In a plot worthy of any good novel, ‘Dark Hunter’ author Sherrilyn Kenyon is suing her husband for allegedly poisoning her food for three years in an attempt to steal her life insurance.
The author, who has sold more than 70 million books during her career claims that her husband, Lawrence Kenyon was lacing her food with poison from 2014 until they split last year. She says the poison left her with clumps of hair falling out, crumbling teeth, tremors and back pain, all unexplained by doctors until tests showed unusually high levels of lithium in her blood.
She claims her husband was helped by his assistant Kerrie Ann Plump and her IT specialist Paco Cavanaugh to carry on the scheme and says that her husband laced her food while Cavanaugh siphoned hundreds of thousands off her bank accounts.
The lawsuit states that in late 2014 Kenyon started to suffer symptoms that doctors were unable to explain. These symptoms gradually became worse and include extreme nausea, vomiting, respiratory distress, and vertigo. Kenyon’s bones also became brittle, breaking under the slightest pressure until she became so sick she could not walk unassisted.
By February 2017 Kenyon was critically ill and on one occasion, Plump brought her a meal and another employee ate it becoming seriously ill. Kenyon never suspected her husband and thought they had a happy marriage. It wasn’t until they split in 2018 and she started to immediately feel better that she started to suspect her husband was trying to poison her. When she went for tests she was told that she had unusually high levels of lithium, barium, platinum, and thorium in her system, levels that the doctor said could not happen naturally and it was he who suggested she see a lawyer.
At the time of the couple’s divorce Lawrence Kenyon closed three bank accounts in the names of the couple’s children and moved their contents, totalling $450,000, into an account in his own name. The Lawsuit also states that Lawrence took out a million dollar life insurance policy in which he was the sole beneficiary.
We can only hope that Kenyon continues to feel better and recovers from this awful ordeal in a story that sounds like it came from the pages of a bestselling crime novel! We’re sure fans of her Dark Hunter series will be glad to see her on the mend.
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