KNOXVILLE – A Knox County jury has found a widow guilty in the first-degree murder of her second husband.
The Knoxville News Sentinel reported that the sequestered jury returned the verdict Monday around 2 p.m. after about six hours of deliberations on Sunday.
Raynella Dossett Leath was tried for a second time on the murder charge after a jury deadlocked last year.
Prosecutors said Dossett Leath shot her second husband, David Leath, in their bedroom in March 2003. Dossett Leath claimed her husband killed himself and her defense attorney has maintained she wasn’t home when Leath was shot.
She is also charged with murder in 1992 death of her first husband, Ed Dossett, and is awaiting trial in that case