Homicide Department Investigating Death of Man Who Drank Fish Tank Cleaner

There may be more to the death than meets the eye in the case of the Arizona man who drank fish tank cleaner with is wife.  The media was quick to blame President Trump for the couple’s decision to drink fish tank cleaner after Trump touted hydroxychloroquine.

Just last week the Chicks were spitballing on their radio program how this idea of an accidental poisoning could have been a cover-up for committing the perfect crime.

Commit murder, claim stupidity, and blame Trump. Perfection. Well, it looks like the Chicks may have been onto something.

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The Mesa City Police Department is investigating the death of Gary Lenius. The police are saying it is “normal protocol” for the homicide department to investigate “all death cases (other than obvious natural causes)” and that the death “has not been ruled a homicide at this time.”

The Free Beacon has been investigating and reporting on the death of Gary Lenius. They have uncovered friends who are skeptical of the wife’s story and history of marital troubles.

The Mesa City Police Department’s homicide division is investigating the death of Gary Lenius, the Arizona man whose wife served him soda mixed with fish tank cleaner in what she claimed was a bid to fend off the coronavirus. A detective handling the case confirmed the investigation to the Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday after requesting a recording of the Free Beacon’s interviews with Lenius’s wife, Wanda.

Gary Lenius, 68, died on March 22. Wanda, 61, told several news outlets last month that both she and her husband had ingested a substance used to clean aquariums after hearing President Donald Trump tout one of its ingredients, chloroquine phosphate, from the White House briefing room.

Detective Teresa Van Galder, the homicide detective handling the case for the Mesa City Police Department, confirmed that the investigation is ongoing but declined to provide additional details.

People are also casting doubt on the idea that Gary would have been stupid enough to knowingly ingest fish tank cleaner. The man was a mechanical engineer and presumably no dummy.

Though that report and others suggested the couple mindlessly followed the president’s medical advice to disastrous results, friends of Gary Lenius told the Free Beacon they were skeptical he would knowingly ingest fish tank treatment.

Rather, they described Lenius as a levelheaded retired engineer and recounted a troubled marital relationship that included a previous domestic assault charge against his wife, of which she was ultimately found not guilty. The Free Beacon also reported that Wanda Lenius was a Democratic donor whose most recent contribution went to a “pro-science” super PAC.

“What bothers me about this is that Gary was a very intelligent man, a retired [mechanical] engineer who designed systems for John Deere in Waterloo, Iowa, and I really can’t see the scenario where Gary would say, ‘Yes, please, I would love to drink some of that Koi fish tank cleaner,'” one of his close friends told the Free Beacon. “It just doesn’t make any sense.”

Wanda Lenius explained how they came to drink the fish tank cleaner.

In the same interview, Wanda Lenius told the Free Beacon that her husband had been planning to schedule a doctor’s appointment to have a leg injury looked at and the couple worried he might pick up coronavirus at the clinic. That’s when, she said, she reached for the fish tank cleaner in her pantry. Her husband’s response, she said, was, “Is it still good?”

Wanda Lenius routinely prepared a “vitamin cocktail” for him, according to Gary Lenius’s friend.

Asked if she and Gary Lenius had a conversation about taking the chloroquine at that time, she told the Free Beacon: “No. I mean, it was really kind of a spur of the moment thing,” adding that the couple ingested “one teaspoon and some soda” each, at least four times the lethal limit.

Notably, Wanda Lenius supports the Democratic party and has donated to a pro-science Democratic group. It is somewhat difficult to believe that anyone, let alone a Democrat, would act upon Trump’s press conference musings.

No crime is being alleged by the police at this time and no one has been charged with any crime. It will be interesting to see if the police find any evidence that contradicts Lenius’s claims.