The Black Widow

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, News, Tv & Film, Cbs

3.9 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Raynella and Ed Dossett were a power couple in Tennessee where Ed was the Knox County District Attorney General. But at the age of 43, Ed was diagnosed with terminal cancer and then died in a freak accident on the family farm. Six months later, Raynella married David Leath, the local barber and Ed's best friend. Then in 2003, David died from a gunshot to his head. Raynella alleged David died by suicide by prosecutors suspected she may have been responsible for his death. “48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 7/14/2018. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+.

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0:00.0	Wonderie Plus subscribers can listen to this podcast, ad-free right now.
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0:06.7	What happens when the world's best journalists come together?
0:10.9	Write a prescription for the healing of America.
0:14.5	We're retired and this is our paradise.
0:18.9	Now it's gone.
0:23.9	You get the Stories of America every night.
0:28.9	You get the all-new CBS Evening News, starting Monday. State will show that on March 13, 2003, David Lee was killed by a single gunshot wound to his forehead.
0:55.0	Up County 911.
0:57.0	Help me! Help me!
0:58.0	My husband's hurt himself!
1:01.0	The report on the 911 call was that he'd shot himself.
1:05.0	The gentleman's laying in a bed, guns laying beside him.
1:09.0	Look right here. Here's another home.
1:11.6	He's fired one to one.
1:12.6	Look right above his head there.
1:14.6	There's also a shot into the bed, which is a little suspicious thing itself.
1:18.6	There was more than one shot.
1:20.6	And while that's not unheard of, well, it didn't look like a suicide scene.
1:24.6	And the state will show that the person who delivered that fatal blow was the defendant,
1:30.3	Raynella Leith.
1:31.3	He was shot almost in the middle of his forehead, but right above his left eye.
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