AZ - Melody Felicano Johnson, 39, from Tucson, accused of trying to kill Air Force husband by poisoning his coffee in Germany, March 2023

[imstilla.grandma]

Melody Felicano Johnson, 39, was arrested in Tucson on charges of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault and adding harmful substances to food, drink or medicine.

Johnson, who is being held on a $250,000 bond, was set to be arraigned Friday and a not guilty plea was expected to be entered for her.

According to court documents, Johnson and her husband have a child together and are going through a divorce.

Johnson’s husband is in the Air Force and was stationed in Germany until recently moving back to Davis-Monthan in Tucson.

Johnson’s husband said he noticed his coffee was tasting bad starting in Germany in March 2023.

He said he continued to drink the coffee for two or three weeks before he decided to check his water supply with pool testing strips.

The man, who has not been identified, said he tested the faucet water and everything was normal. The interim complaint shows when he tested the coffee pot, it revealed high levels of chlorine.

Wife accused of trying to kill Airman husband by poisoning his coffee

Melody Felicano Johnson was arrested in Arizona on charges including attempted first-degree murder.

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Melody Felicano Johnson interim complaint | PDF

Melody Felicano Johnson is facing an attempted murder charge after allegedly trying to kill her husband by poisoning his coffee.

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[Knox]

What an idiot, really?

 

[Laughing]

What an idiot, really?

I'm old.

Friends of ours are living together, which neither would have considered in our youthful 20's. His Dad is a pastor.

Her ex-husband was military. They were married more than 10 years.

If she remarries, she loses the benefits she earned as a military spouse including health care coverage.

I expect that if the military service person dies while on active duty -- the surviving military spouse retains those benefits???

How does the proverb go? Murder is about love, money, or power. Health care & in$urance are expen$ive.

Perhaps she possibly wanted shed of the husband but preferred to keep those benefits?

jmho ymmv lrr

 

[escape2sc]

Wouldn't this be a federal/military crime since he is active duty and they live in military housing ?

 

[escape2sc]

Info from the Davis-Monthan AFB, their military housing shows the housing for military is privatized or rather contracted out with a non military company or the military member can purchase or rent a home in the community - so not federal property.


Privatized Housing
At Davis-Monthan, military family housing is privatized. Actus Lend Lease/Soaring Heights Communities owns the family housing and is responsible for maintaining, repairing, constructing and managing the community. In addition to your option to purchase and rent housing in the local community, you now may choose to live in privatized housing by signing a tenant lease agreement with Soaring Heights Communities.

Davis-Monthan

 

[Knox]

The PC affidavit says husband thinks she was trying to kill him to collect death benefits.

I'm grateful the method she chose was so easily detected. I'm scratching my head as to how she thought common bleach would - A). not be tasted or smelled B). her husband would consume enough of it to become seriously ill. Had she chose another more lethal, undetectable, subtance ...

 

[Ebon]

Using secret cameras, airman man caught his wife poisoning his coffee with bleach: Cops

A certain Air Force member has a nightly routine in which he prepares his coffee for the next morning, but his wife took advantage of that to pour bleach in the machine, according to cops.

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A certain Air Force member has a nightly routine in which he prepares his coffee for the next morning, but his wife took advantage of that to pour bleach in the machine, according to cops in Tucson, Arizona.

Cops accuse Melody Felicano Johnson, 39, of domestic violence attempted first degree homicide, domestic violence attempted aggravated assault, and adding poison to food/drink. Records show she remains at the Pima County Jail without bond.

The couple have a child and live together, but they were going through a divorce, officers wrote in the complaint.

The husband had been stationed in Germany in March 2023. That’s when he started noticing his coffee was tasting bad.

“He continued to drink the coffee for the next 2-3 weeks and then ended up buying some pool chemical testing strips as the coffee continued to taste very bad to him,” authorities wrote.

Results returned normal when he tested the water from the faucet, but water in his coffee pot showed high levels of chlorine, police said.

The husband said he believed someone was tampering with his coffee, so he set up a camera in his home.

It allegedly captured his wife pouring something into his coffee pot.

“He stated she knew that he would prep his coffee pot to be ready at night so that in the morning he just needed to turn it on to make his coffee,” documents show. “At that time he stopped drinking the coffee but continued to pretend to drink it as he did not want to make a report of this while in Germany.”

 

[musicaljoke]

Surely it would taste awful. That's not a way to kill one's husband ... annoy him perhaps, but I doubt she could murder him that way.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Hidden camera footage allegedly shows an Arizona woman pouring bleach into her husband’s coffee maker in March. Melody Felicano Johnson’s airman spouse became suspicious when he started noticing his coffee tasted terrible over a period of weeks and set up a camera disguised as a smoke detector. Multiple videos show the husband testing the coffee pot water after Johnson poured something into the machine. The Law&Crime Network’s Sierra Gillespie breaks down the disturbing poisoning attempt.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Poor man. Imagine living with someone you think is trying to poison you.

I wonder if he was worried about the children's well-being too.

It will be interesting to see what charges she ends up with, how long a sentence -- if convicted, and who ends up with partial/full custody of their children.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

39-year-old Melody Johnson is being charged with attempt to commit first degree murder, adding poison to a drink, and attempting to commit aggravated assault.

Court documents claim her husband, who is in the Air Force, first noticed his coffee tasting weird in March while they were stationed in Germany.

When the family returned to Tucson in June, he started testing his coffee and found high levels of chlorine.

He set up cameras throughout the house and apparently caught Johnson pouring something in his coffee pot.

A court date has been rescheduled to Jan. 12

Woman accused of poisoning husband refused to appear in court

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The woman accused of trying to kill her husband by poisoning his coffee, refused to appear in court.

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[imstilla.grandma]

As part of a plea deal, Melody Felicano Johnson – who had been charged with attempted first-degree murder – pleaded guilty to two counts of the lesser felony charge of adding poison or a harmful substance to food or drink, according to the court minutes from Pima County Superior Court.

She will face a maximum of 2 years in prison for each count, according to the minutes, and her sentencing is scheduled for May 10.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/10/us/arizona-woman-pleads-guilty-poison-husbands-coffee/index.html

 

[Clearsky]

Arizona Woman Who Tried to Kill Husband with Poisoned Coffee Is Sentenced to Probation

Melody Felicano Johnson, a 39-year-old Arizona woman, has been sentenced to probation after attempting to kill her husband by poisoning his coffee with bleach while they were stationed in Germany for his job in the U.S. Air Force.

people.com

An Arizona woman who was charged with attempted murder after she poisoned her husband's coffee has been sentenced to three years of probation.

 

[Marg from Oz]

What?? Probation and no gaol time? That is crazy. MOO

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Wow, she did it multiple times, which makes her truly cunning and dangerous, and all she got was probation!