Posted on 01/04/2006 3:01:05 PM PST by dinok
SAN DIEGO — Prosecutors are seeking the extradition of a woman in Florida accused of poisoning her husband — a Marine sergeant — and then using his life insurance to pay for breast enhancement and a libertine lifestyle.
Cynthia Sommer, 32, moved to Florida from San Diego in 2002 with a new boyfriend, an ex-Marine, just weeks after an autopsy performed by a military pathologist found that her husband had died of a heart attack.
Further toxicology tests determined that Sgt. Todd Sommer, 23, had died of acute arsenic poisoning. The tests were ordered by the military and confirmed by civilian experts.
Todd Sommer was stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar when he died Feb. 18, 2002, after complaining of nausea for several days.
His widow was arrested in Palm Beach County, Fla., in late November 2005, shortly after new tests and an additional investigation were completed.
"This is the coldest homicide I've had, in terms of being absolutely coldblooded," Deputy Dist. Atty. Laura Gunn said.
Sommer's neighbor on the Miramar base told the investigators that after Todd Sommer's death, his wife threw a series of loud parties and showed the results of her breast augmentation, which had cost $5,400.
"Cindy's excuse for the lifestyle she started living after [her husband's death] was that he was very strict. He didn't like for her to go out partying [or] staying out with her friends," a family friend told investigators.
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Hello...ever hear of divorce? You get all his money and get to totrure him for life through his kids.
So the crime happened on a Federal Reservation eh? That makes it a federal case literally. Unfortunately spouses are not subject to the UCMJ, but the local federal prosecutor can probably get some justice, with a little "encouragement" from the CO of MCAS Miramar.
Federal death penalty is swifter and surer.
"I knew she was a DUer..."
I think the Duer is done.
rip those damn fake boobs out and shove-em down her worhtless throat!!!
Divorce doesn't bring the $400,000 SGLI payoff.
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