Wife slipped drugs into husband’s Jägermeister, sending him to ICU, Utah officials say
A 58-year-old Utah woman accused of crushing up prescription medication and putting it in her husband’s Jägermeister without him knowing is facing a felony charge.
Keri Denise Kelsey, of Vernal, faces one count of surreptitious administration of certain substance, according to court documents.
No attorney was listed for her as of midday Dec. 9.
Kelsey is accused of secretly slipping about five crushed-up pills into her husband’s drink on Nov. 30, officials said. He later was hospitalized, spending several days in intensive care, officials said.
Witnesses told police that Kelsey admitted slipping the man pills, according to a court document.
One witness told an officer that Kelsey said “she crushed up Trazodone and put it in the victim’s drink in an effort to kill him,” the court document said.
Another officer spoke with a witness who said Kelsey admitted to putting medication “in the victim’s alcohol bottles to help him sleep,” officials said.
Police interviewed the husband, and he reported that “he began drinking alcohol in the afternoon and shortly thereafter ‘things started getting way weird,’’’ officials said.
He said it felt “different,” despite him drinking no more than usual, officials said.
In an interview with police, Kelsey said she slipped her husband the crushed-up pills “with the hopes” that he’d consume them, officials said.
“(She) described the medication as a prescription blood pressure medication that was used for anxiety” and said she’d previously given her husband some – with his knowledge – in “an attempt to get him to sleep,” according to the court document.
She admitted in the interview to telling a friend that she put the pills in the drink and saying to the friend that “maybe the (expletive) will die this time,” the document said.
Vernal is about a 170-mile drive southeast from Salt Lake City.
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