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Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP61 "Incriminating Internet Searches"The jury listened to more details about internet searches done on his computer. Prosecutors were convinced that a digital trail would show that he concocted and carried out a plan to kill his wife, Rosemarie. Secret Service agent Jason Berryhill faced cross-examination. He said he came across internet activity of Yazeed browsing the British Airways website. Prosecutors wanted to show that he devised a plan to leave the country during the investigation into the murder of his wife, Rosemarie.
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP62 "Murder Plot And The Plot To Flee"Prosecutors called in Yazeed Essa's cousin to testify against him this was the fourth cousin who took the stand for the State. They questioned these relatives about the days leading up to Rosmarie's death and what happened later. Yazeed Essa's cousin testified in that the defendant narrowed down the two places in the Middle East he could go when he left the U.S. one of those was Lebanon where he ended up.
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP63 "The Toxicology Professor"A professor of emergency medicine and medical toxicology took the stand. Dr. Christopher Holstege broke down for jurors how much cyanide exposure would end a person's life. When Rosemarie Essa died, she had a fatal amount of the poison in her system. The professor lectured to the jury: Cyanide poisoning causes a number of different arrythmias. That's what makes it tricky, clinically.
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP64 "Reality Of Cyanide Poisoning"The Defense raised hypothetical questions to the medical toxicologist on the stand. The professor Christopher Holstege broke down how Rosemarie Essa was poisoned with lethal amounts of cyanide. The State wasn't done bringing in scientists and medical professionals to try to prove their case that he killed his wife, Rosemarie. Next, a forensic chemist took the stand after the medical toxicologist wrapped up his testimony.
The Lorena Bobbitt Trial
S1, EP23 "More Friends And Clients"With the help of a translator, a family friend of Lorena Bobbitt answered questions under cross-examination. She testified to the times she witnessed John openly ridicule her appearance in a degrading way. Next to the stand was the woman who had a nail appointment with Lorena. Just days before she cut off her husband John's genitalia and threw it out of a car window, she showed up at her salon as a manicurist physically and emotionally disheveled.
The Lorena Bobbitt Trial
S1, EP24 "Dr. Susan Feister"Expert testimony went deep into her mental wellbeing. Lorena Bobbitt's defense hired a forensic psychiatrist to evaluate her on four separate occasions after her attack on her husband, John. Dr. Susan Feister broke down her full mental health evaluation concluding that she was a battered woman in her troubled marriage to John over the years. It came after years of John allegedly taunting, teasing, manipulating, and physically abusing her.
The Lorena Bobbitt Trial
S1, EP25 "A Battered Wife"Poor self-esteem, severe depression, and self-isolation was Lorena Bobbitt's behavior during her marriage with John. Common symptoms of battered woman's syndrome according to the forensic psychiatrist who performed a full mental health evaluation on Lorena after she maimed her husband. Dr. Susan Feister even elaborated that Lorena suffered severe depression as a result in her failing marriage.
The Lorena Bobbitt Trial
S1, EP26 "Diagnosis Of Mental Disorders"Jurors listened to the forensic psychiatrist who evaluated the defendant after the incident. Dr. Susan Feister recalled how Lorena couldn't remember and did not have the capacity of right and wrong at the time of the knife attack. She concluded that not only was Lorena a battered wife but had suicidal thoughts. Her diagnosis of the defendant included: major depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and panic disorder.
The Lorena Bobbitt Trial
S1, EP25 "A Battered Wife"Poor self-esteem, severe depression, and self-isolation was Lorena Bobbitt's behavior during her marriage with John. Common symptoms of battered woman's syndrome according to the forensic psychiatrist who performed a full mental health evaluation on Lorena after she maimed her husband. Dr. Susan Feister even elaborated that Lorena suffered severe depression as a result in her failing marriage.
The Lorena Bobbitt Trial
S1, EP26 "Diagnosis Of Mental Disorders"Jurors listened to the forensic psychiatrist who evaluated the defendant after the incident. Dr. Susan Feister recalled how Lorena couldn't remember and did not have the capacity of right and wrong at the time of the knife attack. She concluded that not only was Lorena a battered wife but had suicidal thoughts. Her diagnosis of the defendant included: major depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and panic disorder.
The Lorena Bobbitt Trial
S1, EP27 "She Became Psychotic"The jury heard all about the mental health issues Lorena Bobbitt was going through up until the time she sliced off her husband John's penis. The forensic psychiatrist Dr. Susan Feister, who evaluated her, testified that it all stemmed from years of physical and emotional abuse she endured during her marriage to John. This mental health doctor claimed Lorena became psychotic when she mutilated her husband.
The Lorena Bobbitt Trial
S1, EP28 "The Brief Psychotic Break"The forensic psychiatrist on the stand claimed she suffered acute psychosis when she cut of the genitalia of her husband, John, while he was sleeping. Dr. Susan Feister went on to say that Lorena felt so trapped in her marriage that out of desperation she attacked the weapon of her torture - her husband's penis. Dr. Feister faced a probing cross-examination. The state wanted to challenge this expert's detail mental health diagnosis of the defendant.
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP57 "The International Manhunt"An FBI special agent testified for prosecutors in their case against Yazeed Essa for the murder of his wife, Rosemarie. Just days after police interviewed Yazeed, he fled the country and went to Lebanon. It led to a nearly 2-year international manhunt involving the FBI, CIA, the Secret Service, U.S. Marshals, and the State Department.
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP58 "Capturing The U.S. Fugitive"The FBI special agent Phil Torsney faced cross-examination. He helped extradite Yazeed Essa to the U.S. a year and a half after his wife, Rosemarie, died. He was arrested in Cyprus, but it took several years to bring him back to the U.S. The defendant was captured using the fake alias Maurice Khalife during his life as a fugitive. The death penalty was the big issue in the extradition fight for Yazeed Essa after he was captured in Cyprus.
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP59 "Cell Phone Records"The FBI special agent who helped extradite Yazeed Essa to Ohio wrapped up his testimony . Next, the cell phone records of Yazeed Essa made their way in as incriminating evidence. According to the State, Yazeed was at the apartment of a mistress the night Rosemarie was killed. First it was an AT&T employee and then it was someone from Verizon Wireless who testified all about the cell phone and internet records of the defendant.
Sex, Cyanide And A Doctor On The Run Case
S1, EP60 "Work Of The Secret Service"A forensic computer analyst, who worked for the Secret Service, explained his work in this case. Prosecutors alleged Yazeed Essa's internet activity in the days, hours, and minutes leading up to the death of his wife, Rosemarie, was incriminating evidence. Computer searches, deleted files, phone calls, and emails were all presented to the jury.
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