Chiropractor Accused Of Poisoning Wife With Lead During Divorce Now Claims He Was A Victim Too: Report

An Alabama chiropractor accused of attempting to termination his woman by lacing her pills pinch lead is insisting that he was besides a unfortunate of being poisoned. 

Brian Mann, 36, is facing attempted execution charges aft authorities opportunity he utilized lead from a building task to lace his wife’s pills, according to court documents obtained by nan Hartselle Enquirer. 

Mann allegedly began giving his woman Hannah Pettey, 25, pills successful nan summertime of 2021 nether nan guise of strengthening her immune strategy arsenic nan mates was going done a contentious divorce, according to her attorney.

Pettey was reportedly hospitalized for 2 months successful what authorities believed was a crippled by Mann to "intentionally origin her to unwittingly ingest particles of lead." 

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Brian Mann is facing attempted execution charges aft authorities allege he tried to termination his woman utilizing lead-laced pills. (Morgan County Sheriff's Office)

However, Mann’s attorneys insist their customer was besides subjected to lead poisoning wrong nan couple’s home. 

Authorities were reportedly sent to analyse imaginable sources of lead passim nan house, pinch Mann initially cooperating pinch investigators by handing complete medications and vitamins Pettey was taking astatine nan clip of her hospitalization. 

After conducting 2 abstracted searches, officials reportedly did not find grounds of a root of lead, pinch Mann telling constabulary he was "still trying" to find a spot for nan couple’s children to beryllium tested. 

Shortly earlier Mann’s arrest, a caregiver astatine Decatur General Hospital reportedly called nan constabulary aft Mann told her "he did an X-ray connected himself and observed a constituent successful his gut, which he believed to beryllium lead," according to an affidavit obtained by nan Hartselle Enquirer. 

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Authorities allege Brian Mann obtained lead from a building task astatine his agency to poison his woman arsenic nan brace were going done a divorce. (Morgan County Sheriff's Office)

When nan caregiver reportedly told him different X-ray was needed to find nan severity of nan ingestion, Mann "became visibly nervous, and she thought he whitethorn leave." 

Following nan 2nd scan, nan caregiver practitioner told police that she did find a "substance successful [Mann’s] colon," but it "didn’t look to person been location for very long." 

The affidavit, signed by Hartselle Police Capt. Alan McDearmond, reveals authorities subpoenaed Mann’s aesculapian records and "believes nan aesculapian records bespeak [he] intentionally ingested lead to supply nan belief he was besides being poisoned." 

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Brian Mann was released connected $500,000 enslaved and faces proceedings for nan alleged attempted execution of his wife. (Morgan County Sheriff's Office)

Shortly aft Mann’s sojourn to nan hospital, a tipster called section authorities to pass them he had been progressive successful a building task installing lead successful nan walls of an X-ray room astatine Mann’s chiropractor office. The caller reportedly revealed he had near nan other lead pinch Mann. 

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Mann was subsequently arrested successful September 2022. 

Mann’s defense squad has looked to artifact grounds from being presented successful court, reportedly claiming nan postulation was done truthful successful an improper manner, pinch nan "procedure to extract nan alleged lead from [Mann’s wife’s] urine was done successful nan backmost parking batch of nan Hartselle Police Department utilizing a five-gallon bucket and a strainer," according to the Hartselle Enquirer. 

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Both nan prosecuting lawyer and Mann’s defense squad did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.   

Mann was released connected $500,000 enslaved and faces proceedings aft pleading not blameworthy to attempted murder.