Jack Chen prepped and sipped the same cup of hot lemonade most mornings, but it wasn’t until suffering stomach ulcers and a swollen esophagus that he noticed a “chemical taste.” That’s when he decided to install hidden cameras inside his Irvine home.
Chen, a radiologist, lived in a comfortable house with his wife, dermatologist Yue “Emily” Yu, and their 7- and 8-year-old children.
But Chen was growing concerned about their 10-year marriage. In court documents filed in a request for a restraining order, he described an abusive and at times violent relationship; Yu hit and cursed at the children and, as the marriage turned sour, yelled at them when they spent time with their father, Chen alleged.
Then, on July 11, he said, he looked at the hidden-camera video to confirm a nagging suspicion.
“I found out my wife,” the 53-year-old wrote in a court declaration, “has poisoned me with Drano to try to kill me.”
On Aug. 4, Irvine police searched the couple’s home and arrested Yu, 45, after Chen turned over the video, authorities said. The next day, Chen filed for divorce and asked the court for a temporary restraining order, including multiple stills from videos that he said show his wife calmly spiking his morning drink on three separate occasions.
Yu, who has since been released from county jail on $30,000 bail, denied the allegations and, through an attorney, called her husband’s statements defamatory.
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