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She wanted him gone
Every night he set up the coffee maker before bed so it was ready in the morning. Then the coffee started tasting wrong. He bought pool test strips. The water from his coffee maker turned purple.
His tap water tested normal. The coffee water showed high chlorine.
Roby Johnson was a U.S. Air Force airman stationed in Germany with his wife Melody and their child. In March 2023 he noticed the bad taste. He kept drinking it for two or three weeks before he tested it.
In May he hid a camera in the kitchen. It caught Melody checking that he had already prepped the machine, taking something from under the sink, and pouring it into the water tank.
He didn't confront her. He pretended to keep drinking the coffee and kept filming. "Tonight's the night I caught her on video. It's going to be purple." It was. "Oh, you can smell it from here."
He wanted to report it in the U.S. In June the family moved to Tucson, Arizona. He put up more cameras, some disguised as smoke detectors, in the kitchen and the laundry room. On July 6 he took his footage to police. They didn't act. The video didn't clearly show the liquid.
He kept going. On July 18, 2023, he brought new footage: Melody pouring bleach into a container in the laundry room, walking to the kitchen, pouring it into the coffee maker. She was arrested that day. Under her bathroom sink police found a container that smelled like bleach.
Court documents say he believed she wanted his death benefits. They were heading for a divorce.
She was charged with attempted first-degree murder. In April 2024 she pleaded guilty to two counts of adding a harmful substance to food or drink. Prosecutors asked for two years. The judge gave her three years of probation.
He survived because he trusted his taste in coffee more than his wife.
If you caught your partner on camera doing this, would probation feel like justice?
