Blaine Alexander

Most of the state's case was circumstantial.

Now the lab results gave prosecutors something they could sink their teeth into.

The DA tacked on another aggravated assault charge related to the poisoning in addition to murder.

But there was delay after delay.

You all have quite a waiting game ahead of you.

Oh, gosh, so long, yes.

Four and a half years.

Yes.

In December 2019, the trial finally got underway.

The prosecution laid out its case, arguing that Jake was poisoned before he was shot.

If the state was right, and Susan Embert was, in fact, trying to kill her husband with poison, why shoot him?

Lee Wilson pointed to the timing.

Jake had an upcoming doctor's appointment, where they planned to run some tests.

So you're saying that she felt that she would have soon been exposed, right?

As evidence of her premeditation, the state called this man to the stand, Douglas Buckner, a fellow race car lover.

About two weeks before Jake was shot, Buckner came by the house to buy Jake's Firebird, and at one point, he was alone with Susan.

And he wasn't around for much longer because, prosecutors say, Susan shot Jake.

Then she worked hard, they argued, to redirect investigators.

The prosecutor played Susan's 911 call.

The DA asked the jury to listen carefully to this part.