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foreign [Applause] State and show that on March 13 2003. David Lee was killed by a single gunshot
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wound to his forehead the report on the 911 call was that he'd shot himself gentleman's laying in a bed guns laying
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beside him it looked like I wasn't right here here's another hole he's fired more
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than once look like we're above his head there there's also a shot into the bed which
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is a little suspicious in itself there was more than one shot and while that's not unheard of well it didn't look like
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a suicide scene in the statements show that the person who delivered that fatal blow
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who's the defendant reynella Lee who shot almost in the middle of his forehead but right above
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his his left eye there were no signs of forced entry there were no signs of a struggle and there was no one else at
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the residence but the defendant can you connect raynella to that weapon fingerprints anyone see her pick up the
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gun no to any of the bullets that were used in that gun no that's a problem isn't it in this case
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foreign [Music] was twisted everything good about this woman was turned around to be evil
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there's not any real evidence to suggest a homicide and if I were my work pull the trigger
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I could strike myself the left eyebrow am I right yes you could there was only one person who wanted
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harm David and at that point it was David he was acting suicidal and he makes his decision
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and he takes aim he's a great lawyer he's super prepared fantastic lawyer fantastic he's a bad
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actor [Music] I just tried to focus on the evidence and where that was leading me it was
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hard for me to determine you'll tell me if that's approximately one foot where we were going with certain things and
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trying to piece those things together inside each line is an individual stain but you're not making a decision just by
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yourself you're making the decision as a group this is the decision never to be taken lightly and I assure you
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that this court takes this responsibility very seriously [Music] as a senior judge most every case that I
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try is somewhat controversial now in this case it's it's kind of simple if it was a homicide did the evidence show
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that reynella Leith committed to homicide ladies and gentlemen of the jury I really could not believe what he
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was saying as he said it you're not quite sure if this is really where this is going
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personally have studied every shred of evidence or testimony just like you have oh I gotta breathe
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no matter where we think we're going here that can't be How This Ends [Music] [Music]
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48 Hours the Widow on Solway Road whatever foreign [Music] s are in the Box and uh
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all parties are are present a real life drama is taking place that Rivals any Southern Gothic novel I'm Josh Hedrick
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we haven't met yet before have we no we haven't it's pleasure this is not a story that would happen in a sleepy New
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England town it's too Southern he would bring her a rose once a week and they would go out to dinner there is the
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gentility with your permission I'll remove my coat because I had some difficulty with it previously and
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underneath that very respectable surface it seems like everything's rotting to the core unless you really know what's
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inside somebody's mind if I were to then place it here you don't really know why they do what
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they do do you best-selling author Diane Fanning has written about this case and the players
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this is something that a fiction writer would write about give us your name please ma'am reynella leaf
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reynella Leith a 68 year old grandmother is at the center of this extraordinary tale have you decided whether or not you
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wish to testify in your trial I do not wish to testify very well you've got an unbelievable character
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there were people she knew in college who said well she was great she was a lot of fun as long as she didn't cross
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her [Music] ever since 2003 the former nurse has been the prime suspect in the death of
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her second husband David Leith help me help me it was raynella's 9-1-1 call on the
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morning of March 13 2003 that sent police rushing to the Leith home let's just detective mortgage for the
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Sheriff's Department we're out on a uh possible suicide gunshot wound these are audio and video recordings
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made by police at the scene we'll signs of knows anything lying around anywhere listen to investigators as they begin
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wondering about that death called in as a suicide the guns laying next to his left hand
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which is curled Underneath Him we got three fired rounds I want to have a problem with is one is
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for the round side and the way he's laying I'm not saying it it stinks I'm just saying it strong detectives wanted to
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establish where raynella had been all morning and she agreed to talk the only time she spoken on the record
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she remembers watching television with her husband David that morning before leaving his breakfast on the nightstand
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excuse me Angry Birds if I'm not here when you get back I'll be at the Y and I said okay it was close
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to 9 30 she says when she headed to the hospital to visit her mother-in-law okay
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when she arrived home shortly after 11 she found her husband Lane in a bloody bed with a gunshot to his head
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I don't know where that gun is from I've never seen that gun in my whole life the gum was believed to have belonged to
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David's parents [Music] David's sudden death left reynella a grieving Widow for the second time
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her first husband Ed Dawson had died 11 years earlier raynella and Ed met at East Tennessee State University where
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she was on the rifle team and studying to be a nurse he planned to go to law school what Drew those two together
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raynella was such a Confident Woman she had presence and I think that Ed was really drawn to that they married and
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moved to Ed's 165-acre Family Farm in the tight-knit community of Solway just outside
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Knoxville where they raised cattle and three children Maggie Eddie Jr and Katie reynella was extremely protective
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of her children they became the power couple in town when ebb was elected Knox County District Attorney General
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raynella was director of nursing at Park West Hospital but their lives took a tragic turn when
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at the age of 43 Ed was diagnosed with terminal cancer nine months later he died not from his illness but in a freak
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farming accident but raynella wasn't a widow for long six months later she shocked friends and
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family when she remarried David Leith was a local barber and Ed does its best friend and neighbor she fix these food
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and started his car in the morning and she just treated him like a King David's daughter Cindy Wilkerson and his cousin
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Beth Roberts say the Whirlwind romance was all the talk and saw way what do you think he saw in raynella she's Charming
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I said to my mother I thought he'd hit the jackpot with this girl because she was so pretty and so interesting I just
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thought this is going to be a great fit but raynella's Newfound happiness was short-lived less than two years after
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she remarried her 11 year old son was killed in a car crash she was very sad and very very
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heartbroken Cindy says she began seeing changes in reynella and her father's relationship
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that didn't seem as happy as they were when they first got married five years later more heartbreak David was
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hospitalized he began seeing a neurologist for signs of dementia and depression in early 2003 reynella says David's
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Behavior became more erratic concerned she began making notes in a private journal on January 19th she wrote Dave
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hateful today I cried and cried three days later things hadn't improved Dave hateful controlling his way or no way I
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cried seven weeks after writing those words David was dead what did you think it happened to your
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dad somebody had shot him but I knew that he didn't do it [Music] foreign every day
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every haircut every styling in the middle chair at this Knoxville Barber Shop reminds Cindy Wilkerson of her
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father David Leith it's the same chair he used for 39 years my dad was fun loving caring
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and it's a joy to use the same chair he did [Music] he inherited the chair in 2000 when her
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father suddenly retired at the age of 54. what he kept secret were all those visits to the neurologist if he was
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suicidal over dementia Cindy never saw it when reynella said your dad committed suicide did you initially think well
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well maybe he did but it's just hard to believe no I never did think that my dad
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was scared to death of guns and I knew that he couldn't have done that and Cindy questioned why her
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right-handed father would have used his left hand to shoot himself above his left eye he was totally blonde but uh as
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her delt soared so did her suspicions about her Stepmother's role and she wasn't alone within 24 hours Dr darinka
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malusnik the Knox County Medical Examiner discounted reynella's claim of suicide and ruled David Lee's death a
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homicide reynella became the focus of attention it was clear to David's family what
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should happen next investigation indictment trial but it doesn't no not even close
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remember reynella was the Widow of a district attorney general crime Rider in 48 hours consultant Diane Fanning says
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that was the problem almost everybody working in that office either worked with Ed knew Ed or new renello there was
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a conflict of interest finding an outside prosecutor to take the leaf case dragged on making things
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more difficult no one could figure out the motive murder doesn't always make sense
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Cindy was becoming more and more frustrated she wanted something to be done about her father's murder with the
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criminal case stalled in March 2006 Cindy filed a civil suit against raynella to stop her from inheriting
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David's estate prosecutors took notice three and a half years after David Lee's death reynella was charged with his
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murder and that's when old suspicion surfaced about the death of her first husband
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Ed dossett had been found in a field in July 1992 surrounded by his cattle he had apparently been trampled to death
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did anyone anyone wonder about how Ed dossett died yes the reports were an agricultural
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accident but some folks in the community had a problem with that scenario Ed grew up on a farm for him to have
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been trampled by his own cattle that just didn't make sense what's more folks wondered how Ed week
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with cancer and heavily medicated even managed to get all the way from his house to the cattle
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he died in a way that almost sounded like something you'd hear on a soap opera Diane Fanning says there have been a
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theory going around Solway that Dawson's death was actually about insurance raynella and the kids would get a bigger
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payout if it was an accident instead of cancer it might have even been Ed Dawson's idea himself couldn't that have
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been it could have been Ed dossett's idea and that's what stopped some of the other people from wanting to pursue it
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because if Ed knew he was about to die but he wanted his family to be more secure financially he might have said
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take me out there let the cows tromp on me nearly a year after reynella was charged
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with David Lee's murder the same medical examiner who ruled that death a homicide
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reviewed a dosset's file Dr malusinik determined it wasn't cattle that killed him it was a morphine overdose
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it was a huge story The Widow of a district attorney general was now charged with murdering two husbands
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reynello was now being described as a black widow even though she had never gone to trial on any death no it was
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just suspicions were gathering around her which is why Diane Fanning called her book her deadly web is it possible
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that reynello Leith is just a very unlucky woman yeah but coincidence makes me itchy
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prosecutors decide to try her for David Lee's murder first in 2009 six years after his death reynella finally went on
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trial but it turns out that was only the beginning the jury deadlocked 11-1 11-1 to convict the judge was forced to
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declare a mistrial it was here in Knox County so it it wasn't shocking to me a year later reynella was back in court
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for trial number two the case was the same but this time jurors were unanimous reynella was convicted of first-degree
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murder and sentenced to life in prison I felt like justice had been served and I was happy
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so were prosecutors with raynella Behind Bars they dropped the murder charges for the death of her
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first husband Ed Dawson never expecting what came next I would describe her as lucky
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very lucky after she served six years raynella's conviction was tossed out the reason the trial judge had been
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seriously impaired with a drug addiction and was kicked off the bench what was your reaction when you heard
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the verdict had been overturned I was devastated couldn't believe it 14 years after the death of David Leith
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called the jury in place it's now trial number three state and showed it on March and prosecutor Steve crump's turn
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to try reynella Leith is there a way to describe this case from snake bit Yeah because what can't go wrong will go
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wrong foreign [Music] it's May 2017. everyone is ready the trial one of the last of senior
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judge Paul Summer's career set to begin first to present District Attorney General Steve Crump in what all sides
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hope will be the last trial in this case the person who delivered that fatal blow
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was the defendant reynella Leaf he argues reynella's murderous plan unraveled the moment she
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fired that first shot and missed once she missed it changed the whole dynamic she ended his life with that second shot
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and then an attempt to cover up she fired that third shot to get gunshot residue on him you're describing a
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pretty cold-blooded killer yes that's what I think she is we'll show you what's been marked previously as
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exhibit 36 and ask if you can identify that for the prosecution the gun occult 38 police special revolver reveals some
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of the most important Clues may I step down Don Carmen is a former Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent I say it's
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a very old simple Farm however very effective this picture of the cylinder was taken at the scene the three fired
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rounds have small indentations or Hammer strikes in the center of the casing the
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unfired rounds do not for each particular shot it goes to the next chamber as you look at it right now it's going
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clockwise yes your honor prosecutors say that clockwise rotation of the cylinder tells the order of the
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shots the first cartridge fired would be this one the second would be this one and the third would be this one
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the first two cartridges are from Silver Remington bullets fragments of those were found in the wall and David Lee's
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head but the third is different it's a gold Winchester found shot through the mattress if that gold bullet was fired
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last as the prosecution believes that means it came after David Leith was already shot in the head severing his
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brain stem Knox County Medical Examiner Dr darinka malusnik was David Lee in any way capable of any sort of
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voluntary movement after that bullet transected his brain none whatsoever next prosecutors turned to the blood
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spatter these round drops of Blood on the wall tell investigators that David's head had to be raised nearly a foot
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above the mattress when the bullet was fired the only way that all of this works together is that if
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standing at the side of the bed and she misses with that first shot and we know that the first shot was the one that
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went into the headboard he raises up the second shot occurs and he falls straight back down to where he was found
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on the wall blood doesn't turn corners but the defense insists that the same evidence
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points to David Leith as the shooter multiple shock suicides are not impossible they have
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[Music] Ray Noah's team consists of Knoxville criminal attorney Josh Hedrick along
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with Rebecca Legrand a Washington D.C based lawyer with a background in science she was taking care of a sick husband
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who she loved and for that to get twisted into what it did is it was upsetting she's got hope that the
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justice system isn't so broken that it won't eventually realize the truth which is that she's an innocent woman
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with no clear motive presented by the state the defense starts with those three shots each and every one of these
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shots could have been accomplished by David Lee himself and then raises doubts to Don Carmen
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about the order of those three shots you don't know for certain whether the gun was opened or the cartridges manipulated
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prior to that photo being taken I do not and as a result you're unable to say with any degree of scientific certainty
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what order the shots were fired in that's correct because in my discipline they would be not testable
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but even if the prosecutions order of shots is correct Kentucky State medical examiner and defense consultant Dr Greg
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Davis says David Leith still could have been the shooter I'll give it to you it's unusual but to
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say because of that it has to be a homicide I just can't go that far there is a phenomenon called catevaric spasm where
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a person can actually their hands can squeeze immediately upon death what would you have ruled this I would have
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ruled this undetermined which is what he believes Dr malusnik should have done in
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this case remember within 24 hours of David Lee's death Dr malusnik called it a homicide she had not yet seen records
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from his neurologist or received a complete medical history didn't have toxicology didn't have ballistics didn't
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have medical records it went from can we figure out what happened to can we prove this was a homicide in a
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previous trial Dr malusic testified that medications found in David's system would have rendered him and I quote
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incapacitated in other words he would have been unable to kill himself but in trial number three Dr malusnik did not
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repeat that claim I'm glad that she reassessed and didn't try to make the same claims about toxicology at the
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third trial but it six years too late for my client Dr malusnik declined 48 Hours request for
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an interview but in reynella's third trial she stands firm that David Lee's death was a homicide I was very
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confident and 14 years later I'm even more so confident yes Dr Davis can you say unequivocally that
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she didn't kill her husband no I cannot but there's not enough evidence to say she did right as a forensic pathologist
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at least on the evidence that I've been privy to there's no way on Earth I think
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she's guilty but there is information Dr Davis was not privy to if anybody has any doubts as to whether
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David was murdered by Renault maybe they need to talk to Steve Walker well I see
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a killer because she tried to kill me [Music] thank you [Music] in a final and dramatic attempt to
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convince a jury of suicide the defense brings the blood-stained bed to the courtroom still preserved if the record
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could reflect on pointing to the hole in the middle of the headboard defense forensic expert Celia Hartnett
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I've marked the portion shows jurors how David Leith could have fired all three shots
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if I were to lie in bed and I were to aim at my head and pull the trigger and miss high
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and create this yes and then frustrated that I've missed sat up and pull the trigger I went into my head
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here yes and then if I fell and my hand squeezed again it would be consistent with this
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direction not just with the direction but also with the distance we're not saying we know exactly what
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happened we're just saying we know there are multiple ways that all of this makes
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sense that don't have anything to do with a homicide there was only one person who wanted
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to harm David and at that point it was David he was acting with his Physicians suicidal he's becoming useless
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[Music] and a proud man doesn't want to be useless but for the prosecution the most
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incriminating evidence isn't at the crime scene it's at the barber shop where raynella called Cindy Wilkerson on
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the morning of the shooting raynella had already left David at home she made the call from Park West
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Hospital where she was visiting David's mother she asked me if I had seen my dad
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and that he had went to work out on an empty stomach was that normal no she never called me at work
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that was the first indication on March 13 2003 that anything was unusual about David
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Lee Russian says the call was part of raynella's elaborate Alibi to prove she wasn't at home with David but they say
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she miscalculated remember raynella told police she put breakfast by the bed and left the house
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around 9 30. she made the call to Cindy just 20 minutes later there would have been no reason to say
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have you seen him there would have been no reason to ask if it worked out and there certainly would have been no
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reason to say he didn't eat his breakfast because there's no way she could have known that unless she had
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been there and unless the only reason she knew he hadn't eaten breakfast was because he was dead
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have you seen your father today that's the question the prosecution once burned into jurors Minds as both sides make
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their final case it's the only explanation reynella Lee is guilty of the first degree
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premeditated homicide undatedly we can't say that the facts exclude the theory that David Leith shot himself as
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I demonstrated for you be as diligent as you have been since we started and to return a verdict of not guilty murder
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David Lee as all eyes turn to the jury there are things about raynella Leith they'll
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never hear they don't know about Ed Dawson and they don't know about Steve Walker I'm a
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crouton on a real big salad here and this is a big salad in this town Steve Walker's ex-wife was Ed dossett's
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secretary their relationship as it turns out was more than just professional in 1995 three years after Ed's Death Steve
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found out during divorce proceedings that the son he raised was actually Ed Dawson's biological child it came as a
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terrible shock to Steve and raynella I mean in some ways you felt that you were on her side uh right now Alex yes I
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thought we was on the same team he could not have been more wrong according to a police report filed by
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raynella on the morning of May 26 of that year she found Steve quote acting psychotic near Ed's grave on the farm
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she told police she began firing warning shots into the ground to chase him away
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and that Steve then took the weapon and fled on foot but when Steve filed his own report he
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told a very different story he says that same morning reynella picked him up at the auto shop where he
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works and drove him to the farm to talk about the affair till I seen the gun we was as friendly
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as me and you right now when they got to reynella's Barn Steve says she suddenly pulled out a revolver
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in a police interview Steve told investigators reynella then said I'll kill you you son of a [ __ ] then I'll
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raise the sun she had a towel around her hands and she comes up with it and starts shooting
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but the former Marksman missed Steve started running but tripped and fell I'm defenseless she said I used to
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be a better shot there but I can get you from here and she aimed that gun and I closed my
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eyes she pulled the trigger I knew I was gone but the gun click was out of bullets
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there was no doubt in my mind if she hadn't run out of bullets I'd be dead [Music]
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the police believed Steve Walker's story and raynella was arrested and charged with attempted murder but she took a
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deal and pled guilty to a lesser charge of assault after six years her record was cleared why would she plead guilty
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it's the same thing I would have told her is this is a plea that will get expunged there is no jail time take this
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deal and walk away raynell Elite did walk away and I thank you for your time and attention and Ms
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Lee thanks you for your time and attention 22 years later she's hoping to walk away again
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but as the jurors are ready to have their voices heard as jurors you are the ones that will decide the case
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something happens that no one sees coming if you can picture like a cartoon you know of
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someone's jaw hitting the floor like I really really tried to pay attention and and took notes so I was really
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looking forward to deliberating with her daughter by her side reynella Leith arrives at court for the final
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time electric record reflected all parties are present in the courtroom including the defendant before the
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jurors can decide her fate there's just one more piece of business if it plays the court it's a defense
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motion called a rule 29. pursuant to rule 29. a routine request made in nearly every trial to throw out the case
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for lack of evidence in most cases the judge simply denies the motion and gives the jurors the case
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only two words are required either motion granted or motion deny but then like so many times in the story of
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raynello Leith something completely unexpected happens in short the state has failed to meet their burden the
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defendant's motion for Judgment of acquittal is granted the defendant Ray Nella Leith is not guilty the case
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against reynella Leith is dismissed not guilty the judge on his own acquits reynello
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Leath of murder after 14 years of Suspicion six years behind bars and three hard-fought trials just like that
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it's all over as the defense celebrates she's free she's done the end David Lee's daughter
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Cindy sits stunned the prosecution does too I don't understand it I don't have an explanation and under Tennessee law
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there's no appeal either because the judge made his extremely rare decision before the jury began deliberations put
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your money these jurors initially shocked become angry we were just used I mean they just use this as set pieces
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pretty much if judge Summers was so convinced that he was right about the evidence
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why not let us deliberate it and how do you explain that you can't only judge Summers can
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so we asked judge Summers now retired to make his case to 48 hours and he agreed
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strictly based on the evidence that I heard on both sides but particularly on the state side if I'd have been the
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district attorney general I would not have brought the case of trial did you choose to do this to end this case to
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finally end this case yes you did I did when I realized evidence was legally insufficient I decided to
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end this case by doing my job and granting the motion for Judgment of acquittal judge Summers believed that there was
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enough evidence for the jury to decide a homicide may have occurred but he was convinced the prosecution didn't meet
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its burden to prove that raynell Elite had the time or the opportunity to commit it there was no gunshot residue
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found on her clothes or around her she had an alibi that the state could not prove the time of death the evidence was
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clearly insufficient to show that she was the perpetrator of the crime and finally the the there was no evidence to
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show that she was even the last person ever to see David Leith alive if you were so sure that there wasn't
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enough evidence for the jury to convict or Beyond A Reasonable Doubt wouldn't the jury have come to the same
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conclusion I was simply doing my job not trying to pass the book to the jury judges sometimes make these
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extraordinary decisions when they fear jurors might be swayed by emotion and not evidence and that may have been a
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factor in this case while we will never know for sure what the whole jury would have done we have a clue if you had
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gotten to vote how would you have voted guilty how would you have voted guilty how would
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you have voted guilty do you feel right now Elise got away with murder I absolutely feel she got away with murder
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for William McMichael Jesse Capps and Michael persicano it was the gun that pointed to raynella as the killer
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there's no way David Lee fired that third shot and you don't believe the defense witness who said well you can
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have this spasm after death that pulled the trigger the third time that's fantasy what most convinced you Jesse
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that this wasn't just a murder but that reynella leaf was the one who killed her
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husband when Joshua Hedrick was sitting on that bed and he was twirling that cylinder on that gun
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turns a burden to my family it was just so corny a proud man fake he was trying so hard after that I
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was like all right it's just they're trying so hard that it's so obvious now it wasn't just these three they say
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shortly after the judge's decision a majority of jurors gathered near the courthouse and came to the same
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conclusion admittedly they did not deliberate but they would have found her guilty
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um does that make it worse yeah I guess so in some ways but in another sense it tells me I did the right thing
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and more importantly our work as trial attorneys was spot on for David Lee's family it's little
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consolation he stole that verdict from the family from the prosecution from the jury
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it was a theft some in this town will always call her a black widow but for raynella Leith none
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of that matters because as she leaves courtroom number two how are you doing reynella you guys
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weren't worried about her before so leave her alone now she walks away a free woman please leave my mom alone did
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it cross your mind you might be letting a killer go free you know there's a difference between
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being not guilty and being innocent if the state does not prove its case they are found not guilty
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it doesn't say that they're innocent so you're not saying that raynell Elite is innocent you're saying
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not guilty there are two entities of which I'm aware that know the answer to that question
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one is the good Lord above and the other one is the defendant right Nella Lee [Music]
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thank you