A Michigan man was sentenced Friday to life in prison after he was convicted of killing his wife by putting heroin in her breakfast cereal.
Genesee Circuit Court Judge David J. Newblatt, Jason Harris, was sentenced to death after a jury found him guilty last month of first-degree murder, incitement to murder, and delivery of a controlled substance that caused death, according to the Associated Press.
“I completely agree with the jury’s verdict,” Neublatt said while delivering his verdict.
Then the judge directed his words to the accused, saying: “You are guilty, you did this, you are a murderer, you are a liar, I want it to be very clear, the jury saw your lies, and I see through your lies.”
The coroner initially classified the 2014 death of Christina Harris, wife of Jason Harris, as an accidental overdose, but investigators later claimed it was a murder plot orchestrated by her husband at their home in Davison, Genesee.
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Family members insisted that Christina Harris was not using heroin, and that a sample of her frozen breast milk showed no evidence of this.
In 2019, Jason Harris was charged 5 years after his wife’s death, and received $120,000 in life insurance benefits, and two weeks after his wife’s death, another woman moved into their home to live with him.
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