{"id":55535,"date":"2021-11-19T18:47:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T13:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/man-convicted-of-murder-of-wife-after-spiking-cereal-with-heroin-breast-milk-used-as-crucial-evidence\/"},"modified":"2021-11-19T18:47:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T13:17:56","slug":"man-convicted-of-murder-of-wife-after-spiking-cereal-with-heroin-breast-milk-used-as-crucial-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/man-convicted-of-murder-of-wife-after-spiking-cereal-with-heroin-breast-milk-used-as-crucial-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Convicted of Murder of Wife After Spiking Cereal With Heroin; Breast Milk Used as Crucial Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 47-year-old Michigan man was found guilty of the murder of his wife, and mother of two,\u00a0by spiking her cereal with a lethal dose of heroin. The victim\u2019s breast milk played a key role in the case, according to the prosecutor.<\/p>\n

Jason Thomas Harris was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, solicitation of murder, and delivery of a controlled substance causing death related to the September 2014 death of his wife, 36-year-old Christina Ann-Thompson Harris, Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said in a\u00a0press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to testimony at trial, the case was initially ruled an accidental overdose but was changed to homicide in August 2019 by the Genesee County Medical Examiner, which allowed police and prosecutors to pursue\u00a0the murder charge, the prosecutor’s office said. \u00a0<\/p>\n

After the woman\u2019s death, family members went to the Davison Police Department. They suspected that something was not right with her death. They insisted that she did not use drugs and requested further investigation, the release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The frozen breast milk that\u00a0Christina Harris previously stored in the freezer for her infant son\u00a0was tested and it was determined that she was not a drug user, the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n

The Genesee County Medical Examiner ruled Harris\u2019 cause of death as heroin toxicity, John Potbury, Deputy Assistant Prosecuting Attorney told Digital.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a very tragic case and my heart goes out to the family and friends of Christina Harris for their terrible loss,\u201d Leyton said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Leyton said it was the first time in the history of the Wolverine State that breast milk was used as evidence in a criminal case,\u00a0The New York Post reported.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Harris was charged in 2019, five years after his wife’s death. He received $120,000 in life insurance benefits. Two weeks after his wife\u2019s death another woman moved into the home,\u00a0the Associated Press reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Harris\u2019s siblings had also reportedly told police that\u00a0he had been talking about getting rid of his wife, the Post reported.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor added: \u201cThe circumstances of this case make for a unique story and garner headlines in the media, but at the core of it a family is mourning the loss of their loved one and I can only hope that today\u2019s verdict will help them with closure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Harris\u2019 attorney, David Clark told Digital that Harris\u2019 sentencing will be on Dec. 10.\u00a0\u00a0He did not provide any further details.<\/p>\n

Harris faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole, the press release sai<\/p>\n

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A 47-year-old Michigan man was found guilty of the murder of his wife, and mother of two,\u00a0by spiking her cereal with a lethal dose of heroin. The victim\u2019s breast milk played a key role in the case, according to the prosecutor. Jason Thomas Harris was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, solicitation of murder, and delivery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":55536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Man-Convicted-of-Murder-of-Wife-After-Spiking-Cereal-With.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}