A man believes his hidden cameras saved his life after claiming his wife was caught pouring bleach into the coffee maker in an attempt to kill him while they were going through a divorce.

Melody Felicano Johnson, 39, was charged with attempted murder by police in August in Tucson after allegedly lacing her US Air Force airman husband Roby Johnson's coffee with chemicals while they lived at his duty station in Germany and in Arizona.

He first became suspicious after nothing his coffee tasted strange for about two weeks while in Germany in March, and set up a series of hidden cameras to see if his wife had been tampering with it.

Chilling footage captured on the cameras appeared to show Melody filling a cup with bleach in the laundry room, before carrying it over to the coffee machine and pouring it inside.

Court documents state: "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. At that time he stopped drinking the coffee but continued to pretend to drink."

Roby, who shares children with Melody, opted to gather evidence - including recording himself pulling a test strip from the machine which turned purple indicating it was positive for chlorinated water - and waited until they returned to the US before notifying authorities.

He had also filmed himself testing tap water to show that the strips did not flag up any unexpected substances in that as they had in the coffee pot.

The family had moved to base housing on David Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona in early July, where footage from July 5 showed Melody looking over her shoulder as she poured the substance into the machine.

Roby filed a report with the Tucson Police Department on July 6, however, it was not followed up at the time as the video reportedly did not clearly show what was being poured into the coffee.

Two weeks later, on July 16, Melody was filmed pouring from a large bottle of bleach in the laundry room, before carrying the cup over to the coffee maker and pouring it inside.

Roby regularly tested the coffee maker, fearing his wife was trying to kill him by lacing his drink with the toxic substance, stating in one video: "You can smell it from here. You can smell it."

After reviewing the evidence, police detained Melody on July 18 and she remains in Pima County Jail on a $250,000 bond after being charged with attempted homicide, attempted aggravated assault, and adding poison to food/drink, according to online records.

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Her bond was set at such a high amount a the judge ruled that since she has family in the Philippines, she would be a flight risk.

Court documents state that Roby believes Melody tried to poison him in order to collect benefits.

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A woman who confessed to poisoning her husband after she was caught on camera pouring bleach into his coffee has reportedly avoided jail time.Melody Felicano Johnson, 40, from Arizona, last month pleaded guilty to two counts of poisoning food or drink for putting trace amounts of bleach into husband Roby Johnson’s coffee maker on July 11 and July 18, 2023, according to Arizona’s 13 News.Roby, who is in the Air Force, became suspicious after noticing his coffee had a strange taste while he and his family were stationed in Germany in March 2023.He drank the coffee for two or three weeks before buying pool testing strips and finding that there was high levels of chlorine in his coffee, but not in the tap water.Melody Felicano Johnson was accused of poisoning her husband. Credit: Pima County Sheriff's Office Roby revealed that Melody knew he would prepare his coffee pot the night before so that it was ready for him to just press a button and make himself a coffee first thing in the morning.He continued to pretend to drink the poisoned coffee while they remained in Germany, and waited until he and Melody - who share a child and were going through a divorce at the time - returned to Arizona before alerting authorities.Court documents state that he did not want to report his findings in Europe, and instead set up camera in their temporary housing near Davis Monthan Air Force Base when they returned to the US in June to catch Melody in the act.On July 6, he filed a report with the Tucson Police Department, sharing footage of Melody pouring a liquid into the pot, but they did not follow up because it could not be clearly seen what the liquid she was pouring into his drink was.Roby then set up a second camera disguised as a fire alarm, returning to share the footage it captured with police on July 18, allegedly showing Melody pouring bleach into the coffee machine before brewing.Melody was then arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault and adding harmful substances to food, drink or medicine, but later agreed to a plea deal instead. According to reports, she was handed a probation sentence that includes mandatory mental health treatment that goes into effect immediately, and is not allowed to have contact with her husband without a legal team.Roby told the court he believed Melody was trying to kill him to collect death benefits, according to court documents. Featured image credit: SimpleImages/Getty Images

An Arizona mother has pleaded guilty to poisoning her husband after she was seen pouring bleach into his coffee maker on hidden cameras in the home they shared.

Melody Felicano Johnson pleaded guilty to two counts of poisoning a drink after she placed the lethal substance into the coffee machine, waiting for Roby Johnson, a US Air Force employee, to have his morning beverage on two separate occasions in July.

Per 13 News, after pleading guilty to the lesser crimes, authorities dismissed the murder charge she had originally been facing.

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The incidents took place while the pair - who have children together - were in the middle of a divorce but were still living together at the airman’s duty station in Germany and in Arizona.

Roby had started noticing that his coffee tasted different when they were stationed in Germany in March and thought his wife might be trying to poison him.

“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,” court documents show. “At that time he stopped drinking the coffee but continued to pretend to drink.”

When they were back in Arizona, Roby - unbeknownst to Melody - set up cameras in their home to try to catch his wife attempting to harm him.

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On July 16, Melody was recorded pouring a substance from a large bottle of bleach into a smaller container in the the laundry room.

Soon after, she was seen on footage from a separate hidden camera going into the kitchen to pour chemicals from the smaller container into the water basin of the coffee maker.

The airman also recorded himself testing the water from the coffee maker in order to mount up the evidence for police.

“You can smell it from here. You can smell it,” he stated in one video.

“Look at that,” he said, as he pilled the positive, color-changing test out from the coffee maker. “Totally changed.”

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The shocked husband repeatedly said, “Wow,” and showed the bubbles inside the water reservoir of the coffee maker before he ended the video.

After handing the footage over to the Tucson Police Department, Melody was detained on July 18.

Per court documents, Roby thinks his estranged wife had been trying to end his life in order to receive his life insurance benefits.

Considered a flight risk as she has relatives and property in the Philippines, she had been in custody since she was arrested.

Her sentencing is set to take place next month. She is facing up to two years in prison but could be released for time served as the minimum sentence is four months.

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One Michigan man reportedly poisoned his wife with antihistamine, and now faces jail time.

In 2018, when Therese Kozlowski became suspicious of her husband, Brian Kozlowski, she installed cameras in their kitchen in Macomb Township, Detroit. The couple had a pending divorce at the time.

During this time, Therese noticed that after drinking her morning coffee, she would experience blurred vision, as well as feeling tired and sick. After checking the camera's footage, she saw her husband placing eight sleeping pills in her coffee. Now, she is saying that the poisoning was attempted murder.

Therese and Brian are currently divorced.

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The couple was married for 22 years and share an adult daughter, who also accidentally drank the poisoned coffee. Therese has stated that Brian's actions not only endangered their family, but others too, as she almost fell asleep while driving once.

Regretful for his actions, Brian apologised in court. Defence lawyer Brian Legghio said the husband has shown remorse, and was going through an "ugly divorce" at the time.

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Brian has now been sentenced to 60 days of jail, which he plans to serve on the weekends. Therese said in court:

“Brian’s continuous, methodical, and calculated plot to poison me included a complete disregard for human life, including his own daughter, along with hundreds of other drivers who he put at risk every day for weeks. I believe this was attempted murder. Once Brian realized he lost me and there was no getting me to stay in this unhealthy marriage, his goal was to eliminate me.”

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However, Prosecutor Eric Smith doesn't think that the sentence is sufficient. He asserted:

‘The Court seemed more focused on ensuring the defendant’s freedom and ability to continue to work than the victim and her safety. It is troubling to think that someone who commits such a reckless crime, putting his wife and so many other people at risk, is able to walk away with such a light sentence."

A man embroiled in an acrimonious divorce battle has claimed to have captured the moment his wife of ten years allegedly tried to poison him.

The New York Post reported the sordid details of the alleged incident on Monday, after southern Californian radiologist Jack Chen provided evidence in court that he claims proves his estranged dermatologist wife had been slowly poisoning him.

The court documents, which were obtained by the New York Post, state how 53-year-old Chen had allegedly been poisoned by his wife, Yue "Emily" Yu.

After feeling ill for a month, Chen decided to install nanny cameras in the apartment he shared with his wife and their children.

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Upon reviewing the footage, Chen noticed Yu, 45, appearing to pour Drano - a powerful household cleaner that eliminates scum in clogged drains - into Chen's lemonade on two separate occasions, a week apart in July.

Aluminum, lye, and bleach are all listed ingredients in Drano. Ingesting any of these ingredients can cause serious damage to the mouth, tongue, throat, and internal organs.

Chen reported the alleged poisoning and the video evidence to local police last week, which resulted police executing a search warrant on the couple's $2.5 million home before arresting Yu. The police have stated that an investigation is still ongoing, and that detectives are currently working on finding a motive for the alleged poisoning.

Authorities also confirmed that Chen had sustained "significant internal injuries" from consuming the Drano, but that he was "expected to recover."

Speaking to the NY Post on Monday, Irvine police Lt. Bill Bingham said: "[Chen's] condition became increasingly worse and based on the husband examining his routine and looking at what could be causing it, he grew suspicious of his wife and put a hidden camera in place that captured her poisoning him.

Chen has been granted a temporary restraining order after he alleged Yu was emotionally, verbally, and physically abusing him and their children. The couple has two young children, a son and daughter, and the restraining order will prohibit Yu from being less than 100 yards away from them.

In a statement to the court, Chen wrote: "Emily would call me a ‘f***king asshole’ and other insults [...] Currently she minimizes my existence by telling the children in front of me, ‘tell him’ to do something without addressing me. She would have the children to tell me to do menial tasks for her."

However, Chen's claims of abuse have been refuted by Yu's attorney, David Wohl, who told the New York Post that Chen was "desperately trying to get a leg up in the divorce."

Wohl also believes that Chen "wants to get any advantage he has. This is a very common scenario, in my law practice of more than 33 years."

Yu's profile on the website of a hospital she is affiliated with, Providence Mission Hospital, was removed completely as of last week, per The Los Angeles Times.

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A woman's chilling response after being accused of trying to poison her husband has been revealed in an affidavit. Michelle Peters, 47, of Lebanon, Missouri, is facing criminal charges after allegedly spiking her husband's drinks with weed killer. Peters allegedly poured Roundup weed killer into bottles of her husband's Mountain Dew after getting "mad" at him for not being "appreciative" of the 50th birthday party she threw him, according to court documents. Her husband, who was not named in the documents, became suspicious after he noticed the two-litre bottles of Mountain Dew he kept in a refrigerator in the garage at their home “had an odd taste” and that he got sick afterward, according to the probable cause affidavit.Her husband began to notice his Mountain Dew tasted strange. Credit: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesPeters is charged with first-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action after allegedly “secretly” putting the chemical into her husband's Mountain Dew on several occasions in May and June, the Laclede County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement, via People. The husband met with a detective on Sunday, June 24, and said he believed he was being poisoned by his wife, the Laclede County Sheriff’s Office Probable Cause Statement of Facts obtained by the outlet stated. He began to notice the soda started having an "odd taste" from May 1, but initially continued to drink it. However, after a couple of weeks of having the Mountain Dew, he began to feel sick, have a sore throat, began coughing up mucus and was vomiting, he told police. On June 12, he told officers he reviewed security footage from the garage, which allegedly showed his wife taking a two-litre bottle of Diet Mountain Dew out of the refrigerator, grabbing the Roundup, and then putting the bottle of soda back in the fridge, according to the affidavit. He claims he then became "afraid for his life," with the documents stating that after he told his wife about his symptoms, she told him he probably had Covid and to stay away from the grandchildren. On June 23, the husband notified the sheriff's office after he claims he saw Peters on surveillance camera in the downstairs area, with a bottle of Mountain Dew near a bottle of insecticide on a shelf, according to the affidavit. When she was questioned by police, Peters allegedly told them that she had mixed the soda and Roundup in a cup to use as weed killer, claiming she'd seen it done on Pinterest. However, the affidavit says detectives then told her they'd seen several videos of her in the garage, and she did not have a cup with her. According to the documents, the detective also stated that authorities had removed multiple bottles of Mountain Dew from the refrigerator, which contained Roundup. She is accused of having put Roundup in the bottles of soda. Credit: Geography Photos/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesHer chilling words to investigators were also revealed in the documents, with the affidavit claiming: "Michelle said that she should have just divorced him."When asked to explain, she allegedly told the detective that her husband is "selfish and they have relationship issues."Peters allegedly denied having previously put Roundup in the soda, but the affidavit alleges that she admitted to putting insecticide from the basement in a two-litre Mountain Dew bottle which she then put in the fridge on the night of June 23. The affidavit stated: "Michelle said she was mad at (her husband) because she had thrown him a 50th birthday party and he was not appreciative."Peters is being held without bond. Credit: Arman Zhenikeyev/Getty Images She said she believed the chemical in the basement was Roundup when she added it to the bottle of soda, and had done it to be "mean" to her husband, the document alleged. Peters has pleaded not guilty and is currently being held at the Laclede County Dention Center without bond. Featured image credit: Arman Zhenikeyev/Getty Images