Ice Cold: Murder, Coffee and Jessica Wongso

Ice Cold: Murder, Coffee and Jessica Wongso first features Edi Darmawan and Made Sandy Salihin, the father and twin sister of Wayan Mirna Salihin, who in 2016 allegedly died of cyanide poisoning after drinking a Vietnamese iced coffee at Olivier Cafe, located in Jakarta's Grand Indonesia Shopping Town, despite having aspirations to start a coffee business herself. Edi said that on the day of the event, Wongso told him she drank a glass of water, which is untrue, affirming to him that she murdered Salihin. Olivier's manager and barista, Devi Siagian and Rangga Saputro, said they suspected Wongso due to her reserved attitude. Salihin was buried the next day, when police told Edi his daughter was poisoned.

The trial quickly gained notoriety, with some calling it the "trial of the century" akin to O. J. Simpson's. News anchor Timothy Marbun cited Wongso and Salihin going to college together in Australia as lending to rumors that they were lesbian, with Wongso jealous of Salihin's marriage. Meanwhile, those on Wongso's side believed she was used as a scapegoat; this shift in opinion was credited to her lawyer Otto Hasibuan, who agreed to join in pro bono. Wongso said she felt constantly pressured by lead prosecutor Shandy Handika, with the media attention affecting her mental health. An interview with the film's director Rob Sixsmith was cut short and perpetually forbidden due to the dialogue turning "too deep." The courtroom was described as a "football stadium", with audiences constantly cheering and exclaiming.

As the trial progressed, tensions between the public prosecutors and defense rose. Australian forensic pathologist Beng Beng Ong, who suggested natural causes, was accused of being paid off. As he did not apply for a work visa, he was deported. The prosecutors said they attempted emotional manipulation to hinder the defense's ability to argue further. Photos circulated online depicting Salihin with a blue complexion, which Atmadja testified as not indicating cyanide, which would cause victims to turn red. The same photos, graded red, re-circulated; he discredited the photos since he saw Salihin having the blue complexion himself. The judge deemed them invalid evidence.

Erasmus Napitupulu of the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform argued Wongso's charge was an example of police and prosecutors having excessive power, which loses the judges of any neutral mindset. With the lack of substantial evidence, Napitupulu posited the evidences were merely speculative and that they concluded it was a murder too early on. Hasibuan opined the trial concluded with bias, with the judges dismissing him every time he presented concrete evidence. Psychologist Reza Indragiri, who testified for Wongso, said "a certain party" bribed him with money to stop talking; in a media interview, Edi confirmed it was him, intendedly as a transport fee for Indragiri.[1] Indragiri thus posited that law enforcement may have been bribed too.

Television stations gave the trial airtimes previously held by sinetrons; the public perception was even compared to sinetrons' black-and-white dualism. Edi argued the case's notoriety and immense sympathy for Salihin stems from her beauty, whereas Wongso has "weird" facial features. In her diary, Wongso wrote the theories against her were illogical. Furthermore, a footage of her entering and exiting Olivier was constantly looped, as the subsequent segments were deleted. At last, Wongso was jailed for up to 20 years; the defense exhausted all appeal options.

• The prosecutors noted that Wongso moved a chair and paper bag, obstructing the CCTV, and that she arrived at Olivier 40 minutes early. However, per her WhatsApp interaction with her friends, Wongso thought they had arrived early too, and claimed that her moving bags was to relieve her boredom.
• The conviction proponents noted her calm and calculative attitude with no tears shed; Hiariej found her instances of looking upwards during interviews, and suggested it signified efforts to create fabrications. The prosecutors also cited a psychologist saying Wongso has intermittent explosive and obsessive–compulsive disorder; Edi, on the other hand, noted a forensic expert calling her a "crazy [...] psycho-narcist." That expert also said she physiognomically exhibits childlike attention-seeking and vengeful behaviours, and that her eyes "do not shine" like former American president Jimmy Carter and actress Julia Roberts. Indagiri and fellow psychologist Dewi Haroen noted this was pseudoscientific and lookist. Journalist Fristian Griec who managed to interview Jessica said she exhibits a carefree attitude, debunking the claims that she is calculative.
• Hasibuan questioned whether Wongso's motive was considered; the prosecutors, however, said circumstancial evidences sufficed.
• Toxicologist Slamet Purnomo revealed no autopsy was done due to the Salihins only permitting a sampling of the stomach; thus, any alternate causes of death cannot be examined. Djaja Surya Atmadja, a forensic pathologist, testified that 70 minutes following her death, her stomach tested negative for cyanide. Furthermore, Purnomo stated her stomach contained 0.2mg/litre of cyanide, way less than the lethal dose, 50-176mg/litre. Toxicologist Budi Budiawan noted that cyanide can evaporate; thus, there should have been odour filling all of Olivier.
• Hasibuan found no odour in the bottle which the coffee was transferred to; in addition, this was an example of tampering with evidence.
• Wongso's criminal history in Australia included crashing into an orphanage; officer John Torres noted she was once suicidal. Thus, the perception arose that depressed people like her are more capable to murder. Indragiri refuted these claims, and Hidayat Bostam argued those are separate issues.