America's 'worst roommate's' chilling jailhouse phone call as she is paroled for poisoning her best friend with antibiotic-resistant bacteria to get custody of her son who she obsessed over

A Utah woman's chilling jailhouse telephone telephone has been revealed, much than 2 years aft she was paroled for trying to poison her champion friend pinch antibiotic-resistant germs successful a twisted strategy to get custody of her son.

Janie Lynn Ridd, now 55, was arrested successful December 2019 for drugging her roommate - only identified arsenic Rachel - pinch sedatives, including Xanax and ketamine, truthful she could past inject her pinch harmful doses of insulin, aliases E coli that caused superior infections.

She pleaded blameworthy successful June 2020 to attempted possession aliases usage of a limb of wide demolition and attempted aggravated abuse, and was sentenced to service betwixt 1 to 20 years down bars.

But Ridd - whose communicative is now featured successful play two of Netflix's Worst Roommate Ever - was released from situation successful January 2022, aft serving conscionable 25 months.

It has since been revealed that she erstwhile threatened to return Rachel's kid if she were ever released. 

'I cognize what's going to happen. I'm going to extremity up retired of here,' Ridd said successful nan undated signaling from nan Salt Lake County Jail, which was featured successful nan Netflix docuseries.

'I'm going to find a measurement to get him distant from her,' she continued.

'He needs to travel backmost to me.' 

Rachel has antecedently said Ridd was obsessed pinch her son, Ryder, whom they co-parented while they lived together.

Ridd would  return complete nan parenting responsibilities aft Rachel became sick and was forced to springiness up her occupation arsenic a paramedic.

Rachel trusted her friend and roommate truthful overmuch that she moreover named Ridd nan ineligible guardian of Ryder - who is non-verbal autistic - successful her will.

'I really person a difficult clip believing that nan personification I've known for 25 years, my champion friend and roommate, could do what she did,' Rachel said astatine nan commencement of nan docuseries.

'But it was diabolical, it was evil. It was plotted and planned truthful perfectly.' 

Rachel and Ridd first met successful 1995, erstwhile Rachel was 22 and Janie was 26.

At first it seemed for illustration their brushwood was kismet - Rachel had conscionable gone done a divorcement and moved backmost successful pinch her parents, while Ridd was surviving successful an flat that was precocious surgery into and said she did not consciousness safe surviving alone.

For a while, Rachel said she felt 'very safe' surviving pinch Ridd.

But things started to alteration erstwhile Rachel started making caller friends, and Ridd started to show controlling and suspicious behavior, Rachel said.

The business worsened successful 2010, erstwhile Rachel had a herniated disc and was nary longer capable to work.

At astir nan aforesaid time, she besides discovered she was pregnant - which she said conscionable accrued Ridd's grip complete her.

'For nan first clip successful our friendship, Janie had 100 percent power complete maine because I didn't person a job, I was pregnant, I had a backmost wounded and I was successful truthful overmuch pain, I needed her,' Rachel recounted.

She would springiness commencement to her son, Ryder, later that twelvemonth and decided to return retired a $500,000 life security argumentation connected herself - naming Ridd arsenic nan beneficiary.

Ridd would besides beryllium listed arsenic Ryder's ineligible guardian successful Rachel's will.

Friends described Ridd arsenic a 2nd mother to Ryder, saying that erstwhile Rachel herniated a disc again successful 2015 and doctors told her she would request room to forestall from becoming permanently disabled, Ridd took nan boy nether her wing.

She enrolled herself and nan kid into a programme successful which she would beryllium paid for looking aft Ryder - which Rachel said ate up a 'significant portion of her income.'

But nan mother claims Ridd fto group astatine Ryder's schoolhouse judge she was his mother - causing a conflict betwixt nan 2 friends.

Then, connected June 20, 2018, Rachel received a missive informing her that Ridd was suing her for custody of nan boy.

She instantly called authorities, who informed her that Ridd had revenge a protective order.

It would return 10 days and a Child Protective Services investigation to return Ryder to his mother.

Despite nan incident, Ridd and Rachel made up and moved backmost successful pinch each other.

But Ridd's strategy to get nan boy backmost only seemed to escalate.

In March 2019, Rachel described really Ridd would thief attraction for her arsenic she recovered from cervix room - tending to her post-surgery incisions and rubbing her neck. 

Soon, though, a 'suspicious MRSA infection' was recovered successful nan wound, according to an indictment obtained by Today.

Rachel ended up successful nan hospital, and coiled up having 2 much mysterious wellness scares.

The first occurred conscionable 3 months pursuing nan cervix surgery, erstwhile Rachel said she had 2 abstracted incidents successful which her humor sweetener levels reached captious levels and she had to beryllium hospitalized - contempt not having glucosuria aliases utilizing insulin.

She would later callback a speech she and Ridd had while watching a existent crime documentary, successful which Ridd told her nan champion measurement to termination personification is to inject them pinch insulin.

Then, erstwhile Rachel had different room that October, she 'inexplicably developed 3 play ball-sized infections connected nan wound,' according to nan indictment.

One of those wounds was tested and was wished to beryllium E.coli.

Rachel's surgeon would later show investigators that nan infection 'did not travel arsenic a consequence of room and must person been injected.' 

Meanwhile, nan FBI was investigating personification who was trying to acquisition a lethal germs known arsenic Vancomycin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus disconnected nan acheronian web, which led them to Ridd.

She had claimed to beryllium a prep schoolhouse biology teacher, saying she needed nan germs for a subject experiment.

But erstwhile nan vendor explained that VRSA could beryllium obtained done much morganatic intends for technological research, she offered to salary for overnight shipping to person nan cultures quicker.

Ridd yet paid for $300 worthy of nan germs successful Bitcoin.

She was yet caught aft investigators intercepted nan microorganism bid and replaced it pinch a dummy package.

The FBI agents past spent 2 days surveilling nan UPS store, until they saw Ridd entering and grabbing nan package.

They followed her to Salt Lake City and arrested her astatine her spot of work.

At first, tribunal documents say, Ridd lied astir nan contents of nan package - claiming it was conscionable java beans.

She past changed her story, claiming that the package contained a 'biological which she had ordered online shape nan acheronian web to make brew astatine location successful nan basement.'

Ridd later offered different type of events, saying she ordered a strain of 'staph' for 'experimental purposes to fulfill a individual curiosity she had stemming from her roommate’s caller vulnerability to MRSA,' according to tribunal documents. 

Still, she claimed it ne'er moreover crossed her mind to usage nan microorganism connected Rachel.

'No, she's my champion friend and whether we reason aliases not, she's been my champion friend for 25 years and I emotion her for illustration a sister,' Ridd said in a portion of nan FBI question and reply featured successful nan Netflix series.

She added that she 'wouldn't moreover cognize how' to inject nan virus.

But her communicative unfolded aft investigators recovered an expended insulin injector pen pinch Rachel's DNA extracurricular of Ridd's home, on pinch a transcript of her surviving will - which Rachel said had gone missing from her safe.

FBI agents past wished that Ridd utilized nan acheronian web to acquisition sedatives for illustration ketamine, Xanax and insulin injector pens. 

At sentencing successful 2020, Rachel told a judge that Ridd robbed her of life by causing her terrible aesculapian problems and changeless stress. She said looking astatine nan defendant, she detected nary signs of remorse successful her eyes, reported Deseret News. 

'She watched maine suffer, and she doubled down and did it worse. Instead of 1 injection of E. coli wherever I’d shriek and writhe successful pain, she did 3 erstwhile that didn’t termination me,' she said aft nan hearing.

Ridd's defense attorney, Scott Williams, however, based on that Rachel had go progressively verbally abusive, which took a toll connected Ridd's intelligence wellness and convinced her that her roommate posed a threat to nan well-being connected her ain child.

He said Ridd tried to incapacitate Rachel truthful she could get ineligible guardianship of nan special-needs boy. 

'The saddest irony is that she yet did what she did retired of a twisted consciousness of hopeless caring for nan well-being of nan kid she had grown to emotion and protect,” Williams wrote successful nan sentencing memorandum. 

'She snapped. She mislaid power of her thoughts. She fundamentally went mad.'