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A Delaware woman has admitted murdering her husband of 21 years by secretly lacing his steroid injections with antifreeze.
Jamie Baker, 47, had initially denied murdering her competitive weightlifter husband James D Baker II, 42, after he collapsed in their bedroom on September 16, 2013.
But a subsequent investigation found that he had been slowly killed with ethylene glycol – a substance found in antifreeze – and on Monday morning Baker confessed her guilt in court, Delaware Online reported.
An autopsy on James Baker found ethylene glycol inside his kidneys. In small doses, it crystallizes inside the organs, eventually causing death. Bottles of steroids discovered at the scene were found to contain the substance. But how they became contaminated remained a mystery at first.
James Baker had ordered the steroids online with a friend, who testified that the bottles had not been tampered with when they arrived at his home.
The weightlifter had then taken the bottles to his own home, where he kept them in a locked toolbox in his closet.
It was only after a year of investigation that Jamie Baker admitted that she had used a hypodermic needle to drain a container of antifreeze in their garage and inject the bottles with it.
James Baker then unwittingly injected the substance into his body, ultimately causing his death. His wife gave police no reason for the killing. She had been charged with first-degree murder but pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Superior Court in Dover Monday. Her sentencing is set for March 30. She faces 15 years to life in prison.
According to the man’s obituary, he worked as an environmental specialist for 22 years at the DuPont Experimental Station and had two daughters.
Source: themarshalltown.com/woman-admits-putting-antifreeze-in-husbands-steroids/21627
Jamie Baker, 47, had initially denied murdering her competitive weightlifter husband James D Baker II, 42, after he collapsed in their bedroom on September 16, 2013.
But a subsequent investigation found that he had been slowly killed with ethylene glycol – a substance found in antifreeze – and on Monday morning Baker confessed her guilt in court, Delaware Online reported.
An autopsy on James Baker found ethylene glycol inside his kidneys. In small doses, it crystallizes inside the organs, eventually causing death. Bottles of steroids discovered at the scene were found to contain the substance. But how they became contaminated remained a mystery at first.
James Baker had ordered the steroids online with a friend, who testified that the bottles had not been tampered with when they arrived at his home.
The weightlifter had then taken the bottles to his own home, where he kept them in a locked toolbox in his closet.
It was only after a year of investigation that Jamie Baker admitted that she had used a hypodermic needle to drain a container of antifreeze in their garage and inject the bottles with it.
James Baker then unwittingly injected the substance into his body, ultimately causing his death. His wife gave police no reason for the killing. She had been charged with first-degree murder but pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Superior Court in Dover Monday. Her sentencing is set for March 30. She faces 15 years to life in prison.
According to the man’s obituary, he worked as an environmental specialist for 22 years at the DuPont Experimental Station and had two daughters.
Source: themarshalltown.com/woman-admits-putting-antifreeze-in-husbands-steroids/21627
