Janine Yoder
Appearances
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
Well, she showed up at my house. I was really surprised. Mary and I would get together periodically, but never did she ever just pop in.
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
I think she wanted to talk or she wanted to open up the door, you know, for us to start talking about something.
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
Some of the things that we weren't comfortable with was that they didn't know what she died of exactly, but he had her cremated very quickly. He had her phone turned off very quickly. Too quickly? Yeah, too quickly. Still, the sisters say the marriage looked pretty solid in recent years. our brother-in-law seemingly became a really good husband.
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
You know, he was helpful in ways, letting her do things she wanted to do. I was just thinking, well, gee, Bill has really come a long way.
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
When I was interviewed, I was not ready to say that I suspect my brother-in-law, because I really had no real evidence, and I felt in all fairness to another human being, I'm not going to accuse him of something without evidence.
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
I had the impression she wanted to talk, but it was a time that I would usually be home alone working. But it just so happened my husband and son were there at the same time. I said, you know, I can take a little time off from work. You want to come upstairs? We'll have a cup of tea. And she said, no, no, I got to go. And so Mary left.
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
Shortly after Mary died, my mother said, why is he always going out of town? And I said, I don't know, Mom, maybe he needs some time or whatever. And she says, I think he's got a girlfriend. This is coming from a 92-year-old woman, 91-year-old. And she goes, I'm not feeling right about this.
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
Because a week later, Mary Yoder was dead. I got a frantic call from my sister telling me, did you hear about Mary? Did you hear about Mary?
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
What was she like as a sister? Loving. A darling. She was always upbeat and full of fun.
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
We went to the hospital and it was crazy. They had no idea what was wrong. Tamron was in the room as her mother began to code.
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
They brought in so many specialists, they had no idea. They just couldn't figure out what was wrong with this woman. This is a medical mystery.
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
So many things start gelling to make us suspicious. The poison is found in Adam Yoder's Jeep.
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
I know it is a very unusual situation. Right. But we just felt like this is the last thing our sister would have wanted.
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
What's going through your mind when you learn of this relationship? Unbelievable. Yeah, I mean, that's when we really started thinking seriously that Bill did it.
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
The romantic relationship began sometime in September, late September, mid-September.
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
Mary had been the primary breadwinner for quite a long time. He'd gotten an inheritance. Now he no longer needed Mary.
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
And it just doesn't make sense. We don't believe she did this. But what would the jury think?
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
Perhaps the real question was who. From the moment Mary died, in our gut, we felt something's not right.
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
There'll be an appeal and we'll be involved in that and, you know, do whatever we can. So you're going to keep fighting for Katie?
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
While in college in Buffalo, she met her soulmate, husband Bill Yoder. They chose to pursue holistic living and healthy lifestyle, spiritual growth.
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
He said what killed her was still a mystery. He goes, we have no idea how she died. He said so many specialists were called in. We'd never seen anything like this in all of our years of practicing. You had no idea about any of this? No, no. And so we, that's just so many things start gelling to make us suspicious. We always, from the moment Mary died in our gut, we felt something's not right.
Dateline NBC
Poison Twist
I was like, what? Well, how did she get it? She didn't know. So I said, so she was poisoned then? And she said, well, we have to find out how it got into her system.