Talk Radio Host Arrested on Suspicion of Wife's Death

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Radio host is arrested on air in wife's death
Poisoning alleged in Waltham case

By Jonathan Saltzman and Adrienne P. Samuels, Globe Staff | November 8, 2005

In the spring of 2004, Julie Keown began suffering odd symptoms, including vomiting, nausea, slurred speech, and a rash on her leg. But doctors could not pinpoint the cause, and the following September, after her kidneys began failing, the 31-year-old registered nurse slipped into a coma at Newton-Wellesley Hospital and died.

Yesterday, after a 14-month investigation by Massachusetts detectives and the state Medical Examiner's Office, Keown's husband James was arrested at a Missouri radio station shortly after he had gone on the air with his political talk show. Police charged him with fatally poisoning his wife by pouring antifreeze in her Gatorade over several months.

Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley said James Keown murdered his wife in Waltham in an attempt to collect on a $250,000 life insurance policy. Julie Keown was unaware that the couple were debt-ridden, Coakley said, and that her debilitating symptoms stemmed from anything but natural causes.

''She thought she had a gastric illness," Coakley said at a news conference. ''It was pretty clear she did not understand what was happening to her."

More here:

http://tinyurl.com/dw7ab

I wonder what the political bent of his talk show was?

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1. This is like deja vu

I know I read a book some time ago about a whole family that was poisoned in this way. I can't think of the name of the book now.

I don't know about the radio show.....

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2. Was it the George Trepal case in Florida?

He was in Mensa and poisoned (and killed the mother) the family next door because they were noisy.

Is that it?

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3. That's it! He put it into Coca-Cola or Pepsi I think!

That was one strange guy....

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5. Do you ever check out the FL offender database, with pix?

You can check out a lot of people who are in these books!

http://www.dc.state.fl.us/ActiveInmates/search.asp

Put in Trepal.

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6. EWWWWW! He looks like a criminal

:hi: Thanks for the site!

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4. Posion Mind?

Poison mind : a true story of evil genius and an undercover cop / by Jeffrey Good and Susan Goreck.

ISBN # 0688119476