Kristin Rossum Case

Kristin Rossum is a former toxicologist convicted of the November 6, 2000 murder of her husband Greg DeVillers. It was concluded that he died from a lethal dose of fentanyl his wife stole from the medical examiner's office where she worked. She is serving a life sentence in a California prison. Greg DeVillers was lying unresponsive on the bed and she claimed he committed suicide. His body was surrounded in rose petals & nearby was their wedding photos. The case took over the media and caught the nation’s eye. Even though this case is straight out of a movie, literally, it deserves to be explained in detail.
It all begins on November 6, 2000, just after 9:15 P.M., when Rossum called 911. Paramedics arrived and found Rossum on the phone in the

She maintained that in her first interviews with police, she had come clean about her relationship with Robertson and her drug abuse. She also insisted, that the authorities were wrong in their suspicion that she killed her husband to prevent him from revealing her indiscretions. But authorities weren't convinced. As they probed deeper, they found even more inconsistencies in the case, all of which seemed to implicate Rossum and Robertson in DeVillers' death.
Some of these inconsistencies are circumstantial like the fact that Robertson franticly tried to dispose of a package of love letters after his first interview with police. The love letters were later recovered. There was testimony that Robertson had rushed to the hospital at 10 p.m. the night DeVillers died to be at Rossum's side and spent, according to court papers filed later, "several intimate hours" with the freshly widowed young woman.
But the most important piece of evidence was a receipt from a local supermarket issued at 12:41 p.m. on the day DeVillers died, about the same time Rossum maintained she was splitting a bowl of soup with her allegedly suicidal husband. Using a credit card, Rossum had purchased a single rose. Though she would later insist that she had purchased a yellow rose for her lover, authorities would suggest that what she really bought was a single red rose whose petals she planned to scatter over her dead husband's