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Lover, 53, poisons her mate: DA

By Chris Fuchs

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said that during the past year Ann Perry, 53, of Bayshore, allegedly administered to her boyfriend, Rudy Wolmart, doses of thallium, a drug found in insecticides, after learning he was seeing another woman. Wolmart and Perry were driving in Queens June 24 when Wolmart passed out, Brown said, and was taken to Flushing hospital, where he died four days later.

A spokeswoman for the medical examiner, Ellen Borakove, said Wolmart died of acute and chronic thallium poisoning.

Perry entered her not-guilty plea late Friday night to two counts of second-degree murder and was held without bail at least until a grand jury hearing scheduled for Wednesday convenes, said Betsy Herzog, a spokeswoman for the office. If convicted, she faces 25 years to life in prison.

Detectives from the 109th Precinct drove out to Perry's Bayshore house at 146 Awixta Ave. around 6 a.m. Friday and waited for her to leave the house, the police said. Once she emerged, the detectives placed her under arrest, said Lt. Jack Shatinsky, the commander of the 109th Precinct Detective Squad, which covers Flushing.

A man who answered the phone at Perry's Bayshore home Saturday morning said he was a neighbor and that he and his wife were looking after Perry's 86-year-old mother with whom Perry lived. The man, who declined to give his name, described both Perry and Wolmart as quiet neighbors who kept to themselves. He added that he and his wife came on their own to be with Perry's mother.

“I don't know about the situation,” said the woman, who also declined to give her name. “I'm just watching out for this old woman because there is no one to be with her.”