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[Music] okay make a [Laughter] wish Lisa Buchanan was a very attractive young lady it's about love and friendship she
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was a very creative type oh honey you look marvelous very free spirited fabiio oh my name is Tara
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Bentley I'm Lisa's older [Music] sister when I first saw her I just saw her as a patient and while she was
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waiting to see her dentist she saw a sign saying free consultations she walked in she was wearing a ball cap no
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makeup this incredible little smile in her bright blue eyes there's something we saw in each other we
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enjoyed they looked like a wonderful couple but that really was a veneer that really
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hid what was really going on between the two of them it was her intention to put
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an end to their relationship that [Music] weekend the July 4th 2005 weekend uh certainly a weekend that you would think
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that folks would be out picnicking going to fireworks concerts but they're holed up in Lisa's
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apartment having this um SE Marathon I think he really liked the way that she reacted and responded when she
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was under the influence of drugs the only time that she was experiencing these drugs was when he gave them to her
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she was addicted to Chris koulis and their relationship the drugs were certainly a part of that
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relationship he was injecting Lisa repeatedly with this concoction of of Oxycodone that was pulverized ground up
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the drugs were coursing through her veins they caused her to collapse suddenly Lisa stopped
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breathing that immediately began CPR and call 911 911 emergency St breathing she
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wasn't breathing and there was no pass I think that he is is a predator I think that he is a
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manipulator I'm Eric Anderson I'm the lead investigator in the case involving the death of Lisa
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Buchanan I didn't give Lisa any drugs I loved her they're looking for someone to
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blame he wanted her under his control and when you're a doctor and you want control you just have tools at your
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disposal that other people don't have Addicted to Love tonight's 48 Hours mystery
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[Music] [Applause] [Music] when police were called to Lisa Buchanan's apartment in Franklin
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Tennessee straight ahead is the living room kitchen area they were surprised by what they found in this gated
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community a cash of prescription drugs and sex toys they found needles they found a lot of
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[Music] syringes Lisa and Chris kouis had spent most of that final July 4th weekend of
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2005 in her bedroom they stayed in that apartment that weekend engaged in this Marathon sex
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session there were so much evidence to collect it was a massive undertaking most crucial say detectives
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was the discovery of used syringes with traces of Oxycodone oxycodone is a powerful
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narcotic used to kill pain it can be a very addictive and Dangerous Drug abusers like the calming Euphoria
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creates the high is immediate and potent it's a controlled substance it's something you can only get from a
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prescribing physician you can't just buy it but when Lisa was rushed to the emergency room the doctors trying to
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save her say Dr kouis told them nothing about the drug she had been using in fact paramedics say Dr kouis claimed
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Lisa had collapsed after her trip to the swimming pool Chris was deceptive he totally
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misled them Chris stood there in that ER room didn't tell them about the illegal
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drugs didn't tell the ER staff what could have been crucial in Saving her life I just wish that at some point she
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had realized how dangerous he was Tara Bentley believed her sister Lisa did not see kouis as she did I think that the
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rest of us just felt that any day now she would realize who he was on paper kouis looked pretty good he
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was a young handsome plastic surgeon he was a graduate of Vanderbilt University and had a thriving practice by the time
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he was 30 Lisa's mother Peggy was thrilled when her daughter met a doctor I thought finally she had met somebody
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that was going to make her very happy Dr kulus was very Charming was extremely confident kulus had served his
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internship at a Chicago hospital and loved working in the emergency room that was the most exciting for him because it
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was rescuing people from Death it was in Nashville in the year 2000 that kulus had that chance meeting
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with Lisa Buchanan he became her boyfriend and her doctor you performed numerous procedures on her for free oh
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yes how many a redo breast augmentation her eyelids forehead lip augmentation lipos suction full face laser Botox
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collagen list goes on Kess also helped Lisa pay the [Music] bills she was struggling to make it as
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an actress and [Music] model even at a young age Lisa Buchanan had Big Dreams for herself she was going
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to get on TV and she was going to be heard Lisa Buchanan how are you she auditioned for soaps I heard about this
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General Hospital thing and I think I'd be really really good out for TV shows I can do love scenes and I can do drama
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her most recent Pursuit was to develop a children's puppet show I do have quite a
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lovely singing voice don't you think but things just never click for Lisa professionally or personally no
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matter how beautiful she was or how beautiful people saw her there was insecurity in her
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before kulus Lisa had a string of failed relationships she married young and divorced but from that broken marriage
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came one of the best things in her life her daughter Jesse she's so much fun we were best friends I could tell her
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anything anything Jesse was happy at first when her mother met Dr koulis we just moved
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into this big house and that was so cool I got a huge room and my girlfriend's came over and we had a huge big screen
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TV on the wall and and I was cool but it wasn't long says Jesse before she noticed how controlling the
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doctor was once I got to know him I didn't really like him he would always call her every 10 minutes wanting to
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know where she was it's like stalkerish so protective in a creepy kind of way Lisa and Dr kouis were on again off
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again for 5 and 1/2 years according to her sister Tara Lisa was just about to break things off again that final
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weekend you just had to hope that maybe this time um it was really going to stick Tara had wondered if Lisa could
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ever break away Lisa appeared locked in cis's grip even though the couple spent much of the relationship
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apart he lived and practiced in other cities and frequently called Lisa accusing her
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of seeing other men there were times that she have to hand the phone to me so that I could
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tell him she's with me he wouldn't trust it he over the years Cut Her Off from all her friends alienating all her
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friends because of Jealousy on his part and there was something else that concerned Lisa's family Lisa was
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becoming ill more frequently in fact her family believes that Dr kouis would convince Lisa she was sick and that he
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alone could fix her in one conversation could absolutely convince her that the world was coming to an end
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but at the same time he was going to save her from it did you ever see Chris kouis give your mother drugs
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yes Jesse has a vivid childhood memory of seeing kouis inject her mother with an unknown drug
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drug She fainted and I started screaming mommy he shut the bathroom door and start Bing on the door and he wouldn't
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let me see her you saw him administer a shot to her mhm I'll never forget it investigators now believe it was kis
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who introduced Lisa to the idea of using drugs to enhance their sexual encounters
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I don't think that there's a shred of evidence or proof that she was a drug addict Anderson like Lisa's family
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believes she only used drugs when Dr kulus gave them to her but kouis claims he knew Lisa better
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than anyone and like it or not he says she was a drug addict certain demons just like we all do and one of them was
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drug abuse koua says Lisa hit her IV drug use by injecting herself and concealing areas of the body like her
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groin it's a favorite spot of people that want to conceal it but detectives aren't buying it after
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a 5-month long investigation Chris kouis is arrested in charge with murder they say he supplied the drugs he injected
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her and he is responsible for Lisa Buchanan's death I do believe that he gave her at least one injection if not
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multiple injections and he is Absolut absolutely responsible for her death it's been extremely traumatic I am
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quite concerned as to what is going to happen charged with killing his girlfriend Lisa Buchanan Chris kouis
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faces the possibility of spending the next 25 years in prison but he says he's innocent did you kill Lisa Buchanan
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absolutely not the autopsy concluded that Lisa died of an overdose of Oxycodone during the
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search of her apartment detectives found only one mostly intact oxycodone pill but the used syringes contained crush
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pills and liquid mixed into a slush prosecutors say Lisa was injected with that Slush at least three times
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that weekend and in cis's travel bag detectives found an unopened 18 gauge needle the same kind that had been
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used that piece of evidence is extremely incriminating Chris kouis is Accused not
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only of injecting Lisa Buchanan with the drugs but of supplying them as well despite his denials he's about to be put
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on trial facing four charges ranging from simple assault to second degree murder
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[Music] murder be SE good morning ladies and gentlemen good morning sir is the state
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ready to proceed yes sir thank you Kim helper is Prosecuting Dr kulus the evidence supports the fact that it was
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this defendant who was injecting Lisa Buchanan with that oxyc coo mixture Lee Offman is defending the doctor so what
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does the evidence show it shows he didn't do it from the facts I could not see how he
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could be convicted of [Music] anything but prosecutors are convinced they have a strong circumstantial case
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thanks in part to this small video cassette detectives found in Lisa's apartment they had videotaped these sex
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acts all weekend long it documents the final hours of Lisa's life and provides Clues to her
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death the tape is disturbingly graphic and in some scenes Lisa seems barely conscious so the jurors from this fairly
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religious and conservative southern city must sit through a screening of the entire two hours of the sex tape in open
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cord it's extremally embarrassing this was never intended to be seen by anybody else but for Lisa N then to be
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destroyed your B is perfect that video clearly showed she enjoyed what she was doing she
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participated willingly cis's attorneys believe the tape is more damaging to Lisa than to their client I think the
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prosecution made a mistake in trying to portray her as just a victim with no fault because clearly she was
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not but prosecutors are convinced kouis injected Lisa with drugs to control and dominate her you can see in the
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background on occasion where there is a needle laying on the carpet the tape does not show who gave Lisa the
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injections but it does show Lisa holding gauze against her groin covering fresh injection marks incriminating evidence
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prosecutors say against kulis the evidence on the video clearly shows Chris kou is being aware of uh those
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pads and the presence of uh syringes on the tape kouis can be heard telling Lisa
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to apply pressure to the area to stop some bleeding it was being portrayed as proof
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that I gave Lisa narcotics in fact it did not show that at all all right ladies and gentlemen that will conclude
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everything for today kolis maintains Lisa and Ed herself in the groin that weekend quite easy it is
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absolutely not so according to Tennessee's Chief State medical examiner Dr Bruce Levy when you see a series of
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injections in a nice straight line like that you know that it had to have been done to her he feels quite strongly that
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the injections in her groin were made by an expert like a doctor if you're off by as much as a
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half of an inch it can be deadly and making it even more difficult for Lisa to inject herself says Levy is
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the fact that she was impaired by drugs at the time I think it was very clear evidence that Dr kulus was responsible
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for the injection there there's just no other alternative that makes sense to bolster that claim Lisa's
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family points to this picture they say was taken just days before her death there was not a mark on her body and
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there was not a sign of drug use in her behavior her attitude nothing all week long she was perfectly
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[Music] healthy defense we call Dr Chris culus to testify on his own behalf all right
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Dr culis if you come around please sir Chris kouis and his attorneys believe he has no choice but to take the stand to
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defend himself will't leave bet TR to S help you die I do please he tells the jury that he tried
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repeatedly to get Lisa to stop abusing drugs Lisa promised she'd stop she'd go up and down she'd stop she start she
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stop she start I told her do you have to do that and then I told her I know you want to but I don't want you to you're
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going to kill yourself we've talked about this why didn't you just leave I'll side the I'm an idiot because I
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loved her and I want to be with her I want to be with her and so to make her happy you look the
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other way I was unable to stop her one way or the other she wanted to get high and she was going to get
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high what precis was I supposed to do tackle her prosecutor Kim helper doesn't believe kouis she confronts him about
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his callus behavior that weekend well you've just said that in this case Lisa was laying back because she became High
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correct in this case she laid back yes ma'am so she wasn't walking around no she wasn't
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alert she was impaired but she went ahead and had sex with her anyway didn't you sir yes ma'am
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in fact the doctor repeatedly had sex with Lisa even though she had complained of shoulder and chest pain that weekend
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symptoms that kouis concedes could have signaled a heart attack Lisa had a very bad headache she
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all complaining of shoulder pain and left arm pain and uh she was having palpitations
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her heart was beating rapidly but you continued to have sex with her because she said everything went away she felt
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fine it's a woman you love sure yes ma'am and is it a fair assessment to say that you were thinking
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about yourself on that day I was and you were not thinking about Lisa were you I
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was thinking about myself yes that may not have been the only time kulus was just thinking about
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himself prosecutors are about to introduce details of a previous incident one in which kouis has freely admitted
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injecting Lisa Buchanan with addictive drugs prosecutors from firly believe Chris kouis killed Lisa Buchanan that L
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weekend and they say it isn't the first time he put her life in danger I think it's extremely relevant
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and important for a jury to understand that in the past it has been his Habit to inject her with drugs Kim helper
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points to an incident back in 2002 that was eerily similar at the time Lisa and kulus were briefly living together in
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Kentucky I was going through a very difficult time financially things were falling
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apart and one day there was demeral that was left over and I had the really bad idea to try
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it and I did and I was probably instantly addicted to it Dr kulis says he was shooting up frequently where'd
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you get the demoll it was from my office I had a surgical center so you stole it
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from your office it's from my office and in the M of his own downward spiral kouis admits he got Lisa addicted as
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well when she asked me for it I gave it to her I was impaired at the time I realized as at some certain
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friends of mine that this could continue that I was not myself I was not as productive and I realized that I needed
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help things got so bad that cis's parents intervened and came to take him to rehab Lisa stayed behind someone
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called me and said that I needed to go check on her Lisa's mother Peggy says she will never forget the condition in
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which she found her daughter it was the most horrific site I've ever seen in my life bottles syringes Blood on the floor
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they had her on a mattress she was completely incoherent it was horrific Peggy says she and her friend
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quickly scooped up some of the drugs and rushed Lisa to the hospital I mean she had injection sores on her
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body that were that big around right over here on our left is uh where Lisa and Chris couis lived in 2002 Bobby Pate
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at the boom County Sheriff's Office was assigned to investigate she was ejected in both hands and the arms the groin
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area and in the feet they were infected and their hands and feet were probably about twice as size as normal Pete met
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with Lisa at the hospital and says she accused kulus of injecting her against her will there was times where she he
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chased her around the room to get her a shot when she didn't want one and that he called her a hypochondriac cuz she
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was complaining about the infections the sores and stuff and he shot her up some
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more she stated that Chris said that he this was just do it for fun uh it would enhance the sexual
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pleasure let's do this for fun let's just do this for fun at his trial prosecutor Kim helper confronts the
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doctor about the earlier con incident she was in pretty bad shape when you left is that true no ma'am she's walking
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talking and Lucid we had breakfast she said goodbye to me at the door didn't just leave her in the
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basement and leave that's a misc characterization maybe so but Kentucky authorities arrested him anyway on
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several serious charges including drug trafficking Lisa Buchanan was our star witness in the case Lisa gave
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authorities this handwritten letter she received from Dr kulus after after he entered rehab in it he takes the full
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blame for getting her hooked on painkillers supplying them injecting her and admitting she had no prior history
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of drug abuse before they met but it wasn't enough to convict him he hurt Lisa in
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2002 and you know he he got away with it Lisa's family believes he got away with
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it because he scared her out of testifying against him they said he convinced her she was also in trouble
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and could lose custody of her daughter Chris just absolutely convinced her that she could lose Jesse and that the police
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were lying to her that the da was lying to her and no matter what she just believed him I think the fear was so
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real kouis denies he made any threats but Lisa stopped cooperating and the case against him collapsed kouis ended
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up pleading guilty to to just one of the 20 drug charges and was given probation
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no prison time and within a short period he was back to practicing medicine again
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what happened in 2002 that was horrific we went to hen back she did and I did but despite that
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hell Lisa could not let go of Chris kouis for her family it was difficult to accept you don't understand why
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why she was listening to him there aren't words because you can't because you don't understand it you're the one
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that ejected her first true yes sir I did in court Dr kulus accepts blame for introducing Lisa to illegal drug use
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you're a doctor what were you thinking what I was thinking I was wrong I shouldn't have done
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it I should have done it to me and I should certainly sure as hell not have done it to
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her I was responsible I felt responsible if he appeared contrite when speaking to the jurors it was a
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different Chris kouis who spoke to us later blaming Lisa Buchanan for her own drug problems did you get her addicted
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to drugs I provided her I made available to her did you get her addicted to drugs I
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think the choice of addiction is her own when I recognized that I was addicted I
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got help I got her help from that point on all bets are off you realized how addictive this drug was the first time
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you used it absolutely and you introduced this to your girlfriend you provided the drugs to her he gave her
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the syringes I was wrong in doing so and you're saying that it was her responsibility to get clean yes it is
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her respons to stay clean I don't think I bear respons her death guilty or not call Dr gr cis's lawyers
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are hoping to throw a huge wrench into the case with experts who will testify that it was not a drug overdose that
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killed Lisa Buchanan after [Music] all an early fall morning in Franklin Tennessee
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as most of the city's police force proudly gathers for a group photograph it's a department that may be
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unaccustomed to the attack it's facing from Chris cis's attorneys we realized that they were going to hold us under a
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microscope and look to exploit anything that wasn't absolutely 100% perfect defense lawyers are highly
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critical of what they consider sloppy police work even suggesting that detectives failed to properly isolate
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Lisa's apartment the crime scene how do you know that those items that you say were in that apartment they hadn't been
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moved around detective Anderson bristles at the question saying the apartment was
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secured almost immediately the locks were changed no one had access the apartment was Secure from that point on
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unless well unless what unless your client broke in to the apartment then the apartment was Secure
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but mistakes were made like losing evidence medicine bottles from Lisa's apartment that detectives forgot to take
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from the hospital the day she died we had been going several hours into days in this investigation so it had slipped
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our mind at that time to go get those pills and when we finally realized we need to go back and get those pill
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bottles by the time we went back there the hospital had already destroyed it slipped your
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mind an even bigger for prosecutors is a defense challenge to the very heart of this case what killed Lisa Buchanan if
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she did take the oxycodone that's not what killed her Dr Michael Graham a forensic
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pathologist and medical examiner testifies for the defense that the drug didn't kill her the filler
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did that's the pattery material used to give shape and form to the pills when they're made it was the filler and then
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the reaction to that filler is what I think tipped her over the edge drug abusers crush pills mix
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them with liquid and inject them into their veins for a quicker high but Graham explains that over time tiny
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particles of crush filler can build up and clog blood vessels in the lungs and that he says is exactly what happened to
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Lisa Buchanan injecting crushed up pills over a long period of time caused her death suddenly she was so pluged Ed up
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that it stopped the heart and she died of a heart attack you don't get that from an occasional use it took months to
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years to form those things it came from Lisa injecting herself when he wasn't around but prosecutors argue the defense
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theory of what killed Lisa is only partially true that in fact it was both the filler and the narcotic working
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together that caused her death the filler was impacted the lungs the oxycodone was suppressing some of her
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breathing mechanism and I would suggest to you that the evidence fully supports the state's assertion that Lisa Buchanan
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died at the hands of this defendant there's no proof he did and because of that you just got to find him not
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guilty as the case goes to the jury Lisa's family is concerned over what the verdict may be we hope is convicted and
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there's nothing he can say to me there's nothing he can say to that Court there's
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nothing he can say to my family the change what happened so Dr kouis is left to wait
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facing the possibility of spending his next 25 years in prison left unanswered is the question of how an ambitious
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young doctor a plastic surgeon ended up here Dr kulus is an extremely in intelligent person he went into medical
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school at age 19 if that tells you something all he did was work work work so Dr culus never had the time to
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enjoy his youth his immaturity caught up with him so he was in the middle of an extended adolescence
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when he met Lisa Buchanan I don't think he ever matured standing trial for murdering his girlfriend though maybe
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very sobering and Lisa's family hopes the jwelry holds kouis responsible for her death it is just my prayer and it
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has always been my prayer that he can never do this to anyone else [Music] over the course of a number of months or
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years Lisa did something which caused her significant internal damage and ultimately that's why she
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died and that would have happened I believe whether I was there or a day later or a week later a month
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later she's responsible for own actions just as I [Music] am ladies and gentlemen this does
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conclude the the instructions and the closing arguments it is time for you to uh to take this case and make your
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decision they began deliberations about 9:15 this morning here at the courthouse
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nearly 2 weeks after the trial began the jury begins to liberating in the Lisa Buchanan murder case it is tense
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everybody right now waiting it's been a challenge for prosecutors who've had only
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circumstantial evidence to rely on do you think you'll win a conviction I would like to think
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so but I think I've been around long enough to know uh that when it gets into the hands of the jury you just can't
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predict jurors have four charges to consider ranging from simple assault to Second agree
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murder you are so beautiful the wild card is there's no telling how jurors will react to the sex video oh my God
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but prosecutor Kim helper felt she had no choice the evidence on the tape from the state's perspective was too
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important uh to not show it they say they want to see exhibit 203 212 and 213 that is the videotape in fact just one
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hour into the deliberations the juror's request to see the video again we're just hoping and praying that
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they understand that this man is guilty because of the chemistry between the two
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and the drug use it was just destined for something terrible to happen it was just a Fatal
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Attraction all the jurors take less than a day to reach a verdict the courtroom is tense as each charge is read as count
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one of the indictment on the charge of second degree murder what say you not guilty as to count two of the indictment
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on the charge of Reckless homicide what say you not guilty as to the charge of criminally
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negligent homicide what say you guilty very well that shall end your deliberations guilty but not of murder
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Lisa Buchanan's family is devastated kouis now faces just months in prison instead of years
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Lisa's daughter Jesse runs from the courtroom in tears I was really upset almost more
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upset than the night when I found out like she passed away what was hardest was hearing the
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same cries from Jesse that I had to hear the night her mom died for kouis and his attorneys the
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verdict is is welcome news even with the felony conviction I'm reliev that it's over I accept the verdict of the jury
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and to traged Lisa died should never happened did the jury conclude that Chris kouis Bears some responsibility
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for Lisa Buchanan's death with the finding of criminally negligent homicide they are saying that as a doctor
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he should have done more to prevent her from killing herself not according to the jurors we spoke with I agree with
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they told us they didn't buy the doctor's testimony or his innocence but felt there just wasn't any hard evidence
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to convict him of murder a good majority of us thought that he probably did the injection but we couldn't there's no way
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to know for sure they couldn't prove that he directly acted to kill her you still maintain that Chris kis killed
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Lisa buenon yes sir and I think the jury agreed with me and quite frankly we just
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didn't have a photo uh putting Chris kouis with a needle in his hand injecting Lisa
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Buchanan Court finds the defendant's testimony to be lacking in credibility at sentencing judge Jeff Biven showed
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little sympathy for kouis while the court is mindful of the fact that the victim Miss
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Buchanan was in many ways a knowing and willing participant in the activities of
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that tragic weekend that does not diminish the defendant's criminal conduct and culpability he sentences
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kouis to two years in prison the maximum sentence allowed but he's expected to serve less than half of that can you do
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the time can I do the time to have a choice after he's sentenced it's unclear just when the doctor will be imprisoned
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he leaves the courtroom not in handcuffs but on $500,000 Bond paid by his parents
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to keep him free while his attorneys appeal the conviction cis's limited sentence and
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the fact that he's free pending appeal is hard for daughter Jesse to accept I get mad I like to tell myself that I've
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forgiven him because we were close I mean I I lived with him and I've known him for so long too but
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when the really hard days come it's really hard to forgive them she even reached out writing a very
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personal letter to Kus Chris I've been thinking about this letter for months it's consumed me what do I say to the
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man that took my mom away it's been a long 2 years and I still tell myself she's coming back
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you know you're responsible for her death and you think of me and my family try to imagine what we have been through
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and how much we miss her Lisa's sister Tara in the end this two shall pass and someday he'll stand
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before God no one could have predicted the next bizarre twist in this story 5 years after Lisa's death and
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with his appeal still pending Chris kouis was found dead at her friend's apartment a former
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nestville plastic surgeon convicted in the death of his modal girlfriend has died toxicology reports just released
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list the cause of death as bronchial pneumonia due to opiate intoxication a drug overdose my duty to my client
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extends Beyond his death because cis's case was in appeal his attorney David Raven was able to get his 2007
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conviction dropped by the state's Court of Criminal Appeals however the Attorney General's
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office is fighting to have that conviction reinstated enough is enough this case is over with the conviction
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should be vacated um and let Dr couis rest in peace Dr Chris kulus never served one day of his sentence in jail
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there's no satisfaction there's no real peace there's no Vengeance there's no no
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anger there's no there's no hate just you're dealt a certain set of cards and you just have to do what you can
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