Amanda Chapin: Wisconsin woman repeatedly poisoned her veterinarian husband with animal euthanasia drugs
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MONROE, WISCONSIN: A Wisconsin woman who repeatedly poisoned her veterinarian husband by mixing his coffee with animal euthanasia drugs, has been charged with attempted homicide. Amanda Chapin, 50, was charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide on December 28 in Lafayette County. She attempted to murder her 70-year-old husband Gary Chapin, who survived but was in a coma for four days.
According to the Wisconsin State Journal, authorities said that said she poisoned Gary three times during July and August by putting barbiturates in his coffee. The criminal complaint mentions that Amanda then demanded her husband revise the home's deed so that she can become the owner of the property after his death. Less than three weeks after the quit claim deed on the house was approved, Gary was poisoned for the first time using medications that are intended to put animals to death.
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The 70-year-old fell into a coma that lasted for four days after he ingested the toxin for the third time in August. A blood test disclosed that barbiturates found in his bloodstream indicated they were the same drugs used to euthanize animals.
Online court records show that Gary's son filed a restraining order against his father's new wife on his father's behalf. It was revealed that Amanda violated the restraining order in September after she emailed her spouse a suicide note that she decided to commit suicide because she alleged his children would destroy her, Fox News reported. She also denied poisoning her spouse in the letter.
"The only thing I am guilty of is loving you SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH," she wrote in the note, which was included in the complaint, according to Daily Mail. It is not known how she tried to take her life but she survived after the paramedics took her to a hospital. A divorce was filed by Gary on the very next day. Adam Witt, Amanda Chapin's attorney, told Associated Press on Thursday, January 5, that his client denies the allegations.
"Under the constitutions of this state and this nation, Ms. Chapin is innocent and has the right to due process under the law," Witt said. "We will continue to assert her fundamental constitutional rights, as they are the only protection a citizen has against the state," he concluded.