Monday, October 6, 2025 - A woman who tried to poison her estranged husband with antifreeze has been charged with attempted murd£r.
Kristen Hogan, 33, from Ridgefield, Connecticut, was
arrested over the weekend and accused of putting antifreeze into a bottle of
wine and iced tea at her husband's home.
According to Mail Online, the pair have been locked in a
bitter custody battle relating to their child.
On August 10, her 34-year-old husband drank a small amount
of spiked wine and kept waking up sick in the middle of the night.
The next day, he began to vomit, according to documents
released by the Connecticut state police.
The victim called his mother, who arrived to find her son
slurring his words, staggering, and vomiting.
The father was rushed to the hospital, where first
responders initially thought he was experiencing a stroke.
They soon came to realize he was suffering from ethylene
glycol poisoning, an ingredient in antifreeze.
He was admitted to the ICU and was placed on Dialysis
suffering from renal failure. Doctors asked the man what he had consumed, and
he told them about the wine.
Ridgefield Police detectives seized the wine and submitted
it to the Connecticut Forensic Laboratory for further testing.
The man immediately suspected that Hogan was the culprit
behind the poisoning because he was notified while he wasn't home that she had
connected to his Wi-Fi.
Although it appears they do not live together, Hogan had
full access to the home.
When detectives asked the man why he believed it was his
estranged wife, he said that Hogan would become the complete owner of the
residence and would gain full-time custody of their child.
Officials reportedly found internet searches on Hogan's
phone that included potassium cyanide, potassium ferricyanide, citrate-cyanide,
potassium thiocyanate, and monoethylene glycol.
However, during initial questioning, she denied knowing what
the chemicals were.
Additional searches for how much of these substances a
person would need to ingest to die were also found, according to the documents.
Hogan later remembered she purchased monoethylene glycol on
Amazon because she was 'using that specific chemical to clean the carpet at her
mother's house,' and said the substance never left her parents' home.
When detectives confronted her about the bottle of wine and
her husband testing positive for the substance, she initially denied the
claims.
Still, she allegedly said, 'she never wanted to kill him but
just wanted to make him sick as payback for being mentally abusive.'
Hogan then said she didn't know how much of the chemical she
poured into the bottle of wine.
Detectives told Hogan that their child may have potentially
consumed some of the poison, which she denied.
The documents also noted that, before his wife's arrest, she
began acting more cordially and offered to come over and cook something that
was out of the ordinary for their relationship at the time.
Hogan was charged with two counts of attempted murder and
one count of interfering with an officer.
She is being held on a $ 1 million bond.
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