dogs. the urge to rescue runs deep. >> that is all for this edition of dateline, i'm craig melvin, thank you for watching. i'm craig melvin, and i'm natalie morales. and this is dateline. a doctor's wife dies after a minor fender bender. so why do her brothers believed this was no accident? >> so i pulled my brother out and i told them you are not going to believe what i just heard. the startling news came from her sister's friend. >> she just kept insisting promise me you'll get a full autopsy. >> the brothers kept it a secret. >> we wouldn't tell the parent week to -- wouldn't tell my sister diana. we wouldn't tell anybody. >> it was information about a family member they loved with

the point the guilty finger? >> there was no way we were going to accuse. him >> hello and welcome to dateline. thousands of americans are killed in car accidents every year. but, when a mother of two died after a minor fender bender. her loved ones were left shaking their heads and looking for some answers. the more they learned the more it seemed it wasn't her accident that needed investigating. it was her marriage. here is dennis murphy with bitter pill. >> so ironic that rosie essa was just idling a few days the afternoon when she had only a few precious minutes remaining. but we never know, do we? it was february 2005, she was dashing to the movies to meet her sister diana at a matinee. >> at the last minute, and i

was at the movie theater she had called and said i'm on my way. i'm leaving. now >> no one knew it then but rosie special trip to the movie that day from the nice home in suburban cleveland would second motion an international manhunt. something that became an excruciating five-year ordeal that would expose mistresses, secret bedrooms and new identities. and would involve the fbi of a middle east and murder. and all the injury and all the lifetime of sorrow for so many began on the streets of a perfectly present mom's dad's kids and dogs kind of neighborhood. gates mills ohio. rosie, and her handsome husband yazeed essa or yaz as he is known as live to. she was a nurse. they met while working at the same hospital. a 36, he was proud that he, a man of humble roots, was able to provide his family with so much.

the big house in the backyard pool money for whatever they needed. >> once upon a time -- >> the kind of son of all that rocco and gee gee dipuccio can regard is have's. and she took two jars of baby food with them. i mean everything he did had to be. big >> was it in a schauf kind of way or was he being generous? >> no, you know i used to say to him i think that god is so good to you and everything you do because you're so giving to people. >> now, rosy her family would say could not have cared less about the house the cars or the status. she was down to earth and content with what she always had. not the least of, it her close italian american family. for a sunday dinner at her parents don't mix. >> you're silly! >> and of course, the sun and

moon of her life to your old daughter lena and four-year-old son armand. >> was she happy to be a mother? >> oh my god, are you kidding? she would just pinch their cheek and say i can't believe i've got these beautiful kids. i just love. them her eyes lit up when she looked at her babies. they were her life. >> happy birthday! >> say happy birthday. >> in fact rosy and yaz married for almost six years we're hoping for another child. she was taking premade all vitamins. but she would never get to have another baby. because rosie's ten-minute drive to the movies in her black velvet suv was going poorly. her waiting sister had no idea what had gone wrong. >> i wondered where is she? how come she's not calling? i held my phone the whole time. just waiting for uttering. as it turned, out for a few minutes anyway, rosie was on her cell with their friend of many years. a woman named eva. she drove on interstate 2:21

for just one exit to wilson mills road. that's when rosie's suv started veering radically. another driver noticed. it >> i saw a black car crossover center and go back into the lane and hit a car. and the car just kept going. and i think to myself what is going on here? what is this woman doing? >> the volvo eventually stopped. that's when tara tamsen medical technician, pulled over and run over to see if she could help the woman in the car. she found the person in desperate shape. >> when i got into the car the woman was lynn. and next thing you know, she started vomiting. meanwhile patrol officer david schiciano, the highland heights police department had happened to be by. his dashboard cam recorded the accident. >> the female driver was sitting back. she's just gasping for air. we >> rosie was will rushed to the hospital. when word reached her family, they too,, reach to the emergency room worried about

her condition. >> we were just praying, you, no please! letter live. no matter how bad -- she's broken up will take care of. her let's just please let her live god. >> in the er the doctors were working frantically on rosy for almost an hour now. the allowed her husband yaz and the emergency room doctor to observe. >> rosie's brother would be the one to deliver the bad news to her parents. >> he looked at me, he was crying, he went like this to me. and i just went down. it was sadly over four rosy isa at the age of 38. the family was brought to a private room for reviewing. >> when i saw her, i, thought she looked like she was sleeping. i mean, there was not a mark on her. >> and as this family began to prepare for unspeakably sad

arrangements,, just hours after she had passed away, that friend named eva who had been on the phone with rosie did right before the car crash, got a hold of dominick, rosie's brother. she repeated what we're very probably rosie's last words. it was literally, unbelievable what eva was suggesting. >> first thing i did is i went in the house and i pulled my brother up and i told him, you are not going to believe what i just heard. repeated the story to him. we looked at each other like, now with the hell do we do? >> what's eva said would nearly ripped dominic and his brother apart. how could they keep such a monstrous thing secret? >> we wouldn't tell our parents. we wouldn't tell my sister diana. we wouldn't tell anybody. >> coming up -- >> she just kept insisting, promise me you'll get a full autopsy. >> when dateline continues. hen dateline continues bundled home and auto with progressive, so you have round-the-clock protection on all your stuff. like that cardboard tv. i told props to switch that out. okay, everyone, that's a wrap. [ bell rings ]

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after medical school, he had become an emergency room doctor, but one within entrepreneurial itch. he and his brother had become wealthy as a partners in a satellite dish installation company. back in 1999 when they married, rosy's parents felt it was a dream come true for their daughter. >> just think we have a beautiful future together. >> in the years they were married, rosy's mom and dad saw just a rosy relationship. >> we loved him. we cared about him because there was nothing we could say we disliked. >> but now, after proceeds death, there was trouble brewing in the family. it brought roses two families -- nearly two blows. it all started after a conversation just hours after rosy's death that dominic had with her sister's friend eva. >> he said, rosy died, rosy died, she is hysterical, she

proceeded to tell me that rosie was toxic to her on the way to the movie and she said yaz had given her a calcium fill before she left the house, and she started to feel queasy. she said i will call yaz to see if maybe the calcium could be making you sick. >> i'm hearing something about a pill, he gave it, or she is being made sick by as he was talking to her on the phone. within an hour, she is dead. >> right. >> after the eva conversation, dominic called a family council of just the two brothers and their wives. they needed someplace private, so they got into one car and drove to the churches parking lot. even story seem incomprehensible, could there have been something wrong with the calcium capsule yaz had given rosy. >> we called, her she kept insisting problems me you will get -- toxicology report, promised, me promise me. >> dominic's wife actually was

dumb found. >> how did this information come to you about somebody from his family, there was no way we were going to accuse him -- >> let alone a guy that we knew that wasn't our family that we loved. >> we trusted. >> the brothers found themselves an opposite answers fire strategy, dominic the lawyer wanting to go slow, first lead the corners report then see -- >> rocky and has roy rachel were eager to take a story to the cops. everyone hoped that yaz was blameless. >> i remember feeling suspicious after that phone call, feeling like we need to do something with this information. >> in the dark of the parking lot, they made a compromise. rocky would call the corner the next day, and ask for a thorough and full examination of roses body. there wouldn't be any mention of chivas suspicions. >> the corners going to find out how she died, this was a matter of two days, three days, for days.

the corner would come back and say this is what happened. >> that is where everyone wanted, they were desperate to know what had happened who rosy. the two car accident she had been involved and had been a minor fender bender, and there appeared to be no serious trauma to her body. the next day, the corner performed an autopsy. unwelcome news reached the dipuccio cause of death, unknown. more tests would be needed. the weight would only add more stressed to an already stressful situation between roles these two brothers. her parents felt the tension. they were going at each other. and i couldn't understand. this >> you could see it? >> i could see. it, they were arguing. and i told -- you don't have to talk to dominick and rocky. >> but, how long could the brothers keep their secret from the rest of the family? >> coming up -- >> especially when someone else

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car accident and almost two weeks later, her family was still awaiting the coroner's final report on the exact cause of her death. >> that is when this woman on her own decided to get

involved. and it's that involvement that would later prove invaluable to the police. >> i didn't want to be the nosy neighbor -- coming up with these wild convoluted ideas. christine dicillo was a nurse who once worked with both rosie and her doctor husband yaz. she hadn't seen much of either of them in the previous five years. by coincidence christine lived right next door to roll eastward eva. and eva told her about that last phone call with rosy about yaz giving them a -- >> it's odd to me that just prior to leaving for a movie in the middle of the afternoon, in a hurry that was so necessary that he give you the pill. as soon as i got off the phone with eva, i look to my husband and said i think he killed her. >> gut instinct. >> instantly. >> so, going simply on her gut instinct, that something wasn't right. an unknown to release brothers, christine called the authorities. >> but, if you are wrong, christine -- >> while, or could they take it

if i was wrong? there was no harm, no foul. they could politely tell me that i was wrong and thank you for my. help and i would go away. >> christine's urgent request to check yaz out made it to the desk of this detective. gary mckee, of the highland heights ohio police to tottenham and was already investigating rosie's car accident. >> i had never met christine dicillo, i didn't know she had a -- with him. whatever reason, she didn't care for him may not have been a valid reason. so, i wasn't approaching him as a suspect or even thinking that, you know, this guy's murder. >> still the detective had some facts that did not at. up 38 year old woman, good health, suddenly dead in a fender bender. what's more, the coroner couldn't give him a cause of death. at minimum, he had to find out more about those calcium capsules, christine dicillo had told him about. the detective called rosie's husband, and he agreed to come down to the police station. that interview was recorded on an audiotape. the detective questioned the

doctor about the calcium capsules. >> two weeks before i was over my mom's house, and i heard about this as. well my mom was just -- over and they were talking and i had been told that rosie was there. and that we should probably, you know, she was over 35, she should probably start taking calcium supplements. so, she's not in the care of any special mansour. anything she didn't have any special -- >> no. >> was she experiencing any unusual stress recently? >> no, life was good. >> did you have any stressors in your marriage? >> no, our marriage was. fine >> so, what's your impression of this doctor, the guy called yaz. >> well, he's clearly a smart individual. very low-key. >> are the calcium pills in the prescription vitamin still at home? >> yes. >> would you mind if i followed you back to your home uncollected those? >> no, that be. great >> not at all. >> remember, rosie and yes we're trying to have another child. and she was prescribed premade

of vitamins. detective mckee wanted all the pills rosie was taken, gathered up for testing. including the calcium capsules that you has said he bought for his wife. the interview over, the detective followed yaz home. >> we entered the home. there was a female seated at the kitchen counter and hostile. she was marguerita montanez. >> margarita was the daytime 90. he had hired her to care for the kids after rosie died. he also hired another woman to be the nighttime nani, at the time the detective thought nothing of margarita, the 90. though, that would eventually change. for now, he was only there to get the pills formulas. >> before he retreats the pills, he asked me, have you found the cause of death for my wife? and i said, no, we have. and so, he reached up into the cabinet, he got the pills. but before he handed them to me he said, why do you want these? and my response, was you know, i just want to cover all the bases. >> the next day, yes asked rosy

sister to watch his kids overnight. then, in the middle of that night, she got an urgent call from him. >> a four in the morning, he left me a voice mail saying, that his friend's brother was in a bad car accident. and,, they didn't think he was going to make. it so, he was going to go to north carolina. >> the friend's brother was apparently in bad shape. rosie as the dipuccio family to watch the children for the weekend. but, on monday, when the doctor was to return, came a bombshell none of the dipuccio cover-up imagined. rosie's brother got a call from his wife. >> julie called and, said nobody can find yaz. she said, what do you mean? nobody can find. them i found this, friend we found is, number i called. him i, said has your brother? and he said, what are you talking about. i said, well, yes told us he was down with you. has your brother been in a really bad car accident? i, said i haven't seen yaz. he hasn't been here all weekend. >> dominic went to rosie and yaz's house. and discovered something on the kitchen counter.

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house and started his own investigation. >> my entire family spent the week at the house. we were playing detectives. trying to figure out what happened. >> what was the puzzle piece telling? you >> rosie died on a thursday, less than 24 hours later he sends a blast email to all his friends that said, just wanted to let you know that rosie died yesterday in a minor car accident she will be missed. >> that's it? >> that was the email. >> you will be missed. >> the mother of his two children. blast email! for >> credit card transactions dominic eventually learned that years had blocked a plane ticket. final destination cyprus the island in the mediterranean. >> dominic knew it was time to tell the entire family everything. he and his brother rocky had been keeping. back about the conversation their sister had with eva just before she died. her story about rosy feeling sick effort taking a calcium capsule given to her by yes. >> are you the family saying out loud in one voice yaz

killed rosy. >> some of us are, it took me awhile really took me a >> suddenly dominic and his wife's family had grown. carrying on only for their four children but now rosy to children as. well >> if not a mother not a father we really don't even know where to tell them where they went. what happened to them where did he go. how do you even answer that question? >> then came even more devastating news. about four weeks after rossi's death, test results were in for the calcium pills that police took from yaz's home. >> we were suspicious but they nailed it. and what would be filled? with >> potassium cyanide. >> cyanide. a lethal poison. nine pills were in the bottle that yes had turned over to police. it's from that same bottle that he gave rosy a capsule. and sure enough there was enough cyanide in each pill to kill a person within minutes. rosie's death was a homicide. but how could the man that

dipuccio love so much the son-in-law they thought had a near perfect marriage with rosy ever had killed or? nonetheless doctor yazeed essa was now a murder suspect and international fugitive. the local police called in the fbi. >> and nationally he fled from cleveland to cyprus and then eventually he also came information through various sources that he had traveled to lebanon. >> phil tours and he is a fbi man hunter. the agent immediately knew he had a major problem. yeah as was virtually untouchable in lebanon because that country does not have an expedition treaty with the u.s.. so rosie's husband was living freely in beirut. the fbi knew it. and there was nothing they could do about. it >> even if we have eyes on the ground, you've got an agent saying i just saw him leave his apartment going down to the bistro he read the paper one. home you can't move in and sort papers on him. >> right. >> back in the u.s. rosy's

family desperately tried to get yaz to turn himself in. >> they held news conferences. >> what we're doing today is making a plea. if they're watching to come back to cleveland and answer the charges before. >> by then the doctor had officially been charged with aggravated murder in the death of his wife. but it appeared he had no intention of coming back. officials would later learn that yaz took on a new identity. maurice kolisi. >> he was a single good-looking guy always up for a party. here he seen at a wedding. months went by. then a year. >> did you ever get the feeling he was stunning his nose to you and tell the other people looking for him? >> yeah i think so. >> and what you have to do is lure him off the security of his home base where he safe in beirut? >> we hope at some point he leaves the country. >> in october 2006 a year and a half after voters deaf her mom and dad got a phone call from their local police chief. >> and he said are you sitting

down? >> he says i have big news for you. i said, we've got. him >> yaz have finally slipped up. he left the security of lebanon. the fbi was aware he was going to be on a flight into cypress is alonna airport. how the new, they won't say. but cyprus police were waiting for him when he got off the plane. and,, in cypress, unlike lebanon, a person can be extradited to the u.s.. but yes would fight every inch of the way to avoid facing aggravated murder charges in ohio. >> that's our guy! >> it wasn't until january of 2009 that yazeed essa, the man in the grainy footage was finally brought back to the united states. >> 50, go ahead >> and detective gary mckee,, the highland officer who first started investigating rosie's death for years before was waiting for him. >> we put him in the backseat of the car. and i did not say we're tim. >> you did say, remember me? >> i think he did. >> i don't think i had to say. that >> one question no one had

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waiting for this day. dr. yazeed essa, would finally face a jury for allegedly porter poisoning his wife rosy essa. -- would prosecute the aggravated murder case for ohio. >> what's the mission how do you go in about? it >> mission is to define his character and let the jury get another glimpse of who he is as opposed to how he appears there in the courtroom. >> as the trial started, the prosecution challenge was to convince the jury that yazeed essa was a decadent. hi one phase showing the emergency doctor who saved lives and seeing the ideal husband. the other and evil poison or who planned the murder of his wife the mother of his two children. >> rosie sister-in-law may have seen one of those mask slip right after rosie had died. she testified as to how cold and disrespectful yaz was in the way he treated his wife's body lying on the hospital bed. >> yaz walked over to rosy and abrupt -- very abruptly lifted her up and

pulled the sheet down. and she was naked underneath. and he exposed her breast. and he tried to get the necklace off and he just got it off and he just treated her very disrespectfully. and i was thinking, why is he doing that? why is he treating her like that? that's his wife! [inaudible] >> if the prosecution had an indispensable star witness, it would be -- be this person taking the stand. eva mcgregor had been the friend on the phone with rosy just before her car accident and death. only eva could point to yaz as the sign of that cyanide rose casing that she had taken. >> she had taken a calcium pill, right before she left for the house. she didn't want to take it. and she said that she was rushing out the door. and he, said here take. it take the calcium.

now, i don't know if that's what's making me. sick >> the jury would get the lesson in poison. the court was told that cyanide isn't something you could just buy over-the-counter. but the lethal, stuff according to this poison expert was available only a mouse click away online. >> there is a study done where the actually looked at ebay. there's two times that it came up where you could buy, on ebay cyanide. >> and, it turned out to be a snap to shake out the calcium in the capsule and replace it with cyanide. >> you can literally just take, you know a pen cap and you could scoop it with, that port right in. >> that may have been the killers methodology. but, in the big picture, the most damning fact against diaz was his decision to flee. would an innocent father had left his two children behind just weeks after their mother had died? for the story the courtroom was taken to the middle east to account for years is missing month in lebanon. >> good morning sir. >> this man jamal khalife, a kind of godfather mr. fix a

character, testified about how he helped yaz live on the land. virtually a new life and identity. >> i got a phone call from my brother. and that there's somebody coming over and to take care of him. >> the brother of jamal, the fixer, had known yaz family back in the united states. >> he testified that he put him up in a new apartment, -- >> maurice khalife. we have all of the support in lebanon. >> as he got to know the american doctor, a stunning story about rosy spilled out. >> he told me the whole story that his wife was living at home, going to a movie. he told me he grounded cyanide he filled up pills he gave her two pills. down the street she had a car accident, she died. >> a severe blow for the accused. a second hand account of a confession from yaz. another witness was about to deliver an even more dramatic

roundhouse punch. >> good afternoon mr. essa. >> none other than the defendants own brother and business partner, took the stand as a prosecution witness. >> i asked him if he was responsible for her death and he said, yes. >> when you found out that information, what did you say to your brother? >> [inaudible] >> why did you say that? >> because he took rosie's life. and i loved her. and he just ruined this whole family. >> it was crippling testimony. the brother, once an inseparable blood friend had given yaz an evidentiary kill shot. nonetheless, there were still chord problems in the prosecution overall case. it was entirely circumstantial. and, seemed to beg for a motive. why would the doctor do? >> prosecutors answered,, by arguing that yaz the family man wasn't really when you took a closer look. it turned out, he had scans of women on the side.

he was a doctor, with the first degree cheating hard. >> every wednesday night, he would spend with his girlfriend, with this mistrust at her apartment. >> girlfriend, mr., sussex partners. lots of them. jurors were even shown photos of a hidden away bedroom in the building with he and his brother had the visit. >> a lot of shaq, that was. it yet, that was a place that he would use the apartment over there from time to time to bring his lady friends. >> good afternoon. >> and one of those lovers had been marguerita montanez, the daytime nanny. she was the woman the detective sought sitting in yaz ' when they first want to collect the calcium caps. margarita had turned out to have a long term sexual affair with the ads. an affair rosy, evidently knew nothing about. >> in 2001, we begin our sexual relationship. >> why did you become involved in a relationship with the defendant while you are married? me and my husband were having problems and i was going to get

a divorce. >> so, did this begin an affair with the defendant? >> on occasion. it wasn't a love affair or anything. >> marguerita montanez described it as a friends with benefits type of relationship with yaz. purely six. >> but the prosecution assert a diaz had a deeper more complicated relationship with another woman. michelle madeline. now, she was the so-called nighttime nanny for his children. michelle was also someone prosecutors say, who fell in love with the doctor and he, with her. >> -- 1:25. >> to make the, point jurors were shown a camisole like this one, and intimate valentine's day gift from yes to michele just two weeks before rosie's death. >> a representative of the company that shipped the 90, let the card that wasn't close. >> next valentine's day will be all ours. i love you with all of my, being yaz. >> he's indicating to this pair more, at next year's going to be all ours. it's kind of a foreshadowing of,

she won't be a round next year. >> the mistress, the nighttime nani, was called to this. dan >> i had a romantic relationship with them. >> michel testified that she was a nurse that met yaz on the job. she asked for and received a court order to obscure -- while testifying. >> he was telling me that he was so unhappy in his marriage. and i was the love of his life. and i was his dream come true. and, he was going to leave her so that our relationship could continue. >> she's pushing back saying, no, i can't be with a married man. and, he can't take no for an answer. and that's his motivation. that's will put him on this path. >> a path the prosecution, argued, that led directly to murder. >> the one mistress shared with the cord, yaz ' supposed true feelings for his wife, yeah he. >> he was in love with her, according to what he told me. and that he was in love with me. he would, say she was a good person. but she was cold. he would call her, nana.

>> what is that? >> a refrigerator run. >> -- we're devastated by the mistresses recollection. >> the way he humiliated her. and on top of everything that he had done to her to belittle her, or to make fun of her with the mistress is you know, sick. >> your honor, at this time the state of ohio will rest its case. >> the defense was about to rise and offer a completely different theory of the crime. the jury had already met the true killer in court. and, it wasn't yazeed essa. >> coming up -- >> questions about those sinai filled pills. >> if he has successfully killed his wife with, that why go along with this stuff? >> precisely. >> when dateline continues. when dateline continues pronamel repair is our first line of defense. it goes deep into the surface of the tooth to actively repair it. i personally use pronamel repair every single day,

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with yards. >> our mandate is to do the best job that we can, and to bring home that w, bring home that not guilty. >> the defense for yazeed essa came down the fence, sure he had lots of women on the side, and he got away with it. so why did he need to kill his wife? his two defence lawyers, mark and steve told the jury straight, out the defendant was never going to be a husband of

the year. -- >> regularly, always maintained numerous sexual relationships with other women. >> but they insisted, a cheater does not necessarily make a murder. especially a doctor who is planning a bigger family. >> yazeed essa did not commit this crime, he did not intentionally poison a mother of his two young children. the woman with whom he was actively trying to conceive a third child, and add to their family something they both wanted. >> if he were the heartless -- portrait by the prosecution, and how come rosy's family liked him so much? >> did you have a good life? >> yes. >> it appeared they had a sound marriage, yes? >> yes. >> the marriage to the friends, and to her family is a loving good viable marriage. >> by all accounts they had a

great marriage. >> the prosecution theorized that he killed rosy to be with his mistress. the defense's response was, michelle was just another taken number girlfriend. >> michelle meant nothing. >> -- you had a respected doctor with no money worries, and ice family, and as many girlfriends on the side as he could juggle. the bottom line, he had no reason to kill rosy. >> there's no reason for him to have separated his children from their mother, and their father. >> to do something else dramatic and extreme as poisoning your wife, requires some strong motive and it wasn't present here. >> then there was way he behaved early on, would a guilty man have turned over to the police that bottle of calcium capsules if he knew full well the lob would find cyanide in nine of them. >> maybe the biggest puzzle, or if he is contaminated,

establishment his access we killed his wife with them, why in the name of all things that we know from television shows would you go along with the stuff. >> precisely. >> the defense would go after with the police were salt believe handing evidence. the detectives to put the capsule centers bare hands after collecting them. >> are you telling us you made a mistake? >> in hindsight, yes. >> the forensic expert who did not check for prince. >> the pill bottle itself would have been conducive to living rich detail, correct? >> correct. >> to be clear, then nobody ever made that request. >> no, sir. >> there was a catastrophe in terms of forensics here. >> and even though the court had learned how easy it was to obtain cyanide, there was no evidence presented that yaz had actually done that. still the fact that -- was his decision to flee the country, how could that be anything other than the capture of a guilty man. the defense spun this way, yes

early on spoke to a lawyer who advised him he might be facing the death penalty if charged with murder. >> yaz was led to believe that he could be charged with capital murder, and he just freaked out. >> then of course those lawyer said to defuse those explosive allegations from lebanese -- his own brother that he admitted to poisoning rosy. >> i asked him if he was responsible for her death, and he said yes. >> both witnesses headline on the stand according to the defense, because he shut cut a deal with the prosecution for leniency on charges they were facing. >> it was the proverbial get out of jail card. >> the brother friends was looking at almost 12 years in prison for helping yaz, he took a deal. >> he has five kids, all under the age of 12 years, he employs 100 people, he has a lovely wife, a beautiful home, and his world is about to collapse on him.

>> so was he will advice in terms of his own survival strategy to -- >> that is what we believe. >> jamal the fixer had been a fugitive wanted by the united states, you are invited by 29 cowan diamond. just listen to my question! listen, sir, listen to my question! >> the more he talked, the better off we felt we were. >> that guy who's trying to cut a deal? >> precisely. >> so if you has did not, do it who did? the jury had already met her, argued the defense. they offered up -- a daytime 90 as the true killer. >> she is one of the women that yazeed essa maintained a long term ongoing sexual relationship with. >> margarita had a motive for wanting rosy out of the, picture argued the defense. she and yaz had kept a sexual relationship going even though both had married, and do not believe this portrait of her as a casual friends with benefit

lover claimed the defense, margarita very much wanted to marry yazeed essa. and they claim margarita was so obsessed with yaz schiff scheduled her own waiting for the same day as yaz marriage to rosie. >> are you telling us it was an absolute coincidence that you selected the same wedding day as yazeed essa? >> absolutely. >> margarita worked for yaz brother and had access to yaz house. the theory, did you sneak over there once, post the cyanide in the capital souls, so she would have yaz for herself. >> the police did very little. >> despite that assertion, the authorities had investigated margarita and dismissed or other suspect. she emphatically denied having anything to do with rosy's death. but, by introducing the girlfriend theory, had the elephant -- enough doubt? >> the defense would respectfully rest. >> after seven-week trial and

over 60 witnesses, the case was concluded. now it was up to the jurors, they deliberated for three days, and announced they had reached a verdict. >> i think that is the most important. take a deep breath. >> i couldn't -- i got exactly the same way i got the day where rosy died. >> please rise. >> the lawyers, the families on both sides were summoned to the courtroom for the reading of the verdict by judge dina -- >> we the jury in this case make duly on this wanted to find the defendant yazeed essa guilty of murder, in violation of -- >> guilty, it was almost over. at sentencing, a few days later, rosy's family confronted the man they once loved as a son and brother. >> we lost our rosy for no reason, the only thing i'm hoping from now on maybe there will be -- last nights that my wife crisis

off to sleep. >> i challenge him to find the courage today to -- admit what he did, make an apology to my mother and father, my sister, my wife, my brother, our human enough? are you? it is your last chance to save yourself? >> yaz kept his silence. >> i continue to life in prison. >> the judge will sentence doctor the maximum. all along, the detectives, the prosecutor said wondered about the effects. if rosy hadn't called even on the way to the movies, if rosy had lost control of her suv on the freeway and not a local street. >> hadn't been a high speed impact on the highway, the corner and pathologist probably wouldn't have looked any further than for some blunt force trauma from the automobile accident. in a way, it could have been the perfect crime. >> but yaz hadn't plotted the

perfect crime. he killed, he ran, he was caught by tenacious law. yazeed essa we will be eligible for parole after serving 20 years. >> that is all for this edition of dateline, i'm natalie morales, thank you for watching. this was a gruesome murder, a high profile executive and his wife shot to death in beverly hills. we don't really think that children can murder their parents. you have to have a lot of evil in you to shoot your mom and dad. >> young. rich. handsome. in a case made for hollywood, they were ready for the cameras -- >> it was the first televised courtroom drama that captivated the united states, it was a huge deal. >> erik and lyle menendez -- convicted of murdering their own parents. >> i ran around and shot my mom! >> it wasn't real.

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