Jean Saxon has pleaded not guilty to murdering her estranged husband Jerry Saxon by injecting him with insulin. At a preliminary hearing, a forensic pathologist testified that Jerry died from a homicidal injection of insulin, as his blood sugar level was extremely low and he was not diabetic. Jean's attorney said there may be other explanations for the low blood sugar level and claimed it will be a "battle of the experts". Jean is accused of stealing insulin from her job at a nursing home and injecting her husband, who she was in the process of divorcing and stood to receive $150,000 from his life insurance.

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By Christine Schiavo INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
POSTED: March 25, 2005
Jean Saxon pleaded not guilty yesterday to murdering her estranged husband with insulin, laying the groundwork for what her lawyer
called "a battle of the experts."
At a preliminary hearing in Penndel, Saxon, a licensed practical nurse, sat expressionless as a forensic pathologist testified that Jerry
Saxon, 52, died from "a homicidal injection of insulin."
Ian Hood, who conducted an autopsy on Jerry Saxon, said he had never seen a blood-sugar level as low as Saxon's when Saxon was
brought by ambulance to Frankford Hospital-Bucks Campus in Fairless Hills on March 17, 2003. Saxon, who was not diabetic, died at the
hospital nearly five weeks later without regaining consciousness.
"There is very little that could drop your blood glucose to the level his was," Hood said. "Almost the only thing that will do that is insulin."
After more than four hours of testimony, District Justice Joseph P. Falcone forwarded the case to Bucks County Court and set Saxon's
arraignment for April 22.
Saxon's attorney, Richard Fink, said that despite Hood's testimony, there may be other explanations for Jerry Saxon's low glucose level.
"This is going to be a battle of the experts," he said.
Jean Saxon, 45, of Levittown, was charged in November with first-degree murder, theft, possession of a controlled substance, and
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2. tampering with evidence. She is held without bail at the Bucks County prison.
District Attorney Diane Gibbons has alleged that Saxon stole insulin from her employer and injected it into Jerry
Saxon, a retired teacher and forklift operator, in his Bensalem apartment. The couple had been separated for
more than a year and were awaiting finalization of their divorce. Jean Saxon allegedly stood to collect $152,000
from her husband's life insurance policy.
Saxon took off from work at Elkins Crest Health & Rehabilitation Center in Elkins Park on March 16, 2003, the
day before her husband was found unconscious, police said. On her home computer, she researched insulin,
stringing it with the words ingested and dangerous, testified William R. Applegate Jr., special agent with the state
Attorney General's Office.
Police say Saxon also went to the Langhorne Gardens Manor - owned by Extend-A-Care Corp., which also owns
Elkins Crest - and told nurse Carrie Rell that she needed special bandages, adhesive tape, and blood-sugar tests
for Elkins Crest. Rell testified that Saxon was alone for 10 to 15 minutes in the medicine room where insulin and
other drugs are stored.
Rell said she did not know whether any insulin was taken, a point Fink called critical.
"You don't have insulin in my client's hand," he told Falcone.
Jerry Saxon spent that afternoon with Jean Saxon at the Levittown house she was renting, according to a grand
jury presentment. Jean Saxon allegedly told police her husband had been drinking heavily. A few hours later she
met with him again at his apartment to discuss insurance matters, detectives testified.
Jean Saxon returned to the apartment the next morning to find her husband unconscious.
Contact staff writer Christine Schiavo at 215-348-0337 or
cschiavo@phillynews.com.
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