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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.
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.
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.
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.