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 bar 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 degree and blonde good looks the camera loved, Jeannette-Meyers reached…