020, and had two children — Emma, 5, and Luke, 3.

But the idyllic picture soon started to show cracks. 

Secret Affairs

Paternity tests revealed Abraham was not the father of Emma or Luke. Instead, the children were the product of Hogan’s trysts with her plumber ex-boyfriend, Nicholas Van Houten.

Despite coming from different worlds, the pair had dated for years and were once engaged, but broke up in 2019 — only to ‘reconnect’ in 2020.

When an over-the-counter paternity test in 2021 found Van Houten was the biological father, he began paying child support – but by March the following year he claimed Hogan cut him off and returned his payments.

Van Houten launched a paternity suit on February 17, 2023, but the tests not only found he wasn’t the father – Hogan wasn’t their mother.

He developed a sinister theory: Hogan was bringing her niece and nephew to the DNA testing instead of her own kids and had a private investigator film her carrying out the ruse at a subsequent test last year.

Van Houten produced the evidence at a December 5, 2024, hearing and the court on July 17 declared him the father of both children as a result.

He filed for sole custody on July 31, but mysteriously withdrew his petition on August 21 and the issue remained unresolved when Hogan was arrested on October 3.

Hogan’s parents bought the four-acre rural estate in 2006 for $3 million

Paternity tests revealed Abraham (pictured) was not the father of Emma or Luke 

Hogan with Nicholas Van Houten (left), a plumber whom she had two children with during an extramarital affair. After her divorce, Hogan started dating finance worker Tim Lacouture (right)

A New Romance

After her marriage to Abraham collapsed, Hogan began dating Lacouture, a finance worker at AMG Funds in Stamford who had a young son, Rhett, from a previous marriage.

Their relationship moved fast — they bought a $980,000 home in Ridgefield and welcomed baby Ryan on October 10, 2023.

But, again, cracks soon appeared and Hogan’s custody filings described a toxic relationship that spiraled into control and fear.

Hogan claimed it began on January 7, 2025, after a winter storm knocked out power – and she fled with her children to her parents’ house while Lacouture stayed behind with Rhett in freezing conditions.

When she returned at 9:30pm, she found the carbon monoxide alarm blaring, towels shoved under the door and the fireplace filling the room with smoke. 

Hogan convinced Lacouture to call the fire department, whose crew warned it was dangerously cold for a child and they had to leave. 

Over the next two weeks, Lacouture talked about taking Ryan clothes shopping despite him having plenty of clothes, added his mother to the boy’s daycare pickup and bought a car seat for his car.

‘I believe that Tim is slowly putting things into place to pick up Ryan from school and take him from me,’ Hogan wrote in the lawsuit dated January 30.

Hogan later claimed that after the call, Lacouture blamed her for jeopardizing his custody of Rhett – an issue he already battled in court.

Their relationship moved fast — they bought a $980,000 home in Ridgefield and welcomed baby Ryan on October 10, 2023 

Lacouture (right) pictured with Rhett’s mother, Courtney Hays (left)

Custody Wars and Alleged Abuse

Lacouture’s ex-wife, lawyer Courtney Hays, filed for sole custody on October 25, 2024, after she became concerned about Rhett’s health.

Hays claimed Rhett’s school told her the boy was ‘excessively tired’ and had a decreased appetite on the mornings he was in his father’s care.

Hogan referenced this in her own lawsuit, explaining Rhett was showing up to school ‘pale and lethargic’ on the days he was staying with his father.

A more serious issue emerged on October 23 when Rhett took his regular medication for gastro issues and ‘screamed that the medication was burning his mouth and tasted like soap,’ then threw up minutes later.

Police took samples and one of the responding officers said he thought an alcohol, likely vodka or tequila, was added to the medicine.

Lacouture lost custody of his child for about a month, but the results of the investigation were not included in the court files.

Hogan claimed Lacouture subjected her to a reign of terror almost as soon as the power in their house came back on.

He screamed in her face, belittled her in front of the children, locked Rhett in his room or in a car for hours, and displayed ‘erratic and violent mood swings’ that terrified her and the kids, she claimed in custody filings.

She ‘fled’ the home with her three children on May 30 that year, saying she feared for their safety.

‘I am terrified of what Tim will do next,’ she wrote numerous times in one filing. 

Hogan claimed he threatened to sell her car, cancel her health insurance, and ‘take Ryan whenever and wherever he wants.’

But Hogan said the breaking point came on May 26, claiming Lacouture demanded she get an abortion. When she refused, he allegedly told her that ‘if you don’t terminate right now, the decision would be made for me.’

She suffered a miscarriage in July she claimed was a result of stress Lacouture’s abuse caused her.

‘I can’t shake the thought that Tim will be pleased to hear that I lost the baby. The idea that he might feel victorious or relieved haunts me,’ she wrote in court documents.

The disgraced mother-of-three was in court facing life in prison for an alleged failed attempt to murder her boyfriend, Timothy Scott Lacouture, 34 

Throughout summer 2024, their feud raged through multiple lawsuits. 

Hogan filed for a restraining order, claiming Lacouture and his brother secretly followed her to Luke and Emma’s swimming lessons and had her car towed from the parking lot. He later sold it and removed her from their shared insurance plan.

Lacouture countered with his own filings seeking to sell the Ridgefield home and divide the proceeds. 

Both sides accused the other of manipulation, abuse and psychological games.

The Poison Plot 

Then, on August 10, Lacouture was rushed to hospital after suddenly collapsing.

Police alleged he was poisoned a bottle of wine laced with antifreeze after doctors found its active ingredient monoethylene glycol in his body.

Hogan is accused of spiking the wine on August 7 after sneaking back into the house during a custody hearing she didn’t show up to, and was caught connecting to the Wi-Fi.

Lacouture spent 12 days in intensive care, undergoing dialysis for kidney failure.

Their son Ryan was also hospitalized for two weeks after exposure, according to police reports and court filings.

The custody case continued after Lacouture recovered, but police kept Investigating and uncovered internet searches on her phone they alleged pointed to a poisoning plot.

Hogan initially denied the accusations but later admitted to spiking the wine — and, in an earlier failed attempt, a bottle of iced tea.

She was arrested on October 3 and charged with two counts of attempted murder and one count of interfering with an officer. 

Hogan was released on $1 million bail and placed under house arrest at her grandparents’ home outside Boston. Her parents refused to post her bond, forcing her to pay $100,000 and hire a bail bondsman.

Lacouture was n granted full custody of Ryan, and Hogan is barred from contacting him or any of the other children involved in the various custody disputes — Emma, Luke, or Rhett.