Woman gets 40 years for giving husband lethal dose of tranquilizer in attack captured on dashcam
An Ohio woman was sentenced to 40 years in prison this week for injecting her estranged husband with an animal tranquilizer — and then burying his body — in an attack that was partly captured on a vehicle dash camera.
An Ohio woman was sentenced to 40 years in prison this week for injecting her estranged husband with an animal tranquilizer — and then burying his body — in an attack that was partly captured on a vehicle dash camera.
Amanda Hovanec, 37, of Wapakoneta, pleaded guilty to multiple charges that included distributing a controlled substance that resulted in death, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio said in a statement Tuesday.
Prosecutors say she killed Timothy Hovanec in 2022 to keep him from seeing their children.
Her lover, Anthony Theodorou, and her mother, Anita Green, who were also charged federally in Timothy Hovanec's death, admitted being involved in the death or helping dispose of the body.
The Hovanecs, who were divorcing, had three children, prosecutors said. She initiated divorce in 2020 and later began to deny her husband visitation with their children despite a court order allowing it, prosecutors said.
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