Prosecutors say a 43-year-old breast cancer doctor based at Houston's famed Texas Medical Center had a "fatal attraction" to a fellow physician who rejected her, prompting her to poison her lover by lacing his coffee with ethylene glycol.
The chemical is a common additive in automotive antifreeze but also is used by University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center labs where Ana Maria Gonzalez-Angulo and another cancer researcher and doctor, George Blumenschein, both worked.
Her attorneys said in opening statements Monday at her aggravated assault trial that evidence won't point conclusively to her, and that others may be responsible for his poisoning.
Prosecutors say Blumenschein survived kidney failure after she served him two cups of tainted coffee last year.
She could get 20 years in prison if convicted.
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