Woman gets 40 years for giving husband lethal dose of tranquilizer in attack captured on dash cam

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An Ohio woman was sentenced to 40 years in prison this week for injecting her estranged husband with an animal tranquilizer — and then burying his body — during an attack that was partially captured on a vehicle dash camera. Amanda Hovanec, 37, of Wapakoneta, Ohio, pleaded guilty to multiple charges that included distributing a controlled substance that resulted in death, according to a Tuesday statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio.

She moved him to the ground and held his neck, without choking him, until his body went limp on the driveway, the affidavit and prosecutors said. “Hovanec’s violent and intentional actions were cold-blooded, calculated and cruel. Her extreme malevolence toward her husband and complete disregard for how his murder would affect their innocent children is incomprehensible and unforgiveable,” U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Rebecca Lutzko said in a statement.

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