As Reuters reports, Jacqueline Patrick and her daughter were up to here with their husband/father for reasons we won’t get into here. At least twice, Patrick tried to kill her husband on her daughter’s insistence, The Guardian reported. Indeed, she made at least one attempt in October of 2013 and again on Christmas Day of the same year. Specifically, Patrick spiked her husband’s drink — a cherry Lambrini described by Reuters as a “drink favored by teenagers looking to get drunk on a low budget” — with antifreeze. It didn’t work; though gruesomely sickened, Douglas Patrick survived.

The two Patrick women seemingly made little attempt to cover their tracks and left text messages to each other, including the incriminating “I got the stuff I will give him some later delete txt tell no one ok” and “he feels sick again I gave him more delete this.” The final nail in Jacqueline’s coffin, however, was her inability to spell. She produced a document in which Douglas purportedly asked not to be resuscitated, and the fake note included the word “dignerty.” Police later asked Jacqueline to write the word “dignity,” and she spelled it the same way as in the fake note, further sealing her involvement in this crime.