Man reveals how his spouse poisoned him with ARSENIC in his protein powder

A South Carolina man has detailed how his ex-wife secretly poisoned him by placing arsenic in his protein powder, inflicting him to expertise intestinal points, joint ache, and dramatic weight lack of practically 70 lbs. in a matter of months.

J.D. McCabe, 56, tells DailyMail.com that he spent 17 years fortunately married to his now ex-wife, Erin, elevating their two youngsters collectively in a loving surroundings.

However issues took a staggering flip when Erin started abruptly accusing McCabe of dishonest, abusing medication and alcohol, and being mentally ailing, turning their once-happy residence into one affected by gaslighting and distrust. 

As their marriage crumbled, McCabe started a easy exercise routine however was shocked to lose a lot weight so shortly, dropping the primary 30 lbs. in simply six weeks.

After a number of docs’ appointments, McCabe realized that he had been chronically uncovered to arsenic — which he realized Erin had slipped into his protein powder.

J.D. McCabe, 56, tells DailyMail.com about how his once-happy marriage turned poisonous — actually — when he says his ex-wife poisoned him with arsenic in his protein powder

He was fortunately married to his ex-wife and raised two youngsters together with her — however her habits modified 17 years into the wedding, turning into hostile

McCabe recounts his extraordinary story in his guide, ‘The Third Present: My Dance With The Satan (And Her Mom),’ and has just lately gone viral on TikTok sharing a few of the most exceptional particulars. 

He and Erin met within the early ’90s when McCabe was taking part in shortstop in a slow-pitch softball league and was launched to Erin by the third basemen’s spouse after a sport.  

They dated for a few yr and a half earlier than getting engaged and tied the knot on September 11, 1993.

For practically 20 years, McCabe says they had been ‘fortunately married,’ welcoming a son who’s now 26 and a daughter who’s now 22.

His daughter had as soon as described them as ‘youngsters in love.’   

However across the 17-year mark, McCabe says that Erin started making ‘refined accusations’ in opposition to him. She’d demand to learn his emails and test his cellphone, and after coming residence from a remedy appointment, she instructed him: ‘My therapist thinks that you simply’re dishonest on me.’

She did not simply accuse him of infidelity. Erin would additionally counsel that he was hooked on pornography, doing medication, and consuming an excessive amount of.

On one event, he says, Erin got here residence from having dinner with a buddy and smelled beer on McCabe’s breath — and instantly ‘went ballistic.’ 

As their marriage began to crumble, McCabe started understanding for an hour three days per week and utilizing protein powder. He misplaced a dramatic 30 lbs. in six weeks

Although McCabe was caught off-guard by the shift of their relationship, he was additionally understanding, excusing her erratic habits as a symptom of a medical situation that she had claimed to have for years.

‘Her temper modified and her hostility was ever-increasing, however I chalked it as much as her autoimmune illness,’ he says.

However what McCabe could not have imagined was that Erin would not cease at simply making outlandish accusations — she would additionally allegedly escalate to secretly poisoning him. 

McCabe was heavyset when he determined to enhance his well being and begin exercising. 

‘I used to be effectively over 250 lbs., however within the spring of 2014 I began understanding,’ he recollects.

He went to the health club three days per week to elevate weights for about an hour, and likewise started taking protein powder on the recommendation of his son.

These modifications may definitely result in weight reduction, however McCabe started shedding kilos a lot quicker than he anticipated, and in simply six weeks, he’d already taken off 30 lbs.

Looking back, he says his spouse will need to have been the one one who knew why — and he or she appeared to take pleasure in her secret. 

‘When the load began coming off, she would mock me,’ he recollects. ‘She would pull the protein powder out and say, “I do know you’re placing one thing in your protein powder, I simply understand it.”‘ 

McCabe says he misplaced about 65 to 70 lbs. in a matter of months — an quantity so dramatic that colleagues had been satisfied he was significantly ailing.

‘Folks at work mentioned they thought I used to be dying of most cancers however did not know me effectively sufficient to ask,’ he says.

‘I began to have tingling in my fingers and toes, I had vital interstitial points, stiffness within the neck, joint ache, issue swallowing,’ he says (pictured earlier than)

All in all, McCabe says he misplaced about 65 to 70 lbs. in a matter of months — an quantity so dramatic that colleagues had been satisfied he was significantly ailing (pictured after)

However arsenic is not a miracle weight reduction drug — at ranges of excessive publicity, it may be extraordinarily poisonous.  

‘I began to have tingling in my fingers and toes, and I had vital interstitial points, stiffness within the neck, joint ache, and issue swallowing,’ he says.

Lengthy-term publicity can even trigger pores and skin lesions, diabetes, pulmonary illness, heart problems, and cancers of the pores and skin, bladder, and lungs.

McCabe recounts his extraordinary story in his guide, ‘ The Third Present: My Dance With The Satan (And Her Mom)’

Involved about his speedy weight reduction, McCabe had a number of appointments along with his physician, who evaluated him for all the things from leukemia to Alzheimer’s to Lou Gehrig’s illness.  

They could not instantly discover a trigger, however McCabe’s blood work got here again irregular.

‘My liver enzymes had been off, my white blood cells elevated,’ he says. ‘However I by no means even imagined she was doing something to hurt to me.’

Although McCabe wasn’t suspicious, at the least one particular person in his life was elevating the alarm: His sister-in-law, a nurse, instructed him: ‘I believe she’s poisoning you.’ 

McCabe would not come to this conclusion till a lot later. He and Erin lastly separated in Could of 2015, and when he’d been out of their shared residence for over a yr he lastly received a analysis from a specialist, who confirmed by way of hair and nail checks that he had been chronically uncovered to arsenic.

As a result of McCabe had carried out many of the cooking within the household, he realized that the arsenic will need to have been slipped into his protein powder — the very factor that Erin had mentioned he in all probability put one thing in to drop extra pounds. 

‘Folks at work mentioned they thought I used to be dying of most cancers however did not know me effectively sufficient to ask,’ he says

His marriage fell aside in lots of different methods too. His ex accused him of dishonest, abusing medication and alcohol, and being mentally ailing

‘She would taunt me that I used to be placing one thing in there,’ he says.

Although McCabe does not have definitive proof that his ex poisoned him, the analysis of arsenic poisoning was the ultimate piece of the puzzle that made all the things else begin to make sense.

He recollects that across the time that he suspects she was poisoning him, she had taken a newfound curiosity of their funds and life insurance coverage — and had even received him to signal a doc naming her as energy of legal professional for his retirement fund. 

Then, because the pair went by way of divorce proceedings, extra stunning particulars got here to mild.

McCabe realized that each one the whereas she was accusing him of abusing medication, she was herself abusing medication — and allegedly used their youngsters’s names to fill amphetamine prescriptions. 

And whereas she charged him with being untrue, she was the one dishonest — which he realized dramatically when she revealed she had herpes and insisted he was the one who gave it to her.

‘We had been at mediation and the legal professional mentioned, “Oh by the best way, your now-ex-wife wished me to let you recognize you gave her herpes,'” McCabe says.

He was proven her the take a look at outcomes, and certain sufficient, Erin had the virus — however upon getting his personal take a look at outcomes, he confirmed that he didn’t. 

‘That accusation set me free emotionally,’ he says.

McCabe says he is ‘doing nice,’ and located writing his guide to be a cathartic expertise. He has just lately gone viral on TikTok for telling his story

That second was so pivotal that it gave him the identify for his guide, ‘The Third Present.’

‘The primary two items had been our youngsters,’ he says. ‘I name [learning of her herpes diagnosis] the third present as a result of it emotionally set me free, as a result of for 4 years I used to be emotionally and verbally abused by her. Each accusation she levied in opposition to me, she was doing herself.’

After 23 years collectively, McCabe and Erin divorced.

The traumatic expertise left its mark on the household. Along with the divorce, the couple’s two youngsters have estranged to restricted relationships with their mom since McCabe shared the reality of what she’d carried out.  

However McCabe says he is now ‘doing nice,’ and located writing his guide to be a cathartic expertise.

What’s extra, he is hoping that sharing his expertise can assist others in a really possible way, and intends to make use of his guide proceeds to start out a pair of nonprofits: one for abused girls, and one other to assist the son of a veteran who took his life.

‘My new objective is trying ahead to having the ability to assist others,’ he says.

He is additionally in a brand new romantic relationship with a ‘fantastic girl’ who has been affected person and supportive.