In 2013, a Springfield, Missouri woman, with the cooperation of her younger daughter (22), killed her husband and son by poisoning them with anti-freeze. The mother/daughter duo also tried to kill the oldest daughter (24) but she survived.
She did it by putting flavorless anti-freeze into their soft drinks.
The youngest daughter (12) was next in line to be bumped off (but by all accounts remains unharmed).
The mother, Diane Staudte, gave the following reasons for poisoning her family members:
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Husband Mark: She “
hated his guts” and allegedly threw things at her and the kids
--Son Shaun: She considered him a burden and “
more than a pest” and said he would “
interfere with whatever I would do” (Shaun was autistic).
--Daughter Sarah: Sarah had college debt that she (Diane Staudte) didn’t want to pay. She said Sarah was a burden and “
not needed”.
The
youngest daughter was going to be poisoned because the mother claimed “
I know there's no way in hell I'd be able to take care of her. I can't take care of me, so how could I ever take care of her?” Fortunately for her, her mom and sister were caught before they could carry out their nefarious deed.
Diane Staudte’s accomplice, daughter Rachel, claims that her mother “
was the only one who understood her” and that it was just going to be the two of them from now on.
The nurse at the hospital where daughter Sarah was (reluctantly) taken, got suspicious when the mother was “
joking about her daughter's condition and talking about an upcoming vacation to Florida.”
[Talk about a low watt bulb. That’s like rule #1 for suspected murderers (don’t look happy; pretend you are sad!).]I presume the mother was going to use part of her husband’s $20,000 life insurance payout for a vacation (the rest she used to move to a nicer part of town).
I hope you spent that money quickly, Diane!
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