Mirna Salihin and her friend Hani Boon made their way to an upscale Jakarta café on January 6, 2016 to meet up with an old college friend. Only seconds into the meeting, Mirna loses consciousness and begins convulsing, with foam coming from her mouth. She tragically dies en route to the hospital and an investigation into her death immediately begins.

It's not long before her cause of death is revealed and an unusual suspect emerges. During the course of the investigation, police are led down a path towards the answers that lie in the pasts of Mirna and the friend she met that day: Jessica Wongso. This is the story of a friendship that turned sour, jealousy and evil ultimately leading to murder and Indonesia's "trial of the century" that followed.

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EPISODE RESOURCES:

60 Minutes Australia: Death in a Café, part one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRiDWEjw0Kk&t

60 Minutes Australia: Death in a Café, part two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXAwPFPeIhM

"Coffeehouse Crime: Killed with Coffee: The Case of Mirna Salihin":
https://youtu.be/ereuD2RCshA

Jessica Wongso Case Analysis | Cyanide Killer | Was She Guilty? (Dr. Todd Grande):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu4HK1YciIg&t

Jessica Wongso loses appeal (Nine News):
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.9news.com.au/article/4f74f7c4-3b84-4d0d-a283-2c31262e8c91

Buzzfeed Article (2016):
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/ginarushton/the-cyanide-iced-coffee-murder-trial

Indonesia's Criminal Justice System on Trial: The Jessica Wongso Case (Simon Butt, New Criminal Law Review (2021) 24 (1): 3–58)
https://online.ucpress.edu/nclr/article/24/1/3/116203/Indonesia-s-Criminal-Justice-System-on-TrialThe

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