R. Yazeed Essa thought he had the perfect prescription for murder – and he used it on his wife.
The successful physician and his attractive wife Rosemarie seemed to be living the American dream in a beautiful home with two adorable children.
But Dr. Essa was also leading a secret life as an out-of-control playboy, and he wanted his wife out of the way. So he came up with a complicated plan to dispatch Rosemarie, leaving no trace of the crime. His instrument of death: cyanide.
Dr. Essa, 41, married Rosemarie in 1999, and the family lived in a ritzy suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, where he also co-owned a satellite TV business that brought him a multimillion-dollar income.
“Dr. Essa was having multiple affairs with a number of women over the entire time he had a relationship with his wife. She didn’t know,” said prosecutor Steve Dever.
The emergency room physician once boasted to his brother that he’d bedded six different women in 24 hours.
Growing tired of his wife, Dr. Essa decided to kill her – even though it meant depriving his two young children of their mom.
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