Woman poisons husband, uses insurance for boobs
 

From the thread killer:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/kgtv/20060104/lo_kgtv/3160857

Woman Accused Of Poisoning Marine Husband

57 minutes ago

San Diego prosecutors are working Wednesday on the extradition of a woman in Florida accused of poisoning her Miramar-based Marine sergeant husband, then using his life insurance to pay for breast enhancement.

A hearing is scheduled later Wednesday for 32-year-old Cynthia Sommer, who is being held in a West Palm Beach jail and resisting extradition.

Sommer moved to Florida from San Diego in 2002 with a new boyfriend, an ex-Marine, just weeks after an autopsy performed by a military pathologist found her husband had died of a heart attack, according to the Los Angeles Times.

But further toxicology tests determined that Sgt. Todd Sommer, 23, had died of acute arsenic poisoning, the newspaper reported.

Todd Sommer was stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar when he died Feb. 18, 2002, after complaining of nausea for several days.

Cynthia Sommer was arrested in Palm Beach County, Fla., in late November 2005, shortly after new tests and an additional investigation were completed.

"This is the coldest homicide I've had, in terms of being absolutely coldblooded," Deputy District Attorney Laura Gunn said in remarks reported by The Times.

San Diego prosecutors have filed for special circumstances -- murder by poisoning -- which could lead to the death penalty, if Sommer is convicted.

Court documents filed by prosecutors allege Sommer was eager to get her husband's life insurance of more than $250,000 and the monthly survivor payments of nearly $1,900.

Her neighbor at Miramar told investigators that after Todd Sommer's death, his wife threw loud parties and showed the results of her $5,400 breast augmentation.

Damn! That is one hell of a way to get new titties! :eek:

I hope that isht was worth it!

Well, before I jump to any conclusions...I want to see her boobs. Maybe they were worth it.

I swear if she's ugly or fat and got them anyway, I hope an inmate rips them out of her chest.

-Rudey

Judge for yourself. http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Co..._8a.vsmall.jpg

I've met a dirproportional number of military wives who are just...trashy.

Most aren't, but there sure do seem to be a lot of lesser-degree versions of them at a military installation near you.

I've noticed that, too...

For some reason I thought that if you were active or a military dependent, your medical insurance covered plastic surgery 100%.

Many military wives I know over here have had breast augmentations, nose jobs, tummy tucks, and lipo.

I hear it's a pain in the butt to even get a consult at Tripler AMC because everybody's getting their bodies fixed. And no...I am not making this up. I am for real!

I've definitly never heard that...

I can see that a large portion of military wives getting it done. I mean let's face it, the enlisted side draws a large portion of people that don't value education or wise spending habits.

I can see some private just getting back from war with money in his pocket blowing it on new boobs for his 19 year old wife.

I was intrigued by OTW's post, so I did a quick search on the subject. Naturally, the military has put its own spin on the situation to help diffuse visions of female soldiers with breasts so huge that they can't stand upright...

"We need to have plastic surgeons in the military, because we take care of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are injured and who have things like facial fractures, burns, chronic wounds and skin cancers," says Patricia A. Buss, a plastic surgeon and Captain in the Navy Medical Corps. "We also use our plastic surgeons to take care of people who have breast cancer, dog bites, cleft lip and so many other things. If we want to keep a cadre of well-trained plastic surgeons wearing uniforms and serving their country, we need to allow them to practice the full scope of care that comes within plastic surgery."

Here's the rest of the article; it's actually pretty interesting

Thanks for the article, KR.

I knew there was an explanation to it. It was my understanding from talking to these women that the plastic surgery was either free/inexpensive because they were being used as guinea pigs for surgeons in training. :p

Trust me it's not only the US military that is afflicted with a large number of "trashy" spouses... :rolleyes:

I don't know the how, the what, or the why of it - but damn it's like they come out of the woodwork near the bases... scary to see how many privates ended up with the 'Company Mattress' because it was the first they got...

Friends don't let friends marry promiscious women . . .

I spent part of my formative years in Navy housing and this is so true!

Especially SOME of the ones that kiss the hubby goodbye before they go to the ship...

FF a few hours later...they are grinding up on someone else's jock at the nightclub

Yeah, after seeing it from both sides - being on the ship and seeing the guys (and gals) pulling off the wedding band as soon as the ship pulled away from the pier, and seeing the trashy women finding "companionship" when her man is on deployment - I knew there was no way in HELL I'd ever be a military wife. Screw the benefits. Getting married for the money is the WRONG reason to get married. Oh yeah, and if anybody thinks I'm gonna pop out babies while he's playing cops and robbers overseas, they better think again.

My fiance gets out of the service in August 2007 - 3 months after I graduate. We plan to be married in October. Some people look down on him for the decision, because he'll have been in for 10 years, why not do 10 more. His answer "If the navy wanted me to have a wife, they would have issued me one at boot camp. I cant be a good husband or father if I'm overseas for 6 months at a time. Thats not family."

Sorry - total change of subject.... //end rant

As a wife of a West Point graduate who has been serving on active-duty for over 20 years, I can assure you that officers' wives are usually as educated as the officer. I can't think of any officer couple where the wife did not have at least her bachelor's degree. Many spouses met each other in college.

When talking about the military, it is inaccurate to generalize officers, NCOs and junior enlisted in one group. Officers must have the BA/BS degree upon commission and better get a masters' along the way if they expect to be promoted to major or LTC. The enlisted ranks have to earn their BA/BS to achieve the top NCO promotions. yes, there is somewhat of a class system. We live in different neighborhoods based on rank.

In terms of plastic surgery, we need to have highly skilled surgeons to normalize the appearance of many of our wounded soldiers. Walk into Walter Reed and you see many young men who have horrendous injuries. If plastic surgery can fix that, then we should. The plastic surgeons are getting more than enough"practice" right now.

It sounds like you must have been at CMU while I was at Pitt! My husband is a 1987 USNA grad. Go Navy! lol Did you and husband make it to the game this year? Did you used to hang out at Zelda's and Peter's Pub and Caleco's? Am I grilling you too much? lol Sorry :)


Certainly, comparing officers, petty officers and junior enlisted is inaccurate but when I was writing about the disproportional number of trashy wives in the military I didn't want to specify which group those women were a part of. I know that GreekChat has some members married to enlisted men or are enlisted themself.

I do have to say, though, that although the "company mattress" (thanks, Rob! ;) ) is more an E phenomenon, I've seen it happen in the officer ranks, albeit never above the O2 level). My friends and I would call them "Lynettes" after the blonde chick from "Officer and a Gentleman".

Oh, absolutely. Speaking of Walter Reed, I've heard it was on the lastest base closing list. Do you have any idea when this'll happen and where the injured soldiers will go? Bethesda?

Go Army! Beat Navy! USMA Old Grad: I haven't been to a A-N game since Mr. Alum was on the West Point faculty and the matchcup was at the Meadowlands in NJ.

WRAMC is on the BRAC list. which in my humble opinion is a mistake. That place is so full now, dependents can't get appointments, retirees are on the economy for health care...The first priority as always is the active-duty member, as it should be.
Because of the advances in medicine, former life-threatening traumas are no longer life-threatening but certainly life-altering in terms of disfigurements, burns, amputations....

From what I have read, WRAMC handles most of the Army overseas traumas. San Antonio specialize in burn trauma. Bethesda cares for the Marine injuries.

that's the nicest i've ever heard that said before