Radio talk-show host James Keown is in jail in Jefferson City, Mo., charged with feeding his wife lethal doses of ethylene glycol, a chemical found in antifreeze.
According to prosecutors, he began poisoning his wife a year ago after he lied to her about being accepted to Harvard Business School. The D.A. also suspects that a $250,000 insurance policy on Mrs. Keown may have had something to do with it.
(For those of you considering doing something similar to your spouse, heed the lesson in this case: don’t. Ethylene glycol poisoning is a particularly nasty way to go. It induces nausea and dizziness and destroys the kidneys, which won’t get you any sympathy with the jury. And once the chemical shows up in toxicological tests, there’s no way you can explain an “accidental” injestion. Besides, Keown never got his hands on the insurance money.)
Keown’s alleged difficulty with the truth may also remind some of the case of Mark Hacking, the Utah man who killed his wife and disposed of her body in a landfill after she learned that he had lied about being accepted at the University of North Carolina’s law school.
Such a waste, really. Would it have killed either of them to say he loved her, he was sorry, and he would never do it again?
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