Kristin jeanette meyers biography
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News Legal correspondent
Kristin Jeannette-Meyers has served as CBS News' legal correspondent since April 1997. She has covered many of the biggest and most important legal issues and trials during that time, including the Oklahoma City bombing trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the Paula Jones/Bill Clinton proceedings, the Louise Woodward murder trial and the O.J. Simpson civil trial. Jeannette-Meyers reports primarily for Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel and the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, but contributes to other CBS News broadcasts as well.
She joined CBS News in 1996 as a co-anchor of the CBS Morning News.
Before that, Jeannette-Meyers was a senior reporter and anchor for CourtTV (1991-96), where she covered every major trial since the launch of the cable channel, including the O.J. Simpson murder trials, state and federal Rodney King trials, the Reginald Denny beating trial, the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, the Lorena Bobbitt maiming case, the
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Mystery surrounds death of OJ Simpson trial anchor Kristin Jeannette-Meyers after body was found at her home last year
THE death of former Court TV anchor Kristin Jeannette-Meyers has revealed how she sunk into darkness plagued by addiction and loneliness.
Jeannette-Meyers rose to fame in the 1990s covering some of the most intriguing and famous cases including the trial of OJ Simpson.
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The budding anchor and reporter worked for Court TV and CBS News before her life appeared to take an unexpected turn which has only been fully revealed since her death last summer.
At the age of 57, her remains were found at her home by a neighbor in Larchmont Village, Los Angeles, around six weeks after her death.
The former reporter lived in a run-down Spanish Villa among insects and rats, piles of trash, and animal feces.
Jeannette-Meyers' bright light in the '90s which appeared to show a promising television career was entirely extinguished in her later years.
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A rising star at celebrity trials like O.J. Simpson’s. Then a quiet, mysterious death
Kristin Jeannette-Meyers made a career showing America the darkness behind its sunny facades.
As an anchor and reporter for Court TV and CBS News in the 1990s, she specialized in the legal sagas that transfixed the nation, from William Kennedy Smith, the Kennedy cousin acquitted of raping another dryckesställe patron in Palm Beach, Fla., to Lorena Bobbitt, a woman who, after what she said was prolonged domestic violence, severed her husband’s penis.
With a law grad and blond good looks the camera loved, Jeannette-Meyers reached the pinnacle of her success in Los Angeles in 1995 covering the biggest real-life rulle noir of all, the O.J. Simpson case.
“We felt like we were at the center of the universe,” recalled ABC’s ledare legal affairs correspondent, Dan Abrams, a Court TV colleague who worked side-by-side with Jeannette-Meyers during the former NFL star’s murder prosecution. bygd its stunning conclusion