Janjira Smith gave her ex poisoned Jägermeister

**Dakota Valkyrie** · December 6th, 2008, 12:21 PM

A jilted lover who is accused of killing her ex-boyfriend by poisoning a bottle of liqueur she then gave to the man's new girlfriend has been caught in London after two years on the run.

Police said Janjira Jeffrey Smith was so angry when Roger Mitchell Lewis left her that she laced the Jägermeister with insecticide, which killed Lewis and temporarily blinded the man's new girlfriend.

In October 2006, the King County Prosecutor's Office charged Smith with first-degree murder and first-degree assault, but by then she had fled the country for her native Thailand.

Smith had flown into London's Heathrow Airport, using her American passport. But authorities had flagged the passport, notifying officials that Smith was wanted.

Smith, who is now 53, and Lewis had been in a relationship for 18 months, and the two had even lived together for a time.

In September 2006, Lewis returned from a trip to the Philippines and broke some tough news to Smith: He had met someone else whom he planned to marry.

The woman tried to persuade Lewis to stay with her. She left for a trip to Japan, and when she returned in early October, Lewis would have nothing to do with her.

At some point, Smith learned that the new girlfriend, Thanyarat Sengpharaghanh, was going to meet Lewis for dinner. On Oct. 6, 2006, Smith called Sengpharaghanh and advised her that Lewis was fond of Jägermeister and liked to have a drink before going out for the evening.

She offered to send a bottle over and urged the woman to make sure Lewis had a drink before they left for dinner. Smith enlisted the help of a man she knew to deliver the bottle.

Prosecutors contend that Smith had already laced the alcohol with the insecticide methomyl.

That evening, Sengpharaghanh mentioned to a friend that Smith had sent her a bottle of Jägermeister to share with Lewis. The friend warned Sengpharaghanh against drinking the alcohol "because it was probably poisoned".

Despite this warning, when Lewis arrived at Sengpharaghanh's apartment, she offered him a drink. Lewis drank a full shot glass, and Sengpharaghanh drank about half a glass.

Almost immediately, the woman felt ill, lost her vision, then blacked out. A friend found the woman blind and disoriented in the apartment. The 56-year-old Lewis was face down on the floor, dead.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/...ugitive06.html

**Peeperann** · December 6th, 2008, 12:35 PM

Wow, people seriously learn to grieve and just move on for Pete's sake! No one is worth totally screwing up your life for!!

And to actually kill someone......... just plain stupid

**DarkPrincess** · December 6th, 2008, 01:08 PM

Jagermeister IS poison. I hate that stuff.

**Abroad** · December 6th, 2008, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by DarkPrincess

Jagermeister IS poison. I hate that stuff.

Hee! I was wondering whether anybody else would have responded in this vein when I saw the headline.

That stuff is vile even when it has not been doctored. It is the perfect disguise for a poison......

**Morticia** · December 6th, 2008, 02:21 PM

They should make her do shots of the stuff. Not the poisoned one of course because that would be bad.

**Dakota Valkyrie** · December 6th, 2008, 02:27 PM

I've never tasted it. The smell alone is vile enough. Kinda reminds me of Nyquil which makes me gag.

**joo** · December 6th, 2008, 05:05 PM

Mix it with Red Bull. It's fantastic. Insecticide, not so much.

**DarkPrincess** · December 6th, 2008, 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by Abroad

Hee! I was wondering whether anybody else would have responded in this vein when I saw the headline.

That stuff is vile even when it has not been doctored. It is the perfect disguise for a poison......

Guys were forever buying me Jager Bombs, so I would feel bad and drink the shit. Thank God I'm married now. Marriage +10.

**Pete Bondurant** · December 6th, 2008, 05:25 PM

Originally Posted by DarkPrincess

Guys were forever buying me Jager Bombs, so I would feel bad and drink the shit. Thank God I'm married now. Marriage +10.

You're supposed to feel bad after you drink it.

**DarkPrincess** · December 6th, 2008, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by Pete Bondurant

You're supposed to feel bad after you drink it.

Depends on how much rum I had before drank the bombs.

**Tazzzz** · December 6th, 2008, 05:55 PM

Yep, Jagermeister is probly the best drink you can use for poisoning some one. Kind of taste like liquorish gym socks to me. Its enough to gag anyone not shit face drunk.

**rebel450** · December 6th, 2008, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by DarkPrincess

Jagermeister IS poison. I hate that stuff.

Nasty enough without the poison. Yuck!

**Maggie Mae** · December 7th, 2008, 12:55 AM

I always liked Jager. :D

**Kitty** · December 7th, 2008, 01:05 AM

Originally Posted by DarkPrincess

Jagermeister IS poison. I hate that stuff.

My only experience with gaggermeister found me passed out nekkid and wrapped around the toilet (thankfully my own!) but to be fair it could have been the darvocet, or the half dozen other things I'd been drinking..

**Tazzzz** · December 7th, 2008, 01:31 AM

Originally Posted by Maggie Mae

I always liked Jager. :D

LoL, thats pretty funny when i put it in that avatar.

**Maggie Mae** · December 7th, 2008, 01:59 AM

LOL, you didn't like my mugshot the way it was, Tazzzz? Jeez ... I wasn't having a good hair day that day and I lost my Jager shirt in the park.

**Sickia** · December 7th, 2008, 08:18 PM

Surely she's been dumped before....wonder what other psycho shit she's done

**crickett** · December 7th, 2008, 11:58 PM

Would YOU drink liquor sent by someones ex? Especially if they called out of no-fucking-where and advised you to have the ex drink it before you went out tonight?
Those two were criminally inbred stupid themselves. Just thinning out the gene pool.

**Dakota Valkyrie** · May 11th, 2013, 07:31 PM

More than six years after she spiked a bottle of Jägermeister with a toxic insecticide, Janjira Jeffrey Smith pleaded guilty Friday in King County Superior Court to second-degree murder and second-degree assault for killing her ex-boyfriend and poisoning his date.

Smith, now 58, was originally charged with first-degree murder and first-degree assault on Oct. 26, 2006, 20 days after Roger Lewis, 53, died in his friend’s Kirkland condo after ingesting a shot of Jägermeister laced with the highly-toxic insecticide Methomyl.

Also sickened was Thanyarat “Nina” Sengpharaghanh, who had accepted the bottle of alcohol from Smith and served it to Lewis, according to King County prosecutors.

Smith was interviewed by police after Lewis’ death but fled to Taiwan before she was formally charged, according to court records.

U.S. marshals had been hunting Smith when she was arrested at a London airport in 2008. She spent about 2½ years fighting extradition to the U.S. but was brought back to Washington in June 2011.
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Prosecutors will recommend that Smith serve a 20-year prison term when she is sentenced June 28.

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