Cynthia Sommer
Charges dropped against widow accused of killing Marine
Judge dismisses murder charges against Marine widow
Charges against widow dropped in Marine’s death
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Charges Dropped Against San Diego Marine Widow
April 20, 2008 at 4:37 am
Be afraid! Be very afraid! This could happen to any one of us. What the San Diego DA’s office did to this woman is reprehensible.
I am so glad Cindy is free!!!
April 21, 2008 at 8:22 am
I’m thrilled she was acquitted. All you have to do is be falsely accused of moral turpitude to be capable of murder in the eyes of the jury who found her guilty. While perhaps ripping it up isn’t a real good idea when you’ve been widowed, I don’t think that makes her a murderer. We none of us know how we would react in her circumstance & I wonder if some of those who judged her wrongly might not react the same.
April 26, 2008 at 9:49 am
Yet another murderer goes free thanks to our joke of a hustice system. Conflicting medical reports do not prove her innocence. If she was completely innocent, then none of the tests would have discovered any arscenic. It didn’t just magically appear in Todd’s body on it’s own. Unfortunately, by the time law enforcement realized the truth, this black widow had more than enough time to get rid of the evidence. Convienently, she had Todd’s body cremated, so there’s no way possible for any further tests. I feel horrible for Todd’s family that he will never see justice. I only hope she never gets her claws into another servicemember, or they’ll probably wind up dead also. I hope Todd’s family gets permanent custody of his son.
April 26, 2008 at 10:06 am
Patti, some of us have been in her circumstance. My marine husband was KIA in Iraq. And I sure as hell didn’t mourn his death by fucking his comrades, entering wet tee shirt contests in the weeks just after his death and demanding to know when I’d receive his life insurance money within hours of his death, unlike Cynthia did. Does that prove she murdered him? No. Not completely. It proves her motive. I know many military widows, and I’ve never seen any of them mourn the loss of their soldier, sailor, marine, or airman the way Cynthia did. If anything, she acted like she was celebrating. Like “Aubrey” mentioned, Cynthia had more than enough time to get rid of the evidence and to cover her tracks.
Something to think about: If you’re performing CPR, how can you breathe into the person’s mouth and nose, pump their heart, and still manage to hold the phone and talk to the dispatcher? It can’t be done. Just one of the many lies Cynthia told during her trial. As far as the lab tests go, everyone’s saying that because this most recent test of his tissue discovered no arscenic, then the first test must be faulty. How do we know that? How do we know that it’s not the 2nd test that’s at fault? There’s no way to magically make arscenic appear in tissue. If no arscenic was in his body, then how was it that tests discovered such a high amount of it? The recent test that “proves” her innocence doesn’t prove jack shit. One test says yes, the other says no. More tests need to be performed to confirm which test was accurate.
May 14, 2008 at 5:20 pm
If you think for one second that Bonnie Dumanis and Laura Gunn would have dropped these charges without making sure those last tests were accurate then you are sadly mistaken. They screwed up by not admitting that those samples existed in the first place. They knew from the very beginning that it was very possible that the original samples were contaminated but they refused to listen to their own experts.
There was NEVER any arsenic in Todd’s body. The samples were contaminated. The original tests said it was in TWO of his organ samples, NOT in the rest as it would have been if he truly was poisoned. We all knew it before and the rest of you know it now. Just admit it.
January 22, 2009 at 3:50 pm
What about the traces of arsenic they found in the home? I watched the trial and am related to a service man. No wife or widow I have ever met in 6 years would dare dream of celebrating upon commencment of their soilders death. All of you who say, who are we to judge how she should grieve? Ask yourselves, would you “grieve” the way did? Do you KNOW anyone who would “grieve ” the way she did? The truthful answer is NO. It takes a narcisitic person to slowly poison your husband and watch him suffer, writhe in pain, and eventually die right in front of your eyes in a horrific, violent manner. Look up how someone dies of arsenic poisening, it is NOT pleasant or merciful. Cindy narsasistic you say? Hmm, many lovers (craves attention from men), boob jobs, party girl attention, all add up to one thing to me, a selfish, narcissistic & perfectly capable of murdering her young, unsuspecting husband. There WAS arsenic in his body people, please wake up and smell the coffee. A jury of her peers unanimously found her GUILTY as charged! One judge under tremendous political pressure free’d that woman and now the DA’s office had NO choice but to drop charges, more than likely because they are pretty darn sure they will restructure their case and re try her as she should be. I would be patient too if I were them, because of blogs like this, they will make darn sure she doesn’t get off on some ridiculous techincality . She better enjoy her borrowed freedom while she can. Even if she should never be brought to justice in this life, she will pay for her sins some day.
February 2, 2009 at 7:30 am
Cindy’s defense argued throughout her trial waht a loving relationship she had with her husband. And everyone thinks she was found guilt because of her loose love life after he died. But her loose love life was eveident before he died as well. Therefore, that argument that she was a loving and devoted wife is non-existant. Women madly in love with their husbands don’t cheat on them. Cindy was making arrangements for her breast enlargement surgery before her husband even died. She knew she was coming into money, soon. I hope the DA reopens this case. I hope there is no life insurance on her children. They need protection and only the DA’s office can give that to them.
February 7, 2009 at 11:29 pm
WOW just watched the 48 hours special on this and I am saddened by the state of the American justice system. It also really speaks volumes of the type of whore she was to sleep with three (that we know about) other guys after her husbands death. What a slut! I feel sorry for the kids knowing they have a murdering slut for a mom…so sad!
May 3, 2009 at 9:16 am
What Cynthia Sommers behavior was following her husband’s death is irrelevant.
What all the media (Dateline, 48 Hours) failed to adequately address and pursue was the Armed Services Institute of Pathology. They lied, without doubt, about the presence of Arsenic in the tissues. This fabricated evidence put Cynthia Sommers in prison, wrongfully convicted of a crime.
A independent re-examination of the tissues proved there was never any ansenic.
The Armed Services Institute of Pathology needs to be investigated for tainting evidence to support a preformed conclusion of homicide. The Navy Investigators also need to be investigated for their misdeeds during this investigation.
The character assassination done to Cythnia Sommers, by naval investigators feeding the media, overshadowed the evidence.
Lets not let the military off the hook to easy. Bottem Line there was no arsenic! To say Cynthia Sommers is guilty, you would have to prove she caused him to die of natural causes. GET REAL!!!