Case #2

We all love a leading husband... 👀

In 2021, Hannah Mann, 25 at the time, began to feel drained... her fatigue worsened, then came relentless nausea and crippling pain. Doctors ran test after test but couldn’t explain why her body was failing.

By early 2022, the mystery turned dire. Bloodwork showed lethal levels of lead. X-rays revealed glittering fragments lodged in her colon, as if she had swallowed bits of metal. But how? Investigators searched her home and environment—no paint chips, no bad water, no obvious exposure.

Her husband, Brian Mann, a respected local chiropractor, helped provided the doctors with bottles of the vitamins she took and also admitted he felt like he had been poisoned as well. This left investigators digging deeper...

The break came when a whistleblower revealed that he remembers lead sheets being left in Brian’s possession after a construction job at his clinic. Soon after, investigators uncovered the chilling truth: Brian had been making the pills himself. He ground fragments of that leftover lead into powder, packed it into capsules, and handed them to Hannah as if they were her vitamins--EXCUSE ME WHAT?!

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GG's findings: During the trial, evidence showed that Brian was in the middle of a bitter divorce with Hannah. If Hannah died before the divorce was finalized, he stood to benefit from life insurance policies and marital assets that he would otherwise lose in the separation.

This financial motive, combined with the careful preparation of the homemade lead-filled pills, is what prosecutors said turned his crime from desperation into premeditation.

Key Terms to understand:

1. beneficiary: The person legally entitled to receive the payout from a life insurance policy when the insured dies.

In Hannah Mann’s case, Brian was listed as the primary beneficiary—meaning he stood to collect the full death benefit if she died before their divorce was finalized.

2. death benefit: The lump-sum amount the insurer pays to the beneficiary upon the insured’s death.

Prosecutors revealed that Brian would have received over $1 million in death benefits had his plan succeeded.

In June 2025, after hearing the evidence, a Morgan County jury convicted Brian Mann of attempted murder & he was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

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