Wife accused of poisoning husband’s soup at urging of scammer posing as soap opera star Thorsten Kaye: ‘I’m a wonderful cook’

A Massachusetts mother allegedly poisoned her husband’s soup at the urging of an online user claiming to be soap opera star Thorsten Kaye in a sinister catfishing scam. Roxanne Doucette was charged with attempted murder after she was turned in by her own daughter who found messages from “Kaye” instructing the 64 year old to off her husband so they could be together, WCVB reported .

Her daughter, Nicole Heath, was going through her mom and the scammer’s messages after the person convinced her to send $8,000. But the mother claimed her innocence when questioned by a reporter. “What they say is wrong. Because I’m a wonderful cook. My son’s gone to culinary school. I learned from the best — my mom,” Doucette told the local station.

“And I did not try to poison my husband.” Her 73 year old husband, Paul Doucette, spent days in the hospital after eating the tainted soup, investigators believe. As Roxanne and the couple’s daughter sat by his hospital bed, the latter was going through her mother’s phone to take screenshots of her messages with the supposed “The Bold and the Beautiful” actor for a police investigation into the financial scam.

What she found was far more disturbing. “You have to get rid of your husband honey. I need you so much,” the person claiming to be Kaye wrote to Roxanne in a Dec. 1 message, according to police documents obtained by WCVB. Roxanne replied that she needed to do some thinking and later, at 2:43 p.m., she texted back: “Making an amazing soup.

Special potion. He will be hungry when he gets back. Just enough for him.” Then at 4:26 p.m., she messaged: “Hubby got back not feeling well. Maybe I can collect life insurance,” according to the documents. “Honey, when will that be?”, “Kaye” replied to which Roxanne said she didn’t know.

Less than an hour later the same day, at 5:11 p.m., Roxanne dialed 911 to report that her husband was unresponsive. He was rushed to Nashoba Valley Medical Center, where his daughter remained at his side. When he regained consciousness, Heath asked her father what he remembered before he got ill. “Paul stated that Roxanne made him soup, but that it wasn’t very good.

He stated that it tasted bitter,” according to the police report obtained by the station. Heath then contacted the police on Dec. 3 and took her mother to a police station to speak with investigators, the station reported. The mom admitted to texting who she believed was the soap star but said she didn’t hurt her husband.

“[‘Thorsten’ was] saying that they loved me and they wanted me to leave my husband, but I had no intentions of leaving my husband. I love my husband very much,” she later told WCVB. Things soured at the precinct when cops tried to take away her phone and iPad as part of their investigation. When officers attempted to take her into custody for interfering with the investigation, she allegedly kicked a cop in the crotch, WCVB reported.

She was charged with intimidation of a witness, resisting arrest, assault and battery on a police officer in addition to attempted murder. She was later slapped with an additional charge of violating a protective order after she sent a letter to her husband. Roxanne is due back in court on Thursday.

A toxicology report run on Paul by the hospital was negative for opioids, cocaine and alcohol — but those were the only things he was tested for, according to investigators..