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| Sentence Woman To Jail For Poisoning Her Lover Leaving Her For Young Girlfriend A cosmetics research consultant from Long Island has been sentenced to six and one-half years in prison for fatally poisoning her longtime boyfriend in June 2000. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown identified the defendant as Ann Perry, 61, of 146 Awixa Avenue in Bayshore, a self-employed cosmetics industry research and development consultant. The defendant entered a guilty plea on February 25, 2002 to manslaughter in the first degree before Supreme Court Justice Robert J. Hanophy who imposed the prison sentence. Perry had remained free on $500,000 bail awaiting sentencing. According to the charges, on June 24, 2000, the defendant, inside the home that she shared with the deceased, Rudy Wolmart, 48, a Hunts Point meat company manager, gave him a drink—a protein shake—containing thallium, a lethal poison, which subsequently caused his death. Wolmart left the house, took ill while driving from Bayshore to Queens and was admitted to Flushing Hospital, where he lapsed into a coma and died four days later. The defendant allegedly acted as she did because the deceased was leaving her, ending their 23-year-relationship, to live with a younger woman. Thallium, a heavy metal like mercury and lead, is used in the manufacture of eyeglasses and semi-conductors. The autopsy and other scientific tests disclosed that the deceased died of acute and chronic thallium poisoning. “The defendant has admitted her guilt and has acknowledged that she put a lethal dose of thallium into a beverage which the victim then drank,” District Attorney Brown said. “She must now accept society’s punishment—a six and one-half year prison term—for taking the life of another individual. Her crime was serious and the punishment is warranted and just.” Assistant District Attorney Daniel M. Sullivan, Chief of District Attorney Brown’s Kew Gardens II Bureau, prosecuted the case under the supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Trials James Clark Quinn and under the overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Gregory L. Lasak. |
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NY Post 8/10/04
SIX YEARS FOR SLAY NOT ENOUGH: VICTIM'S KIN
By KIERAN CROWLEY
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August 10, 2004 -- A Long Island woman who poisoned her estranged boyfriend by spiking his protein shake "got away with murder" when she copped a plea to manslaughter in exchange for a 61/2-year sentence, the victim's son and gal pal complained yesterday.
Ann Perry, 63, of Bay Shore poisoned her longtime boyfriend, Rudy Wolmart, with thallium, his son says, because he was about to leave her for another woman.
"I think she did it because he was leaving her and if she couldn't have him, no one else could," said the victim's son Rudy D. Wolmart, 34.
The "other woman" in the case, Marian Petrone, complained Perry will serve less time behind bars for murder than Mary Kay Letourneau did for having an affair with a child.
Perry, a wealthy former beautician, fed the radioactive poison to Wolmart for more than a year before she gave him the fatal dose.
Every day for 15 months, said Wolmart, Perry fed his dad poisoned "health shake" drinks containing the deadly poison. "She's smiling and handing this to him every day," said Wolmart.
In an interview with The Post last year, Perry claimed Wolmart abused her and she said that after the murder she never felt so free and alive.
"How can you feel free when you've just killed somebody?" the younger Wolmart asked.
He denied the charges of abuse and pointed out his father was never arrested for any such thing.
"My father was a big teddy bear," said Wolmart.
"All Rudy wanted was to be free and be happy, but he wasn't allowed to leave her," said Petrone. "Why should she happily skip off after [only a few] years?"
The family has filed a $300 million civil suit against the confessed killer.
