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HUBBY CAUGHT ON VIDEO POISONING WIFE'S COFFEE, Crackpot Judge Sentences to just 60 DAYS! · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Brian Kazlowski and his wife
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  Speaker 1: were still living together but going through a divorce. It
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  Speaker 1: had gotten so bad she said he actually urinated in
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  Speaker 1: her shampooing conditioner bottles, but she soon learned he was
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  Speaker 1: also poisoning her. After twenty nine years together twenty two married,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Kozlowski's wife filed for divorce in May of twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: Two months later, she started noticing symptoms of blurred vision
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  Speaker 1: and feeling very tired on days where her husband made
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  Speaker 1: the coffee. She even had a near crash on three
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  Speaker 1: seventy five when she dozed off at the wheel during
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  Speaker 1: rush hour. So she installed cameras and saw this her
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  Speaker 1: then husband mixing in the equivalent of eight sleeping pills
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  Speaker 1: into the coffee pot. I felt a horrible coldness in
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  Speaker 1: the air, as if I was being hunted by a
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  Speaker 1: dangerous predator. But in this nightmare, the predator was Brian.
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  Speaker 1: I felt on my knees and cried. I could barely move.
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  Speaker 1: A gorgeous wife who says she feels ill every time
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  Speaker 1: her husband makes her a cup of coffee discovers the
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  Speaker 1: shocking truth there was a reason she felt bad I mean, see, Grace,
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  Speaker 1: this is crime stories. Thank you for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: What we know is this teres Kaslowski feel sick every
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  Speaker 1: time her husband makes her a cup of coffee. But
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  Speaker 1: why you know, doctor Bethany Marshall, Psychoana's joining me out
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  Speaker 1: of La Dodtor Bethany, it's pretty bad when you have
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  Speaker 1: to install nanny cams not to make sure your children
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  Speaker 1: are okay, but to find out what's being put in
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  Speaker 1: your morning coffee. Can you imagine, I mean, think about
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  Speaker 1: everything else that might must have been going on in
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  Speaker 1: that marriage. And the reporter said he urinated on her.
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  Speaker 1: Did I hear that correctly? No? No, he urinated in
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  Speaker 1: her shampoo and conditioner. Oh, mimus steake, my mistake. Oh
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  Speaker 1: he urinated in her shampoo and conditioners. So you can
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  Speaker 1: imagine everything else that was going on. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: fact that a husband would put sleeping pills in his
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  Speaker 1: wife's coffee, not only does that show the height of selfish,
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  Speaker 1: selfishness and wanting to kill your spouse. He has no
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  Speaker 1: thought for everybody else out on the road. She could
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  Speaker 1: have plowed out a whole family or people in a crosswalk,
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  Speaker 1: or you know, it's not only does he not care
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  Speaker 1: about her, He does not care about society at large?
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  Speaker 1: Joining me right now, Crime online dot Com investigative reporter
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  Speaker 1: Trisha Griffith is with us. Trisha, I want to take
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  Speaker 1: it starting at a ending at Z because Z is
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  Speaker 1: going to make you fall off your chair when you
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  Speaker 1: find out what happened to this guy, this husband, Brian Kozlowski.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to start at the beginning. What led
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  Speaker 1: her or terse to install nanny cams? Well, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: I want to start with a question if by might Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: but what husband going through a contentious divorce would be
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  Speaker 1: serving his wife coffee? And I'm wondering maybe if that's
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  Speaker 1: what started it. And then she started to feel sleepy
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  Speaker 1: and nauseated every time she drank his coffee. So she thought, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I've got it, I've got to do something. She installed
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  Speaker 1: these nanny cams. And I can't imagine the shock she
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  Speaker 1: felt when she saw her husband pouring those put in
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  Speaker 1: those pills in her coffee. Probably at the time she
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  Speaker 1: wasn't sure even what the pills were, but yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: started with that. That was the beginning. She filed for
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  Speaker 1: divorce in May of twenty eighteen. In July of twenty
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  Speaker 1: eighteen is when she discovered her husband, even though they
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  Speaker 1: were divorcing, he was the father of her three children,
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  Speaker 1: was actually trying to kill her, not through kindness but
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  Speaker 1: through her coffee. It's appalling, Nancy, it really is. I
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  Speaker 1: just you know, Kathleen Murphy, North Carolina. Family attorney. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: that's like putting perfume on the pig. No offense, Kathleen Murphy,
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  Speaker 1: But family attorney. It makes it sounds like a sweet,
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  Speaker 1: little cozy family. Your practice is anything but it is
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  Speaker 1: down and dirty family law. I mean, I have friends
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  Speaker 1: that are defense lawyers say they'd rather represent a dope
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  Speaker 1: dealer than get in between two divorcing adults. Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever seen anything like this where the wife keeps feeling
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  Speaker 1: sick every time she drinks the husband's coffee. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: why are they living in the same house? Didn't he
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  Speaker 1: anybody see War of the Roses? Wasn't that with Kathleen
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  Speaker 1: Turner and Michael Douglas I can hardly remember, But they
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  Speaker 1: both end up dead in the end. Why would anybody
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  Speaker 1: live in the same house during the middle of a
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  Speaker 1: contentious divorce, Kathleen Murphy, I'll tell you exactly why Nancy
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  Speaker 1: the legislature fails to pass appropriate laws that deal with
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  Speaker 1: the family court system. There's a situation right now where
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  Speaker 1: a father has taken a child, has never visited with
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  Speaker 1: a child is three years old, and the courts won't
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  Speaker 1: even enter an emergency order because the law doesn't allow it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. You're what you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about this kid? I don't know about that case. I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about. Why have you ever seen where
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  Speaker 1: a family, a mom and a dad who are so viciously,
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  Speaker 1: venomously angry at each other live under the same roof,
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  Speaker 1: And why they live under the same roof because they
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  Speaker 1: can't afford to separate, or because one parent doesn't want
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  Speaker 1: to leave the home and leave the children with the
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  Speaker 1: abusive parents. And there's no law that allows us to
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  Speaker 1: kick somebody out unless there's clear evidence of domestic violence
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  Speaker 1: so he can continue his under belly behavior. I can't
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  Speaker 1: believe these two were still under the same roof and
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  Speaker 1: they have children. As a matter of fact, take a
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  Speaker 1: listen to our friend an NBC four It's reporter Jason Calthorpe.
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  Speaker 1: She also revealed a chilling conversation with her daughter who
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  Speaker 1: told her she too drank the coffee one morning and
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  Speaker 1: drove thirty minutes to work, she would be able to
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  Speaker 1: make it to her desk, only to immediately fall asleep
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  Speaker 1: for two hours. Brian had successfully poisoned his own daughter
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  Speaker 1: and set her on a path that could have killed
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  Speaker 1: her that morning. So bottom line to Kathleen Murphy, he's
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  Speaker 1: not just trying to poison his wife. His daughter drank
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  Speaker 1: it and got in the car, got in a car
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  Speaker 1: and drove, Kathleen, and he could have killed our kid,
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  Speaker 1: or that child could have killed our kids driving under
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  Speaker 1: the influence. The legislature needs to make the laws in
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  Speaker 1: the particular states that allow somebody to put a spouse
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  Speaker 1: out of the house, even if there's not domestic violence.
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  Speaker 1: That's boon to the court. We're talking about a woman,
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  Speaker 1: Tris Kazlowski, so suspicious she installs nanny camps in the home,
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  Speaker 1: finds her husband putting pills into her coffee. To doctor
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  Speaker 1: Michelle Dupree, renowned medical examiner joining US out of South Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: author of Homicide Investigation Field Guide eight, sleeping pills, what
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  Speaker 1: does that mean? Does that kill you? That's a lot
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  Speaker 1: Nancy normal would be let's just say twenty five to
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  Speaker 1: fifty milligrams. This is the equivalent of one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven thousand. That's a lot that can knock somebody
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  Speaker 1: out and definitely makes them sleepy, drowsy, can even cause
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  Speaker 1: a bath. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, Kauzlowski's wife spoke
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  Speaker 1: to the court saying she felt ill and had blurry
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  Speaker 1: vision for weeks after filing for boris. She says she
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  Speaker 1: albos crashed into a wall wall driving to work because
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  Speaker 1: she was so exhausted. I kept saying to myself to
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  Speaker 1: slow down, but my body was not reacting and the
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  Speaker 1: car was not slowing down. Suddenly, my car jolted as
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  Speaker 1: I woke up, and at the same time hit the brakes.
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  Speaker 1: The victim continued telling the court that she hit a
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  Speaker 1: camera in her kitchen, and that's when she realized that
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  Speaker 1: her husband had been spiking her morning coffee each day
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  Speaker 1: with eight sleeping pills. Now I found a shot glass
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  Speaker 1: that contained a blue liquid hidden behind the coffee pot.
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  Speaker 1: I continued to pour my coffee in the morning and
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  Speaker 1: bag it for evidence. In order to keep out of
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  Speaker 1: Brian's calculated process. I had to wake up at four
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  Speaker 1: or forty five each morning and go turn the cameras on.
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  Speaker 1: Was the prestige to his magic trick to make me
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  Speaker 1: disappear well. She went on to say that her daughter
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  Speaker 1: was also poisoned by drinking the coffee or Brian Kazlowski
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  Speaker 1: now has the option to appeal the court's decision. Welcome back, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it. See Grace, this is crime Stories. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for being with us. A husband of twenty two
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  Speaker 1: years caught on nanny cam poisoning his wife's coffee in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of an acrimonious divorce. They're still living under
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  Speaker 1: the same roof. He also ends up poisoning their daughter.
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  Speaker 1: They've got an all star panel to break it down
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  Speaker 1: and put it back together. Kathleen Murphy, North Carolina family lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Michelle Dupree, renowned medical examiner out of South Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: author of Homicide Investigation Field Guide, renowned psychoanalysts out of Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany Marshall, Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University. Joe Scott Morgan,
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  Speaker 1: author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon and Crime
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  Speaker 1: Online dot Com. Investigative reporter Tricia Griffith. So I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: conflicting reports. I'm getting sleeping pills, I'm getting anahistamine, I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting blue liquid. Well, I mean she started bagging the coffee,
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  Speaker 1: saving it for analysis. What exactly was it he was
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  Speaker 1: poisoning her with? What we know for certain, it was
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  Speaker 1: an anihistamine of some sort, And like your panel was
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  Speaker 1: mentioned and has been mentioned in the previous report, this
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  Speaker 1: was enough to at the very least caused her to
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  Speaker 1: fall asleep while driving. And you have to wonder that
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  Speaker 1: I would assume that was his full intent, was to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that she killed herself driving and killed others.
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  Speaker 1: But as far as we know, it's antihistamine and it
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  Speaker 1: was put in her coffee. I believe in pill form,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe, you know, maybe it was one of those
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  Speaker 1: capsules that they pulled apart and it had some liquid
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  Speaker 1: in it, and that's what he was pouring in there.
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  Speaker 1: It definitely antihistamine, definitely enough to make sure that something
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  Speaker 1: bad would happen to her. It really is scary when
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  Speaker 1: you think about it. The last contaminated coffee, because Lawski
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  Speaker 1: had brewed for his victim his wife, was analyzed and
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  Speaker 1: was found to contain one hundred and twenty seven millileaters
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  Speaker 1: of diapen hydramine to Justice Scott Morgan, forensics expert, what
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  Speaker 1: is diapenhydramine, Nancy diphenhydramine We find it. It's an over
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  Speaker 1: the counter medication that is in fact an antihistamine. We
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  Speaker 1: find it in all kinds of drugs. Primarily where we
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  Speaker 1: find it is the drug that most people are familiar with, benadrill,
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  Speaker 1: very very common. You know, many of us use it.
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  Speaker 1: You can use it for insect bytes, allergic reactions of
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  Speaker 1: problems with allergies that we get various times of the year,
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  Speaker 1: and some people use it as a sleeping aid, and
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  Speaker 1: you'll find it in various things. You'll even find some
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  Speaker 1: diphenhydramine and things like niquil to help us sleep. So
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  Speaker 1: it actually crosses the blood brain barrier. There's this barrier
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  Speaker 1: that that is within the brain. It crosses over and
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  Speaker 1: it it actually latches onto the receptors in the brain
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  Speaker 1: where the histamines attach on, and it's those receptors that
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  Speaker 1: cause sleepiness, and it will send us into this kind
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  Speaker 1: of drowsy, dreamlike state. And one of the problems with
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  Speaker 1: this Nancy is that as much as he was giving
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  Speaker 1: her it can lead to things like hypotension, which is
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  Speaker 1: like low blood pressure. She's getting. She's dizzy, she's disoriented.
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  Speaker 1: There's no telling who she could have killed. And also,
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  Speaker 1: what's really scary if she had a predisposition to some
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  Speaker 1: kind of other medical condition and he gave her this medication,
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  Speaker 1: this could have been a murder. Hold on, just a moment,
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  Speaker 1: let me go run down an irrelevant rabbit hole for
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  Speaker 1: a moment, which is something I love to do when
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  Speaker 1: I'm investigating cases. Jackie Howard here in the studio just
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  Speaker 1: couldn't wait to leave her position manning all the equipment
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  Speaker 1: here in the studio to show me a selfie. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be of her, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: It's of the husband, Brian Kaslowski. And I need a shrink,
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  Speaker 1: and I need one right now because doctor Bethany Marshall.
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  Speaker 1: If you could see this selfie, it's him, Brian Kaslowski,
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  Speaker 1: wearing a pair of like spy sunglasses, looking all like
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  Speaker 1: James BONDI ish, what's the knee? James Bond is not
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  Speaker 1: really new anymore. He's awesome. Craig, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Daniel Craig.
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  Speaker 1: He looks kind of like yeah, him, and he's like
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  Speaker 1: as a handsome in this selfie. If I found out
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  Speaker 1: my husband, David Lynch, I hope you're listening David was
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  Speaker 1: taking selfies of himself, much less posting them, I would
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  Speaker 1: let me try not to curse Poopa brick, okay, because
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  Speaker 1: I mean I'd be calling his mom this minute and
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  Speaker 1: ratting him out. I mean, if you could see this,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know why I don't like it.
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  Speaker 1: This is a married man with children taking his Daniel
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  Speaker 1: Craig selfies and probably posting them. It's rubbing me the
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  Speaker 1: wrong way. I don't like him. Help me, Emma, Ama wrong?
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  Speaker 1: Is this a wrong gut reaction? Well? Nancy appoints to
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  Speaker 1: two possible motives for homicide. One would be my guess,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a look at this. You don't want to date him, Nancy, No, no, Look,
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  Speaker 1: I love being married. I love being married. I love
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  Speaker 1: my husband, I really do. But I'm not doing it again.
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  Speaker 1: I do not want to date him, and I want
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  Speaker 1: to date I like the one I've got. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I kind of look at it like buying a used car.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone you find is going to have a problem. I'll
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  Speaker 1: just stick with the one I have because he's pretty
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  Speaker 1: near close to perfect. But I can tell you this much,
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  Speaker 1: I guarantee I'm not going to catch him posting Daniel
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  Speaker 1: Craig selfies online. No gosh, I wish you could see this.
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  Speaker 1: You'll have to text it to me, I will say, Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: With these domestic homicide situations and this is what this
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  Speaker 1: was winding up to be, often the husband is already
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  Speaker 1: beginning to build what he thinks is an idealized life
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  Speaker 1: away from the wife. So I wouldn't be surprised if
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  Speaker 1: we find that he has girlfriends a dating site. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they were already going through a divorce, so he was
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  Speaker 1: committed to her in some types of monogamous relationship, I
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  Speaker 1: would imagine, but it sounds like he wanted possibly to
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  Speaker 1: get her out of the way to have this idealized life.
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  Speaker 1: And then on top of that, I wonder what kind
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  Speaker 1: of financial incentive he might have had, because what we
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  Speaker 1: see in these cases is often there's a life insurance policy,
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  Speaker 1: or the husband is stupid enough to think that if
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  Speaker 1: he kills the wife, he won't get caught, and now
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  Speaker 1: all the money and assets will be his and he
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  Speaker 1: won't have to divide them, you know, Nancy. People get cheap, greedy,
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  Speaker 1: and paranoid in the midst of the divorce. I see
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  Speaker 1: this in my Beverly Hills office. Whether it's over one
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand or a billion, they all do the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: One partner just scrambles and scrambles and tries to squirrel
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  Speaker 1: it all away for themselves, tries to deprive the other person.
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  Speaker 1: I have a case right now with a billionaire who
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  Speaker 1: keeps cutting off his wife's AMYX in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the divorce, so she has no money to live on
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  Speaker 1: and she has to go and borrow it from her
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  Speaker 1: friends and relatives. Fortunately she has a good attorney. But
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  Speaker 1: finances are a huge negative motivator when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: domestic homicide. And that is why I'm having Lucy already
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  Speaker 1: thinking of yes, she's just eleven, where she's going to
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  Speaker 1: go to college, and what she's going to do when
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  Speaker 1: she graduates, because I do not want her financially dependent
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  Speaker 1: on some man guys. Listen to this. Of course, we've
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  Speaker 1: gotten far afield by his Daniel Craig selfie, but listen
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  Speaker 1: to this. What the wife Therese Kazlowski says, this is
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  Speaker 1: her after she's talking about after the first time she
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  Speaker 1: witnessed her husband mixing drugs into her morning coffee. Quote.
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  Speaker 1: I felt a horrible coldness in the air, as if
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  Speaker 1: I was hunted by a dangerous predator, but in this nightmare,
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  Speaker 1: the predator was Brian. I fell to my knees and cried,
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  Speaker 1: saying to myself to slow down, but my body was
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  Speaker 1: not reacting and the car was not slowing down. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: my car jolted as I woke up, and at the
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  Speaker 1: same time hit the brakes. I found a shot glass
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  Speaker 1: that contained a blue liquid hidden behind the coffee pot.
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  Speaker 1: I continued to pour my coffee in the morning and
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  Speaker 1: bag it for evidence. In order to keep a hut
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  Speaker 1: of Brian's calculated process, I had to wake up at
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  Speaker 1: four forty five each morning and go turn the cameras on.
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  Speaker 1: Hi guys, Nancy Grace here. I remember every night before
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  Speaker 1: I would go to work at CNN a chill in,
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  Speaker 1: I would bathe the twins, and that was a special
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  Speaker 1: time for me. Anyway. I would teach them their ABC's
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  Speaker 1: they're one two threes. Lucy would only eat dinner in
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  Speaker 1: the bathtub. I defeat her dinner in the bathtub. I
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  Speaker 1: would give her one full hour in John David one
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  Speaker 1: full hour and I would actually go to work so
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  Speaker 1: king wet. It was one of the happiest times of
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  Speaker 1: my life. And I guess that's why I gravitated to
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  Speaker 1: Emily Mason. Emily Mason, gorgeous young professor at a local college, Swainsburg, Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: East george College. I traveled to Swainsborough to investigate her death,
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  Speaker 1: and this is what I learnt. Emily was bathing her
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  Speaker 1: two little girls in the tube when someone came into
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  Speaker 1: her home chased her from room to room. The last
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  Speaker 1: thing her little girls ever heard from their mother was
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  Speaker 1: Mommy running, screaming for her life. Those are their vivid
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  Speaker 1: last memories of Mommy. She was brutally murdered. And you
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  Speaker 1: may ask where was her husband during all this? While
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  Speaker 1: her husband, also a professor at East Georgia College, a
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  Speaker 1: PE professor, a PE coach, happened to be gone. He
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  Speaker 1: just happened to leave for a local Walmart or home
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  Speaker 1: depot or lows and in that short window of time
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  Speaker 1: he comes home to find his wife dead in the home.
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  Speaker 1: The children woman's non verbal could hardly describe a thing.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to Emily Mason her story really has touched me.
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  Speaker 1: The mystery surrounding the death, the brutal death of this
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  Speaker 1: young mom, Emily Mason. This Saturday, we will be facebooking, instagramming,
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  Speaker 1: and tweeting life throughout the episode. This Saturday Auction August seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: Fred Climb Stories with Nancy Grace. Kozlowski's wife spoke to
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  Speaker 1: the court, saying she felt ill and had blurry vision
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  Speaker 1: for weeks after filing for divorce. She says she albs
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  Speaker 1: crashed into a wall wall driving to work because she
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  Speaker 1: was so exhausted. I kept saying to myself to slow down,
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  Speaker 1: but my body was not reacting and the car was
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: not slowing down. Suddenly, my car jolted as I woke up,
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  Speaker 1: and at the same time hit the brakes. The victim
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: continued telling the court that she hit a camera in
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  Speaker 1: her kitchen, and that's when she realized that her husband
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: had been spiking her morning coffee each day with eight
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  Speaker 1: sleeping pills. I found a shot glass that contained a
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  Speaker 1: blue liquid hidden behind the coffee pot. I continued to
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  Speaker 1: pour my coffee in the morning and bag it for
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  Speaker 1: evidence in order to keep out of Brian's calcula later process.
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  Speaker 1: I had to wake up at four forty five each
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  Speaker 1: morning and go turn the cameras on with the prestige
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  Speaker 1: to his magic trick to make me disappear well. She
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  Speaker 1: went on to say that her daughter was also poisoned
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  Speaker 1: by drinking the coffee. Our Brian Kezlowski now has the
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  Speaker 1: option to appeal the court's decision. Of course, once she
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  Speaker 1: realized exactly what he was putting in her morning coffee,
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  Speaker 1: she moved out. She did manage to bag several examples
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  Speaker 1: of it. You were just hearing from our freens at
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: k x y Z TV. I'm just stunned that it
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  Speaker 1: could get this far, poisoning your wife's coffee in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of a brutal divorce. Now, I hope everybody is
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: sitting down. Doctor Michelle Dupree, doctor Bethany Marshall, Joseph Scott Morgan,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Tricia Griffith. You may need to lay down for this one.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Take a listen. And then came the sentence, for which
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the guideline was a minimum of a year and a
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: half in prison. And if he comes back in society
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  Speaker 1: as a hardened criminal, what have I done? Nothing? Judge
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Anthony Viviano then stunned the court, sentencing Kozlowski to five
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  Speaker 1: years probation and sixty days in jail, to be served
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  Speaker 1: on weekends. And people are requesting that you reconsider the sentence.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: A sixty day weekend sentence is a slap in the face.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: The sixty day weekend only sentence. I do not let
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: anybody speak right, and that's where it ended. It's also
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: important to know this wasn't a one time thing. This
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: had happened with the coffee several times. Now. McComb County
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: prosecutor very upset, as you might imagine, he said this
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: about the sentence. It's almost as though the judge is
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: more concerned with the defendant's freedom than he is with
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the safety of the victim. I am overwhelmed. This guy,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Brian Koslowski poisons his wife in her morning coffee repeatedly,
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  Speaker 1: even the daughter ingested it, and with a one year
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: mandatory sentence, the judge decides to give him probation with
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: sixty days behind bars. What a slap in the face.
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  Speaker 1: A Michigan man sentence to just sixty days for poisoning
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  Speaker 1: his wife. And to top it all off, he will
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  Speaker 1: only serve that time on the weekends. On the weekends,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Chisia Griffith, Crime online dot Com investigative reporter, Who is
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: this judge? What happened? When I first read this, I
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: thought it was a misprint. I thought it has to
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: be because he could have been sentenced up to fifteen
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: years in prison. Instead, it's like he's getting a time
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: out on the weekends for being a bad boy. This
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: judge is a visiting judge. He came into town, did
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: a few cases, and then he's gone again. They're not
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: saying very much about him because I would imagine the
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: backlash against this judge is going to be something incredible.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: But I want everybody, Nancy, everybody to think about this.
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  Speaker 1: He tries to poison his wife, not wants, not try,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: but several times, and she catches him on camera doing
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: it and he gets a slap on the wrist. Bad boy,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: you can't go out on the weekends. You need to
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: come into the jail and just sleep here. My question is, please,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: please tell me they did not send him back to
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: her home. I can only assume that he is out
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: of that house by now. But in this case, Nancy,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: who knows judge Antonio Viviano in McComb County Circuit Court
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: decided to give this freak, this attempted killer, straight probation
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: weekends behind bars for sixty days. The coffee poisoning takes
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: place during the couple's divorce, the wife claiming she felt
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: sick and tired with blurred vision, having her morning coffee
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: and driving toward even the daughter drank the coffee and
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: felt the same effects. Now this judge, Viviano claims the
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: ex husband had quote a sense of remorse listen, truly sorry,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: fled like to apologize. Oh my stars. The prosecutor in
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the case Macomb County, Eric Smith, called the sixty days
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: sentence a slap in the face of the victim and
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the justice system in general. And I agree. Smith is
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: appealing the sentence because it's substantially below the sentencing guidelines,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: which indicates a guilty defendant to spend a minimum of
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: nineteen to thirty eight months in prison. Take a listen
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: to our friends at BC four. But mccombman pleaded guilty
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: to poisoning his wife and he was in court to
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  Speaker 1: be sentenced today. It's important to know before you hear
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: this story that the maximum penalty for this crime is
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: fifteen years in prison. Let's bring in Jason Colethorp for
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: what was an intense sentencing. Jason, Yeah, I sure was,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: and more important to know, guys, the minimum sentence guideline
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: here was more than a year in prison. I'm just overwhelmed.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: The prosecutor released a statement saying the courts seemed more
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: focused on ensuring the definance freedom and ability to continue
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: to work than the victim and her safety. That is
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: troubling to think someone who commits such a reckless crime,
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  Speaker 1: putting his wife and so many other people at risk,
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  Speaker 1: is able to walk away with such a light sentence.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Smith's office explained the judge had sole discretion in the sentencing.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, out to you, doctor Bethany Marshall, how must
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the victim be feeling right now? Can you imagine these
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: victims Usually what's really therapeutic for them is when they
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: go through a court system and they find that the
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: judge and the jury is on their side. So she's
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: not going to have that therapeutic experience. But Nancy, some
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: judges are what we call offender identified, and what I
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: mean by that is there is some personality characteristic in
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the judge that is similar to that of the defendant.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe his judge hates his wife, maybe he's a misogynist,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: maybe he would be terrified to go to jail himself.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: But he has characteristics which cause him to lack objectivity
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: in this case. Take a listen to our friends at
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: NBC four. Well, yeah, the judge give any indication what
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: push for the lighter sentence? Why? You know, one of
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: the things he said leading up to this was curious.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: He said, anyone who tries to influence the sentence is
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: acting improperly, which he didn't direct at anyone specifically, But
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: yesterday Prosecutor Eric Smith put out a press release kind
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: of demanding prison time or else they would appeal the sentence,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: So he kind of threw that out there. You don't
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: know if the judge was talking to him. Don't try
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: and push me to do what you want to do.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: And then he made the sentence. I think a lot
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: of people be surprised at what the maximum sentence was,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: just fifteen years, and obviously he didn't get anywhere close
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: to what the maximum crime stories with me. It'sy Grace.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Kozlowski's wife spoke to the court saying she felt ill
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: and had blurry vision for weeks. After filing for divorce,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: she says she almost crashed into a wall while driving
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: to work because she was so exhausted. I kept saying
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: to myself to slow down, but my body was not
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: reacting and the car was not slowing down. Suddenly, my
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: car jolted as I woke up, and at the same
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: time hit the brakes. The victim continued telling the court
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: that she hit a camera in her kitchen, and that's
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: when she realized that her husband had been spiking her
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: morning coffee each day with eight sleeping pills. Now I
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: found a shot glass that contained a blue liquid hidden
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: behind the coffee pot. I continued to pour my coffee
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: in the morning and bag it for evidence. In order
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: to keep out to Brian's calculated process, I had to
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: wake up at four forty five each morning and go
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: turn the cameras on. Was the prestige to his magic
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: trick to make me disappear well. She went on to
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: say that her daughter was also poisoned by drinking the
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: coffee or Brian Kozlowski now has the option to appeal
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the court's decision. You just heard our friends at w
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: x Y z TV in Michigan, and now the stunning sentence.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Take a listen to NBC four. And then came the sentence,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: for which the guideline was a minimum of a year
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and a half in prison. And if he goes back
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: into society as a hard criminal, what have I done? Nothing?
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Judge Anthony Viviano then stunned the court, sentencing Kozlowski to
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: five years probation and sixty days in jail, to be
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: served on weekends. The people are requesting that you reconsider
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the sentence a sixty day week and sentence is a
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: slap in the face. The sixty weekend only settled. I
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: do not let anybody speak, and that's where it ended.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: It's also important to know this wasn't a one time thing.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: This had happened with the coffee several times. Now. McComb
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: County prosecutor very upset, as you might imagine, he said
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: this about the sentence. It's almost as though the judge
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: is more concerned with the defendant's freedom than he is
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: with the safety of the victim. You know, I don't
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: know how long it's going to go on in our
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: country that women are treated like second class citizens. In
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: this case, her husband repeatedly tried to poison her in
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: her coffee, even their daughter drank it. She gets on
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the road in her car, nearly kills herself and possibly
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: other innocent victims on the road, and the judge Viviano
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  Speaker 1: gives this guy sixty days. I mean, doctor Michelle Dupree
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: joining us out of South Carolina, renowned medical examiner, author
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: of Home side Investigation Field Guide. Let's just say it
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: was eight benadril in one cup of coffee. What happens
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: to you driving on the Interstate the freeway after eight
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: benadril tablets? That much benadril tablets would definitely make someone
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: very drowsy. Their reflexes would be slowed, They would be
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: unable to respond to emergency type situations. They may even
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: fall asleep out the wheel. Can you imagine hopping that
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: median Joe Scott Morgan, forensics expert and plowing into oncoming traffic. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and that's that's what makes this so sinister, Nancy. And
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: to boot, the wife has mentioned that she witnessed her
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: daughter in just the stuff as well, and she she
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: was potentially impaired, so it's kind of a double whammy.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: And he just he showed I don't know a lawyer
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: term here reckless indifference. It would seem to everybody else concerned,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: he was only focused on himself. She says, quote I
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: watched from the upstairs landing, hoping I could see was microwaving,
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  Speaker 1: and saw what looked like a shot glass. When he
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: left the room, I ran downstairs and looked for this glass,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: which I found behind the coffee pot. I quickly ran
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: upstairs and pretended to be asleep. She describes that when
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: he went downstairs again, she quote watched in horror as
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: he poured himself a cup of coffee before taking the
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: substance in the shot glass and poured it into the pot.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, doctor Bethany Marshall. He even pauses to pour
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: himself a cup of coffee not poisoned, and then pour
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: the poison into her coffee. Well, Nancy, his needs are important,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: doesn't that what the judge thinks. He shouldn't be forced
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: to be in jail during the week when he needs
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: to work. I mean, I know, seriously, I'm going to
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: then assume that these two are still going through divorce.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: I'm going to assume that he still wants to get
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: rid of her and that he wants whatever assets they
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: have solely for himself. That still puts the wife at risk.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: So how is she going to protect herself? So when
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: she's walking free throughout the week and he has homicidal
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: urges towards her, I mean, did the judge at least
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: allow her to put a restraining order on him? I mean,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: she's at risk. I just don't understand who this judge is,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Judge Antonio Viviano, and why he should still be up
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: on the bench after this outrage and not only poisoning her,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: but sending her out into traffic knowing that she was
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: most likely going to wreck. The last coffee the defendant
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: maid for his wife contained one hundred and twenty seven
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: milli eaters a dip in hydramine. This is before she
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: takes the wheel. She watched him over four weeks performing
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: the same routine every morning, and she continued to back
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: her coffee and keep it for evidence. I mean, what
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: it's really adding insult to injury that he pours himself,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Joe Scott Morgan his own pristine cup of coffee and
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: drinks it and then poisons hers. Yeah, and again this
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: goes back to the self centered behavior and I don't know,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: maybe he was trying to keep up appearances. One other
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: thing that's kind of striking about this. She knows something's afoot,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: and here she is acting like her own investigator, having
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: to collect her own evidence at the scene. I can't
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: imagine what a knot she had in her stomach, just
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: walking around day after day, not knowing what was contained
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: in this coffee that was making her so ill day
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: after day. A man caught on camera poisoning his wife's
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: coffee gets just sixty days behind bars. Jackie Howard will
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: be here in the studio. Jackie, what are you saying?
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: He's not only trying to do go with their coffee,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: but he's also done in at least a couple of
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: other times. He put laxatens in her, laxatus in her
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: protein powder adderall during summer boat trips. Explain to me
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: what that is to Josco Morgan, what is adderall? Yeah?
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Adderall is also in the family of amphetamine, and what
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: is commonly used for is to treat children with hyperactivity
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: that suffered from hyperactivity and it has the reverse effect
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: on children where it kind of calms him down. Nowadays,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: adderall is actually sold on the street as an illicit drug.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: So I have a very dear friend and her daughter
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: who ended up graduating with honors and is happily married
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: now great career. In first year college, people gave her
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: adderall at school, she went berserk, ended up going on
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: a rampage, kicking out a car window of a patrol car.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: She had been a straight A student all the way
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: through high school. I mean, it really can make you crazy,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: this adderall. But I'm interested, Doctor Bethany Marshall. The putting
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: the laxative in her protein powder. I mean to me,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: that kind of sounds sophomorish, like a kid trick. You know,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: it's interesting you say sophomore because I had the word
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: juvenile in my mind. It seems very juvenile, like he
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: was just messing with her, trying to drive her crazy.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: You know, it's the term gas lighting where it's a
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: movie in the fifties where the guy makes all the clanging,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: you know, noises in the attic and when the wife says, oh,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: I hear a clanging sound, he goes, I don't hear it,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: and he's trying to drive her crazy. It sounds like
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: he's just messing with her, like a laboratory experiment. It
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: also sounds to me, Nancy, like he's very low functioning,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: low IQ. He's just throwing anything at it that will stick.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: He's not able to think clearly. It's somebody, what's a
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: good clean methodology. I'm also going to say, you know,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: with antisocial personality, which he appears to have, one of
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: the traits and we this is in the DSM is
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: reckless lack of concern and disregard for the rights and
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: safety of others. So this disregard is not only towards
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: his wife, it extends towards his daughter and to the
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: rest of society. Long a man gets just sixty days
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: to serve on weekends after poisoning his wife repeatedly in
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Macomb Township. I, Nancy Grace, this is crime stories. Goodbye friend,