The way Ray Kotomski died was no mystery.
The 65-year-old died on Aug. 16, 2009 of ethylene glycol poisoning the sugar-alcohol compound commonly found in antifreeze after being rushed to the hospital unconscious and unresponsive.
i swear before god. i never, ever, would hurt anybody, especially my husband. the sentence was mandatory. an indefinite term of imprisonment of 15 years to life. i love her and i want to be with her, and i have faith in her. i don t think she s guilty. tim shumaker, teresa s boyfriend of five years, is standing by his woman. he s raising her grandkids, and not long after teresa began serving her sentence tim asked her to marry him. teresa said yes. you meet this woman. she s already a suspect in a murder investigation, and then she is arrested and tried and convicted. you could find somebody who wasn t locked up, but you don t want anybody else, you want her? yeah, i want her. why is that? because i love her and i i want to spend the rest of my life with her.
put some in their son s mouth. roy said that he got pretty ill after. and their son was okay? their son was okay. roy said he never gave it a thought until their german shepherd was poisoned. ray said he never connected the two until raymond was poisoned. teresa s son from that first marriage is roy jr and he says it never happened. there is a story out there that your mom tried to poison your father. it is all lies. why would your father lie about this? maybe he is jealous. maybe he maybe he feels that she ruined his life. i don t know. maybe it was his way of getting back at her. and there was a polygraph exam she took early in the investigation. the examiner had asked teresa two questions. did you poison ray with
attorney general and i got a phone call, and they they said they were looking into it. ohio attorney general mike dewine had recently started a cold case unit, and in september 2012, three years after ray kotomski s death, dewine s office reopened the case with teresa the prime suspect. i didn t want her to get away with murder. my prosecutors and detectives didn t want to see that happen either. those investigators were glad to be back in business. there were reasons they liked teresa for ray s murder. one had to do with a story they heard about her first marriage. her previous husband, roy lovin, told us that teresa had put rat poison in his mashed poe potatoes. and he knew that how? roy said he took two bites,
come back to him is one that her family and friends to a person are on board with. they see teresa as a decent person who somehow attracts men who through no fault of hers become obsessed with her. let me make sure i understand. one guy, mr. reichard, wants to kill to have teresa. another guy, roy, makes up a story that she s a murderer because he doesn t want anybody else to have her, and ray tries to kill himself to get her to come back. have i got that about right? yeah. do you know anybody else around here who leads that kind of life and who drives men to do those kind of things? no, no at all. what s her secret? i have no idea. i think she s just a good woman. that s pretty much the opposite of what ray s daughter monica thinks. for her, this was all very personal.