Guilty plea from mom accused of poisoning husband with antifreeze
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A woman who admitted she secretly injected antifreeze into steroid bottles for her husband of 21 years, killing him, pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder.
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Jamie Baker, a 47-year-old mother of two from Smyrna, Del., fessed up in 2014, about a year after her husband, James, turned up dead on the floor of their bedroom.
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Her 42-year-old husband was a competitive weightlifter. He ordered the steroids online with a friend in June 2013 and kept the bottles in a toolbox inside one of his closets, The News Journal reported. He died in September.
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The woman eventually admitted she used a hypodermic syringe to draw the antifreeze from containers in their garage, then injected it into several steroid bottles before his death, police said.
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It's not clear why she did it.
Investigators testing the evidence found a substance believed to be ethylene glycol -- a chemical found in antifreeze -- in the man's kidneys and the steroid bottles, the Delaware State News added.
Sentencing was set for late-March. The woman faced 15 years to life behind bars.
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James Baker also was an environmental specialist for 22 years at the DuPont Experimental Station, according to The News Journal.