posted on February 3, 2005 05:22:58 PM new
Wife explains how husband's alcoholic enema habit killed him
By Cynthia Cisneros
ABC13 Eyewitness News
(02/03/05 - HOUSTON) — A 42-year-old widow is accused of killing her husband. He was given an alcohol enema and it caused his blood alcohol level to rise to .47 percent -- more than five times the state's legal limit.
Prosecutors say Tammy Jean Warner knew her husband would die if she gave him alcohol. Warner tells Eyewitness News it was her husband who bought the alcohol and put it in his own system.
Tammy says she wants the chance to defend herself.
"I love him and I miss him," she says of her dead husband.
Tammy denies killing her husband, but she admits he died from an enema.
She showed Eyewitness News photos her husband, Michael Warner, had taken of his own collection of enema bags and equipment. Tammy says her husband used those bags just about every day of his life.
"When he was a child, from my understanding, his mother started giving them to him," Tammy explained. "He depended on that for using the restroom."
The use escalated, says Tammy, when her husband would drink. She says Michael was an alcoholic and would fill the bags with sherry or wine.
Tammy said, "He'd open the clamp and take in what he wants, how much he wanted, then he'd close the clamp and lay there until he wanted more and then he'd open his clamp back up."
And that's what he was doing the night he died, says Tammy. Her attorney says her client should not be held responsible for the actions of her husband.
Attorney Jyll Rekoff explained, "Why this case has become so popular is because he chose to ingest the alcohol by way of an enema. If Mr. Warner had been drinking from a glass at dinner that night and later on died, we wouldn't be here. It's the fact that the enema makes it a sensational issue."
Tammy is also charged with destroying her husband's will – a charge that she denies. She's been charged with one count of negligent homicide and one count of fraudulent destruction of a document. Each charge carries a sentence ranging from six months to two years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.
She has plead not guilty. The case will go to trial, but the trial date has not been set.
posted on February 3, 2005 05:48:44 PM new
"It's the fact that the enema makes it a sensational issue"
Really? Ya think?
OK, if this guy was doing this on a regular basis, the only logical question is... WHY?
Someone musta told him "You can take this drink and shove it up yer arse!" and he took them seriously.
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posted on February 3, 2005 07:59:09 PM new
LOL Park
Bear-you've have to admit thats pretty desperate for a drink.I hope I dont get that desperate for a cigarette.I can see it now, sticking a lit cigarette up my butt and blowing smoke outta my ass.
Bear,why does it say shes being charged with homicide??
[ edited by classicrock000 on Feb 3, 2005 08:02 PM ]
