Crime & Safety
Suspect in Kirkland Poisoning Murder Pleads Guilty
Janjira Jeffrey Smith pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder and second-degree assault in the death of Roger Lewis and injury of Thanyarat "Nina" Sengpharaghanh in Kirkland in 2006
Janjira Smith, a woman suspected of murdering her former boyfriend with poison at a Kirkland apartment in 2006, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and second-degree assault on Friday, the Seattle Times reports.
Prosecutors say Smith in October of 2006 gave a bottle of insecticide-laced Jagermeister to her ex-boyfriend Roger Lewis, after she found out he planned to marry another woman. Lewis and another woman, Thanyarat "Nina" Sengpharaghanh, quickly became ill after drinking the concoction. He died at the scene, but she recovered.
Smith fled to her native Thailand before ever being charged, said Kirkland Police Sgt. Rob Saloum, and was arrested in London in 2008 and was extradited to King County.
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In 2011, Smith pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder and first-degree assault in the case.
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