the police went after them for sloppily collecting the evidence. the detective who poured the capsules into his bare hand after collecting them? are you telling us that you made a mistake? in hindsight, yes. the forensic expert who didn t check for prints. the pill bottle itself would have been conducive to leaving ridge detail, correct? yes. to be clear, nobody made that request. there was a catastrophe in terms of forensics here. and even though the court had learned how easy it was to obtain cyanide, there was no evidence presented that yaz had actually done that. still, the stark fact at the epicenter of the case was his decision to flee the country. how could that be anything other than the action of a guilty man? the defense spun it that way. yaz early on had talked to a lawyer who advised him he might be facing the death penalty if charged with a murder. yaz was led to believe that he could be charged with capital
the detective called rosie s husband and he agreed to come down to the police station. that interview was recorded on an audio tape. the detective questioned the doctor about the calcium capsules. doctor about the capsules. two weeks before i was at my mom s house and i thought about this as well. my mom had this other woman that had osteoporosis. and whatnot. rosie was there that she should probably you know, she s over 35. she should probably start take a calcium supplement. so she s not under the care of any specialist or anything? was she experiencing any unusual stress recently? no, life was good. did you have any stressors in your marriage? our marriage was fine. what s your impression of this doctor, the guy everyone calls yaz? he s clearly a smarted individual. very low key. are the calcium pills and the prescription vitamins still at home? mm-hmm. would you mind if i followed you back to your home and collected those?
no, not at all. that would be great. remember, rosie and yaz were trying to have another child. and she was prescribed prenatal vitamins. detective mckee wanted all the pills rosie was taking gathered up for testing including the calcium capsules that yaz said he bought for his wife. the interview over, the detective followed yaz home. when you got to the house, did his demeanor change at all? as you re about to take a look at things? no, we entered the home. there was a female seated at the kitchen counter on a stool. she was marguerita montanez. margarita was the daytime nanny. yaz had hired her to look after his kids after rosie died. he also hired another woman to be the nighttime nanny. at the time, the detective thought nothing of margarita the nanny, although eventually that would change. for now he was only there to get the pills from yaz. before he retrieved the pills, he asked me, have you found the cause of death for my
there was no harm-no foul. they could politely tell me i was wrong and thank you for my help and i would go away. christine s urgent request to check yaz made it to the desk of this detective. gary mckee of the highland heights police department was already investigating rosie s car accident. i never had met christine. i didn t know if she had an ax to grind with him. whatever reason she didn t care for him may not have been a valid reason. so i wasn t approaching him as a suspect or even thinking that, you know, this guy s a murderer. still, the detective had some facts that didn t add up. 38-year-old woman in good health suddenly dead in a fender bender. what s more, the coroner couldn t give him a cause of death. at minimum, he had to find out more about those calcium capsules christine had told him about. you re wondering if there s a sad but benign reason for her death. is this tainted stuff or is she allergic to whatever was in it. exactly. i didn t know exactly what i ha
worked with both rosie and her doctor/husband yaz at the hospital. she hadn t seen much of either of them in the previous five years. by coincidence, christine lived right next door to rosie s friend eva. eva told her about that last phone call with rosie, about yaz giving her a calcium capsule. it was odd to me that just prior to leaving for a movie in the middle of the afternoon in a hurry that that was so necessary that he give her the pill. as soon as i got off the phone with eva, i looked at my husband and i said, i think he killed her. gut instinct? immediately. so going simply on her gut instinct that something wasn t right, and unknown to rosie s brothers, christine called the authorities. but if you were wrong, christine? well, where could they take it if i was wrong. there was no harm-no foul. they could politely tell me i was wrong and thank you for my help and i would go away. christine s urgent request to check yaz made it to the desk of this detective. gary mc