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okay my mother okay the actual call came out where and the victim fell in the shower
[Music] the supervisor at the scene called and said I think you're gonna want to come
up here there's quite a bit of blood I'm thinking this had to have been some fall
doctor neulander said that he removed his wife from the shower and ultimately took her into the bedroom in order to
perform CPR emergency personnel determined that she was dead shortly after they arrived
Leslie was so well known they were both very active in the philanthropic community he's delivered thousands of
babies so if you know you just multiply that out there's literally tens of thousands of people that have some
connection to doctor neulander the medical examiner makes a ruling she slipped and fell in the shower
accidental death right I thought you know how sad and then went about doing the other things that I am supposed to
do you know this was supposed to be a fall in the shower but we've got blood on this wall some blood spatter up on on an
angled wall and then my suspicions began to rise and I'm wondering if if we miss
something here the best explanation to me is an impact event on or near the south side of the bed impact spatter
force impacting liquid blood there was obviously a violent encounter in that bedroom inconsistent with a scenario
where she wakes up goes into the shower slips and is discovered by her husband it's a homicide it's an arrest 18 months
in the making it was originally ruled an accident but police have been investigating ever since I don't think
people kill people without some reason so why did he do it one of the absolute major major points of the prosecution's
case was the 911 call from the daughter [Music] Genna neulander was important to the
prosecution and the defense because she was the only other person in the house at the time of these events
[Music] you

Can a daughter's frantic 911 call convict or free her father from charges that he killed his wife? CBS News' Jim Axelrod reports for "48 Hours" Saturday, November 16 at 9/8c on CBS.

Brief Summary

Dr. Neulander's wife's death, initially ruled accidental, is investigated as a homicide after evidence suggests foul play.

Key points

Accidental Death Ruling. The medical examiner rules the death as accidental, but suspicions arise.
From Accident to Homicide. Evidence leads to a shocking shift from an accidental death ruling to homicide.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

It's a homicide; it's an arrest 18 months in the making.

Revelation about the case's true nature.

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