Julie Myhre-Schnell, the ex-wife of Minnesota Department of Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell, was sentenced Friday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to trying to kill their vulnerable adult son .

Myhre-Schnell, 65, pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted murder in July in connection with her son's poisoning on Dec. 3, 2023.

According to court documents , Myhre-Schnell texted family members after she went to her son's group home in Vadnais Heights, Minnesota, and spiked her son's feeding bag with crushed-up Lorazepam pills, an anxiety medication, "hoping he would go to sleep forever."

Her son survived the poisoning but was hospitalized after exhibiting an "altered mental status, decreased level of responsiveness, and hypotension," court documents state.

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