Lester Holt

How did Susan and Jake Embert meet?

So Susan and Jake met online in 2012 after Jake's divorce from his first wife.

His family told us that Jake fell for Susan fast.

The two got married in March 2013, sort of secretly.

The family expected that there would be, you know, a wedding, but instead the couple just went to City Hall.

So tell me more about the shooting of Jake Ember.

What do we know about that?

According to responding officers, they arrived to find Jake's body half lying on the bed with a handgun in his right hand and a gunshot wound to the head.

So the coroner came to the scene, too.

He seemed to make his mind up pretty quickly.

He didn't even conduct an autopsy.

That's right.

And he released the body to Susan, his next of kin, within 24 hours.

And then she, very shortly after, had Jake cremated.

So it was really a real 180 when prosecutors charged Susan with murder.

How could they argue the shooting was a homicide and not a suicide?

At Susan's first trial, the prosecution told the jury that Susan staged the scene to fool investigators.

They argued that things like the bullet trajectories and the position of Jake's body proved that someone else had shot him.

When did this idea of alleged poisoning enter the picture?

It really started with Jake's family.