Mum Dies After Bowl of Cereal — But the Real Cause Was Far More Chilling
Christina Ann Thompson should’ve been enjoying one of the happiest times of her life. She and her husband, Jason Harris, had just welcomed their second child only four months earlier. But behind the smiles and baby bottles, things were far from perfect. By September 2014, Christina had confided in a friend that her 11-year marriage was crumbling.
At 36, Christina was all about home comforts—crafting, scrapbooking, and family game nights. Jason, on the other hand, worked at a plastics factory and seemed to spend as little time at home as possible. The atmosphere in their Michigan house had grown tense, reported the Daily Record.
On 29 September, Jason called a neighbor with an odd request—he asked them to check on Christina, claiming she wasn’t replying to his messages. He said she’d felt ill the night before, so he’d taken the kids to work and left her sleeping. When the neighbors let themselves in, they found Christina unresponsive in bed, already cold to the touch.
Paramedics rushed to the scene, but it was too late. Christina was dead. Jason told police she’d been coughing, feeling weak, and struggling with asthma, and that she’d even dropped a bowl of cereal before passing out. But instead of calling for help, he said he tucked her into bed and went to sleep.
Her family, however, didn’t buy it—especially after her mum said Christina had seemed perfectly fine the day before. Then came the bombshell: her autopsy showed heroin in her system. It was ruled an accidental overdose, but those who knew her were adamant—Christina didn’t do drugs.
As suspicions grew, chilling claims about Jason began surfacing. His brother outright accused him of murder. Workmates revealed he’d moaned about Christina, asked for pills to make her “go to sleep and quit nagging,” and even mentioned hiring a hitman. One colleague recalled Jason saying he couldn’t just divorce Christina—he didn’t want to pay child support or lose the kids.
Neighbors spotted another woman at the house just weeks after Christina’s death. It also came out Jason had exchanged nearly 6,000 messages with one woman and had been chatting to others too. One friend recalled Christina saying, “If anything happens to me, look at Jason.”
Police couldn’t let it go. Then came a breakthrough: Christina’s frozen breast milk, saved by her parents. It was tested in 2016—with no trace of drugs. That evidence helped reopen the case. By 2019, Harris was arrested. At trial, prosecutors said he’d laced her cereal with heroin to avoid divorce. The jury found him guilty. The judge didn’t mince words: “You are a murderer. You are a liar.”
Harris was sentenced to life without parole. Christina finally got justice—but her two children will grow up without their mum, and the scars left behind will never fully heal.