Death By Fitness
Posted on 02/17/09
An woman from Ohio plead guilty to reckless homicide for exercising her 73-year-old husband to death in a swimming pool. She refused to let him leave the water according to The Star Tribune.
The family had a surveillance video which showed Christine Newton-John, 41, pulling James Mason around the pool.
The police counted over 40 times that Newton-John wouldn’t let her husband leave in spite of his gasping for breath.
The husband had a heart attack last June after this incident. There were other complaints that this man was being abused.
The story gets even more interesting as we learn that Mason was a longtime friend of his wife’s family. Mason knew Christine as John Vallandingham before she had gender reassignment surgery in 1993 and changed her name in honor of the singer and star of the hit movie version of the musical “Grease.”
The couple were wed in 2006 in Kentucky, where people can change their gender on their birth certificate.
SOURCE: THE EXAMINER
