With suspicions against John Hill mounting, potential charges of murder were brought to the grand jury. Hill most likely would never have faced indictment had it not been for a shocking revelation of events presented to the court by his one-time mistress Ann Kurth (via the Ottawa Citizen). Believing that they did not have the evidence to show that Hill had poisoned his wife, they filed charges of “murder by omission” against him, based on their belief that his lack of attentiveness and refusal to take her to a hospital promptly resulted in her death (via Associated Press)
Hill and Kurth married months after the death of Robinson Hill, a tumultuous arrangement that lasted less than a year. Kurth testified that Hill had confided in her that he had poisoned his late wife with a special kind of poison. She recalled how her ex-husband told her of concocting a solution made from human excrement and tricked her into ingesting it (per the Ottawa Citizen ). According to Kurth, she was also the target of Hill’s murderous intentions, having survived three separate attacks from the doctor. In one incident, he allegedly crashed his Cadillac on the passenger side into a concrete bridge. The New York Post reports that when this failed to kill her, Hill presented a syringe with what she assumed to be poison. But before Hill could inject her, someone appeared at the scene of the accident to assist the couple.
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Per The New York Post, this trial came to an abrupt end when Kurth lost control of herself during cross-examination and exclaimed to the jury that “he told me he killed Joan with a needle.” A mistrial was declared.
