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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.
The Defense tried to portray the defendant's life as a happily married man in an upscale neighborhood with his wife, Rosemarie, and their two young children.
The first witness to the stand was the forensic pathologist who did the autopsy on Rosemarie Essa.
The cross-examination began on the forensic pathologist on the stand. Dr. Elizabeth Balraj had concluded that cyanide poisoning was the cause of death for his wife, Rosemarie.
On the stand in Yazeed Essa's murder trial was the ER doctor who tried to save his wife, Rosemarie, when she arrived at the hospital. She had been in a car accident.
The State presented more details about the car accident that Rosemarie Essa was involved in before she died.
Jurors learned of his plan to flee the country after his wife, Rosemarie, died of cyanide poisoning.
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.
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.
Yazeed Essa's lifestyle was the focus of testimony from his brother who was on the stand.
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.
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.
Jurors listened to the man who was accused of helping Yazeed Essa when he was a fugitive. That was his own brother who was under a long cross examination. Things got very personal while Firas Essa was on the stand.
Fellow doctor and good friend of Yazeed Essa testified in his murder trial about the weeks following the death of his wife, Rosemarie.
Scared and on the run was how Yazeed Essa's defense team described him in the weeks after his wife, Rosemarie, died.
On the stand, the fellow doctor and defendant's close friend elaborated about potassium cyanide, the poison prosecutors alleged Yazeed Essa used to kill his wife, Rosemarie, so he could start a life with one of his mistresses.
Prosecutors accusing Yazeed Essa of murdering his wife, Rosemarie, with cyanide-laced calcium pills brought in a witness who could tell the jury about those pills. This expert broke down details about the manufacturing and bottling process.
Prosecution had more questions for the manufacturer of the dietary supplements that Rosemarie Essa was taking at the time she died. The State put the focus on these calcium pills Rosemarie Essa had been taking before she died.