Witnesses: Wife spent, spent, spent
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A woman accused of poisoning her Marine husband and using money from his life insurance policy to get her breasts enlarged was a chronic overspender who refused to live within a family budget, witnesses testified.
Cynthia Sommer, 32, pleaded not guilty to charges of murdering Sgt. Todd Sommer, 23, in February 2002 for financial gain. Tests of Todd Sommer's liver found levels of arsenic 1,020 times above normal.
She received:
- $250,000 lump-sum life insurance payment
- $6,000 military death benefit
- $1,871 a month from VA
- 2002 breast enhancement surgery
(AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)


And the problem is? I am just kidding!(saying that before someone bites my head off)
Posted by: Theresa M | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 07:14 AM
Oh and you forgot #3 Buy new bra's :)
Posted by: Theresa M | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 07:52 AM
She should have put the boob job first. That way, he'd've had to pay for it. LMAO
Posted by: Vibiana | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 08:41 AM
I don't think any woman can live within a family budget but that doesn't make anyone a murderer! Although the boob job that was like iceing on the cake! lol
Posted by: Ashely | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 09:01 AM
Considering the source of her funds, will they take her boobs back?
Posted by: Dolphin Gal | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 09:11 AM
Having been on Bases as much as I have, I am surprised to see a GI marry someone that much older!!! At least she wasn't over spending on shoes!
Posted by: onetime | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 09:18 AM
It seems to me most of the people that post on this site are crazy...I say most because now I am one of you. However, my post is completely out of provocation of masses of idiots. This lady supposedly kills her husband for money and everyone makes jokes about it but a couple of days ago there is a story about a woman who was drunk at a bar with her kids and 80% of the posts asked where the father is. BTW - this is the last time this observer spends any time reading this for the crazies, by the crazies column. Later.
Posted by: casual observer | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 09:20 AM
Um, who isn't crazy these days??
Posted by: Dolphin Gal | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 09:30 AM
ok.........anyway.... she's terrible, she's ugly, and her boobs don't look big. They look like madonna cone boobs from "like a virgin." She has an awful hair do and a giraffe neck. She's obviously a royal *****, so she probably did the young man a favor.
Posted by: LANCE MCNACK | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 09:30 AM
Wow! What was that! I think "casual observer" is trying to say something, but I guess I'm too crazy to get it!
Posted by: Patrice | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 09:33 AM
Casual:
Good riddance, slappy. Your post is a transparent attempt to make yourself seem better than others....when you're not. Have a happy life....but please don't breed.
On to the this walking piece of human debris.....
I love her choice of a rather baggy sweatshirt...especially in summer. I wonder why she'd do that....hmm...
Anyway...give this bimbo the needle. If she ever again walks the streets free, it'd be a disgrace. A money-grubbing wench with no concept of responsible living or right and wrong. Society has no use for her.
Posted by: The Angry Conservative | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 09:40 AM
she made no profit he said of his client....after one year it was a wash??
Umm....is it just me or would that show that MAYBE she does have a spending problem?? Lotta money to go though in a year.
Posted by: onetime | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 09:46 AM
She could at the very least have worn a tighter top in the photo...
just sayin.
Posted by: Nate | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 09:58 AM
Over 300K in two years...I'd say she has a spending problem.
So much for being his sugga mama.
She probably made a career move to stripping.
I guess casual observer misses the point of the blogs...we state our opinions and move on and yeah, we crack some jokes, when the obvious statements- she was a manipulative, greedy and vain woman- was just too easy to mention.
Posted by: jayhawker | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 09:58 AM
We shouldn't be too quick to judge her based upon that picture. She could still be hot when she's all gussied up.
Posted by: G | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 10:05 AM
yeah....giver her some credit. I am sure she has been going through a lot since the loss of her husband. I mean, who can't tolerate that minor amount of poison. Geez. Maybe The Star could set up a retrobution fund for her.
Posted by: onetime | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 10:14 AM
a little googling of her and there are reports that she had 23K in credit card debt. And just a few weeks after the death, she moved to FL with her boyfriend. After some huge house parties and something with an adult site.
Posted by: onetime | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 10:18 AM
This is why society views the whites like they do.
Posted by: Tim | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 10:21 AM
Hmmmm this story is worthless without pictures. :)
Posted by: You're a mean drunk R2D2 | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 10:48 AM
I agree Tim. Also,I think the whites should have to give the black man all their money for payback for what they did to our fore fathers.
Posted by: richard hamil | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 10:50 AM
An adult site, huh. Okay so I wasn't far off on the adult entretainment business (of course having a site vs. stripping is a different)
Did they mention a parakeet?
Posted by: jayhawker | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 11:11 AM
Onetime:
Interesting....I don't know if they have this broad dead to rights, but based on the circumstantial evidence and her overall behavior, she sure didn't act like she was innocent. Much the same story as it was with Scott Peterson. I don't think they really had a silver bullet on him but his actions at the time of her disappearance and shortly thereafter looked really bad.
Posted by: The Angry Conservative | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 11:42 AM
Murder is murder, with or without a boob job. Kill 'em all. I know a murderer, Thomas Bird, a preacher that killed his wife and helped his church secretary lover kill her husband, who was my friend. Bird was convicted of mureder one. He is now out of prison, in KCK. Oh, he is white, too. So who is more disgusting, the boob job killer or Thomas Bird?
Posted by: John Prock | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 12:09 PM
Richard, you and your folks give back all your handouts and welfare payments then get in line for the reparations you want. LOSER.
Posted by: Curley Jo | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 12:23 PM
White man should give the money for what they did to your forefathers,
THERE IS no topic that losers can't work around to "give me money for slavery".
If somebody changes the route they take to work and finds some money along the way,
WELL HEY, HE SHOULD HAVE TO GIVE THE MONEY for what they did in slavery. GIVE ME GIVE ME GIVE ME
Posted by: Curley Jo | Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 12:25 PM
San Diego Prosecutor Laura Gunn's to-do list: 1) Con-vince 12 dummies that a marine wife killed her husband for breast implants even though he already approved of her getting them [CHECK] 2) Con-vince 12 dummies that Ms. Sommer was after 'all' that money, LESS that she got with him alive: [CHECK] 3) forget great american premise 'innocent until PROVEN guilty', just WIN at all cost! [CHECK]
Posted by: Jack Martin | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 08:02 AM
4) destroy a young mother's life rather than admit I made a horribly unforgivable mistake, and do not seriously consider finding a new profession that does not rely on my serious LACK of common sense judgement [CHECK]
Posted by: Jack | Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 08:06 AM