Woman Tried To Kill Her Husband & Son With Poisoned Milkshakes

[matcom]

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TROY, Mich. -- A woman tried to kill her husband and teenage son by serving them milkshakes laced with lethal doses of prescription medication, authorities said. Both were hospitalized but recovered.

Mary Ellen Cannon, 46, was charged Monday with five felony counts, including attempted murder and poisoning, Oakland County prosecutor Deborah Carley said. The motive was unclear, authorities said.

Authorities say Cannon apparently ground up her own medication to put into the fast food restaurant milkshakes she served to Richard Shaw, 57, and Ian Shaw, 13, on Oct. 26.

Richard Shaw collapsed and went into a coma and the boy became ill later, Carley said. The husband was hospitalized for 11 days and Ian for three.

Tests on the milkshakes detected lethal doses of prescription medication for pain, sleep disorders, panic attacks and blood pressure regulation, authorities said.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/4013703/detail.html

[Straight Shooter]

1. Oh, crap! I was hoping the woman's name was Barbara.

:D

[paula777]

2. What's going on with all these cRaZy women lately

This one with the milkshakes, the one that tried to light her Christmas tree on fire, the one from Po-dunk that just murdered that woman and cut her baby out of her and pretended it was hers? All were good Christian women, I'm sure but WTF is going on here?

Edited to say: When I say 'good Christian women" I am being sacrastic even though some have actually been described that way

[VaYallaDawg]

4. Speaking of the one who murdered the woman

and cut the baby out of her I can't figure out how in the hell she managed to do that without killing the baby at the same time.

[paula777]

5. Well on the news they said that babies can live for 5 or more minutes

after the mom dies and that the uterus is really close to the surface so it's actually relatively easy to cut out. I'm hearing this on the news and I'm thinking, oh great, let all the psychos out there know how easy it is to cut a baby out of a mom .... they practically gave people a lesson on where to cut. She must have either had a c section (she has 2 or 3 grown kids) or she looked it up on the internet, or, as she probably say's, the internets

[LoZoccolo]

3. "My milkshake brings all the boys to the morgue."

Oh I'm in trouble now!

(Ducks.)