Snake Venom Use by W. German Killer Told

ASCHAFFENBURG, West Germany —  A man embittered over the breakup of his marriage is suspected of killing his 78-year-old mother-in-law with an injection of snake venom from a green mamba, West German news reports said Monday.

According to the Frankfurt newspaper Abendpost and the Deutsche Presse-Agentur news agency, the suspect accosted his estranged wife’s mother as she was setting out for church one morning in November.

“You caused my marriage to break up,” he reportedly said. Then he tapped her on the shoulder, injecting a substance identified as the snake poison into her with a needle, the reports added.