Lisa Allen, Made A Very Special Dinner For Her Husband

[Hellsbells]

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. - A woman was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison Friday for serving her husband, a Jefferson County Sheriff's deputy, a meal laced with poison.

Lisa Allen pleaded guilty to 2nd Degree Assault, avoiding trial on a charge of attempted murder.

FOX31's Heidi Hemmat spoke to Jon Allen a few weeks before his wife's sentencing. He admitted there was some trouble in his marriage.

He says his wife Lisa Allen was depressed, had threatened suicide and was spending a lot of time with a mutual male friend, still he says "I was committed and thought we were going to grow old together."

That is, until he realized his wife was planning his untimely death. "It probably took several months to even comprehend the woman I love had tried to kill me," Allen says.

He says he had been worried about his wife, especially after he learned she was researching poisonous plants on the internet, "plants like Red Caster bean and Fox Glove," he says.

He thought she might be planning to use those plants to take her own life.

But he pushed those thoughts aside the night he says Lisa called him while on duty and told him she had made him a special "romantic" dinner.

He came home to a "steaming hot plate," which he says was rare on a work night. "So I eat my spaghetti and I'm eating the salad and it tastes bitter, and I'm still not alarmed I don't think a thing."

But he became alarmed when he says he went out to the back patio and noticed two new "Fox Glove" plants with leaves missing. Deputy Allen says he compared the plant to two leaves he left in his salad bowl and realized he had eaten a potential deadly poison.

"I didn't know if I was going to die but I can't even tell you how to comprehend what's going through your mind at that point," he says.

He says he doubled over in stomach cramps and his heart was racing. A hospital toxicology test later confirmed he had been poisoned by the Fox Glove.

Lisa Allen was charged with Attempted Murder but pleaded guilty to 2nd Degree Assault as part if a plea agreement this week.

http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-poison...0,640902.story

[CplPunishment]

What the??? Did she think she was going to get a way with it??? One more crazy woman behind bars and to think she poisened a Cop. That right there should be an additional charge. She got off way tooo easy.

Anybody know her sentence?

[Athena]

Did she honestly think she was going to get away with this? She goes out and buys fox gloves, some make it into a salad and, what, she thought she could me like, "Yeah, I don't know... I must of confused it with my LETTUCE,"?!?

Sucks for this dude. Breakups are hard enough - we've all been through them. But to know that the person you love wanted you dead to the point that they actually tried to facilitate it? That's devastation.

[Hellsbells]

Anybody know her sentence? A woman was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison Friday for serving her husband, a Jefferson County Sheriff's deputy, a meal laced with poison.

[TheMeaningOfItAll]

Growing up, I used to think my mother was trying to kill us when she forced us to eat her cooking. I'm sure my father felt the same way. I used to try to feed her meals to the dogs under the table because she had a rule that you couldn't leave the table until you finished your meal. The dogs wouldn't even eat her food.
Thank goodness this guy is okay physically and can begin the journey of healing the betrayal. Her sentence was too light in my opinion, but at least she'll spend some time in jail.

[~Absynthe~]

Divorce would have been so much easier.

[Scared4life]

I want to know more about her motives. Even a poorly educated person could find a more humane and effective method of murder. Why not divorce or separation? I am not saying that she was justified, I just feel like the story has been truncated for public consumption. Is it really so insulting to the victims to ask for more answers about the assailants motives? If we don't know the whole story behind why she chose this path how can we avoid such catastrophes in the lives of those around us? If she was sick and in need of serious mental help so be it, but this sounds too sloppy for a cold hearted killer. The fact that the victim was in law enforcement means that the media and DA will go for the throat with out stopping for deeper analysis.

[MC30]

she can't see the forrest for the tree's. thats why.

[Scared4life]

If she was simply tho weak to confront/leave him, and possibly starting a relationship with "a mutual male friend" then maybe she was just that selfish and blinded.