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Someone They Knew: Mercy or Murder

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Raynella Dossett Leath appeared to be plagued by a string of deadly bad luck. In 1992 her first husband, Ed, who was in the late stages of a terminal cancer was found dead in the couple’s corral supposedly trampled by cattle. Over a decade later, Raynella would call 9-1-1 reporting that she had found her second husband dead from an apparent suicide, but when investigators discovered an extraordinary amount of morphine in his system it led to a criminal investigation into both men’s deaths. This week’s Court TV Podcast dives deeper into this case with an audio edition of our original series Someone They Knew with Tamron Hall. This episode is entitled “Mercy or Murder.”

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Rinala Dossett Leith appeared to be plagued by a string of deadly bad luck.

0:22.0

In 1992, her first husband first husband Ed who was in the late stages of

0:25.7

terminal cancer was found dead in the couple's corrals supposedly trampled by

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cattle. Over a decade later, Raynella would call 911

0:36.0

reporting that she had found her second husband dead

0:39.0

from an apparent suicide.

0:41.0

But when investigators discovered an extraordinary amount of morphine in his system, it led to a criminal investigation into both men's deaths.

0:51.0

I'm Benny Politan and welcome to the Court TV

0:53.7

podcast. This week we're diving deeper into this case with an audio edition of

0:58.2

our original series, Someone They New With Tamron Hall.

1:02.5

This episode is entitled, Mercy or Murder.

1:06.4

Have a listen.

1:07.4

This is the Court TV Podcast. Her first husband ended up suddenly dying from a mysterious agricultural accident. Her second husband died of a suicide.

1:28.0

Anybody would have believed it.

1:29.0

He was spared off.

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There are some who could not believe that she was capable of this.

1:35.0

Was this murder? Yes, it was.

1:38.0

At the time of the murder, she looked like a victim of widowhood yet again.

1:44.2

She is either a killer who went free,

1:47.0

or she's an angel of mercy. Rayna and Ed Dossett were considered a power couple in Knox County, Tennessee. She was the director of nursing at Park West Hospital,

2:05.3

and he was the District Attorney General. Together, they shared three children and lived on a farm.

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