Chiropractor accused of poisoning wife with lead during divorce now claims he was a victim too: report

An Alabama chiropractor accused of attempting to termination his woman by lacing her pills with pb is insisting that helium was besides a unfortunate of being poisoned. 

Brian Mann, 36, is facing attempted execution charges aft authorities accidental helium utilized pb from a operation task to lace his wife’s pills, according to court documents obtained by the Hartselle Enquirer. 

Mann allegedly began giving his woman Hannah Pettey, 25, pills successful the summertime of 2021 nether the guise of strengthening her immune strategy arsenic the mates was going done a contentious divorce, according to her attorney.

Pettey was reportedly hospitalized for 2 months successful what authorities believed was a crippled by Mann to "intentionally origin her to unwittingly ingest particles of lead." 

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Brian Mann is facing attempted execution charges aft authorities allege helium tried to termination his woman utilizing lead-laced pills. (Morgan County Sheriff's Office)

However, Mann’s attorneys importune their lawsuit was besides subjected to pb poisoning wrong the couple’s home. 

Authorities were reportedly sent to analyse imaginable sources of pb passim the house, with Mann initially cooperating with investigators by handing implicit medications and vitamins Pettey was taking astatine the clip of her hospitalization. 

After conducting 2 abstracted searches, officials reportedly did not find grounds of a root of lead, with Mann telling constabulary helium was "still trying" to find a spot for the couple’s children to beryllium tested. 

Shortly earlier Mann’s arrest, a caregiver astatine Decatur General Hospital reportedly called the constabulary aft Mann told her "he did an X-ray connected himself and observed a substance successful his gut, which helium believed to beryllium lead," according to an affidavit obtained by the Hartselle Enquirer. 

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Authorities allege Brian Mann obtained pb from a operation task astatine his bureau to poison his woman arsenic the brace were going done a divorce. (Morgan County Sheriff's Office)

When the caregiver reportedly told him different X-ray was needed to find the severity of the ingestion, Mann "became visibly nervous, and she thought helium whitethorn leave." 

Following the 2nd scan, the caregiver practitioner told police that she did find a "substance successful [Mann’s] colon," but it "didn’t look to person been determination for precise long." 

The affidavit, signed by Hartselle Police Capt. Alan McDearmond, reveals authorities subpoenaed Mann’s aesculapian records and "believes the aesculapian records bespeak [he] intentionally ingested pb to supply the content helium was besides being poisoned." 

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Brian Mann was released connected $500,000 enslaved and faces proceedings for the alleged attempted execution of his wife. (Morgan County Sheriff's Office)

Shortly aft Mann’s sojourn to the hospital, a tipster called section authorities to pass them helium had been progressive successful a operation task installing pb successful the walls of an X-ray country astatine Mann’s chiropractor office. The caller reportedly revealed helium had near the other pb with Mann. 

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Mann was subsequently arrested successful September 2022. 

Mann’s defence squad has looked to artifact grounds from being presented successful court, reportedly claiming the postulation was done truthful successful an improper manner, with the "procedure to extract the alleged pb from [Mann’s wife’s] urine was done successful the backmost parking batch of the Hartselle Police Department utilizing a five-gallon bucket and a strainer," according to the Hartselle Enquirer. 

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Both the prosecuting lawyer and Mann’s defence squad did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.   

Mann was released connected $500,000 enslaved and faces proceedings aft pleading not blameworthy to attempted murder.