Jagermeister Murder: Woman Gets 20 Years for Poisoning Drink

A woman who killed a man by spiking his Jagermeister with poison got 20 years in prison.
Jagermeister Murder: Woman Gets 20 Years for Poisoning Drink
Jack Phillips
7/1/2013
Updated:
7/18/2015

A woman who killed a man by spiking his Jagermeister with poison got 20 years in prison.

SEATTLE  — A woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing her ex-boyfriend by serving him poisoned liquor.

King County prosecutors say Janjira Smith laced a bottle of Jägermeister with insecticide in October 2006 and gave it to Roger Mitchell Lewis. The poison killed Lewis and temporarily blinded the man’s new girlfriend.

Seattlepi.com reports (http://is.gd/iLaBmd ) that Smith was sentenced Friday. She pleaded guilty in May to second-degree murder and second-degree assault.

Smith fled to her native Thailand soon after the death. She was originally charged with first-degree murder and first-degree assault.

Arrested in London in 2008, she was returned to Seattle in 2011 after a three-year extradition fight.

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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