Murder Suspect’s Suicide Is Blamed on Publicity
A woman who killed herself while being held on charges that she poisoned her husband was distressed by the publicity the case brought to her family and had suffered abuse from the man she was accused of killing, her Florida attorney said.
Laren Sims, 36, died Sunday after hanging herself in a cell at the Hernando County Jail, where she was awaiting extradition to California to face charges of killing her husband, Sacramento lawyer Larry McNabney.
McNabney’s secretary, 21-year-old Sarah Dutra, also has been charged and is to be arraigned Wednesday.
Sims’ attorney Tom Hogan Jr. said that she never reported the abuse but that medical records show she had facial reconstruction surgery.
McNabney’s adult children have denied that their father hurt Sims during their six-year marriage.
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