The Poisonous Wife | Sneak peek | Forensic Files

[Music] if you're afraid of snakes then everything you think you know about them
is wrong my name is ben renick i'm with ben red reptiles and this is my story ben renick is an artist when it comes to
breeding snakes and this is a project that i'm actually a really big fan of are there some species of snakes in here
that ben used to work with yeah actually right behind me there's a reticulated python and ben was actually very fond of
his reticulated pythons ben renick was a great businessman he was a young up-and-coming
rock star in the reptile world my wife and i mainly run this company lindley rennick is
a kind soul a devoted mother and i would say a genuinely caring person they were happy you know they were very
busy you know they worked a lot and there was never any instance of anything ever being wrong
on june 8th of 2017 at about 5 30 in the afternoon lindley renick drives home to where her home and her and her
husband's snake facility is she goes inside and she finds her husband ben renick lying face down in a pool of
blood i got a call from lindley she was hysterical complete and panic nightmare moments here's the emergency
[Music] and i went in to try and find ben and when i found ben and uh and his body i knew that uh
it was too late oh my god my brother's dead what what may have happened he got killed by snakes
i assumed it was a snake [Music] every four inches in here i don't know someone being killed by a snake is not
something that happens every day especially in missouri paramedics said there's a bike mark on them so there's a
snake loose in here so watch your being the coroner walking into a death scene with thousands of snakes jumping at the
cages it was just a crazy scene to be at do we have anybody we could call to deal with an anaconda
i'm gonna kill it how could you have something big enough to kill a person here i still didn't know what to think
i'm squatted down next to the body there's significant damage there's blood all around when i saw that shell casing
on the shelf just above his head i knew this was not from a snake this was something much more heinous i knew that
this was a homicide at that time who would want to kill ben renick that was the question
we couldn't have imagined anything like that and it was a long wait until we got that
answer you

A star snake breeder is murdered. Turns out the human closest to him was more cold-blooded than any snake. Correspondent Peter Van Sant reports in an all-new "48 Hours" Saturday, March 4, 2023, at 9/8c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.

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Brief Summary

Ben Renick, a snake breeder, was murdered, leading to an investigation that revealed shocking details about his life and death.

Key points

The Tragic Discovery. Lindley Renick finds her husband Ben dead in their snake facility.
A Homicide Unveiled. Coroner discovers evidence suggesting Ben's death was not an accident.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Oh my god, my brother's dead.

A shocking revelation about Ben's death.

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