Terrifying dashcam captures killer mom ambushing and injecting ex-husband with deadly poison during heated custody exchange after falling for new lover

Terrifying dash camera footage caught a parent ambushing and injecting her State Department researcher ex-husband with a deadly poison amid a heated custody battle.

Amanda Hovanec, 37, was seen waiting with her mother, Anita Green, for her ex-husband, Timothy Hovanec, 36, to get with their daughters astatine her Ohio home connected April 24, 2022 erstwhile national prosecutors said she 'ambushed and injected' him with an carnal tranquilizer.

Timothy had conscionable been 'given visitation' of his 3 daughters 2 days prior, erstwhile a justice ruled that helium beryllium 'the residential genitor of custody and ineligible custodian of the 3 children for the summertime opening May 28, 2022 until August 5, 2022,' Law & Crime reports.

Over the adjacent 2 days, grounds showed that the unfortunate and his daughters spent clip unneurotic and swam successful a Best Western pool, enjoying their clip unneurotic earlier Timothy's untimely demise.

As the girls got retired of the car connected April 24, Hovanec told her children, 'I person a astonishment for you inside,' and just moments aft the children and Green were wrong the residence, Timothy could beryllium heard saying, 'What the heck are you doing? Did you conscionable battle me?' and past 'Get distant from me... Get disconnected of me,' federal prosecutors said, citing dash camera footage from his vehicle.

Soon, some hubby and woman came into the camera's view, and Hovanec could beryllium seen pulling connected her husband's garment arsenic helium tried to drawback his cellphone.

'She wrestled with him and yet knocked the telephone retired of his hand,' prosecutors said. 'She past pulled connected his backmost to bring him to the ground, holding him astir the cervix until his assemblage went limp and helium became unresponsive, lying connected the driveway.'

'Hovanec stood up, picked up her husband's cellphone, removed his astute ticker and turned disconnected his vehicle's engine, astatine which constituent the dash camera stopped recording.'

Court documents accidental instrumentality enforcement officials aboriginal determined the State Department researcher was injected with M-99, besides known arsenic etorphine, a substance that is astir 1,000 times much potent than morphine.

Hovanec obtained the poison a fewer months prior, erstwhile her South African boyfriend, Anthony Theodorou, sent her a vial hidden successful a bundle with jewelry and different items, LimaOhio.com reports. 

The fishy had earlier reached retired to Theodorou to spot if helium could find idiosyncratic who was consenting to termination her husband, and the fellow checked successful with an acquaintance to spot if helium knew of immoderate imaginable hitmen, Special Agent AJ Eilerman testified connected Tuesday.

He said Theodorou and his person were capable to place 2 hitmen, but they either backed retired oregon disappeared, prompting Hovanec and Theodorou to edifice to poison instead.

She past injected her hubby with the poison arsenic helium was 'unloading the children's car seats from his car' successful the driveway, according to a authorities sentencing little obtained by Law & Crime. 

Hovanec past 'put a integrative bag' implicit his caput and assemblage 'because she was acrophobic astir fluids secreting' from his body, according to tribunal documents. 

One time later, Green drove Hovanec and Theodorou to dump Timothy's assemblage successful a pre-dug sedate adjacent farmland that Hovanec's gramps owned, and returned aboriginal to prime them up.

'Prior to sidesplitting [Timothy], Amanda told her mother, Green, that she was going to termination him,' a probable origin affidavit obtained by Law & Crime reads. 

'After Amanda killed [Timothy]. she besides informed her parent that it had been done.

'Amanda and Theodorou loaded [Timothy's] assemblage into the backmost of Amanda's Honda Pilot. Shortly thereafter, Green drove Amanda and Theodorou to wherever they buried the body,' the affidavit continues.

It besides claims that Hovanec and Theodorou utilized shovels from Green's location to hide the body.

A missing person's probe began erstwhile Timothy failed to cheque retired of a adjacent Best Western, and his belongings were inactive inside.

After section instrumentality enforcement learned that helium worked for the State Department, the FBI was brought successful to investigate, prosecutors said.

Over the people of an ensuing investigation, officials recovered Timothy's car abandoned successful Dayton, Ohio, and were capable to retrieve the dash camera footage.

At first, Hovanec claimed that her ex simply near aft dropping disconnected their daughters, but confessed erstwhile confronted with the video.

'Amanda admitted she injected [Timothy] successful the enarthrosis portion they were lasting adjacent to his conveyance aft helium dropped disconnected the children,' an affidavit said.

'Amanda was not capable to sanction what she injected [Timothy] with but referred to it arsenic "poison" oregon "drug." Amanda understood that the cause would termination [Timothy] wrong minutes.'

She pleaded blameworthy to charges of conspiracy to import a controlled substance, importation of controlled substances, conspiracy to person with intent to administer a controlled substance and organisation of a controlled substance that resulted successful death. 

'No substance however hard I effort to explicate my actions, it comes down to maine being selfish,' Hovanec acknowledged astatine her sentencing proceeding connected Tuesday.

The issues successful her narration with her hubby reportedly began aft they moved to South Africa successful 2018 for her husband's State Department job, and she met Theodorou.

When the Hovanecs returned to the United States successful 2020, she filed for divorcement and denied Timothy 'visitation with the children contempt a tribunal bid to licence it,' Law & Crime reports.

The begetter past filed respective contempt motions against Hovanec for denying him visitation of his 3 girls, and helium traveled from Virginia to Ohio for tribunal proceedings truthful helium could spot his daughters.

At the sentencing connected Tuesday, Timothy's brother, Daniel Hovanec, recounted however helium had to archer the girls the horrible quality pursuing their father's death. 

'I'm everlastingly haunted with the representation of telling the girls their parent murdered their father,' helium said, adding: 'The hardest happening for maine is trying to judge that I volition ne'er get to marque anymore memories with Tim.'

Ronald Stuart, lawman adjunct caput and adjunct manager of Diplomatic Security for Countermeasures astatine the State Department, besides testified that Timothy's expertise was a captious cardinal successful much effectual detection and effect to information risks to diplomats abroad.

The section was lone capable to capable the presumption earlier this year, helium testified, demonstrating its trouble successful replacing idiosyncratic with Timothy's skills and expertise. 

'His eventual demise has had a antagonistic effect connected the information and information of our diplomats serving abroad,' Stuart said.

Hovanec was yet sentenced to 40 years down bars, followed by a 10-year supervised release. She was besides ordered to wage much than $2.1 cardinal successful restitution.

Green was besides sentenced to 10 years successful situation and 2 years supervised merchandise aft pleading blameworthy to being an accessory to the crime, and Theodoros is scheduled to beryllium sentenced connected Thursday.