A 64-year-old Massachusetts woman has been charged with trying to kill her 73-year-old husband after meeting a man she met online, who posed as a soap opera star, and coaxed her into serve him poison soup so he could have sex with her.’
Roxanne Doucette believed she had been speaking to the dashing daytime soap opera star Thorsten Kaye of ‘The Bold and the Beautiful,’ during a series of text exchanges last month.
During one of their conversations, the reported scammer said to Douchette, ‘you have to get rid of your husband honey I miss you so much,’ Boston25 News reported.
Douchette gave her husband Paul the spiked soup, but hours later he became so violently ill she called 911 where he was rushed to Nashoba Valley Medical Center.
The couple’s daughter, Nicole Heath, who went to the hospital to see her ailing father, grew suspicious by her mother’s actions after reviewing her phone.
It was there when she told police she suspected that her mother had poisoned her father and took a series of screenshots to share with police.
Pictured: Roxanne Douchette, 64, has been charged with trying to kill her 73-year-old husband, Paul Douchette, by serving him poison soup after she meeting a man on-line who tricked her into thinking he was a soap opera star
Roxanne Doucette believed she had been speaking to the German-British daytime soap opera star Thorsten Kaye of ‘The Bold and the Beautiful,’ during a series of text exchanges last month
She responded, ‘Making an amazing soup. Special potion. He can’t be hungry when he gets back. Just enough for him’
On Monday, a tearful Douchette disputed those claims and told WBZ in the doorway of her home that the soup was old and that she ‘didn’t poison’ her husband.
‘I’ve never ever tried to poison him in any way whatsoever,’ she said. ‘I love him very, very much and I would never try to kill anyone.’
She also spoke of how she missed him and said, ‘I just want him to come home.’
But, court documents revealed a nefarious text message exchange that took place between Douchette and her love interest.
‘Making an amazing soup. Special potion. He will be hungry when he gets back. Just enough for him,’ she wrote.
After serving him the concoction, she wrote: ‘Hubby got back not feeling well. Maybe I can collect life insurance.’
He responded: ‘Honey when will that be?’
She responded, ‘Don’t know.’
The couple pictured drinking a beer together in this undated photo
On December 4, 2023, a day after the alleged poisoning, Douchette was arraigned in Ayer District Court, and was released on her own recognizance.
Though her husband’s toxicology test came back negative she was still required to stay 100 yards away from him and have no contact with him.
She was also ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation, wear a GPS monitor and is only permitted to leave her home for medical appointments, as the case is being investigated.
In a report, Officer Marchand wrote: ‘Roxanne had been messaging someone she believed to be a daytime drama actor, Thorsten Kaye.’
He added, ‘this person scammed her into giving them money.’
When her husband recovered from the harrowing ordeal, he told his daughter and the police that his wife, ‘made him soup, but that it wasn’t very good.’
He stated that it ‘tasted bitter,’ according to a police report.
Doucette later told police, that she initially told (her husband) that she was going on a retreat, but later told her husband that she was not going on a retreat and told him about the person she was messaging.
‘She stated that she thought she was talking to a star, and that she had always wanted to meet a star,’ as per the police report.
Douchette said, ‘she said that she was afraid to be alone. She alleged that she would never harm him in any way, and that she loves him very, very much,’ as per the police report.
She also stated that she loves her children, and that she hopes her daughter doesn’t think she put him in the hospital.
Doucette also told investigators that her husband ‘was under a lot of stress because of the scam.
She stated that he had recently been the victim of a scam and lost approximately $8,000.00,’ as per the news outlet.
On December 12, Douchette was arrested again for violating an Abuse Prevention Order after she gave her husband a handwritten which she reportedly had a neighbor mail to him that violated her no contact order.
In the letter, she asked her husband to ‘please consider dropping the restraining order.’
She added: ‘That’s a long time to have you out of my life. I want my husband back. I miss you so much.’
Douchette also faces a charge of resisting arrest and assaulting an officer after police tried to obtain her cell phone and tablet for evidence.
She reportedly kicked one of the officers and fought back. The items were eventually seized.
The couple have been living in their quaint town for four decades with many neighbors shocked by the allegations, but one of the police officers urged many of the locals not to ‘rush to judgement.’
