Wife pours bleach into hubby's coffee maker during divorce but he has hidden cam

30 September 2023 , 18:38

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Wife pours bleach into hubby's coffee maker during divorce but he has hidden cam

Chilling footage captured by a hidden camera shows a wife allegedly pouring bleach into the family's coffee maker multiple times in an attempt to kill her husband as they were going through a divorce.

39-year-old Melody Felicano Johnson was charged by police in Tucson, Arizona, in August with attempted murder. She's said to have laced her US Air Force airman's husband Roby Johnson's coffee with a chemical while they lived at his duty station in Germany and Arizona. However, the intended victim captured footage of his wife allegedly pouring a toxic substance into the machine. Johnson is said to have been poisoning her husband's coffee since he was stationed in Germany in March 2023.

Johnson was captured on video pouring what appeared to be bleach into a small bottle before taking that to the kitchen (ABC 7 / TPD)

After several weeks of his coffee tasting off, Mr Johnson bought pool chemical testing strips. When he checked the coffee pot, it tested positive for high levels of chlorine, despite the water from the tap being normal.

"Boom," he said in a self-recorded video after getting a positive result for chlorine. Officers said he set up a hidden camera in his home and it allegedly captured his wife pouring something into his coffee pot.

Documents said: "He stated she knew that he would prep his coffee pot to be ready at night so that in the morning he just needed to turn it on to make his coffee. At that time he stopped drinking the coffee but continued to pretend to drink it as he did not want to make a report of this while in Germany."

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Mr Johnson rigged their home with hidden cameras to catch his wife in the act (ABC 7 / TPD)

It's said that this continued after the Air Force moved him to the David Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson in July. He took his video evidence to police, and when he was told the initial footage wasn't clear enough, he went out and bought more cameras.

Mr Johnson secretly recorded his wife taking bleach from the laundry room and walking over to the coffee maker where police say she poured the substance inside. One video showed Johnson pouring what appears to be bleach into a small bottle. She then makes her way to the kitchen where she pours the contents of the smaller bottle into the coffee maker.

Multiple videos also showed Mr Johnson testing the water from the coffee pot, even comparing it with water straight from the tap. He often remarked on the smell in the footage, and claimed the water in the machine was soapy.

Mr Johnson shared footage of the water tank showing the unusual bubbles (ABC 7 / TPD)

Johnson remains in jail on a $250,000 bond (ABC 7 / TPD)

"You can smell it from here," he says in one video. "You can smell it." Showing the result of the test he says; "Look at that. Totally changed. Wow. Wow, wow, wow."

He even shows a close-up shot of the bubbly insides of the coffee maker's water chamber. Mr Johnson believes his wife tried to poison him to collect benefits, according to court documents.

A judge ruled that since Johnson has family in the Philippines, she was a flight risk and so requested a high bond. Johnson remains at the Pima County Jail on a $250,000 bond for charges including attempted murder in the first degree, according to online records.

Fiona Leishman