Wife poisons husband, killing him, Georgia cops say. She’s going to prison
A South Georgia woman found guilty of fatally poisoning her husband is heading to prison, deputies say.
Torrii Fedrick was convicted and sentenced March 27 to life in prison with the possibility of parole, the Thomas County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook.
Fedrick’s attorney, Karla Walker, argued during the trial that prosecutors’ circumstantial evidence was not enough to convict Fedrick and asked that she be acquitted, the Thomasville Times-Enterprise reported.
McClatchy News has reached out to Walker for comment and is awaiting a response.
Fedrick’s conviction and sentencing comes more than three years after investigators accused Fedrick of poisoning her husband, killing him.
In September 2021, Phil Fedrick was taken to the emergency room at Archbold Memorial Hospital, where staffers suspected he had been poisoned with ethylene glycol, a colorless, sweet-tasting compound commonly found in antifreeze, according to deputies.
The toxic liquid can be ingested on accident or on purpose and can impact the “central nervous system (CNS), then the heart, and finally the kidneys,” per the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
Phil Fedrick died one week later, authorities said.
“A two-year joint investigation by the GBI and the Thomas County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division determined that Ms. Fedrick provided her husband with the ethylene glycol,” according to the sheriff’s office.
Authorities didn’t mention a possible motive.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation performed an autopsy, which confirmed hospital staff’s suspicions that Phil Fedrick’s death was the result of poisoning, the sheriff’s office said.
After a four-day trial, a jury found Torrii Fedrick guilty of malice murder in her husband’s death, the Thomasville Times-Enterprise reported. She was also convicted on charges of felony murder and aggravated assault.
Thomas County is about a 40-mile drive northeast from Tallahassee, Florida.
This story was originally published April 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM with the headline "Wife poisons husband, killing him, Georgia cops say. She’s going to prison."