Wife convicted of poisoning husband for life insurance

An American woman was convicted today of poisoning her Marine husband with arsenic so she could use his 250,000 dollar life insurance policy to throw wild parties and have her breasts enlarged.

Wife convicted of poisoning husband for life insurance
Tue, 30 Jan, 2007 - 23:06

An American woman was convicted today of poisoning her Marine husband with arsenic so she could use his 250,000 dollar life insurance policy to throw wild parties and have her breasts enlarged.

Prosecutors said Cynthia Sommer, 33, wanted a more luxurious lifestyle than 23-year-old Sergeant Todd Sommer’s 1,700 dollar monthly salary allowed and saw the military insurance as a way to “set herself free”.

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