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Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP10 "Fleeing The Country"Jurors learned of his plan to flee the country after his wife, Rosemarie, died of cyanide poisoning. On the stand was his brother, Firas, who helped him travel in three continents ending up in Lebanon, a country that had no extradition treaty with the U.S. prosecutors went into detail about the days and weeks following the death of Rosemarie. After it was undetermined how she died, police questioned her husband, Yazeed.
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP11 "Dealing With A U.S. Fugitive"The brother of Yazeed Essa read a letter to Yazeed's mistress out loud in court. The State claimed it was the defendant's philandering ways that motivated him to use poisoned calcium pills to kill his wife, Rosemarie. Jurors learned of the Yazeed"s two main mistresses. Firas was testifying for a second day in a row. He denied covering up for his brother after he fled the country and became a U.S. fugitive for the murder of his wife.
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP12 "Firas Essa"Yazeed Essa's defense began its cross-examination of his younger brother. Firas gave jurors more details about the events leading up to and following the death of his sister-in-law, Rosemarie. The jury could end up weighing the credibility of Yazeed's brother just as much as the defendant himself. What did they know about Rosemarie's death and everything that happened afterward?
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP13 "Secret Life Of Mistresses And Affairs"Yazeed Essa's lifestyle was the focus of testimony from his brother who was on the stand. During his marriage to Rosemarie Essa, prosecutors said the defendant had numerous mistresses and he kept that a secret from his wife. Firas testified that, Rosie was special to him but he always had women around. Firas even claimed that at one time Yazeed had sex with 6 different women in a 24-hour period.
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP14 "Defending His Brother"The Defense brought in the background of Yazeed Essa's marriage to Rosemarie. On the stand was his younger brother, Firas. They were close and had been in business together in the years leading up to Rosemarie's death. Firas claims he was out of the country when Rosemarie died. Yazeed's defense team stressed the defendant's emotional state following his wife's death. But the jury would later decide - was he a grieving husband or a guilty murderer?
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP15 "The Panicked, Fugitive Doctor"The long testimony of Yazeed Essa's younger brother was not over yet. Firas told the jury about Yazeed's emotional state and demeanor after his wife, Rosemarie, died, the lead-up to her funeral and the police's initial investigation. Firas even claimed that it was his idea to have Yazeed flee the country after he was questioned by police. The Defense tried to paint Yazeed as a grieving husband who panicked and fled the country when his secret life was going to be exposed.
Someone They Knew with Tamron Hall
S2, EP206 "Student Body"In 2001, University of South Carolina student Shelton Sanders disappeared while planning a friend's bachelor party; he was never seen again; when evidence leads to an arrest, however, prosecutors are left with a tall task.
Someone They Knew with Tamron Hall
S2, EP207 "The Bishop's Son"When Vicki Beckham was found dead in her car on the side of a mountain road, with very little evidence, police called it almost the perfect crime; but a series of clues blew the case open, taking them from a strip club bouncer to a Bishop's son.
Accomplice to Murder, With Vinnie Politan
S1, EP8 "TX v. Dillingham"Kristi Koslow's relationship with her stepmother Caren and her father Jack Koslow is strained.
Mother Stabbed Murder Trial
S1, EP25 "State's Rebuttal Case"The Defense rested its case to the jury. Now it was time for the state's rebuttal. Prosecutors called one witness in their rebuttal case. Dr. Silvia O'Bradovich, a clinical psychologist, testified that she interviewed Sydney Powell for two hours and diagnosed her with borderline personality traits and unspecified anxiety disorder and concluded that she was malingering. Dr. O'Bradovich dismissed the claim that the defendant suffers from schizophrenia.
Mother Stabbed Murder Trial
S1, EP26 "Exaggerating And Feigning Her Symptoms"The clinical psychologist on the stand claimed Sydney Powell was malingering and feigning her symptoms in her Psych evaluations following the stabbing death of her mother, Brenda. Prosecutors presented the mental health Evaluation of Dr. Silvia O'Bradovich, a clinical psychologist for jurors. According to the report, this mental health expert saw no evidence of Schizophrenia or a psychotic break at the time the murder.
Mother Stabbed Murder Trial
S1, EP27 "Challenging The Clinical Psychologist"The State's mental health expert admitted that she was not a board-certified forensic psychologist. Dr. Silvia O'Bradovich told the jury that this was her first time to testify in a case that was using an Insanity defense. Prosecutors wanted her to dismiss the claim that Schizophrenia and a psychotic break led Sydney Powell killing her own mother.
Mother Stabbed Murder Trial
S1, EP28 "Red Flags In The Psych Evaluations"The Defense had more questions for the State's mental health expert on the stand. Dr. Silvia O'Bradovich dismissed the claim of the Defense's experts that a psychotic break led to the defendant killing her mother, Brenda. Lead defense attorney Don Malarcik challenged the expertise and work of Dr. Silvia O'Bradovich. Powell's defense claimed temporary insanity in this case. But according to Dr. O'Bradovich, she didn't even meet the legal definition of Insanity at the time of the crime.
Mother Stabbed Murder Trial
S1, EP29 "Closing Arguments"Prosecutors delivered their closing argument. They began with attacking the Defense's assertion that Sydney Powell was legally insane at the time she fatally stabbed her mother, Brenda, in their home. According to the State's theory, the defendant wanted to hide that she had been kicked out of school and she feared disappointing her parents. So, they said, in a panic and frenzy she attacked her mother with a knife when she was on the phone with her school.
Someone They Knew with Tamron Hall
S1, EP15 "The Promised Land"Iowa farmer Tom Lyon is excited when a nearby plot of land goes up for sale, but he isn't the only one. When Lyon's body is discovered at the bottom of a well, the trail of blood leads through that very land.
Someone They Knew with Tamron Hall
S1, EP19 "A Year in Defiance"The people of Defiance, Iowa, find it strange when Scott Shanahan disappears, leaving his wife and kids, but Scott is always unpredictable and no one gives it much more thought.