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Bitter Pill Dateline: Where Is Yazeed Essa Today? Wife Rosemarie Essa Murder And Mistress

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Daniel Moore

Published Jan 08, 2026

After the Dateline episode “Bitter Pill”, people wonder where Yazeed Essa is right now. Let us learn more about his wife’s murder and mistress below!

Yazeed Essa is a doctor turned killer.

He is accused of poisoning his wife. According to the source, he allegedly laced his wife’s calcium pills with cyanide, then flee the country in 2005.

Prosecutors believed that he killed his wife to break free from the marriage. Furthermore, the murder was also featured in the Dateline episode “Bitter Pill”, and in the Forensic Files II episode “The Car Accident”.

Bitter Pill Dateline: Where Is Yazeed Essa Today?

According to the source, Yazeed Essa was sent back to the US and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 20 years on March 9, 2010.

He is probably serving his life sentence in the prison right now. There is no explicit news on where he is exactly right now. In addition to that, on January 14, 2009, he was arraigned before Judge Deena Calabrese. He was charged with aggravated murder.

On March 8, 2010, he was convicted of aggravated murder, and sentenced to life in prison without parole for 20 years.

Yazeed Essa Wife Rosemarie Essa

Yazeed Essa is accused of killing his wife Rosemarie Essa.

The couple first met at the now-defunct Mount Sinai Hospital in 1995 and later got married on September 11, 2019. Together, they also share a son named Armand and a daughter named Lena.  She passed away in 2005 while she was en route to the movie theatre and she suddenly swerved and bumped into the passing van.

Following her death, her family immediately suspected Yazeed, who, following questioning by police, fled to Lebanon, and later Cyprus where he was arrested on October 7, 2006.

Murder And Mistress Revealed

The defense lawyer suspected that Essa’s former lover, Marguerita Montanez, was Rosemarie Essa’s true killer.

On the other hand, Essa is also accused of killing his wife. Sources tell that he killed his wife to break free from the marriage as that hindered his love affair with a nurse Madeline at Akron General Hospital, where he worked as an emergency room physician.

However, she is married now and has changed her name to Stephens. The former couple met in 2000 when they used to work together. Likewise, Essa also is known to have an affair with Marguerita Montanez. According to her, they began an extramarital relationship in 2001 which she called it off in early 2004 to concentrate on repairing her marriage and growing her family. Furthermore, she also denied ever-loving Essa or harboring dreams of becoming his wife.

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