Power, Passion, and Poison
48 Hours
CBS News
3.9 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This classic episode of “48 Hours" explores the death of 50-year-old Kathy Augustine, a career politician from Nevada. Questions arose about the cause of her death after police received a tip from her husband’s co-worker that she may have been poisoned, and toxicology reports further confirmed the presence of the powerful paralytic drug Succinylcholine. "48 Hours" correspondent Troy Roberts reports. This "48 Hours" episode last aired on 12/20/2008. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+.
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| 0:10.0 | I'm going deep into my wife's family history, digging up the cold case of her murdered |
| 0:14.6 | great-grandmother. |
| 0:15.6 | And did I mention that I'm looking into whether the murderer was actually the beloved |
| 0:19.5 | family patriarch? |
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| 0:45.4 | Well Nevada is a cowboy state. |
| 0:48.7 | Keep our taxes low, make our economy real bust, you know, and keep the government the hell out |
| 0:53.9 | of our lives. |
| 0:56.0 | Kathy was a kind of person if you put her in front of a crowd and you gave her the microphone. |
| 1:01.0 | Everybody loved her. |
| 1:02.0 | My name is George Harris. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm involved in Republican politics, I've lived in Nevada my whole life. |
| 1:07.6 | Kathy was the energizer bunny. |
| 1:09.4 | She was, she was driven. |
| 1:11.1 | She made everybody, and she got a picture with them. |
| 1:13.6 | And she genuinely lived that Republican dream. |
| 1:18.8 | She was a very, very strong woman, she was a very bright woman, she had a great sense |
| 1:24.0 | of humor. |
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