Man accused of spiking wife's cereal with heroin convicted of murder after breast milk sample helps prove case
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A Michigan man accused of spiking his wife's cereal with heroin was convicted of murder and other crimes Wednesday.
The medical examiner had classified Christina Harris' death in 2014 as an accidental overdose. But investigators subsequently alleged that it was a murder scheme hatched by Jason Harris at their Davison home in Genesee County.
Family members insisted that Christina didn't use drugs. Indeed, a sample of frozen breast milk showed no evidence of it. It marked the first time Michigan officials had used breast milk as evidence in a criminal case, WDIV-TV reported.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.