Melody Johnson was arrested last month after allegedly repeatedly slipping the cleaning product into her spouse’s coffee pot.
A wife poisoned the coffee of her estranged US Air Force husband with bleach for months, according to court documents.
Melody Johnson was arrested on 18 July after her husband submitted the video to police allegedly showing her pouring the cleaning product into his coffee machine.
Johnson, 39, and her husband are going through a divorce but lived together with their child.
The husband continued drinking the strange-tasting brew for two or three weeks before using chemical testing strips to test the water in his tap, which came back normal.
When he tested the water in his coffee pot it showed “high levels of chlorine”, court documents state.
In May, the husband set up a camera in the home which showed Johnson “pouring something into his coffee pot”.
He pretended to drink the coffee until the family moved back to America on 28 June because he didn’t want to file a report in Germany.
While temporarily stationed at a hotel in Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, the husband set up another camera which again allegedly showed his wife “walk to his coffee maker and pour something into his water reservoir” on 5 July.
The husband filed a police report the next day but was told by officers that it wasn’t clear what Johnson was pouring into his coffee pot.
When the family moved to a permanent home on 7 July, he set up more cameras that looked like fire alarms, according to court documents.
One was placed in the laundry room where bleach was kept, another was placed right over the coffee machine and a third was placed to show walking between those two areas.
The spouse returned to the police after gathering numerous tapes allegedly depicting Johnson “taking bleach, pouring it into a container, and then walking over and pouring it into the coffee maker.”
He informed the authorities that he thought his divorced wife was trying to kill him so she could get life insurance.
The attempted first-degree murder attempted aggravated assault, and introducing poison to food or drink were all charges brought against Johnson after his arrest.
A container that smelled like bleach and had some liquid inside was allegedly found during a search of the house in Johnson’s bedroom, which is next to her bathroom sink. Additionally, a bleach-smelling liquid was said to be present in the coffee maker.
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