Shocking marriage secrets of Alabama chiropractor, 36, on trial for 'poisoning wife, 25, in bid for life insurance payout'

Daily Mail​

11-06-2025

An Alabama chiropractor's wife who has accused her husband of trying to poison her has testified that the first few years of their marriage were 'rough.'
Hannah Mann, 25, gave evidence on Tuesday that her marriage to Brian Thomas Mann was 'isolating' and the first few years were a struggle for the couple, who only dated for six months before tying the knot.
Brian Mann is charged with her attempted murder after it was alleged he continually poisoned her with lead inside their marital home in Decatur. He has pleaded not guilty.
'The first year and a half I would say was pretty rough,' she said of their marriage, according to The Decatur Daily.
'We had a lot of things to overcome, but it progressively got better as time went on. We had a couple of bumps in the road.'
She remembered her marriage to Brian, 36, getting better after the birth of their first child in January 2020, but not even a year later, she began to fall ill.
Hannah also testified that her husband began poisoning her in 2021, causing her to develop 'severe abdominal pain and really severe back pain and extreme nausea.'
By August 2021, she began feeling ill and got an X-ray in October, where doctors found a glitter-like substance inside her.
'They took an X-ray of me, and it showed a bunch of glitter in my stomach,' she told the court.
However, she wasn't immediately diagnosed with lead poisoning. She was during a follow-up visit, which after, her husband began to discourage her from seeking medical help, she testified.
'He would say they would send me right back home if I went to the doctor,' she said.
By November 2021, she began experiencing dizzy spells. By the end of the year, she had lost 50 pounds, she testified, saying she weighed around 100 pounds then.
The mother-of-two also claimed her husband isolated her - forcing her to get rid of all her social media accounts when they married in 2018 and discouraged her mother from coming over while she was ill.
Her mother would sneak over while Brian was out, Hannah testified.
The main group of people she'd be around while she was allegedly being poisoned was her husband's family and her church family, she said.
Brian's alleged plan to cash out on the multimillion life insurance policies he had for his wife began to unravel after she was diagnosed with lead poisoning.
She was hospitalized between January and March 2022.
It was in late January that the now-Hartselle Police Chief Alan McDearmond received a call from Department of Human Resources that Hannah had been poisoned and encouraged the police to place Brian under arrest, he testified.
When they arrived at his residence, he wasn't home, according to his mom and grandmother.
'I talked to them about what had happened and asked if Brian was there. They said he wasn't,' he testified.
When the husband later arrived at the home, he spoke with McDearmond, who asked if there was anything in the home that could have contained lead.
'Brian said Hannah took white powder, which was the generic form of Miralax, and from there we went back to the Police Department,' he said.
Brian later called him from the hospital, where a nurse practitioner told the officer that another nurse at a different hospital had diagnosed the father-of-two with the same thing she did.
An X-ray showed a substance in his stomach that he had recently digested.
Police later took samples from Hannah's colostomy bag after getting a subpoena. It is unclear what police found.
Just days after she left the hospital, Hannah dropped her bombshell accusation of attempted murder and filed for divorce.
She detailed the $1.3million in life insurance policies he held against her and another $1.5million in two additional insurance applications that were denied.
She amended her complaint days later, saying Brian 'perpetrated acts of assault upon her person … by intentionally causing her to unwittingly ingest particles of lead.'
In late August 2022, Mann was indicted and on September 2 of that year he was arrested for attempted murder.
He was released on $500,000 bond on September 7, 2022 with the conditions that he turn in his guns, wear an ankle monitor and give up his passport.
A week later, however, Mann had his bond revoked because he allegedly did not give away his passport.
In late November, Mann's father filed an affidavit asking his son to be released and promising he wouldn't flee the country.