A Missouri womani is facing multiple felonies after she was allegedly caught on video spiking her husband’s Mountain Dew with Round Up weed killer because he was “not appreciative” of the 50th birthday party she threw for him.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, 47-year-old Michelle Y. Peters was arrested Monday and charged with one count of domestic assault and one count of armed criminal action.
According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by KOAM, Peters’ husband contacted police on June 24 and said he believed his wife was poisoning him. He told investigators he was the only person in the home who drank Mountain Dew, and around May 1, he noticed the beverage tasted “odd” and he became sick shortly after.
He claimed he ignored the taste at first, but said that after a couple of weeks, he had a sore throat, diarrhea, vomiting, and was coughing up a “brown/yellow thick mucus.”
The husband said that when he drank Mountain Dew outside his home, it tasted normal, but all the two-liter bottles in the garage had the same strange taste. He then became suspicious and checked footage from a camera set up in the garage.
He said became “afraid for his life” after what he saw, according to what he told police, and gave a copy of a footage to someone, “in case he died from being poisoned.”
“(The husband) said he changed his routine and would put new and untampered Mountain Dew bottles in the refrigerator. (He) said that every time he put a new bottle in the refrigerator, Michelle (Peters) would put Roundup in it,” the affidavit stated.
“(The husband) said the original bottle of Roundup was now nearly empty and he noticed that there was a new, unopened bottle of Roundup that recently showed up on the garage shelf.”
Peters allegedly denied the allegations and told her husband he probably had COVID and to stay away from the grandkids.”
Then, on June 24, security footage reportedly caught the defendant adding the insecticide into the Mountain Dew bottles.
Law&Crime reports that when confronted with the information, Peters again denied the accusations and told police she was mixing up a concoction for a “weed killer that she saw on Pinterest.”
She later admitted that she should have just divorced him, and claimed she was angry that he was not appreciative of her efforts to throw him a birthday party.
“Michelle again admitted to putting the insecticide from the basement in the two-liter Mountain Dew bottle and placing it into the garage refrigerator during the evening of 6-23-2024. Michelle said she was mad at (her husband) because she had thrown him a 50th birthday party and he was not appreciative,” the affidavit read.
Peters remains behind bars without bond at the Laclede County Detention Center. Her next court hearing has been scheduled for July 2.
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[Featured image: Michelle Y. Peters/Laclede County Sheriffs Office,]
