Woman Kills Husband, Gets Implants With Money

A woman in California has been accused of poisoning her Marine husband and using money from his life insurance policy to get her breasts enlarged - just one of the things she did with the money.

The woman, Cynthia Sommer, has pleaded not guilty to charges of murdering her husband, Todd Sommer, for financial gain. Tests of the husband's liver after his death found levels of arsenic over 1,000 times above normal.

Investigator Rob Terwilliger said that the woman refused to decrease her spending on clothing and meals out and that the family had a deficit before the Marine's death. Saying she was a chronic overspender who refused to live within a family budget.

Sommer received her first consultation on breast enhancement surgery the day her husband first complained of feeling ill. She finally had the $5,400 surgery within two months of his death.

Upon his death, she received a $250,000 life insurance payment, a $6,000 military death benefit, as well as a month payment from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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