Sentencing Today for Man Who Tried to Poison Wife

Sentencing Today for Man Who Tried to Poison Wife


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(KSL TV) A Provo man convicted of trying to poison his wife and unborn child will be sentenced today.

In March, Paul Turner pleaded guilty to attempted criminal homicide for adding rat poison to his wife's food and exchanging her medication with acid in the summer of 2001.

Turner said he was trying to kill his wife to conceal an addiction to pornography.

He could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.

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