My Dentist Was Arrested for Murder. Then Things Got Weird

By Kate Seamons

July 1, 2017

When James Lasdun needed immediate care for a broken tooth in April 2016, he found himself in the office of his dentist, a man he had assumed he'd have to give up seeing—due to the doctor's arrest for murder six months earlier.

After the tooth was tended to, Lasdun asked Dr. Gilberto Nunez if he'd be willing to talk about the case, and Nunez said yes. "When he went on trial, a few weeks later, almost every detail of his account was corroborated," writes Lasdun in the New Yorker.

And the details are pretty weird. At the root is a love triangle: In 2011, Nunez was seeing Linda Kolman, whose husband, Thomas Kolman, was found dead in a Planet Fitness parking lot in Ulster, NY, in the early hours of November 29 of that year. The prosecution asserted Nunez had met him there and gotten Kolman to ingest midazolam, a sedative Nunez stored in his office, leading to his death.

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