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43 – Raynella Dossett Leath

  • August 8, 2021
  • , 10:20 pm
  • , Podcast
Two of her husbands died under suspicious circumstances and many in her community started calling her a black widow. She faced an unprecedented three murder trials for the crime of murder and was able to walk away in the end.

43 – Raynella Dossett Leath

Two of her husbands died under suspicious circumstances and many in her community started calling her a black widow. She faced an unprecedented three murder trials for the crime of murder and was able to walk away in the end.

Two of her husbands died under suspicious circumstances and many in her community started calling her a black widow. She faced an unprecedented three murder trials and was able to walk away in the end.

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Show Sources:

Death, violence haunt now-acquitted accused black widow Raynella Dossett Leath by Knox News

Raynella Dossett Leath trial: Judge tosses first-degree murder case against accused black widow by Knox News

Raynella Leath by Your Divorce Info

RAYNELLA DOSSETT LEATH by The National Registry of Exonerations

A maverick and a drug addict led to freedom for Raynella Dossett Leath by Author by Knox News

Judge dismisses Raynella Leath murder trial by WVLT 8

Jury selected in Raynella Dossett Leath case by WVLT 8

Raynella Leath: The Widow on Solway Road by CBS News

Press Release- New Trial for Raynella Leath by Knox Defense

David Robert Leath by Find a Grave

Raynella Leath’s frantic 911 call: "My husband shot himself” by 48 hours on YouTube

What jurors didn’t hear in the 2017 Raynella Leath murder trial by 48 Hours on YouTube

Raynella Leath describes the morning her second husband died by 48 Hours on YouTube

Key people in the Raynella Dossett Leath cases by The Tennessean

Dossett Leath Raynella by Murderpedia

Defense now making their case in Raynella Leath retrial by 10 News

Alleged Murderer May Get Victim’s Property by Court House News Service

Tennessee Woman Accused in Trail of Death by the New York Times

RAYNELLA LEATH: THE WIDOW ON SOLWAY ROAD by CBS News

Annie Irene Owens

‘No way’ mom killed stepfather, woman says by Knox News

Her Deadly Web: The True Story of a Former Nurse and the Strange and Suspicious Deaths of Her Two Husbands by Diane Fanning

CYNTHIA A. WILKERSON, v. RAYNELLA DOSSETT LEATH. By Google Scholar

STATE of Tennessee v. Raynella Dossett LEATH by Google Scholar

In re ESTATE OF David R. LEATH. By Google Scholar

Raynella Leath

DA’s widow bound to grand jury by Johnson City Press, 31 AUG 1995, Pg. 5

Exhumation sought of ex-DA’s body in case against widow by Johnson City Press, 07 DEC 2007, Pg. 1 & 4

DA’s accidental death re-examined by The Leaf-Chronicle, 15 DEC 2007, Pg. 7

Nurse’s trial may reopen death of her DA husband by The Jackson Sun, 15 DEC 2007, Pg. 11

Expert: Drugs, not cattle may have killed Knox D.A. by Johnson City Press, 19 JAN 2008, Pg. 5

Knoxville jury convicts widow in mate’s death by The Tennessean, 26 JAN 2010, Pg. B2

Widow found guilty in 2nd husband’s death by The Daily News-Journal, 26 JAN 2010, Pg. 5

Widow indicted in death once filed a farm accident by The Leaf-Chronicle, 01 AUG 2008, Pg. 12

Knox County judge is target of TBI probe by The Tennessean, 30 JAN 2011, Pg. B4

Third petition filed to exhume body by The Daily News-Journal, 20 NOV 2008, Pg. 3

Judge denies exhumation of body by Johnson City Press, 16 FEB 2008, Pg. 5

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