Woman pleads guilty to domestic assault in husband’s 2024 poisoning

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A woman has pleaded guilty to third-degree domestic assault in her husband’s 2024 poisoning in Cole County.

Sara Scheffer pleaded guilty on April 13. The plea became public on Thursday. She will be sentenced at 2:30 p.m. Monday, May 11. She was originally charged with attempted murder.

Scheffer is accused of trying to poison her husband with substances she put in his food, court documents in previous reporting say.

She was allegedly caught on camera grabbing a substance out of a bag called labeled "lily of the valley" and adding it to his smoothies. Lily of the valley is a poisonous plant.

Scheffer was a part-time design and art teacher at Calvary Lutheran High School in Cole County, previous reporting shows.