Wife Survives Husband’s Lead Poison Attempt: The Hannah Pettey Case

In 2022, a 25-year-old Hannah Pettey got away with her life and her kids–an extremely lucky end to the situation she was in. Her husband, 36-year-old Brian Mann was charged with attempted murder after authorities say he was trying to poison Hannah with lead. How did Mann get his hands on the toxic metal? As a chiropractor, he was having some lead installed in the walls of the X-ray room in his office… an X-ray room that he also made use of to try to proclaim his innocence. He was suggesting that he couldn’t have poisoned his wife, he was being poisoned with lead as well. But when questioned further on that, he could hardly hide his fear of getting caught.