![]() ![]() And the next morning I just woke up not feeling very well. ![]() And that's the last thing that I remember before. I think probably about the entire bottle of wine between the two of us. Um, and I remember kissing him in my kitchen after having had. "So he came to my apartment, um, and we got the Chinese, we started watching the movie, I opened a bottle of wine. ![]() She told ABC that as the relationship got worse, she kept thinking back to their second date, a night that hung over her like a dark cloud: He'd threaten to kill her friends or family if she tried to leave the relationship, and he'd just disappear for long periods of time. But she eventually started to notice his "bizarre" behavior. Rovell, an attorney who was a law student at the time she met Marsalis, told ABC News in 2009 she initially thought the two were in a committed relationship when they started dating. Tom McDevitt, FBI agent John Kitzinger and two victims: JoAnn Buttaro and Jessika Rovell. His conviction is being revisited by Investigation Discovery's " Web of Lies." The show details noteworthy crimes with reenactments done by actors along with interviews of real people who were involved in the case.įor the upcoming episode on Marsalis, the show interviewed former special prosecutor Joe Khan (who's currently running for Philadelphia district attorney), former Special Victims Unit Lt. Marsalis was sentenced to 21 years in prison for the Philadelphia convictions, but he would go on a trial again and be given an additional life sentence in 2009 for the rape of a woman in Idaho. The reason is contained within Rachael’s story: Many of the women - almost all of whom didn’t come forward on their own, but instead were contacted by authorities - had reengaged Marsalis after the fact or otherwise behaved toward him in ways that seem counterintuitive, badly damaging their credibility. Instead, Rachael is one of a staggering number of Philadelphia-area women whom authorities believe Marsalis assaulted but whose alleged rapes he’s yet to be formally charged with, and probably never will be. He was acquitted of raping six of the seven alleged victims in the case (the jury hanged on a single rape charge) as well as impersonating a public servant, for allegedly convincing several women that he was a CIA assassin who spent time in caves in Afghanistan following September 11th and carried a CIA-issued pistol he’d nicknamed Priscilla and talked to in an Elvis voice. Per that piece:ĭespite the fact that they determined her allegations to be credible, her story wasn’t one of those presented during Jeffrey Marsalis’s second rape trial last June, which ended, after nearly four weeks of testimony, with him convicted of just two counts of sexual assault. Marsalis would take his victims on dates, charm them, regale the women with stories about his work in medicine and as a secret government agent before drugging and raping them.Ī lengthy PhillyMag article from 2007 notes that although there were seven official victims in his Philadelphia case, and several others came forward with similar allegations, Marsalis ultimately only was convicted of two sexual assaults. He posed as a CIA agent whose cover was as a doctor (he was actually a nursing-school dropout). He first stood trial in 2006 accused by 10 women of sexual assault.Īccording to media reports, Marsalis used the moniker "Dr. Jeffrey Marsalis made national headlines in 2009 after his second sexual assault conviction. A serial sexual predator who preyed on women in Philadelphia, using his online dating profile and a fabricated life story, will be the subject of an upcoming true-crime television show episode. ![]()
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