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Woman accused of poisoning husband
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Posted on Apr 19 2002
A 75-year-old woman under suspicion of using arsenic to poison her 88-year-old husband has been charged with attempted murder by the Attorney General’s Office.
Defendant Ana Lizama, a resident of Tinian, was arrested over the weekend and appeared Monday for a bail hearing before Superior Court Associate Judge David A. Wiseman.
The judge ordered Lizama to post a $10,000 cash bail for her temporary release. In addition, she has been restricted from returning to Tinian, where the victim, Henrick Lizama, resides.
Assistant Attorney General Aaron J. Romano, in a criminal complaint filed yesterday at the Superior Court, alleged that, in the last few months since February 2002, Lizama “committed an overt act by administering poison to the victim.”
The defendant has also been charged with aggravated assault, attempted aggravated assault, assault with a dangerous weapon, senior citizen physical abuse, assault and battery, assault and disturbing the peace.
Court documents reveal that the victim, whom the defendant has been married to for 22 years, suffered physical pain, mental illness and other injuries from being fed with arsenic. Arsenic is a poisonous element often used as an insecticide or weed killer.
The elderly victim, whose tea and/or food was allegedly sprinkled with arsenic all those months, had to be hospitalized.
In charging the defendant with senior citizen physical abuse, the AGO alleged that Lizama “willfully, knowingly and intentionally endangered, hurt, ill-treated, mistreated, mishandled, victimized, inflicted physical pain, injury and mental illness on 88-year-old Henrick Lizama, when she administered poison to him.”
Lizama is reportedly the victim’s second wife. The couple has lived together on Tinian up until the defendant’s arrest over the weekend.
