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  Wife explains how husband's alcoholic enema habit killed him

Wife accused
Tammy Warner says her husband took this photo of his collection of enema
equipment. She says he relied on them nearly every day.

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/(02/03/05 - HOUSTON)/ ? A 42-year-old widow is accused of killing her
husband. He was given an alcohol enema and it caused his blood alcohol
level to rise to .47 percent -- more than five times the state's legal
limit.



Prosecutors say Tammy Jean Warner knew her husband would die if she gave
him alcohol. Warner tells Eyewitness News it was her husband who bought
the alcohol and put it in his own system.

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Tammy says she wants the chance to defend herself.

"I love him and I miss him," she says of her dead husband.

Tammy denies killing her husband, but she admits he died from an enema.

She showed Eyewitness News photos her husband, Michael Warner, had taken
of his own collection of enema bags and equipment. Tammy says her
husband used those bags just about every day of his life.

"When he was a child, from my understanding, his mother started giving
them to him," Tammy explained. "He depended on that for using the restroom."

The use escalated, says Tammy, when her husband would drink. She says
Michael was an alcoholic and would fill the bags with sherry or wine.

Tammy said, "He'd open the clamp and take in what he wants, how much he
wanted, then he'd close the clamp and lay there until he wanted more and
then he'd open his clamp back up."

And that's what he was doing the night he died, says Tammy. Her attorney
says her client should not be held responsible for the actions of her
husband.

Attorney Jyll Rekoff explained, "Why this case has become so popular is
because he chose to ingest the alcohol by way of an enema. If Mr. Warner
had been drinking from a glass at dinner that night and later on died,
we wouldn't be here. It's the fact that the enema makes it a sensational
issue."

Tammy is also charged with destroying her husband's will ? a charge that
she denies. She's been charged with one count of negligent homicide and
one count of fraudulent destruction of a document. Each charge carries a
sentence ranging from six months to two years in prison and up to a
$10,000 fine.

She has plead not guilty. The case will go to trial, but the trial date
has not been set.
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