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True Crimecast

Cyanide - Michael Marin

True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, Personal Journals

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This is a story that feels like a Greek tragedy set in a Maricopa County courtroom. Michael Marin was a man who lived his life at the highest possible altitude, both literally and financially, and it seems he simply could not reconcile a reality where he was grounded by a prison cell.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Stoveleg Media, igniting conversation.

0:12.4

Welcome to True Crime to Go. What can I get for you?

0:16.3

Yeah, I'd like to talk about a case where the most shocking behavior actually happens in the courtroom.

0:24.6

Pull up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.

0:31.1

Welcome to true crime to go.

0:33.2

I am John here with Jamie.

0:35.1

What's you doing, man?

0:36.0

How are you doing, rather?

0:37.0

I'm doing all right. I'm doing better than the. What's you doing, man? How are you doing, rather? I'm doing all right.

0:38.1

I'm doing better than the subject of today's story.

0:42.2

Of course, there's a huge backstory here that we can cover in a full episode.

0:47.9

But I just kind of wanted to cover something that happened in a courtroom that you don't see every day and is definitely a topic worth discussing.

0:56.7

And I'm not familiar with this one, so why don't you get the ball rolling?

1:00.2

We're going to go back to 2012, June 28th in the Maricopa County Superior Court out in Phoenix, Arizona.

1:08.2

Michael Marin, who was 53 years old, said at the defendant's table waiting for the jury to

1:14.5

come back with a verdict.

1:17.4

Marin was a Yale Law School graduate, former Wall Street trader, mountain climber, pilot,

1:23.3

self-published author, Mormon missionary, a man who seemed to have done everything and been successful

1:29.6

throughout his life. But when the jury foreman read the verdict, they said that Marin was guilty.

1:36.1

In the footage, you can see, Marin bury his hands in his face, cameras all over him.

1:42.8

And then so quickly that you probably didn't notice it unless you were looking for it,

1:47.2

he slipped something into his mouth.

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