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NANCY GRACE

Indiana Woman Charged With Murder by Poisoned Pudding

Aired August 13, 2010 - 20:00:00   ET

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NANCY GRACE, HOST: Breaking news tonight. An Indiana nurse and mother makes chicken, fresh veggies, fruit salad and dessert for the husband. A few hours later, he`s dead, found sitting in a back yard lawn chair. Multiple causes of death explored -- heart attack, drugs, alcohol poisoning. Nothing showed up.

Bombshell tonight. Was husband Alan Duvall murdered by Oreo pudding, Oreo pudding laced with 80 times the maximum dose of morphine and muscle relaxers? Between Mommy being a TV crime show fanatic and a $100,000 life insurance policy, plus a secret sex affair with none other than the insurance agent, the cops eye Mommy and her famous Oreo pudding.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... told them, like, individually, if I die, make sure it`s investigated.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: An Indiana woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her husband by poisoning him with morphine and muscle relaxants.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Neighbors wasted no time sharing their belief that she had poisoned her husband next door and covered it up for insurance money.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Police initially ruled the death of Alan Duvall as accidental from alcohol poisoning but became suspicious after toxicology reports showed he had more than 80 times the maximum dose for both drugs in his system.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Investigators believe she slipped them into a homemade "dirt pudding," which she served Alan during what would become his last meal.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Police began investigating the wife, 51-year-old Tami Duvall, and discovered she took out a $100,000 life insurance policy on her husband just a month before he was found dead.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... with the help of an insurance agent with whom investigators said she`d had an affair.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tami Duvall was arrested this weekend and is charged with murder, along with multiple counts of insurance fraud and obstruction of justice.

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GRACE: And tonight, live, Cape Cod and the mystery surrounding the suspicious disappearance of a beautiful young woman four months pregnant. Twenty-three-year-old Trudie Hall leaves home for a doctor`s appointment. She`s never seen again, her car abandoned at a roadside rest stop. Blood evidence reportedly found inside her Toyota Avalon. Investigators storm a two-story house on the Cape and scour a heavily wooded area, West Barnstable. Breaking tonight. Was four months pregnant Trudie actually married to two men?

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Police are desperately searching for a pregnant woman.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Twenty-three-year-old mother, or mother-to-be, was supposedly going a doctor`s appointment on Cape Cod, and the next day, she was reported missing by her mother.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Her family must just be reeling right now.

GRACE: ... a gorgeous young mom-to-be, she`s four months pregnant.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Now reports emerge both traces of blood and bullet casings were found in Trudie`s car.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They found blood evidence in the car, some brain tissue and shell casings from a gun.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The baby could be hurt, and you can tell the difference between the blood of the mother and the baby at eight weeks.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There are no reports saying that she made it to the doctor`s appointment.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Law enforcement sources told "The Cape Cod Times" that cops believes Trudie, who is four months pregnant, is likely dead, but they continue to treat it as a missing persons case.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This may turn from a missing persons case into a homicide investigation, although it`s not there just yet.

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GRACE: Good evening. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. Bombshell tonight. An Indiana nurse and mother makes chicken, fresh veggies, fruit salad and dessert for the husband. A few hours later, he`s dead, found dead in the back yard lawn chair. Was husband Alan Duvall murdered by Oreo pudding?

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was at this house in August of 2007 that Tami Duvall called 911 to report that on this small, concrete slab in the back yard, she found her estranged husband, Alan Duvall, dead from what she explained as alcohol poisoning.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Toxicology reports reveal husband Alan Duvall had more than 80 times the therapeutic levels of both morphine and muscle relaxant.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: According to court papers, Alan Duvall`s cousin, along with Tami`s ex-husband and even her own daughter, contacted investigators expressing concerns that Tami Duvall may have murdered Alan Duvall.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Police say Tami Duvall took out a life insurance policy on her husband worth $100,000 just a month before he was found dead in the back yard of their home.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They pointed to a $100,000 life insurance policy she took out with the help of an insurance agent with whom investigators say she`d had an affair.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tami Duvall faces six counts of insurance fraud and two counts of obstruction of justice.

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GRACE: Straight out to Gage Lutes, news director, WBIW 1340 AM. Death by Oreo pudding? I`ve never heard anything like it. Wait a minute. I did hear death by Jell-o, lime Jell-o. What happened?

GAGE LUTES, WBIW 1340 AM (via telephone): Oh, well, basically, they`re estranged. They`re married, but they`re separated. And she entered a plea agreement on Tuesday, and she`s facing charges of murder, six counts of insurance fraud and three counts of obstruction of justice. And yes, they say she put in over 80 times the maximum level of morphine and muscle relaxers into his pudding to claim the insurance money.

GRACE: Out to Jean Casarez, legal correspondent, "In Session." How did this allegedly go down?

JEAN CASAREZ, "IN SESSION": Well, you know, poison cases have such similar patterns. And Nancy, in this case, Mr. Duvall was dead and they thought it was alcohol poisoning that killed him. His alcohol level was .4, so the death was ruled accidental. But then the toxicology report came back, and that`s when it all changed -- morphine and muscle relaxants, 80 times the normal amount. And the defendant in this case, she`s a certified nursing assistant.

GRACE: But wouldn`t he have tasted something? Out to Dr. Gwenn O`Keeffe, founder and CEO of Pediatricsnow.com, joining us out of Boston. Dr. O`Keeffe, thank you for being with us. He couldn`t taste anything with all that morphine and muscle relaxant?

DR. GWENN O`KEEFFE, PEDIATRICIAN: Not necessarily, Nancy, if she really was careful in how the medicine was snuck into the Oreo. Oreo is a really good hider of things. We use it for kids all the time in getting medicine into them. So he may not have known, especially if he was intoxicated.

GRACE: Take a look at some of the so-called black widows that have become infamous for killing their husbands. There`s Anjette Lyles, one of the first, poisoned her 9-year-old daughter, two husbands and mother-in-law with arsenic, attempted to kill the second child, collected the insurance money, bought a luxury car. And listen to this. Anjette Lyles had long run the grill, the restaurant, across the street from the courthouse where the judges and the cops and the prosecutors ate. And then to top it all off, after she was convicted, she ran the kitchen at the women`s diagnostic prison!

Margaret Rudin -- who could forget this black widow, murdered her fifth husband, shooting him in the bedroom. And she stayed on the lam for months and months before she was finally caught, actually, for years. She wanted her share of his $11 million fortune.

And then another black widow, Lynn Turner. Now, she`s the one infamous for putting arsenic in the lemon-lime Gatorade, Jell-o and chicken soup -- oh, excuse me! Antifreeze. She collected $153,000 for husband`s death, $36,000 for boyfriend`s death.

The list goes on -- Sandy Murphy -- she`s accused of overdosing live- in Ted Binion and then suffocating him. Remember Ted Binion, the heir to the casino fortune out in Las Vegas? I mean, we can`t even count all the black widows. Of course, who can forget Dalia Dippolito, tried to poison her husband by antifreeze in his tea from Starbucks. There`s Stacey Castor. I mean, I could go on and on.

To you, Dr. Bethany Marshall. What`s the thinking?

BETHANY MARSHALL, PSYCHOTHERAPIST: Well, I tend to think of these women as being profoundly perverse. And when they meet the man, he`s a mark. He`s simply someone that they`re going to get money off. And then there`s a perverse -- almost like a sexualized excitement and gratification in having power over the man. And then the idea of poisoning is rendering him completely helpless, and then having no fault and not being brought to criminal justice.

But it`s not like a normal domestic homicide, where there`s a huge rift in the marriage, they don`t have problem-solving abilities, they get angry, they lash out and kill him. They meet these men with the intent to kill from the very beginning.

GRACE: Jean Casarez, I know it`s not just a cruel joke, but what is "dirt pudding"? Why is the death dish called "dirt pudding"?

CASAREZ: It`s "dirt pudding" because it has Oreos mixed in it. And it is a pudding that has that base of the pudding but also the Oreos. And Nancy, in this case, the probable cause affidavit says that way back in 2004, a man alleged to prosecutors that he was a friend also of the defendant in this case, and on Thanksgiving, he was given a pudding, and he took two bites of it and he said he felt he was going to pass out and was weak for hours after that. And he said, I think she tried to poison me.

GRACE: But why would she have tried to poison just a friend?

CASAREZ: Well, the motivation here, prosecutors say, is money because an insurance policy was taken out one month before this all happened for $100,000. And she`d had problems with money for years, and that was a motivating factor. And by the way, prosecutors say she was having an affair with the insurance salesman.

GRACE: Yes, you just kind of slipped that in at the end, didn`t you, Jean.

CASAREZ: Yes.

GRACE: So there`s a $100,000 life insurance policy. What I want to know -- back to Dr. Gwenn O`Keeffe. Would the man, Alan Duvall, have suffered? Would he have just gone to sleep? And how long would it have taken for him to die there in the lawn chair in the back yard after he consumed the Oreo pudding?

O`KEEFFE: Well, Nancy, if we assume that he was drunk with alcohol and close to alcohol poisoned at that level, it wouldn`t have taken long with all that morphine and muscle relaxants. They add up together, and you actually intensify the alcohol poisoning. And so he probably passed out very quickly. And with 80 times the levels in him of morphine and muscle relaxant, I think it would have happened pretty quickly. He would have sort of entered a comatose state and stopped breathing.

So she really was meaning business here. Things would have happened fast. It would have been immense alcohol poisoning very quickly. In fact, those three additives together would actually create alcohol poisoning at a much lower alcohol level.

GRACE: To Pat Brown, criminal profiler, author of "The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths." So Pat Brown, can you just get that mental picture of her feeding him dinner, a very carefully prepared dinner, and then watching him through the kitchen window sitting in a lawn chair in the back yard, waiting for him to die.

PAT BROWN, CRIMINAL PROFILER: Absolutely. He`s almost (INAUDIBLE) He`s almost gone now. I mean, the way to a man`s heart is through food. You get him that way. You marry him, and then you kill him with it. Works out quite well, don`t you think?

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Indiana authorities have arrested a 51-year-old woman for allegedly killing her estranged husband with fatal doses morphine and muscle relaxant, allegedly mixing them in a "dirt pudding" she served to him.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He told them, like, individually, If I die make, sure it`s investigated.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: According to court papers, Alan Duvall`s cousin, along with Tami`s ex-husband and even her own daughter, contacted investigators, expressing concerns that Tami Duvall may have murdered Alan Duvall. They pointed to a $100,000 life insurance policy she took out with the help of an insurance agent with whom investigators say she`d had an affair. Then when investigators took a closer look at the autopsy, they discovered the presence of morphine and a muscle relaxer in his body, each exceeding 80 times the maximum dose. Some of those same drugs had gone missing from a nursing home where Tami worked. Investigators believed she slipped them into a homemade "dirt pudding," which she served Alan during what would become his last meal.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There`s a lot packed into this 59-page probable cause, including more charges. In addition to murder, Tami Duvall faces six counts of insurance fraud and two counts of obstruction of justice.

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GRACE: For those of you just joining us, an Indiana mom, a mother, a wife, a registered nurse is now getting the eyeball from local police after her husband dies in the back yard, sitting upright in a lawn chair after eating her famous homemade Oreo pudding. Why? Because it was laced with about 80 times the amount of the maximum dose of morphine and muscle relaxants, say the police. But she says, no, that is impossible.

So what is her defense, Jean Casarez?

CASAREZ: Her defense would be that it was suicide. He did it himself. He -- the marriage wasn`t working out. He couldn`t take it anymore, so he took his own life. And she told that to investigators. And after the toxicology report came back, because she said that he`d passed out with the alcohol -- when that came back and that was confronted to her from investigators, she admitted that he had morphine and he had the Flexeril, muscle relaxants. The empty bottles were found next to his body, but she cleaned up the scene after afterward to just tidy up.

GRACE: Wait a minute. Flexeril? What is Flexeril?

CASAREZ: Flexeril is cyclobenzaprine. That is a...

GRACE: That`s not -- that`s not morphine, is it?

CASAREZ: No, that`s the other drug. The morphine is the Roxanal.

GRACE: OK. The muscle relaxant. So she`s saying -- her defense is that he took it there in the back yard in the lawn chair and dropped the bottles beside him and nobody knew...

CASAREZ: Yes.

GRACE: OK. All right. Here`s my next question. Out to you, Gage Lutes, news director WBIW 1340 AM. Did he actually say, If I die, make sure it`s investigated?

LUTES: Well, at least that`s what his neighbors are saying. One of his neighbors, Brandon Wright (ph), stated that. And then, of course, you had his cousins and Tami`s ex-husband and their own daughter expressing their interest in the possible murder.

GRACE: Well, here`s my question to you, Dr. Bethany Marshall, psychoanalyst, author of "Dealbreakers." Dr. Bethany, if you have to say to somebody, Hey, I die, she murdered me, why do you stay in the home if you really think somebody`s capable of killing you?

MARSHALL: Because you`re masochistic, because you`re in denial, because you do not want to believe it`s true. And the fact that she was bragging about this to everybody in her life, that`s why I think that they knew he was at risk. Remember I said there was a perverse...

GRACE: Wait, wait, wait! Explain the bragging.

MARSHALL: OK, what I`m thinking happened is that the reason her daughter and her ex-husband went to the police is that she was talking to people about this. She was perhaps obsessed by it, thinking about it, titillated by the idea that she could poison her husband, so it was no secret. It was out there. And he stayed because on some level, he knew it, on the other level, he did not want to believe.

GRACE: He didn`t want to know it. We`re taking your calls live. Quickly, Jean Casarez, do we know of any bragging she did, any comments she made?

CASAREZ: You know, I think the comments were made to the police after the murder happened. She talked and spoke a lot with them. But beforehand, well, she had that boyfriend that was the insurance salesman who sold them the $100,000 life insurance policy, who was present when Alan Duvall actually signed it. And whether she spoke to him or not? Question.

GRACE: Out to the lines. Nicole, Oklahoma. Hi, Nicole.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Nancy. Thanks for taking my call, and thank you so much for sharing those beautiful twins you have with us.

GRACE: Thank you. Thank you.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And I was kind of wanting to know a little bit of information on a possible -- what are the side effects of an overdose of morphine?

GRACE: Good question. To Dr. Gwenn O`Keeffe. What would he have gone through?

O`KEEFFE: Well, with just morphine alone, you get very tired, confused, slip into a coma. You can sometimes have seizures. You can get similar side effects with Flexeril, which is a muscle relaxant, and also, interestingly, with alcohol poisoning. So you add the three together, and you get sort of a perfect storm of the same symptoms.

GRACE: Unleash the lawyers, Eleanor Odom, felony prosecutor, Renee Rockwell, defense attorney, Atlanta, Peter Odom, defense attorney. Weigh in, Eleanor.

ELEANOR ODOM, PROSECUTOR: Well, Nancy, it looks like a perfect murder, so she thought, because she planned it. She had a motive, the money. But what I`m looking at now is perhaps a death penalty case because of this planning and because of these large life insurance policies.

GRACE: OK, now you`re talking, Eleanor. OK, give me your defense, Renee.

RENEE ROCKWELL, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Oh, absolutely no death penalty here because I don`t think unless they get the pudding with the drugs in it, a suicide defense could work.

GRACE: Peter?

PETER ODOM, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: And she would have bought the $100,000 life insurance policy thinking that he might commit suicide in the future. The suicide defense might well work.

GRACE: I guarantee you there`s a suicide exception.

PETER ODOM: And both these drugs are commonly used for suicide.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was at this house in August of 2007 that Tami Duvall called 911 to report that on this small concrete slab in the back yard, she found her estranged husband, Alan Duvall, dead from what she explained as alcohol poisoning. Though that`s how investigators originally viewed the case, that`s not what neighbors or relatives believed.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He told them, like, individually, If I die, make sure it`s investigated.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She was really friendly to my kids. She was really friendly to us.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Definitely doesn`t look good.

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GRACE: We are taking your calls. Out to the line. Joan, Virginia. Hi, Joan.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, Nancy. I love you more than anything in this world! You know what? You should be named mother of the year and woman of the year! Please, everyone, back me up, mother of the year and woman of the year. That`s what you are!

GRACE: Joan, I do not deserve that, but you know what?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, yes, you do!

GRACE: I`m going to get a DVD burned of what you said. I`m going to play it back for the twins when they turn 16 and really hate me.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, they`re beautiful children! You give -- you give us a great gift!

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GRACE: I love them so much.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I know you do. I love your children, too. I love to see them on TV. Nancy, whatever happened to the two little children -- the little girl they found underneath the bed in, like, a wooden box, the sheriff department found? And what happened to the little baby boy that was so cute that the mother put him in a duffel bag to get rid of him?

GRACE: Oh, you`re talking about baby Gabriel, baby Gabriel Johnson, the mother, Elizabeth Johnson. I can tell you right now. They searched a couple of tons of trash in the dump closest to where Elizabeth Johnson was staying with the baby. They found nothing. She has been declared incompetent to stand trial. The judge basically said, Look, Doc, get her competent on drugs, on therapy, whatever you need, because she`s standing trial. Still no sign of the baby and no sign of the couple she gave the baby to. The father has gone to Texas to stay indefinitely to search for the baby.

And the other one question -- oh, it was about the little girl found alive in a box under the bed. Now, Ellie, you`re with me here in the studio. Didn`t the baby-sitter take the baby, and then we found out that baby-sitter had a very bad past, a child under her care had been killed? What do we know about that? The little baby is now back in the custody of the family, I`m learning, back with the family, Joan. And Joan, do you have a question about the Oreo pudding murder?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

GRACE: What`s your question?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This woman that killed her husband, she deserves the death penalty! I lost my husband three years ago, and I would give my life to have that man back! He was the best father in the world to our seven children. And I love you so much! And Fantasia...

GRACE: You know what, Joan? Oh, yes, what about Fantasia?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, I believe she`s being set up by her husband and the woman. And can she take her life`s savings or whatever she owns and divide it between family members to protect herself?

GRACE: The answer to that is no because a forensic accountant can go in and find out she was giving her money away and take it back. Set-up? I haven`t thought about that, Joan. I`m going to direct you to the photos of Fantasia on a jetski with her married boyfriend. Dana, if you`ve got that, throw it up as we go to break.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He told them -- like, individually, if I die, make sure it`s investigated.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: An Indiana woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her husband by poisoning him with morphine and muscle relaxants.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Neighbors wasted no time sharing their belief that she had poisoned her husband next door and covered it up for insurance money.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Police initially ruled the death of Alan Duvall as accidental from alcohol poisoning, but became suspicious after toxicology reports showed he had more than 80 times the maximum dose for both drugs in his system?

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Investigators believe she slipped him into a homemade dirt pudding when she served Alan during what would become his last meal.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Police began investigating the wife, 51-year- old Tammy Duvall, and discovered she took out a $100,000 life insurance policy on her husband just a month before he was found dead.

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NANCY GRACE, HOST: We are taking your calls live. And for those of you just joining us, an Indiana mother, wife and registered nurse now under suspicion by police after her husband dies of an overdose of morphine and muscle relaxers.

They believe the culprit was her famous homemade Oreo pudding. He`s found dead in the backyard sitting in a lounge chair. She says he committed suicide.

To Sheryl McCollum, crime analyst, director of the Cold Case Squad, Pine Lake P.D.

Sheryl, how do we put the case back together again because if she can show he had a history of mental illness or was extremely volatile or emotional, if he had ever talked of suicide before, some jury might believe it.

SHERYL MCCOLLUM, CRIME ANALYST, DIR. OF COLD CASE SQUAD AT PINE LAKE P.D.: We`re going to go back, we`re going to re-interview the witnesses who said he told me if anything happened to him, she did it. We`re going to go back to the insurance policy. We`re going to go back to the affair that she had.

They`re also going to look very closely, Nancy, at what the daughter and ex-husband are now saying as well as -- if he committed suicide he did it with drugs that she stole from work. If he committed suicide, she cleaned up a crime scene.

If he committed suicide she cashed in on insurance policy she had no right to. So at the very least, she stole, you know, narcotics, she cleaned and, you know, tampered with a crime scene and she defrauded the insurance company.

GRACE: Well, this is the first thing I would put into evidence. First thing -- maybe the only thing, to heck with it. Fourteen minutes before she dials 911 --

MCCOLLUM: Correct.

GRACE: She calls the insurance agent.

MCCOLLUM: Amen.

GRACE: Her boyfriend. There you go. And what about the fact this wasn`t the home they shared together. She invited him over to repair her air-conditioned.

MCCOLLUM: Right.

GRACE: Offered to fix dinner for him for repairing the air conditioner and whoops, he decides to commit suicide at her home in the backyard in a lounge chair? Uh-uh. No, Sheryl McCollum, it did not go down that way.

MCCOLLUM: No, ma`am. It absolutely did not. She had prepared the man trap. She had prepared the fatal meal. Period.

GRACE: OK, the last supper was delivered before she carted her hubby out to a lawn chair in the backyard. That`s what cops are saying.

But to you, Dr. Gwenn O`Keefe, when he have -- not tasted anything in the Oreo pudding? No taste to the morphine or the muscle relaxants?

DR. GWENN O`KEEFE, M.D., PEDIATRICIAN, FOUNDER & CEO, PEDIATRICSNOW.COM: Well, they`re both a little bitter if you crush them up, but if she really did a good job of that Oreo pudding, I don`t know if you`ve tasted it, Nancy, but tastes pretty sweet, and if he was intoxicated I really don`t see how he would have known.

But if -- if wasn`t intoxicated he might have been able to tell something, but I think he would have been too stuperous to figure it out. He just would have been out of it. He was really drunk.

GRACE: Is it true, recount for me in a nutshell a prior attempt to poison someone.

JEAN CASAREZ, LEGAL CORRESPONDENT, "IN SESSION": That`s what someone that she knew -- a male friend that she knew said that back in 2004, and it was a Thanksgiving lunch that she had prepared for him and there was dirt pudding, and he took a bite and it was so bitter -- two bites, actually, I think he took.

It was so bitter and he became dizzy and almost wanted to fall over, but he survived because he stopped eating it and he went to police and he said I think --

GRACE: Who this reminds me of, Jean?

CASAREZ: Tried to poison me. Numerous --

GRACE: A story you and I covered together. Lynn Turner. Charge to the boyfriend or first to the husband then the boyfriend. She always put antifreeze in her lime Jell-o. Yum, yum.

Out to the lines, Frances in Canada. Hi, Frances.

FRANCES, CALLER FROM CANADA: Hi, Nancy.

GRACE: Hi, dear.

FRANCES: I just -- I would just like to say I just love your show. I watch you every night.

GRACE: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. What is your question, Frances in Canada?

FRANCES: Yes. I was just wondering if the insurance agent could face any charges?

GRACE: You know what? That`s a great point. Unleash the lawyers. Eleanor Odom, felony prosecutor who is no stranger to the death penalty, I might add. Renee Rockwell, defense attorney, Atlanta. Peter Odom, defense attorney, Atlanta.

Eleanor, why is she calling him 14 minutes before 911? He took out the insurance policy. He`s the one sleeping with her. I see a little conspiracy to commit murder charge coming down the pike.

ELEANOR ODOM, PROSECUTOR: Well, you know, Nancy. It could be a party to a crime and if he knew about it and helped plan it and certainly there`s an argument there because he provided the policy.

GRACE: Peter Odom?

PETER ODOM, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Right now all you know is that he sold an insurance policy and there`s no crime in that.

GRACE: I know. And I know she called him and had a conversation 14 minutes before she called 911.

P. ODOM: No -- no crimes in any of that, Nancy. Now you might be starting to build a circumstantial case, but a circumstantial case it is nonetheless, has to disprove any other rational conclusion.

GRACE: OK. Renee -- why do you defense attorneys always pretend a circumstantial case means nothing? It`s just as good as direct evidence.

RENEE ROCKWELL, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, but no, there`s no direct evidence now. But what`s going to happen now is both will get charged and there`ll be a race to the courthouse to see who flips first on the other one. That`s what`s going to happen. A good prosecutor will make them both be charged.

GRACE: You`re right. And tried together. They should both go down on the same sinking ship. Of course, one will probably try to jump like a rat as you described, Renee Rockwell.

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There are carryover characters to be looking for from "Eleventh Victim" that pop up again in "Death on the D-List." First of all of course, Hailey Dean herself. Her doorman in New York, Ricky.

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Hailey Dean, the star of "Death on the D-List", is not autobiographical. She is a much better person and a much braver person than I could ever be.

I always wanted to name a little girl Hailey after Haleigh Cummings. I never thought I could have a little girl. So instead I became this wonderful brave person that grew into Hailey Dean.

I`m thinking back to all those years that I practiced law and prosecuted violent felonies. A lot of those characters that I met in that 10-year parade in the courthouse come to life on the pages of this book.

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: An Indiana woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her husband by poisoning him with morphine and muscle relaxants.

Police initially ruled the death of Alan Duvall as accidental from alcohol poisoning but became suspicious after toxicology reports showed he had more than 80 times the maximum dose for both drugs in his system.

Police began investigating the wife 51-year-old Tammy Duvall and discovered she took out a $100,000 life insurance policy on her husband just a month before he was found dead.

Not only that, but investigators revealed Duvall was having an affair with the insurance agent who set up the policy.

Tammy Duvall was arrested this weekend and is charged with murder along with multiple counts of insurance fraud and obstruction of justice.

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GRACE: Before we take to you the case of missing 4-month pregnant Trudie, who we now find out has not one but two husbands, I want to quickly go to Pat Brown, criminal profiler.

Pat, death by Oreo pudding. What does it say to you that this is not the first but possibly the second time she`s pulled this stunt before it worked?

PAT BROWN, CRIMINAL PROFILER, AUTHOR OF "THE PROFILER": Well, she might have tried little experiments before to see how she could manipulate people and see how they would -- certain things would affect them, but you know, it`s really interesting.

When we talk about this guy who says, you know, he thought she might kill him. People say why would he stay? It`s because he needed her so desperately.

The middle aged man is usually the target of this kind of woman. He gets food, he gets sex, he gets companionship right into his life, really quickly, and he`s the one that is really in trouble when she shows up.

GRACE: You know, actually we`ve seen that before. And I`m thinking right now of Dalia Dippolito. This workout enthusiast who tried to poison her husband with Starbucks tea.

So, Jean Casarez, what`s next?

CASAREZ: What`s next is that this is a complaint that has a lot of counts, but first-degree murder and in Indiana you`ve got the death penalty along with six counts of insurance fraud that she tried to conceal circumstances, and then all those counts of obstruction of justice.

GRACE: And Jean Casarez, quickly, in that jurisdiction, Indiana, what`s the mode of death penalty? I assume death by the needle?

CASAREZ: Yes. Yes. Death by lethal injection.

GRACE: Lethal injection. Very similar to the way her husband died there in the lawn chair in the backyard.

We are quickly shifting gears. What happened to 23-year-old Trudie Hall?

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The 23-year-old pregnant Nantucket woman has been missing for nearly two weeks.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Twenty-three-year-old Trudie Hall was reportedly headed to a doctor`s appointment and hasn`t been seen since.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No idea when she left her house.

GRACE: She`s 23-year-old, four months pregnant, Trudie Hall.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The Nantucket woman is 4 1/2 months pregnant.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can always lose a baby very -- from trauma, blunt trauma and babies do not survive well at 20 weeks.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The pieces of this puzzle don`t fit.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Police spent most of the day looking for clues in the thick brush. Sources say police collected a few items which may be related to the case.

GRACE: Blood has been found inside her rental car.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The police seem to have a very good lead what they found in the car.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: So far sources say police have recovered blood evidence found in Hall`s car and reportedly discovered bullet shell casings in it as well.

MARC KLAAS, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, KLAASKIDS FOUNDATION: I feel so terribly for these folks right now. I think we all have to keep this entire family in our thoughts and prayers until this is resolved.

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GRACE: We`re taking your calls. Out to Karen Jeffrey with the "Cape Cod Times." Now we uncover she was married to not one but two men?

I think I`ve got Karen Jeffrey. Let me go to Marlaina Schiavo.

Marlaina, when did we learn --

KAREN JEFFREY, REPORTER, CAPE COD TIMES: Yes.

GRACE: -- that Trudie has two husbands?

MARLAINA SCHIAVO, NANCY GRACE PRODUCER, COVERING STORY: Just recently learned this, Nancy. Apparently she got married in November of 2009, and then again in April -- excuse me, in April and then in November of the same year.

But the husband that she stayed overnight with in that resort that we found out never knew of the second husband, but he says that he knows that she was pregnant with another man`s baby. So lots of -- lots of things unfolding here.

GRACE: OK. I`m going to try "Cape Cod Times" reporter Karen Jeffrey again.

Karen?

JEFFREY: Yes. I`m here.

GRACE: What more do we know? I know that she was headed out to a doctor`s appointment reportedly. She`s four months pregnant. And then she ends up checking into like a bed and breakfast.

I don`t know which husband she checked in with, but now her car has been found at a road stop with blood evidence around it.

What more do we know? And how did we discover there`s not one but two husbands? You know that can be a pesky little problem.

JEFFREY: Hi, Nancy. How are you doing?

GRACE: Good.

JEFFREY: One of the interesting things that we found out at the "Cape Cod Times" is in both instances Trudie Hall and both of her husbands got approval for, quote, "marriage without delay", which petitions that are filed before a judge that enable a person to get married the same day. They take out the wedding license.

Normally, there`s a three-day wait. But we haven`t been able to find out what convinced the judges to issue those marriage without delays.

GRACE: Well, let me ask you this, were both marriages after she became pregnant, Karen Jeffrey?

JEFFREY: No, no. One marriage was in April of 2009, and that was to Seth McDowall. And then in November of 2009, she married a man named Ram Rimal.

GRACE: What was his name?

JEFFREY: Ram, R-A-M, Rimal, R-I-M-A-L.

GRACE: OK. Do we know, Marlaina Schiavo, who is the father, the biological father, of the baby she was carrying?

SCHIAVO: No one has said who the father is at this time, Nancy.

GRACE: OK. Sheryl McCollum, you`re the crime analyst, the director of the Cold Case Squad. What do you think?

MCCOLLUM: Motive. Being pregnant by another man is motive to do harm to her. She`s going to run --

GRACE: Hey, what about being pregnant by another man who turns out to be your second husband?

MCCOLLUM: Yes, I mean that`s certainly -- you know.

GRACE: Yes, that`s a little problem.

MCCOLLUM: Adds to the case. It`s a little problem. But again, Nancy, she`s in a rental car. The rental car is cleaned thoroughly. So any of the blood, the shell casings, those were not -- they were not there before. This case is very, very concerning. Something tragic has happened to this woman.

GRACE: Four months pregnant, reportedly going to a doctor`s appointment. Blood evidence found in her rental car. A Cape Cod home being searched, swarmed by police in connection with the case.

So bottom line, Pat Brown, where do we go from here?

BROWN: Well, they`re going to be looking at, obviously, both husbands because it`s going to be one of the guys or the other, most likely. But it also could very well be the baby`s father because we find that most women are killed by the father of the baby.

Because they don`t want to get stuck with that child, support check, especially if you know your wife is messing around with somebody else who is now her second husband. So if he found out about that, he might have wanted to get rid of her and the child support payment. So they`re going to be looking at both of those husbands.

GRACE: And in fact, according to a study, the number one cause of death amongst pregnant women in this country is homicide.

Everyone, very quickly, we`re taking your calls, but now "CNN Heroes".

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MAGNUS MACFARLANE-BARROW, CNN HERO: I never expected my life to change in this way.

My brother and I were having a pint in our local pub. We`ve seen a news report about a refugee camp in Bosnia. And we began saying wouldn`t it be wonderful if we could just do one small thing to help?

We gathered food and blankets and clothing and drove them out there.

I`m Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow. I gave up my job and I`ve sold house to try and help the people in Bosnia. Out of that has grown the organization which today that feeds around 412,000 children every day in 15 different countries.

We buy the food locally and then we ask the local community take responsibility for the daily cooking and serving of the food. By far our biggest project is here in Malawi, where we`re feeding about 350,000 children every day.

That`s to allow those young people to realize their potential. Through feeding them, through keeping them alive and through getting them into the classroom.

We began working in Haiti in 2006. In addition to feeding children, we`ve been feeding the elderly. Since the earthquake, we`ve been involved in providing health care, we`ve been helping with the rebuilding of the schools.

When I think of it, I think of it as a series of lots of lots of little acts. I`ve learned every small act of kindness does make a difference.

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GRACE: What a week in America`s courtrooms. Take a look at the stories and, more important, the people who touched our lives.

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: SWAT teams searched a home in Antioch, Tennessee.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Officers detained a man immediately when they arrived.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: That`s where Misty Croslin`s cousin lives.

GRACE: The man believed to be involved in the kidnapping of little Haleigh, the last one outside of prison, has now been dragged across the front yard in handcuffs.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They have discovered a human skull and discovered some bones.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Life is fragile.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I`m a little frazzled right now.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To my sadness and disappointment, I`m reporting to you --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I hate to wake up to a morning report.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is the confirmed remains of Mitrice Richardson.

GRACE: I`m just sick, I am sick. There`s the mother, Mitrice`s mother. Just imagine the little girl you have raised, given your whole life to, something, your hopes, your dreams.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: But we`ve just heard this afternoon the remains found that you mentioned less than two miles from the campground where little Sylar Newton was last reported alive, they were found in a wash which is a shallow stream.

UNIDENTIFIED 911 DISPATCHER: Tell me exactly what happened.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: An individual took a bottle of aspirin and she is slowly losing consciousness.

UNIDENTIFIED 911 DISPATCHER: OK. And are you with the patient now?

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Rags to riches story that is Fantasia.

FANTASIA BARRINO, "AMERICAN IDOL" WINNER: No, I did not break up his home. He`s just a friend. I don`t know if he`s home. What happened in his home.

GRACE: More and more details regarding the overdose of "American Idol" Fantasia Barrino.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Freakin` liar. Plainly nuts.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Are you going to lose your job?

STEVEN SLATER, JETBLUE FLIGHT ATTENDANT: More than likely.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Steven Slater.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: The fed-up flight attendant.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We just (INAUDIBLE) to JFK.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Flipped out after an argument with a passenger.

CASAREZ: The passenger started cursing him out. He started cursing the passenger out.

GRACE: I do not believe this guy Slater suddenly went berserk over nothing, but I do like the panache, the flair, the style of grabbing the two beers and then going down the inflatable emergency exit chute. Now that`s style.

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GRACE: Let`s stop and remember Army Specialist Michael Arciola, 20, Elmsford, New York, killed Iraq. Awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, buried at Arlington. Loved football, baseball, basketball. Collecting DVDs. Favorite childhood shows, "The Honeymooners" and "Laurel and Hardy".

Favorite color red. Dreamed of college and being a cop. Leaves behind parents Robert Sr. and Teresa. Sibling Cassandra, Robert Jr. and Amanda.

Michael Arciola, American hero.

Thanks to our guests but especially to you for inviting us into your homes. A special good night from the New York control room.

Good night, everybody.

Everyone, I`ll see you tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp Eastern, and until then, good night, friend.

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