Photo: Allen County Jail
Sir Marshall S. Snyder III, 23, is facing an attempted murder charge after allegedly helping his girlfriend, Sarai Rodriguez-Miranda, 19, poison her infant niece in January 2017.
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She sent a series of texts to Snyder from a phone that she shared with her mother that revealed the plan.
Hours after the texts were sent, Rodriguez-Miranda’s mother read the messages on the phone they shared and went to check on two bottles of breast milk in her refrigerator. She detected a powdery residue at the bottom of one bottle and the milk also appeared to be discolored.
The bottle was tested, revealing trace amounts of acetaminophen (a pain reliever and fever reducer), caffeine and aspirin.
A forensic toxicologist determined nine capsules of Excedrin — a lethal dose — had been crushed before being sprinkled into the milk.
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“I put the stuff in a made bottle in the fridge,” Rodriguez-Miranda said in one text. “I thought it was funny that I don’t have an ounce of guilt.”
After being on the run for eight months, Rodriguez-Miranda was arrested in September, authorities previously said. Snyderis accused of helping her flee from authoritiesand live with his father in Michigan, theIndianapolis Starreports.
Snyder has not yet entered a plea and court records do not list an attorney for him. Snyder remains behind bars in Allen County Jail without bond, a jail official tells PEOPLE.
source: people.com
