A Poisoned Passion by Diane Fanning

A Poisoned Passion by Diane Fanning

By the age of twenty-four, Air Force Staff Sergeant Mike Severance had already survived a series of missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. But his life back at home, in Texas, would prove a lot more dangerous.

In the winter of 2005, Mike's wife, a veterinarian named Wendi Mae Davidson, reported him missing. Wendi told police that Mike had been acting erratically-visiting local clubs, staying out late, sometimes not coming home at all. She filed for divorce the very next day.

Eventually Mike's body turned up in a stock pond on a private ranch. Investigators described a corpse that was weighted down with two cinder blocks, a rock, a boat anchor, and other equipment. It had also been stabbed forty-one times with a knife. But an autopsy report told a different story: That the cause of death was exposure to pentobarbital and phenobarbital, drugs commonly used in veterinary medicine. All the evidence pointed to Wendi.and soon she would be found guilty of murder in the first degree.
Diane Fanning's A Poisioned Passion is the true, shocking story of a war hero and a marriage that ended in cold-blooded murder.

Diane Fanning is a journalist and the author of twelve true crime books who has been nominated for an Edgar Award. She has appeared on the Biography, Investigation Discovery, and Oxygen Networks, as well as 48 Hours, 20/20, and the Today show, and has been interviewed by a variety of radio stations across the United States and Canada. Diane is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, who now resides in Bedford, Virginia.