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Three trials. Two husbands. One woman. Raynella Dossett Leath is a 70-year-old grandmother living quietly on a 15-acre farm in the Karns community of Knox County, Tennessee. Her life has been far from quiet. She has survived death – two husbands and a son – and prison. She might be a two-time "black widow" who had a third victim in her crosshairs. Despite being convicted once, she is a free woman. In "Suspicion," we will take you through the deaths of Leath's two husbands, her trials and how she managed to escape a life sentence.
That untouched breakfast tray will have you cross-examining your first guess.
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A murder conviction turns on the gap between proving a homicide and proving Raynella Dossett-Leath's involvement.
Suspicion revisits the case against Raynella Dossett-Leath through the question that keeps troubling the conviction: was she the black widow prosecutors described, or a woman wrongly accused, as her new defense team argued?
A judge's addiction, a quiet courthouse, and a conviction put courtroom trust under pressure.
Suspicion works best when Judge Richard Baumgardner's addiction stops reading as private ruin and starts raising harder questions about the people and systems around him.
A missed morphine-pump examination becomes the hinge between accident, overdose, and suspicion.
Raynella Dossett-Leath's first husband's death centers on one tight forensic question: whether a damaged morphine pump could account for the morphine levels in Ed Dossett's body, or whether the surrounding circumstances called for a deeper investigation.
A conviction closes the second trial, but a later courthouse encounter reopens doubts about the scene record.
Raynella Dossett Leith's second trial is strongest when it stays close to the courtroom choices that shape the verdict: prosecutors pressing the alibi, Jim Bell not calling Katie Dossett, and jurors returning guilty after two days of deliberations.
A revolver's mixed ammunition makes three cartridge cases the trial's central question.
Raynella Dossett Leith's trial turns on a revolver whose cylinder kept the fired cartridge cases in sequence, making two ammunition brands part of a contested timeline.
A mirror will, a private diary, and dementia pull a family conflict into the center of David Lee's death investigation.
Suspicion reshapes the investigation into David Lee's death around money, marriage, and questions about his state of mind. David and Raynella had signed mirror wills, leaving everything to the survivor, while Raynella's diary records his blood pressure, angry arguments,…
Measured true crime with uneasy questions.
Suspicion examines Raynella Dossett-Leath’s third trial after attorneys Joshua Hedrick and Rebecca LeGrand argued that Judge Richard Baumgardner’s opiate addiction compromised her second trial.
Suspicion: “IX - Wasted Justice” examines how Judge Richard Baumgartner’s prescription-drug addiction intersected with Raynella Dossett-Leath’s murder trial.
Judge Baumgardner says prosecutors cannot promise exhumation will reveal anything new from Ed Dossett's grave.
This episode covers the aftermath of a mistrial in the case of Raynella Dossett Leath, accused of killing her husband David Leath.
Suspicion: VI - Justice, Take One follows Raynella Dossett Leith’s nationally televised 2009 trial for the 2003 shooting death of her husband, David Leith.
Suspicion examines the questions surrounding David Leith’s 2003 death, including an empty gun holster, three fatal shots, prepaid cremation arrangements, and missing wills.
Suspicion: IV - The Beloved Barber examines the 2003 death of West Knoxville barber David Leith, found shot in bed while his wife Raynella Dossett Leith called 911.
Suspicion: III - "One Mean Woman" centers on Steve Walker's account of Raynella Dossett-Leith taking him to her farm and shooting at him.
A grandmother suspected of killing two husbands is investigated after her second husband's suspicious suicide.
A detective responds to a call about a woman's husband's death, suspecting foul play in a potential black widow case.