Wife discovered with blue tongue after her husband fatally poisoned her slushy with sleeping pills from Target: Police

The hubby of a pistillate recovered dormant astatine a dementia attraction installation successful Arizona allegedly poisoned her with a slushy laced with sleeping pills.

In a property release, the Maricopa County District Attorney announced the indictment of 46-year-old Justin Davidson connected 1 number of first-degree execution successful transportation with the decease of his wife, Danielle Crosbie-Davidson, whose property was not provided. According to the release, Crosbie-Davidson was nether semipermanent attraction for precocious dementia astatine the Eternal Spring of Gilbert facility. She was recovered dormant successful her country connected June 11, and her hubby was staying the country with her astatine the time.

Court documents obtained by section CBS affiliate KPHO stated that installation unit noticed that Crosbie-Davidson's wellness had deteriorated since her hubby arrived and told constabulary that they noticed "suspicious marks" connected her. When they recovered her dead, they stated that her lingua was blue.

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According to the tribunal documents, installation unit told constabulary that Davidson — who is simply a nonmigratory of California — allegedly told them that helium "did not privation them to feed" his wife. He besides reportedly locked the doorway to his wife's room, which unit told him to halt doing truthful they could proceed to cheque connected her.

After Crosbie-Davidson was recovered dead, unit members reportedly recovered bruising connected the broadside of her neck, which raised their suspicions. They called police, who questioned Davidson.

It seemingly did not instrumentality agelong for the widower to confess.

Police said that Davidson allegedly admitted to a failed effort to termination his woman with an intentional overdose of 50 to 60 crushed Oxycodone pills, for which she had a prescription. But contempt the ample magnitude of the almighty opioid, Crosbie-Davidson did not dice aft Davidson fed them to her successful her food.

According to tribunal documents, Davidson past allegedly confessed to buying over-the-counter sleeping pills astatine Target and dissolving them successful a bluish flavored frozen crystal portion from Arizona fast-food concatenation Eegee's. He besides allegedly confessed to smothering his woman with a pillow until she stopped breathing.

KPHO reported that Davidson had erstwhile altercations with his woman that progressive constabulary portion the mates lived unneurotic successful Southern California, per tribunal records.

Davidson was booked into the Maricopa County Jail, wherever helium is being held connected $1 cardinal bond. His adjacent tribunal day is scheduled for Aug. 11.