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Profile |
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Name: Dr. Yazeed
"Yaz"
Essa
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Sex: Male |
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Race: White |
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Age Now: 40 |
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Height: 6'2" |
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Weight: 215 |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Brown
Had shaved head at time of disappearance, but may have grown it out. |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Blue |
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Wanted for :
Aggravated Murder, Cleveland, OH;
Feb 2005
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : Detroit, MI
Essa was last seen gambling in Detroit. From there investiagators know he drove to Toronto, flew to London and on to Cypress. |
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Possible Location : Dearborn, MI
, FL
Syria
Police have reports that Essa was in Florida in December of 2005. |
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Last Known : Gates Mills, OH |
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Traits |
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Likes to smoke cigars |
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Likes to drink |
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Avid bodybuilder |
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Police say he likes to live the high life |
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Police say he's had several extramarital affairs |
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Case Story |
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Cops Say: Car Crash Was No Accident |
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Rosemarie Essa headed out for a couple of hours on February 24, 2005. But only five miles from her home in the Cleveland suburb of Gates Mills, Ohio, she lost control of her SUV. Though she wasn't going very fast, she sideswiped an oncoming car and collapsed in the driver's seat. Rosemarie Essa died a short time later at the local hospital. Police and witnesses couldn't understand how Rosemarie died because there was so little damage done in the low-speed accident. As the investigation began, police theorized that the accident didn't kill Rosemarie. Police discovered that Rosemarie made a phone call to a close friend right before her accident. She told her friend that her husband made her take some pills and she didn't feel well. A short time later Rosemarie was dead. |
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Husband Disappears |
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Rosemarie had been married to Dr. Yazeed Essa for five years and the couple had two children. Essa was an ER doctor and Rosemarie had been a nurse before the birth of their children. The couple seemed to have a good marriage. But family and friends say that Essa's love for partying and living the high life put stress on the marriage. A few weeks after Rosemarie died, police spoke with Essa about Rosemarie's medical history and the events on the day of her death.
Essa said he had recently encouraged her to take calcium pills and gave her one just before she died. A local crime lab analyzed the calcium capsules and found they had been tainted with deadly cyanide. The Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office ruled Rosemarie's death a homicice -- Rosemarie had indeed been poisoned.
After talking to the police, Essa dropped off his children at a relative's home. He told Rosemarie's family he was traveling to Detroit to gamble with his brother and cousins. Once in Detroit, Essa told his family he'd have to travel to North Carolina to take care of a friend with a broken leg. Police say that story gave Essa time to make an international getaway. In reality, Essa made his way to Toronto, boarded a plane to London, and then flew to Cypress. From there police believe he could have gone anywhere. |
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Police Charge Doctor With Murder |
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Almost a year after the death of Rosemarie, police have formally charged Yazeed Essa with the murder of his wife. There had been no sign of Essa since he boarded a plane to Cypress -- that was until early February 2006. A tip came into police that Essa might be back in the United States, living in a house in Florida. The FBI raided the house, but there was no sign of Essa. Though this lead didn't work out, authorities are not ruling out that Essa could still be in Florida or somewhere in the United States. |
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