Smyrna woman sentenced for antifreeze murder of husband

A Smyrna woman who pled guilty to second degree murder for lacing her husband's steroid injections with antifreeze was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison.

Delaware Department of Justice spokesperson Carl Kanefsky says Jamie Baker was additionally sentenced to six months of home confinement or work release after her four decade prison sentence, with two years of probation following that. She is prohibited from having any contact with the victim's family.

Baker was arrested in March 2014 in connection to the September 2013 death of her husband, 42-year-old competitive weight-lifter James Baker. Authorities said an autopsy revealed that James Baker had ethylene glycol, a chemical found in antifreeze, in his system.

Officials say that Jamie Baker admitted to police that she had used a hypodermic syringe to extract antifreeze from a bottle and inject it into her husband's bottles of liquid steroids.

Baker pled guilty to second degree murder in Kent County Superior Court in February.