Sarah Scheffer biography: 10 things about Jefferson City, Missouri artist

Sarah E. B. Scheffer is an American artist from Jefferson City, Missouri, United States. She is a mother of two.

Scheffer owns a photography business and she is into boxing. Here are 10 more things about her:

1. Aside from Jefferson City, she has lived in other parts of Missouri including Sullivan, Rolla and Fenton.
2. She previously lived in Memphis, Tennessee, USA and Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
3. She is 1 year younger than her husband Matthew Scheffer. They have two sons together.
4. In 2021, she started working at Calvary Lutheran High School in Jefferson City as a part-time design and art teacher.
5. In February 2022, she became the executive director at Capital Arts, a nonprofit community gallery in Jefferson City.
6. In July 2023, she turned 37.
7. In November 2023, she allegedly started poisoning Matthew. While married to him, she allegedly had a relationship with someone in Pakistan.
8. On December 31, 2023, she gave Matthew a beverage. After drinking it, he experienced nausea, blurred vision, confusion, extreme fatigue and severe cotton mouth.
9. On January 1, 2024, Matthew confronted her about the drink she gave him. She denied adding anything to it after saying she urinated in his drink and put an industrial strength adhesive in it. When he installed a camera facing the kitchen, she was filmed putting lily of the valley into a smoothie she allegedly intended to give him.
10. On January 16, 2024, she was arrested, booked into the Cole County Jail in Jefferson City and charged with first-degree attempted murder and armed criminal action. She told officers that she did add lily of the valley to Matthew’s smoothie with the intent to cause him harm.