Texas doctor jailed for poisoning ex-lover’s coffee

A cancer specialist in Houston, Texas, has been jailed for ten years after being found guilty of purposefully poisoning the coffee of her colleague, with whom she was having an affair, with a chemical commonly found in anti-freeze.

You may have heard of this story as it has gains some considerable traction in the mainstream press, specifically in the United States.

Dr Ana Maria Gonzalez-Angulo, 43, had been involved in a sexual relationship with Dr George Blumenschein, and the incident, which left Bumenschein hospitalised, took place not long after the affair was called off.

Jurors took a couple of hours to decide upon a guilty verdict and the sentence was handed down a few days later.

Prosecutors argued that Gonzalez-Angulo was a “devious” and “diabolical” person and that once terminated, the relationship morphed into a “fatal attraction”.

As the narrative goes, feeling hurt and betrayed, the breast cancer doctor began to add amounts of ethylene glycol in Bumenschein’s drinks.

Last January he became ill and immediately suspected foul play. The finger was pointed directly at Gonzalez-Angulo and that suspicion only grew when she told him that she “had people executed in Colombia,” where she was born.

Her defence team labelled that claim as an outlandish exaggeration.

According to the American media who covered the trial in detail, events inside court were “filled with plot twists straight out of a soap opera.”

Gonzalez-Angulo’s lawyers argued that anybody could have contaminated the coffee over a prolonged period of time, including Blumenschein’s girlfriend Evette Toney.

Toney denied the allegations, stressing that she and Blumenschein were working towards fixing their ten-year relationship.