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Monroe woman pleads not guilty to fatally poisoning hu*****and
Published: Wednesday, February 09, 2011, 2:49 PM Updated: Wednesday, February 09, 2011, 3:31 PM
Tianle "Heidi" Li of Monroe, left, is arraigned on murder charges. Li and her attorney Steve Altman , right, listen to the assistant prosector. She is accused of murdering her estranged hu*****and, Xiaoye Wang, by poisoning him with thallium.MONROE — A Monroe Township woman entered a plea of not guilty this afternoon to charges she poisoned her hu*****and, who died last month, with thallium, a highly toxic metal.
Tianle Li, 40, dressed in green jail garb and wearing gold glasses, calmly listened as Superior Court Judge Michael Toto explained her rights and what legal procedures would follow today's hearing.
Li was charged Tuesday with the murder of Xiaoye Wang, 39, who died Jan. 26 at University Medical Center in Princeton. He brought himself to the hospital Jan. 14 with what authorities now call "virus-like" symptoms.
After the hearing, Nicholas Sewitch, deputy first assistant Middlesex County prosecutor, said Wang received a "lethal, massive dose of thallium," but said he could not comment on how it was administered or whether it was all given at once or over a period of time.
"There are additional toxicological tests being run on the victim's tissues and bodily fluids that will give us more information about that," Sewitch said.
Sewitch said it was a nurse at the hospital who, remembering a case of thallium poisoning in the 1990s in China, suggested doctors include a test for thallium when Wang did not respond to treatment and continued to worsen. He said Wang lapsed into a coma Jan. 22 or 23.
He said Li, who was a research chemist in the Lawrenceville office of Bristol-Myers Squib, had access to thallium at work, but he would not comment on whether or not that's where she may have allegedly obtained it.
Sewitch said the estranged couple, who were living together in the home they purchased in September 2008, were due to have their divorce finalized on Jan. 14, the day Wang took himself to the hospital.
Steven Altman, Li's attorney, said his client denies having anything to do with her hu*****and's death.
Neither Altman nor Sewitch would comment on why police were called to the couple's home several times, beginning in April 2009, for "domestic disturbances."
Sewitch did say no one was injured and no restraining orders were ever filed as a result of the police visits.
Li was remanded to the Middlesex County jail in lieu of $4.15 million bail and is also charged with hindering her own apprehension by "lying to police" when they began investigating Wang's death, Sewitch said.
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