NGUYEN: A radio talk show host is accused of killing his wife by poisoning her with Gatorade. And, Jim Boyd of CNN affiliate WCVB in Boston has the story.</s>JIM BOYD, WCVB REPORTER (voice-over): James Keown is a radio talk show host in Jefferson City, Missouri. Police called on him at the radio station and arrested him as fugitive from justice. Authorities here in Massachusetts say he murdered his wife Julie (ph) when the two of them lived here in Waltham. He did it, they say, by systematically poisoning her with a combination of Gatorade and antifreeze.</s>MARTHA COAKLEY, DISTRICT ATTORNEY: There's some information that this particular substance when mixed with Gatorade will be basically undetectable.</s>BOYD: Coakley says that substance, ethylene glycol, is a main component of antifreeze. She says James Keown mixed the two and gave it to his wife over several months in 2004, until she was rushed to Newton-Wellesley Hospital on September 7th last year.</s>COAKLEY: There was a lethal dose of ethylene glycol. And the medical examiner believed that that lethal dose had to be ingested no more than eight to ten hours before her admission to the hospital.</s>BOYD: Coakley says as Julie Keown lay comatose and dying at Newton-Wellesley, both the hospital and Julie's family went to Waltham police with suspicions that she had been poisoned. A lengthy investigation led police to James Keown, who investigators believed killed his wife to gain the proceeds of a quarter of a million dollar life insurance policy.</s>NGUYEN: And that was Jim Boyd of CNN affiliate WCVB in Boston. James Keown does not have a lawyer yet. His sister Shauna (ph) says he's innocent and the truth will come out. Well, does a clergyman answer to God or the government? The IRS sends a warning to a California church after a controversial sermon. A case raising the question of church, state, and the right to free speech, that's right after a break.
Radio Host Accused of Murdering Wife