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Shattered Souls

Thinking Sideways: Part II of The American Beauty Murder Mystery

Shattered Souls

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

4.34.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Team Sideways explores the American Beauty murder with Minds of Madness.

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The opinions expressed in the following episode do not necessarily reflect those of the minds of madness podcast.

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Listener discretion is advised.

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A murder case with Hollywood overtones, including a poison husband, a staged death scene,

0:17.0

and a beautiful woman being sentenced to prison for life.

0:20.0

It was an overdose of the painkiller fentanyl that killed him.

0:23.0

A quantity was missing from the county medical examiner's office,

0:27.0

where Kristen worked as a toxicologist.

0:29.0

The victim died of poisoning, whether it was fentanyl or some other poison that was found in his system.

0:34.0

The fact is that he was poisoned to death, and that Miss Rossum was responsible for that.

0:39.0

The murder case has been a tantalizing one.

0:59.0

When we last left off in part one, Kristen's double life and extra marital affairs had finally caught up with her.

1:19.0

She was no longer able to hide her duplicity from those who were closest to her.

1:26.0

Her parents, suspecting something was wrong, offered her an alternative, a way out.

1:32.0

They offered love and support, and suggested a divorce.

1:37.0

Ferrying Greg's reaction would lead Kristen to losing her job, and the discovery of her drug addiction,

1:43.0

she found herself at a crossroad, each path, with its myriad of consequences.

1:50.0

The path she chose in the end had deadly repercussions.

1:55.0

Join me now, as we uncover Kristen Rossum's conniving plan to ensure she'd be free to pursue her buddy new romance with the doctor,

2:07.0

while ultimately shattering and destroying the man who had tried to rescue her from her destructive self.

2:20.0

When Kristen awoke at 7 a.m. on Monday, November 6th, is suspected that Greg was unconscious due to the drugs Kristen had slipped into his drinks the night before.

2:35.0

As Greg lay unconscious, it is believed that Kristen then began administering fentanyl patches on his body.

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Although fentanyl is a legal drug and is many times stronger than morphine, it still takes time to work his way from the beginning.

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