The husband died mysteriously, the wife was forced to confess, and the wife killed her husband with eye drops in wine.
Fast forward to July 2018, a woman in the United States named Lana Clayton admitted that she had taken eye drops in her husband's water for several days, causing him to die of poisoning.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, the neighbor went out and smelled a foul smell of carrion from the opposite house, and after repeated knocks on the door to no avail, the neighbor chose to call the police. When the police arrived at the scene, they immediately found out the information of the residents and contacted the owner, the phone was turned off, the police pried open the door lock, and the stench came to the nose.
A male corpse lying on the bed was close to decomposing and emitting a foul odor. The male body owner's name was Steven Clayton.
During the investigation, the police found that Steven's mattress and clothes were soaked with urine but could fall from the stairs, a strange discovery that became the reason why the police decided to conduct an autopsy.
After taking photographs and taking evidence, the police began an autopsy, which showed that the deceased died of tetrahydrozoline poisoning.
Tetrahydrozoline is often used in eye drops to treat eye diseases, drops in the eyes have no effect and side effects, and it is also found in the home of the deceased that the deceased often uses such drugs, but does not die.
However, if tetrahydrozoline is consumed directly, it will be deposited in the body and cause poisoning and even death.
Steven is a businessman and certainly wouldn't risk taking eye drops internally, so the case changed from a natural death to a murder to investigate. Police found Steven's wife, Lana, and told her the autopsy results.
Lana was taken aback, explaining to the police that sometimes Steven would put eye drops in his coffee as a laxative.
A month after Steven's death, Lana was arrested by the police. During the interrogation, she finally admitted that she had dripped eye drops in Steven's glass, but she was convinced that she wanted to punish and hurt him in this way because she had been verbally abused and beaten by Steven for a long time, and did not admit that she had killed him.
However, in questioning Steven's family and friends, they all said that Steven was a gentle and kind person who was popular in the local area, and Lana was exonerating herself from her crime by saying so.
In the end, Lana was sentenced to 25 years in prison under the law.
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