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In this episode of Murder Murder on the Wall, Stacey and Kelly dive into one of Indonesia’s most notorious true crime cases: the death of 27-year-old Mirna Salihin and the conviction of her former college friend, Jessica Wongso. In January 2016, Mirna met Jessica and another friend at Olivier Café inside Jakarta’s Grand Indonesia mall. She took a sip of Vietnamese iced coffee, said it tasted terrible, and was dead less than an hour later. Police said the coffee contained cyanide and accused Jessica of poisoning her—but almost immediately, questions emerged. There was no full autopsy, the chain of custody was messy, and CCTV never captured Jessica actually putting anything into Mirna’s drink. Jessica was convicted of murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison, but the case—later examined in the Netflix documentary Ice Cold: Murder, Coffee and Jessica Wongso—remains deeply controversial. So what actually happened to Mirna Salihin? And was Jessica Wongso guilty beyond a reasonable doubt? Before the cyanide…
In this episode of Murder Murder on the Wall, Stacey and Kelly dive into one of Indonesia’s most notorious true crime cases: the death of 27-year-old Mirna Salihin and the conviction of her former college friend, Jessica Wongso. In January 2016, Mirna met Jessica and another friend at Olivier Café inside Jakarta’s Grand Indonesia mall. She took a sip of Vietnamese iced coffee, said it tasted terrible, and was dead less than an hour later. Police said the coffee contained cyanide and accused Jessica of poisoning her—but almost immediately, questions emerged. There was no full autopsy, the chain of custody was messy, and CCTV never captured Jessica actually putting anything into Mirna’s drink. Jessica was convicted of murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison, but the case—later examined in the Netflix documentary Ice Cold: Murder, Coffee and Jessica Wongso—remains deeply controversial. So what actually happened to Mirna Salihin? And was Jessica Wongso guilty beyond a reasonable doubt? Before the cyanide…
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