Posted on 01/05/2023 6:14:54 PM PST by simpson96
MONROE, Wis. (WKOW) -- A Monroe woman has been charged after poisoning her husband's morning coffee, according to a criminal complaint.
The complaint states Amanda Chapin, 50, was charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide.
On August 21, the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office dispatch center received a call from a 70-year-old man who said he was having trouble breathing.
EMS took him to a Monroe hospital, and he was then transferred to the William S. Middleton Veterans Hospital, where he was in a comatose state. The complaint states the man had barbiturates in his system despite not being prescribed any.
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The man's son filed a restraining order against Chapin two days later, requesting that her medical power of attorney over his father be revoked. The complaint states he also alleged she tried to poison his father with barbiturates.
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According to the complaint, the first time Chapin poisoned the man was on July 18, 2022, a few days prior to him telling his daughter he was "done" with Chapin.
The complaint states that the man and Chapin would always sit on a bench in front of the house in the morning and drink coffee together.
On the morning of the 18th, he said he felt like he was "underwater" and was unsteady on his feet after he finished drinking his coffee. The complaint states Chapin told him his mouth was droopy, but he didn't notice anything when he looked in the mirror.
When he told one of his daughters about it, she said Dramamine helps with her vertigo, but after he took it, his symptoms became "five times worse." He was admitted to the hospital, where he stayed for two days.
The hospital couldn't determine the cause of the man's symptoms.
The man said the second time Chapin poisoned him was about two weeks later, on or around August 2, according to the complaint. Similar to last time, he was drinking coffee on the bench with her when he stood up and noticed the same feeling. However, the symptoms were less severe than last time.
The complaint states the man said the third time Chapin poisoned him was on August 21. All he remembers is drinking the coffee Chapin brought him around 9 a.m., and his next memory was waking up at the hospital.
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The complaint states Chapin poisoned the man with an anti-seizure and euthanasia medication he uses on dogs for his veterinary practice. He said he used these drugs to put down Chapin's dog weeks prior, so she knew what they did and where he kept them, according to the complaint.
Good for an episode of “Midsomers Murders.”
She looks like a mail order bride
I agree. The episode would write itself, from what's in this news item.
Apparently she did not know about the Visine eye drop MO.
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I’d poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I’d drink it.
At least the vet didn’t find her on Grnder.
It's nice to see that she is being charged with first degree homicide.
This one poisoned her boyfriend to death with antifreeze. Women today, I tell ya, I tell ya. My wife has to be the worst cook. In my house, we pray after we eat. My wife is such a bad cook, if we leave dental floss in the kitchen the roaches hang themselves.
I hope she equally gets a typical man-sized sentence for it too. Women get 1/3 or less the sentences for the same crimes as men.
Let me get this straight.
This guy gets poisoned three times, while drinking three different cups of coffee.
At what point do you start making your own coffee or hitting a coffee shop.
Monroe is a bizarre place. Little more than 10K population. Dominated by The Swiss Colony (Colony Brands), which employs perhaps 1200 people, swelling to 3x that much near Christmas. It has a very high concentration of native Swiss speakers. Everything there is related to cheese or beer. Cannot tell from the mugshot if that is an African American - but if it is - she would have to be the only one in Monroe.
He never did make the connection between his illnesses and that coffee that was handed to him. It took his son to do that.
It could be, intellectualy he knew something was suspicious but he didn’t want to believe she was trying to do him in, and most of all, he didn’t want to be alone, without any woman at all.
FYI
A better article is at another Wisconsin news website
www.nbc15.com
That killer married the man last March. Then she made the man change the deed to his house so she would be sole beneficiary, not his children. Then she began poisoning him.
Kind of.
She looks black, but not black. Trying to square it with Wisconsin, too.
Maybe a Somali? Sometimes they seem to have finer features than the average black. Or, maybe some kind of Indonesian?
Good point.
He’s older and trusting, plus his illness could’ve been associated with something else.
I’m glad his son was astute enough to figure it out.
The best part of waking up.....
AncestryDNA test that one! Her features and her hair are definitely caucasoid, but her coloring reminds me of some Egyptians.
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