Wife convicted of poisoning Marine

[Ban Hammer 13,340]

SAN DIEGO - A woman was convicted Monday of murdering her Marine husband with arsenic so she could cash in on his $250,000 life insurance policy, which friends said she used to throw wild parties and have her breasts enlarged.

Prosecutors argued that Cynthia Sommer, 33, wanted a more luxurious lifestyle than she could afford on her 23-year-old husband's $1,700 monthly salary and saw his military life insurance policy as a way to "set herself free."

Sommer's friends and co-workers also testified that she had casual sex with multiple partners in the weeks after her husband's collapse.

Sgt. Todd Sommer was in top condition when he collapsed and died at the couple's home on the Marine Corps' Miramar base in San Diego.

His death was initially ruled a heart attack. Tests of his liver later found levels of arsenic 1,020 times above normal.

Cynthia Sommer swallowed and stared as the verdict was read, while her mother burst into tears. She faces life in prison.

With no direct evidence that Sommer was the source of the arsenic detected in her husband's liver, Deputy District Attorney Laura Gunn relied heavily on circumstantial evidence of Sommer's debts to show that she had a motive to kill her husband.

Gunn asserted that the defendant was the only person with the motive and access to poison the Marine.

The Marine's relatives testified that she objected when they asked her to put her husband's $250,000 death benefit in trust for herself, their baby and her three children from a previous marriage.

Defense attorney Robert Udell told jurors that his client had lost her "knight in shining armor."

She is now engaged to a former Marine she met two months after her husband's death. She was extradited to California last March from her new home in West Palm Beach, Fla.

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[almaty 19]

that #######./.just wrong

[Robor007 0]

She needs to go parachuting with that crazy jealous woman from that other thread...

[brnidokiegurl 0]

We had a case here in Okla the dad went to pick up his kids for visit, the x wife and her bf shot him basically for the money if im not wrong was only $80,000 that doesnt sound like enough so maybe wrong. Also the couple did take the kids and flee to later return the kids to family. Now she in the only woman on Okla's death row.

[Savanphil 3]

Scandalous!!!

[anya-D 8]

some crazy people.. so she got a life time in prison and also engaged? how can somebody engaged to some one like that?

[Jasman0717 9]

Off with her head

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

Off with her head

that or hang er high by the nads!

Daniel

:energetic:

[Alex+R 0]

Wait. She got convicted on no evidence at all? She should have gotten a better lawyer. She's a terrible person, but you'd think she'd spring for the good lawyer.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Send her to Iraq......

and

What's the new fiancé thinking?

[brnidokiegurl 0]

Sounds like all this came as an after the fact, the new bf probably only saw her as someone who had lost her husband, or if he was someone known prior maybe in it for the money also. The case i talked about, they were all friends or acquaintances anyway.

[Henia 11]

SAN DIEGO - A woman was convicted Monday of murdering her Marine husband with arsenic so she could cash in on his $250,000 life insurance policy, which friends said she used to throw wild parties and have her breasts enlarged.

I agree with you Charles. What a sick b*tch...I hope she got her got her breast implants and they get botched it all for her (hopefully infected and ruptured)

I also like LuckyStrike's idea about sending her to Iraq... but I would add throwing her into a jail cell with a pack of sex starved men too...let them do a number on her... Man I don't hate or try least not to, but this women is sick...

I wonder did she even marry this poor man, thinking he is a Marine, probably going to die anyway? Easy ticket to wealth? But I am sure glad they caught her....but who is this moron now engaged to her? What does he think he will get the life insurance money? Or is he some sick twisted puppy like her too?! This world boggles my mind sometimes.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

[MissStacey 1]

Hmmm, I wonder how those new tits will look in that prison uniform.