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Connecticut woman charged with poisoning estranged husband's wine with antifreeze chemical

A Connecticut woman was arrested last week and is charged with attempted murder after she admitted having poisoned her estranged husband’s wine with the active ingredient in automobile antifreeze, police said.

Kristen Hogan, 33, who was arrested Friday, told police she poured an unknown amount of ethylene glycol into her estranged husband’s wine bottle, which he drank from on Aug. 10, and he became critically ill that night, according to an arrest warrant affidavit filed in Connecticut Superior Court.

Hogan’s lawyer, Mark Sherman, told NBC News on Monday Hogan plans to plead not guilty.

“While it is premature to comment on case specifics, the charges are wildly inconsistent with Kristen’s reputation as a loving and caring mother,” Sherman said. “These are just accusations and we will take the time needed to diligently investigate and defend Kristen against these claims.”

In an interview with Connecticut State Police on Sept. 12, the victim — whom police did not name — told authorities that on Aug. 5, he hosted his family for dinner and received an unopened bottle of wine from his stepmother, the affidavit said. He and his family drank some of the wine, and the leftover wine was corked and put in his refrigerator that night.

The victim told detectives that on Aug. 7, he appeared at Danbury Superior Court in response to a complaint filed by Hogan, who was supposed to appear at court that day, too, but never showed up, according to the affidavit. Police did not specify the nature of the complaint.

As the victim was waiting for Hogan’s arrival at court, the affidavit says, he got a notification on his phone that Hogan’s cellphone was uploading data to the Wi-Fi router at his residence, which she had full access to, the victim told authorities. The victim returned home, and Hogan was not there, the affidavit says.

On Aug. 10, the victim said, he consumed a small portion of the remaining wine that his stepmother had brought over a few days before, the affidavit says. He went to bed after he drank the wine and became increasingly ill throughout the night, prompting him to call his mother, who lives nearby, it says.

The victim’s mother went to her son’s residence to find him slurring his words, staggering and vomiting, according to the affidavit. She took him to the hospital, where he was treated for symptoms that doctors said were consistent with ethylene glycol poisoning, it says.

The victim told detectives that he believed Hogan poisoned the wine, proposing the possible motive “that Hogan would become the full owner of the residence and would gain full time custody of their child,” as written in the affidavit.

On Wednesday, a detective discovered searches alleged to have been made on Hogan’s cellphone on July 28, including “how much monoethylene glycol would kill you,” the affidavit says.

On Thursday, detectives interviewed Hogan about their findings throughout the investigation, the affidavit says. Hogan confessed to having dumped an unknown amount of ethylene glycol into the victim’s wine bottle, saying she “never intended to kill him, but just wanted to make him sick as payback for him being mentally abusive,” it says.

Hogan was arrested the next day and is being held on a $1 million bond, police said in release Sunday.

The victim told police that Hogan had been coming over to his primary residence more often and “offered to cook him dinner which is highly odd,” the affidavit says. He also said that Hogan had been bringing their child over more often and that “the interior cameras that were re-installed within the residence recently went missing,” it says.

Kate Reilly is a news associate with NBC News.

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