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him. was money the motive or was there another reason? >> it's sex, lies and audio tape. turns out this busy doctor had a busy love life at home and at work. >> she loved him. >> i said why. >> he said it was just sexy. >> who wanted the doctor dead. >> who has the motive? is the person who's not getting what they want. welcome to "dateline," a top doctor found himself fighting for his own after he was poisoned. so investigators wanted to know which one was toxic. here is andrea cannon with fatal

attraction. >> reporter: there is a place of houston, texas. >> their goal is making cancer history. the best and the brightest works there. researching. saving lives. >> i was never a number or just a patient. i was a human being. >> what happened when one of their own became dangerously ill. >> i was shocked. crazy things happening. i would never imagine it would happen to anybody i knew. >> not with cancer but still something lethal and bizarre. >> it was the worst kept secret. >> hollywood could not write this script, it's unbelievable that's why it's true. >> it was around midnight, january 27th, 2013, a 48-year-old man wobbled through the door of md anderson slurring

his words, disoriented. >> he diplomat go to the emergency room. ryan c course guard. >> he went to a cancer hospital. >> where he felt safe. >> his office was also there. >> maybe he felt safe there because the sick man was george bloomingshine jr. many of his talents here dedicated to cancer. his life seems to revolve around his work. >> now this very private man was at md anderson not to be examined but to research his own symptoms. friends at the hospital urged him to go straight to the er.

>> it sounded like it was tough to coax him in. >> they sat this video of the cell phone as they sat outside er. she needed to check himself in. the video was later crucial to shoveling a mystery. to see the usual articulate doctor like this was a strange site. >> indy molina is a friend and assistant of george. >> what was george like? >> charming. >> she says he always had a good side manner. >> the way he greeted you. >> i thought he was respectful.

>> patients did call me and made comments about him. he's a great doctor. >> now the doctor is in need of care. >> georgia's research partner, a doctor, named anna marie gonzalez was also with him outside the er. anna had seen him at the office that day and later at a business dinner, that cell phone video documents her describing his symptoms. >> for people that knows him, he still slurs. >> george agreed to be examined at md anderson and words spread fast that one of their doctors checked in. >> what is it? is he stressed? >> doctors suspected that george may have suffered a stroke but his mri was clear.

>> whatever that was wrong was getting worse. >> he was deteriorating and his health was going downhill. >> a few hours arriving at the er, the doctor was unconscious. his organs failing and he was rushed to icu. >> through the night, george laid near death. inside the medical staff wondered how had their colleague end up here. it was not long before police were wondering the same thing. coming up, as doctors worked to save one of their own, someone noticed something strange. >> they found crystals. you are a doctor and you know everything that goes into your body. how was this in you? >> when "fatal attraction" continues. contin ues.

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in the early morning hours after he was admitted to the er, dr. george blumenshen laid unconscious. >> i was worried about him. >> were you just really praying that he would come through this. >> of course, he's a great person. >> no one was sure why this perfectly healthy man was working one day and on the brink of death. >> no one knew what it was.

they knew there was kidney failure. >> did they start to run tests? >> they started doing test and that's when they found these crystals. >> crystals in his system? >> that could be a sign of dehydration and kidney stones. one of george's doctor made a starlling discovery. it was ethylene glycol. it damages the heart and can kill you. >> this must be a shock to everyone when they realize this topnotch doctor taken ethylene glycol. >> absolutely. >> you are a doctor, you know everything that goes into your body. how was this introduced? >> george was in and out consciousness and being kept alive on dialysis. now that doctor it is knew what

was making him sick. they called an investigator to figure out how it happen. >> it's a poisoning case which is very rare. assistant district attorney nathan hanegan has to consider every possible way. he wanted to find out this was a mistake that maybe he ingested something some where else. >> accidental poisoning was not so far fetched. in its pure form, ethylene glycol was used all over anderson. it's odor less. after checking out the accident theory, it seems unlikely that george had not been in a lab. >> we could not establish he had access to ethylene glycol. >> the former houston homicide

detective took his job as a quiet retirement gig. >> missing dolly, not exactly houston homicide. >> they have their own forms of crimes but nothing on the same scale of law enforcement. >> lieutenant soso looked at george's case. >> did you asked him if he try to take his own life? >> i asked him and there were no mental health issues or conditions. >> he said no. >> satisfied this was neither suicide nor accident. it was only one conclusion left. someone tried to kill george. it starting to look like a

prominent doctor poison. what does your gut tell you? >> we are trying to narrow down who was around the doctor. >> the first person was george's living girlfriend. >> the woman in the emergency room had concerns and she told you that. >> she indicated that we need to look at evette, she shares food and wine with him. she suggested that maybe it was a random act. >> she was throwing out all kinds of hypothesis and hypotheticals. she told detective sosa maybe he was a victim of some psychowaiter that wanted to hurt a lot of people. >> this was thereto a psychowaiter. investigators want to know more

about evette. >> they live together on and off. >> she had real issues with the fact that she didn't want to commit. her remedy for that was they're going to have a baby. >> now that they're trying to start a family, george, the bachelor was also talking about marriage. investigaors wondered if she had anything to gain financially if george was killed. >> how much is he worth? >> $7 million. >> that fact alone is motive. they pressed that lead and pulled his insurance papers and requested his will. >> would she be entitled the

money? >> no. everything was left onto his brother. >> lieutenant sosa put in a request to do surveillance of his brother's house. >> what response did she have? >> absolutely not. she offered to submit everything. she turned over the bottle of wine she and george drank the night before he got sick. lieutenant decided to call off the surveillance. the mild mannered girlfriend hardly seemed like a killer. who in the world wanted dr. george blumenshen dead. >> was there somebody out there? >> yes. >> that's exactly what invest gators were thinking. they placed a guard at george's

door: >> we didn't know anyone attempt to go into his room and try to do it again. >> a second murder attempt. >> yes, ma'am. >> come up, behind closed doors at the hospital. >> the plot starts to thicken. >> people start to realize and putting the pieces together. >> when "fatal attraction" continues. attraction" continues. ♪ ♪ ♪

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two weeks after he was poisoned, dr. blumenshen was still suffering. his body ravaged by ethylene glycol. investigators were no closer figuring out who wanted george dead. many of the brilliant scientists at md anderson wereless than chaty. >> these doctors were private people and very intelligent. >> did they want to be apart of this case? >> no. no one wanted to be apart of this case. >> dr. anna marie gonzalez, george's research partner. a co-worker who was by his side as he checked into the er. the details of george's life at the hospital.

>> how often were they together? >> seems like all the time. they travel together. they work either his office or her office. they were on the phones. >> dr. gonzalez was a fast-rising star in breast cancer medicine. >> i believe that she held a cure for women in the world. >> patient like sylvia, dr. gonzalez was nothing short of a miracle worker. >> she has this compassionate and understanding about the disease and woman she streets. >> dr. gonzalez treated nyman. >> did she put you at ease? >> she's small of stature but she's feisty and she said we are going to go after this. i said you and i are going to

get along just fine. >> anna met george years earlier when she referred a patient to him. soon after she invited him to collaborate on a research project. they were invited to lectures and travel around the world. after working for george, sandy took a job assisting anna. >> i know she's trying to get his career going and getting more grants and helping him get promoted. he was not the most organized person. >> anna really had an impact on george's life. >> yes. >> was he grateful for that? >> i think he was. >> how eager were you talking to dr. gonzalez. >> very eager, she knew his schedule. anna provided valuable details of the day george got sick. she told the lieutenant she and george worked in their offices at md anderson and attended a business dinner together that

evening. she witnesses his condition slowly worsening. >> every minute you can account for, i would imagine helps you put together that crucial timeline? >> yes, ma'am. >> what did she tell you? >> i asked her for an account of the week prior to him going into the hospital. >> anna told him of george's week. she was sharing a lot. but, as lieutenant listened, he had a hunch she may believing something out. she went back and pressed their colleagues for more. what was up with george and anna? >> there may have been more than a working relationship. >> the plot started to thicken. people starting to put the

pieces together point. >> the folks were not so keen talking to investigators. >> did anna know people were gossip? >> i am sure she did. >> lieutenant sosa asked anna point-blank were she and george having an affair, she denied it. >> he also asked george the same thing and george also said no. the investigators was not convinced, now weeks since he was poison, george was out of the hospital feeling stronger than back at work. the investigators decided to invite him out for a drive, away from his girlfriend and colleagues. in the car, george finally confessed he and anna were partners in more ways than one. >> quick twists they were having or a deep emotional connection? >> i never got an indication

that dr. blumenshen said it was a deep connection. it was as fling. >> george told the lieutenant that the affair went on for a year and a half. he said it was a casual ting and sometimes they travel to professional conferences, they share a room, sort of co-workers with benefits arrangement. the day he got sick, he stopped at anna's on the way to work. >> they went upstairs and had a sexual liaison. >> he carried her. >> that sounds like romantic. >> they were having some sort of casual sexual, romantic thing going on. >> to investigators this prestigious hospital was looking more and more like the setting of a soapy daytime drama, drama that changed the shape of the investigation. any time you have a love triangle, the different points

of the vertrices. >> poking around george's professional life led investigators back to his private life giving them al new theory of the crime. >> the doctor who was both prominent and very private just had his affair revealed. one secret is out, there are many more. >> who has the motive? it's the person who's not getting what they want who has to have what they know they can't. >> when "fatal attraction" continues. n "fatal attraction" continues. forty percent of people with type 2 diabetes will develop chronic kidney disease, or ckd. did you know ckd can lead to kidney failure and dialysis? kidney alert! ckd often has no symptoms until it's too late! help protect your kidneys. call your doctor for a uacr test.

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government. coroner's office confirmed ten storm related fatalities, as many as 100 people estimated killed in kentucky alone. now, back to "dateline." ♪♪ welcome back to "dateline," i am natalie morales. a houston doctor poisoned nearly to death admitted a dark secret but did his affair had anything to do with the attempt of his life? >> back with "fatal attraction," here is andrea cannon. >> the first big break in the investigation into who poisoned george blumenshen came when the doctor finally admitted he was a cheater. he was carrying on an affair with his partner, anna maria gonzalez. investigators went back to talk to a vet.

>> a yvette. >> the thing about yvette is she didn't know about this affair. she's so naive and so clueless, they, there is nothing going on and they're really good friends. she does not know what's going on. >> she told investigators george only fessed up about the affair a few weeks after she was poisoned. >> investigators turn to dr. gonzalez, george had some interesting things to say. as he told it in the weeks before his poisoning, anna's affection intensified, she called and texted him constantly and showered him with gifts the started buying the same thing he owns. >> buying the same type of car that he has.

buying the same type of watches he mentioned and she buys herself the same luggage. >> george believed anna may be behind the poisoning. george broke off the affair with anna but never told her why. he decided to secretly record their calls. >> i feel that you know, i helped you a lot and i feel completely betrayed. >> the fact that you and i slept together is out of the picture. it's a friendship that hurts because i trusted you. that's what hurts. >> george gave the recordings to investigators. they heard she was distraught and jealous of the lover she could not have. >> it's just too late.

she won. you know go have a kid. have a good life. i will leave. i will be fine. >> you listen to that and you can hear it in her voice. she says she won. she won. >> too late. she won. >> she needed dr. blumenshen to helicopter her research. they had a special bond. >> why would she want him dead? >> little did dr. blumenshen knows. who has the motive? >> the person who has to have and know they cannot. that's her, they wanted more. >> prosecutors thought anna had opportunity too. giving her plenty of chances to slip him the poison. on may 29th, 2013, police

arrested anna on charges of aggravated assaults. anna's patients did not believe it. >> i didn't understand it. that was devastating store me. she was what held me together. >> she's incapable of that. >> she heals people. >> her trial began in the fall of 2013. the court was filled with families and patients. >> she's about 100 pounds. she does not look like a killer. >> did you worry that the jury would have a hard time convicting someone like dr. gonzalez. >> i worry about it everyday and every night. this is a doctor who in the right mind can look at her and think this was someone capable of doing such unimaginable things. >> prosecutors told the jury how this casual affair with george blumenshen was not not so casual to anna.

>> absolute obsession. >> a string of colleagues testify anna could not contain her feelings for george. >> it seems like anna was very infatwaited with dr. blumenshen. >> when ever we discussed anything, george's name would come up. >> she loves him. >> the affair was the worst kept secret at md anderson. >> were you ever under the impression there was more than a work relationship between the defendant and dr. blumenshen. >> the doctor said she and anna were not close friends. that did not stop anna from volunteering details about the relationship. >> she told me a little bit about information about their intimacy. she basically said they were seeing each other. >> another doctor testified the

curious conversation. this was hours before doctors everyone confirmed it. >> she told me that doctor is very sick and he was in the icu and he had ingested ethylene glycol. >> she told you that monday morning the. >> the witness also recalled the conversation with anna that sounded to her like a confession. >> she told me while quite tear full a she had ethylene glycol in her labs as did most md anderson. she says i am going to get so much trouble for this. >> prosecution called a vet tony to the stand. >> she testified how she found out about the affair after george became sick. >> i felt so stupid.

i trusted her and him. >> the prosecution asked of that, what everyone in court was thinking and why would she still with george? >>. >> it's not he really is. >> we are still working on our relationship. it's a working process. >> yvette told the jury what happened when she confronted anna. >> did she seem to care? >> no. what did you say? >> i said why. she said it was just sexy things. >> the prosecution thought it was much more than that. >> everything about this case is nuts. you could not write the script in hollywood. >> the jury was about to go on a wild ride full of wicked plots and obsession. >> anna is the one on trial.

>> george is one in the hot seat. >> i was wrong. >> i was wrong when fatal attraction continues. n fatal attraction continues

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she became obsessed with him and wanting him. >> they argued that anna, the successful doctor had been on a downward spiral doing crazy things to stir up trouble in georgia's relationship with yvette. >> the anonymous letter she's dropping off and all in attempt to manipulate george away from yvette was behind a series of threatening phone calls she received. according to prosecutors, those phone calls never happened. >> md anderson has calls that track every single one of them. there is no anonymous phone calls. the strangest of all, the prosecution contended a month before the poisoning, anna

staged an assault on herself that she told anyone who would listen. >> she said she worked with a private investigator to find out who it was. they traced this person back to louisiana and he was a relative, she had a cousin of yvette tony. >> investigators thought her wounds were self-inflicted. >> the person who seen anna's obsession up close was the object of it. reluctant george blumenshen took the stand. >> are you a private person? >>, very private. >> this is not easy. >> the prosecution needed george to rehash their relationship. how casual sex turned to

something that nearly killed him. >> it's hard to say no to her. >> george recounted how anna initiated their affair in his office. >> at one point, she's like shut up, let me sit on your knees, not a problem. she started kissing me on your neck, i remember what she said, i am going to eat our ear. >> well, you didn't stop her. >> i didn't. >> you cheated on yvette. >> i did, it was the wrong thing to do. he was clear with anna, she was not levering yvette. she accused me of not returning to phone calls. >> anna went over the top with fancy gifts like gold jewelry from columbia and a $5,000 watch. she bought herself the lady

version, do you want it? i said i don't want it. and suddenly, i bought it for you, here it's. >> she forced him to accept a thousand dollars suit. >> i don't want a suit that i have not seen. no, you need a suit. fine. >> that's what you want to do go ahead. i ended up giving it to goodwill. i felt like she was pushing her boundary. >> what finally pushed anna over the edge claims prosecutors was when george and yvette started talking babies and marriage. >> i would have a kid with you. that's kind of you to say. no, no, i can have a kid and i can move to europe and you can be the uncle. i was like no, thank you. that's not what we want to do. >> the prosecution argued if anna could not have george, no one could. >> the defendant had a fatal

attraction. >> dr. gonzalez? >> she fits the role without a doubt. >> then the prosecution had george tell the jury about the day he almost died. >> the only thing that had been strange was that that cup of coffee i had on sunday. >> that was the key to the prosecution's case. >> anna served george coffee during their morning rendezvous. it was the only thing he drank that day before he felt sick. >> did you noticed anything strong? >> it was incredibly sweet. >> ethylene glycol has an intensely sweet flavor. >> she served at his home and giving him more. within hours of drinking it, she

was light headed and sluring. >> by night he was in the icu. >> what's so hard about reliving this part the. >> because i almost died. >> to button up their case, the prosecution called a leading expert in ethylene glycol. >> based on the time frame when symptoms appear, i would conclude he ingested the ethylene glycol was on sunday morning. it was the coffee that tasted sickening sweet. >> according to prosecution, anna spent the day with the man she was trying to kill, watching him deteriorates and following him as he finally drove himself to the hospital. prosecution entered that cell phone video into evidence and told the jury to take a good look. anna was right there next to george, smiling and pretenning to help when she knew what was

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>> the former patient came to court with anna each day. >> she didn't want to fall apart in front of her family. we would get back to the car and we would cry and i would pray. >> it was anna's defense team to hit back. >> they called her devious, dangerously deadly and fatal attraction. >> do you think that started to stick with the jury? >> well, that was clearly what their goal was. i thought that the prosecutors' theory of the case was diabolical killer was an over reach. >> this case is about a

consenting consensual relationship between two peers. it's not a case of fatal attraction. the defense argued anna was not obsessed. she bought george gifts because she was generous. all those plots was speculation. >> she was a dear friend and somebody i cared about. >> george told the jury their casual relationship shows no kind of trouble. >> this was not a relationship under any crisis. >> no. >> in fact, nothing had changed your relationship with dr. gonzalez at this point in time? >> no. >> in fact, on the morning the prosecutions said anna tried to poison george, he came onto her. >> you carried her up the

stairs, did you not? >> i did. >> you had a romantic encounter when you were there, right? >> it was one that you initiate. >> right. >> everything that happened with your relationship with this woman was consensual, was it? >> yes. it was consensual. >> anna's attorney attacked the investigation charging that investigators dismissed the most obvious suspect too quickly. >> there could be no doubt that doctor tony would be a natural interest. the fact the matter is she was never investigated. >> the defense was not buying of that story she had no clue of the affair. >> you are a smart woman, right? >> thank you for saying that. >> are alarm bells going off in your head. >> i thought a few times i thought something was going on and he said no. there is nothing i can do if someone is lying. >> do you ever follow him?

>> no. >> do you ever think about it? >> no. >> it's ridiculous. >> i am sorry. >> then the defense flipped yvette's cell phone video on his head made her look suspicious. >> she's not sitting next to the guy that she's been worried about all day and her arms around him and trying to comfort him and videoing it. she's real. >> when it came to anna's behavior on that tape, the defense said she did something only an innocent person would do. she told the doctor about the coffee. >> don't people commit crimes run away from the crime scene and don't they clam up and be quiet? she's on a video talking about what happened that day. the defense's biggest target was the science or lack there of,

they went after the investigation for what they thought was a huge mistake, never testifying the coffee cups. >> there is no scientific evidence. look, i guess you call this the murder weapon, right? if they're right then this is the weapon, the deadly weapon that dr. gonzalez used in this case and you don't bother to test it? give me a break. >> they grilled that expert who testiied that george could have only ingested that sunday morning. george had been drinking wine and vodka in the days before his symptoms surfaced. >> ethanol threw off his finding.

>> in their final words to the jury, anna's lawyers discover it home. >> what is the state's case missing? >> this is overly simple but one shred of direct evidence. there is nothing. this is nothing, nothing. not a doubt. >> after eight long days of testimony from experts, friends and the well-respected doctors of md anderson. the case against anna marie gonzalez was now in the hands o f the jury. both sides waiting and hopeful and anxious. >> everyone be seated. >> after five hours of deliberations. >> i understand the jury has reached the verdict. we find anna gonzalez guilty. >> she's innocent. >> she didn't do it. >> she's a good person. >> in texas, a defendant can ask the jury to determine sentencing as anna did.

>> she was extremely kind. >> as patients filed in for lenient. >> she saved my life. >> her punishment could have been up to 99 years. her character witness had an effect on the jury. >> ten years of the texas department. anna once among the top breast cancer the world was another convict in the texas' prison system. >> the medical community lost a giant and not just us but future generations. >> dr. blumenshen went back to anderson and treating patients. in prison, dr. gonzalez get began helping cancer patients, she surrendered her medical license after the trial.

>> she took an oath that says you shall not administer poison. she violated that and she spun a web of lies and deceit and now she's paying for it. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline." thanks for watching. "dateline." thanks for watching. murder is so personal. she knew who was in the room with her. she trusted that person. and the saddest thing is that the last person you look at in this world is not your loved ones -- it's your killer. >> gosh, i miss her so much. >> reporter: tough. tenacious. as feisty as her name, hard-driving defense attorney chiquita tate. >> she would walk into a