Landrum woman pleads guilty to murder

Published 8:00 am Saturday, November 17, 2018

Crockett sentenced to 12 to 14 years for poisoning boyfriend

COLUMBUS — A Landrum woman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Polk County District Court Thursday afternoon for poisoning her boyfriend in 2015.

Brittany May Crockett, 30, of Butter Street, Landrum, was sentenced to 144 months to 185 months (12-14 years) in prison for killing her boyfriend, Jeffrey Scott Brittain, 51, of Mill Spring, in August 2015.

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Crockett received credit for 1,241 days already served, according to court records.

Crockett was charged by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in August 2015 with first-degree murder after Brittain died at the Rutherford Regional Medical Center.

Brittain had been sick for several weeks prior. His family notified the sheriff’s office on July 29, 2015, that they suspected Crockett had poisoned him.

Sheriff’s office investigators said at the time that medical doctors were unable to diagnose the cause of Brittain’s condition, and after conducting several interviews, investigators determined that Crockett had given Brittain a type of substance.

The sheriff’s office sent the substance to the Federal Bureau of Investigations Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, where investigators determined the substance was poison.

Brittain was admitted to the hospital under the assumption he was having an allergic reaction to a medication he had taken.

Brittain’s condition became irreversible, and he died the morning of Aug. 5, 2015.

Crockett received no bond when she was charged in 2015. She will spend her sentence in a North Carolina state prison.

Brittain lived in Pea Ridge. At the time of his murder, he was survived by his mother, two daughters, one son, two granddaughters and four sisters.