A Long Island beauty expert who killed her boyfriend with a toxic milkshake claims it was an accident because she only intended to weaken the hulking Bronx butcher.
Anne Perry, 60, pleaded guilty in February to killing Rudy Wolmart, her love of 24 years, by lacing his health drink with the poison thallium.
“I am not a killer,” Perry told The Post last week in her lawyer’s office. “There was no intention to kill. This was not a murder.”
Perry, facing 6½ years behind bars, has been living at her Bay Shore home since her guilty plea and is expected to be sentenced in Queens Supreme Court on May 1.
Last Friday, she gained another 2½ weeks of freedom when she convinced a judge she needed to get dental work before she went to prison. The decision outraged Wolmart’s family, who were already unhappy with the plea deal.
“Have you ever heard of anything like this?” asked Wolmart’s mother, Alice. “I’m afraid we’ll go back again and she’ll have to go to the beauty parlor.”
“It’s horrible,” said Wolmart’s son, Rudy. “We sit around angry while she walks around free.”
In an interview with The Post, Perry revealed shocking details of Wolmart’s poisoning and claimed years of domestic abuse drove her to spike his protein drink on June 28, 2000.
“He was not going to hit me or my mother again,” she said. Perry detailed numerous incidents during her years with Wolmart, a hulking, 6-foot-4 inch, 240-pound martial arts enthusiast, in which he allegedly beat her into unconsciousness, shot at her and wrapped a telephone cord around her neck.
“He was very controlling and he had a very bad temper,” said Perry, who made a living mixing all-natural Gary Null skin care products. “I repeatedly asked his family for help, but my pleas fell on deaf ears.”
Prosecutors and Wolmart’s family insisted there was no history of abuse. But violence did erupt on April 29, 2000, two days after Perry learned of Wolmart’s affair with another woman.
Cops responded to the couple’s Bay Shore home when Wolmart, 49, tried to leave and neighbors reported an altercation, a police report said.
Perry told cops she stood behind Wolmart’s car to keep him from backing out of the driveway. He ended up knocking over a fence to drive off.
Perry then pursued him in her car and rear-ended him. He returned to her.
On June 24, a package of thallium – used in rat poison – arrived at Perry’s home from the Pittsburgh-based Fisher Scientific chemical company.
Four days later, Wolmart came home with a pounding headache. Perry tapped the thallium bottle two or three times over a blender filled with a protein drink, she said. Wolmart drank it with three Excedrin pills, she said.
That night, Wolmart told her he was moving out and packed. Hours later, he was hospitalized. Four days later, he was dead.
Arlyene Fusco, one of Wolmart’s sisters, said in court that her brother’s last words were: “I know Ann poisoned me and I’m not going to make it.”