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Criminal

Oct. 17, 2002

Wife Killed Spouse to Protect Image, DA Says

SAN DIEGO - A prosecutor on Tuesday portrayed former medical examiner's toxicologist Kristin M. Rossum as a woman so protective of her image that she poisoned her husband to keep him from revealing her drug use and an affair with a supervisor.

By Claude Walbert
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN DIEGO - A prosecutor on Tuesday portrayed former medical examiner's toxicologist Kristin M. Rossum as a woman so protective of her image that she poisoned her husband to keep him from revealing her drug use and an affair with a supervisor.
        Deputy District Attorney Daniel B. Goldstein...

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