Kirkland Reporter, July 05, 2013

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Woman sentenced in poisoning murder of ex-boyfriend Redmond woman to serve 20 years in prison for lacing Kirkland man’s Jagermeister with insecticide BY CARRIE RODRIGUEZ crodriguez@kirklandreporter.com

Elsie Ann McDaniel (front) plays with her friend Taylor Shapiro at Juanita Beach Park on Tuesday afternoon, when temperatures reached into the 90s. Juanita Beach Park is one of three waterfront parks in Kirkland that now has lifeguards on duty from noon to 6 p.m. daily until Sept. 2. Waverly Beach Park and Houghton Beach Park also have lifeguards available. Juanita Beach Park is located at 9703 NE Juanita Drive; Waverly Beach Park is located at 633 Waverly Way and Houghton Beach Park at 5811 Lake Washington Boulevard. Swimmers are encouraged to swim in designated areas to prevent drowning.

murder charges were filed Lewis’s girlfriend, Thanyarat against Smith, who went on “Nina” Sengpharaghanh. the lam to her native In her plea for Thailand before she second-degree was eventually extramurder, she claimed dited from England that she was a victim in June 2011. of domestic violence, Smith pleaded according to court guilty on May 10 to records. second-degree murHowever, Carla Janjira Smith der and also pleaded Carlstrom, senior guilty to seconddeputy prosecutdegree assault for poisoning ing attorney, said that “no

evidence supports this long history of abuse,” court documents continue. Carlstrom continued that Smith “was so obsessed with Roger Lewis that she threatened to have his exwife killed if she would not divorce him. Something was very wrong with her. She is the classic scorned woman who decided that when Roger Lewis wised up and

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Lake Washington School District officials revealed more than 100 pages of documents this week from an internal investigation that resulted in the dismissal of a Juanita High School security guard. The investigation launched on Jan. 23 after a 16-year-old girl and her mother claimed the security guard hurt her when he allegedly forced her into the principal’s office. The girl had been disobedient when he asked her to get off of a school lunch table and she repeatedly refused to go to the office, the investigation documents state. In late May, Juanita High School students held a protest to bring back Jeff Lewis, the former security guard, when it was clear he would not be returning from a then-fourmonth-long paid administrative leave of absence. Students, parents and teachers also wrote letters to the district’s school board and 500 students signed a petition

in support of Lewis’s return. But district officials could not disclose why he would not return and many people in the community were left wondering how Lewis – who the district recognized as an exemplary staff member last March – could be put in such a situation.

The incident In a written statement on Jan. 23, a Juanita High School female student described how she was treated in an incident that happened that morning. Because it was a combined lunch due to finals, the lunchroom was crowded and she and a friend were sitting on a table near the art hall. Lewis told the girls to get off the table. The girl, who remains anonymous due to privacy laws, explained she forgot and sat back down a while later. As the girls resumed conversing, Lewis walked by and saw the girls on the table again. “I gave him a small smile to say ‘oops and that I’m [ more DISTRICT page 2 ]

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Redmond woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison June 28 in King County Superior Court for poisoning her ex-boyfriend to death with insecticide-laced Jagermeister in 2006. Janjira Jeffrey Smith, 58, killed her former boyfriend,

Kirkland resident Roger Lewis, and severely injured his girlfriend using a highly toxic insecticide, methomyl, to poison a bottle of alcohol the two drank from in a Kirkland apartment in 2006. Smith was also sentenced to an additional 14 months in prison for second-degree assault. During the seven-year investigation, first-degree

decided to move on with his life that if she could not have him, no one would. And she killed him.” Before the poisoning, Lewis had recently ended an 18-month relationship with Smith, the documents state. Lewis took a trip to the Philippines and upon his return to Kirkland, he told Smith that he met another woman who he was going to marry.


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