Woman allegedly tries to kill husband with eye drops

[bijou]

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A 40-year-old southwest Missouri woman is accused of trying to kill her husband by spiking his tea with a half bottle of Visine eye drops. Greene County deputies said the woman was jailed Thursday night on $100,000 bond on a first-degree assault charge.

She was arrested late Wednesday after a co-worker told Greene County deputies that the woman told her about the plot to kill her husband.

A probable cause statement said the husband told investigators he'd been having stomach problems for the past two months.

The statement said poison control experts told a detective that ingesting too much Visine would lead to a coma and other "serious symptoms."

Authorities say the woman researched other means of killing her husband when the first attempt didn't work.

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The investigators saw through her lies.

[Chris]

The worst I've heard about Visine is that it will give you a serious case of diarrhea.

[Gratiot]

The worst I've heard about Visine is that it will give you a serious case of diarrhea.

Snopes

[Chris]

Snopes

ew

The active ingredient in Visine eye drops is Tetrahydrozoline HCl 0.05%.  Swallowing this substance can result in a number of nasty effects, including:

Lowering body temperature to dangerous levels
Making breathing difficult, or even halting it entirely
Blurring vision
Causing nausea and vomiting
Elevating and then dropping blood pressure
Causing seizures or tremors
Sending the ingester into a coma

That's even worse.

[Gratiot]

ew

That's even worse.

Indeed!  I always heard of it being a black-widowers' poison... and just assumed it was an urban myth.  With it likely not doing more harm than inducing a severe case of diarrhea... Apparently, that's not the case 

Granted, this is coming from Snopes.com and some people believe that Snopes is of the debil, much like liberals

[ReardenSteel]

 

[Thor]

If I recall, that was one of the ways that someone committed murder on a CSI episode.