Miami Standard (Thomas County, GA) – A Georgia woman convicted of murdering her husband by poisoning him with antifreeze will spend the rest of her life in prison.

Torrii Federick, 45, was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after a jury convicted her of malice murder. She was arrested in November 2022, more than a year after the death of her 40-year-old husband Phil Federick on September 5, 2021.

According to officials, Phil Federick died as a result of ethylene glycol toxicity, which is present in antifreeze and brake fluid. According to courtroom reports from the Thomasville Times-Enterprise, during an early interview with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, one of the couple’s children indicated that Torrii Federick had offered her husband a drink she had mixed specifically for him.

Both of the couple’s children, daughter Phil’Nesia Federick and son Phil Federick Jr., were teenagers when their father died. According to the Thomasville Times-Enterprise, while both of them testified as witnesses in their mother’s defence, their initial interviews with the GBI suggested that they may have had reservations about their mother’s innocence.

Phil’Nesia Federick, now 20, contradicted her own claims to police and GBI agents about her father’s condition in the days before he became unwell. She also informed District Attorney Brad Shealy that she does not recall contacting the GBI a year after her father’s death to provide new information.

Phil Federick Jr. also retracted his account regarding a cocktail his mother concocted for his father and handed to him in a sports bottle. According to the reports, Phil Federick Jr. informed a GBI agent that he witnessed his mother giving his father the alcohol in the bottle the night he became ill. Phil Federick Jr. reportedly informed the GBI agent that he observed his father drinking from the bottle as they were watching a bout on TV that night.

On the stand, Phil Federick Jr. allegedly got uneasy and informed Shealy that he had simply given the GBI what they wanted to hear. He reportedly claimed that when he was 14 years old, he was upset with his mother for dating someone fresh so soon after his father’s death. He also reportedly stated that he did not observe his mother mix the drink and that no one ever discovered the sports bottle in question.

Torrii Federick’s defence attorney, Karla Walker, said that Phil Federick was “isolated and wearing a mask” on the Sunday he became ill and took the antifreeze voluntarily to terminate his own life.

Police added that when Phil Federick was hospitalised for his sickness, they suspected ethylene glycol poisoning and contacted authorities. Phil Federick died a week after being admitted to the hospital. The Thomas County Sheriff’s Office announced that the two-year investigation revealed that Torrii Federick gave her husband a drink laced with ethylene glycol, which killed him.

On March 27, a jury agreed. Torrii Federick was found guilty of malice murder and sentenced to life in prison, with the chance of release.

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