Iowa Duo Served A Family Drug-laced Lasagna To Induce Relative’s Miscarriage, Police Say

A 35-year-old man successful Iowa has go nan 2nd personification to beryllium arrested and accused of utilizing a drug-laced lasagna to effort to unit a female to miscarry.

Matthew Uthoff and 36-year-old Amber Snow, some of Decorah, allegedly provided a family pinch drugged lasagna connected December 28, 2025. According to nan sheriff's office, nan mates wanted to unit a pregnant woman successful nan family to person a miscarriage.

In tribunal documents, Uthoff and Snow are accused of processing nan crippled together. Uthoff is Snow's husband, reports CBS 2 Iowa.

The family wasn't a random target, according to authorities. Snow shares custody of her kid pinch a personnel of nan victim's family. The nonstop quality of Snow's relationship to that individual has not been made public.

Investigators opportunity that Snow's kid was coming erstwhile nan drugged lasagna was made and eaten.

A later study by nan Iowa Department of Criminal Investigations' Crime Lab recovered that nan crockery had been laced pinch oxycodone.

Police records bespeak that nan female targeted successful nan poisoning was not wounded and that her fetus survived.

Investigators allegedly recovered grounds of nan crippled by reviewing matter messages betwixt Uthoff and Snow and their net hunt histories.

Uthoff and Snow are some facing aggregate charges related to nan incident, including a people D felony for trying to terminate a quality gestation without nan consent of nan person, kid endangerment, and administering a harmful constituent to an big and a juvenile.

After his arrest, Uthoff was booked into nan Winneshiek County Jail connected a $100,000 rate bond.

Snow's arraignment is scheduled for April 7.