Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
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S1 E32: The Undetected Poison
Original Air Date: Feb 4, 2025
The cyanide lecture was not over yet for the jury. On the stand, cyanide expert Don Whitworth broke down details about cyanide in its natural and chemical forms.
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Season 1
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S1 E42: Cyanide At The Hospital
Original Air Date: Feb 7, 2025
Dr. Yazeed Essa is alleged to have poisoned his wife, Rosemarie Essa, to death with cyanide. Essa fled the country when he became a suspect, prompting an international manhunt. He was arrested in Cyprus and extradited back to the U.S. to stand trial.
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S1 E41: From ER Doctor To OB-GYN
Original Air Date: Feb 7, 2025
The ER doctor and good friend of Yazeed Essa was under cross-examination. The two learned about cyanide poisoning as medical school residents. Prosecutors wanted to link the defendant's knowledge of the poison to the death of his wife, Rosemarie.
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S1 E40: Medical School Training
Original Air Date: Feb 6, 2025
Jurors were brought back to the defendant's medical school training and education.
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S1 E39: Capture In Cyprus
Original Air Date: Feb 6, 2025
Jamal Khalife testified that while living abroad the defendant drank a fifth of liquor and did drugs every day. This was on top of allegedly promising marriage to three different women in exchange for sex.
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S1 E38: Life As A U.S. Fugitive
Original Air Date: Feb 6, 2025
The long cross-examination of Yazeed Essa's alleged fixer was not over yet. When investigators said they began closing in on him as a suspect, Yazeed suddenly left the country.
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S1 E37: Falling Out With The Fixer
Original Air Date: Feb 6, 2025
Jamal Khalife testified that it didn't take long for Yazeed Essa to tell people in Lebanon that he killed his wife, Rosemarie, with cyanide.
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S1 E36: Federal Crimes
Original Air Date: Feb 5, 2025
Things got heated in the courtroom between the defense and Yazeed Essa's alleged fixer.
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S1 E35: Discrediting The Alleged Fixer
Original Air Date: Feb 5, 2025
The Defense accused Jamal Khalife on the stand of making up his story about the defendant confessing to killing his wife, Rosemarie Essa. The reason? So he could get immunity for a 28-count federal indictment he was facing.
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S1 E34: Jamal Khalife
Original Air Date: Feb 5, 2025
Prosecutors went deep into how the defendant, Yazeed Essa, fled the country and tried to hide in Lebanon after his wife, Rosemarie, died. On the stand was man who provided him a furnished apartment, fake ID's, and access to money.
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S1 E33: The Alleged Fixer
Original Air Date: Feb 5, 2025
The guy who protected Yazeed Essa while he was a wanted man testified.
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S1 E32: The Undetected Poison
Original Air Date: Feb 4, 2025
The cyanide lecture was not over yet for the jury. On the stand, cyanide expert Don Whitworth broke down details about cyanide in its natural and chemical forms.
May 6
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S1 E31: Cyanide
Original Air Date: Feb 4, 2025
Cyanide poisoning was central to this case because that is what killed Rosemarie Essa.
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S1 E30: Coroner's Case
Original Air Date: Feb 4, 2025
The legal team for Yazeed Essa was not done questioning his brother-in-law on the stand.
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S1 E29: Brother Plays Detective
Original Air Date: Feb 4, 2025
The cross-examination was underway with the brother of Rosemarie Essa. Dominic DiPuccio chose to adopt her two children when Yazeed Essa abandoned them and fled to Lebanon after the police questioned him about Rosemarie's death.
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S1 E28: Fear & Suspicion
Original Air Date: Feb 3, 2025
He abandoned his own kids and wasn't coming back. That's what the brother of Rosemarie Essa told jurors about the actions of Yazeed after police questioned him over her death.
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S1 E27: Uncovering The Poisoned Calcium Pills
Original Air Date: Feb 3, 2025
The brother of Rosemarie Essa recalled the days after his sister lost her life. Dominic DiPuccio testified against her husband, Yazeed Essa, who was accused of killing her.
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S1 E26: Dominic Dipuccio
Original Air Date: Feb 3, 2025
Jurors listened to emotional testimony from Rosemarie Essa's brother. Dominic DiPuccio recalled how he rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced dead after a minor car accident.
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S1 E25: Victim's Brother On The Stand
Original Air Date: Feb 3, 2025
The firefighter-paramedic on the stand explained to the jury how his team scrambled to try to save the life of Rosemarie Essa. She had been in a minor car accident. But even after she died, doctors were left wondering what exactly took her life.
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S1 E24: First Responders To The Car Crash
Original Air Date: Jan 31, 2025
The first set of police officers took the stand. This first one was a records keeper who released Rosemarie Essa's car from police custody to her husband.
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S1 E23: Forensic Pathologist Clears It Up
Original Air Date: Jan 31, 2025
The cross examination began on the forensic pathologist who did the autopsy on Rosemarie Essa.
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S1 E22: Findings Of The Autopsy Report
Original Air Date: Jan 31, 2025
Two different forensic pathologists examined the remains of Rosemarie Essa and at first concluded that her death was undetermined. It took weeks before doctors linked this to a poisoning.
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