Bad Medicine | FULL EPISODE | The New Detectives

Investigators at the scene of a drug overdose find themselves matching wits with that of a serial killer. Something in the water has killed an office worker in Arizona. Her colleagues are lucky to be alive. Now

detectives

must unravel the chilling agenda of a mass poisoner when a healthy woman is found dead. In her bathroom, the investigators know she didn't drown because of her own chemistry. She confirms that there is more here than meets the eye, but can it lead them to the killer? Our material world is built on only 113 types of atoms, their combinations can produce a world of good, but in the wrong hands they are just bad

medicine

at 10:00 a.m. m.

On Saturday, December 10, 1994, Detroit police arrived at Lowell and Roberta Amos's hotel suite, just a block from police headquarters. Lowell had reported that his wife had overdosed on cocaine. and he was dead, the police found a straw of cocaine and a playing card on the nightstand, but there were no signs of the drugs. Mr. Amos said he panicked and flushed the toilet when he woke up to discover her wife was dead, to police it appeared Amos had done more than get rid of her. the cocaine the room was tidy his opinions practically cleaned the bedding where the victim lay was however completely dirty and stained from side to side how much more did he have to work even though the victim was not wearing makeup the pillowcase was saturated with cosmetics when The doctor The examiner took out the victim.

It was clear that she had been dead for several hours before the police were notified. Suspicions arose that there was more here than Amos was letting on. Homicide was called and Lowell Edward Amos gave police his account of what happened that night. Roberta Amos was the last. Seen with her husband in the hotel suite of her business partner Norbert Crabtree and his girlfriend Darcy Smith, the event was the company's Christmas party and the executives received candy at the hotel so they wouldn't have to drive afterward, although Lowell and Roberta Amos were unofficially. He separated, she agreed to accompany him to the party.

After Crabtree had invited Lowell and Roberta to his suite to continue celebrating, they stayed until 4:30 a.m. Lowell told police that after returning to their suite they made love and began using cocaine. Lowell fell asleep while Roberta continued using the drug. He said he had sinus problems and couldn't inhale it, so he found other ways to get it into his body. his system. She must have overdosed while he was sleeping because there were drugs involved, she was afraid to call the police right away and threw the rest away, but that doesn't adequately explain why he waited so long to call the authorities.

Swabs taken from the victim's vaginal area tested positive for traces of cocaine, other than there were no other external signs of the drug which was foreign internally. times more cocaine than is normally seen in an overdose, she died before half of it decomposed in cocaine poisoning, death is preceded by violent convulsions. Forensic chemist Phyllis Good believed that Amos could not have shared the victim's bed and slept, that in fact he probably could not have fallen asleep at all Cocaine is a central nervous system stimulant and has the effect of keeping a person awake and

full

of energy is not the usual case of a person going to sleep immediately after using cocaine, but this sheet Here is actually the last Lowell Amos did his best to clean up the scene, but his story about the death of his wife just wasn't convincing.

Now investigators had to prove he killed her at the Michigan State Police crime lab. Phyllis examined the sheet care

full

y. To determine what caused the stains, nothing in Lowell's scenario, a mouse, could have explained his condition because the victim's body was so clean that they suspected Lowell had washed it before calling the police. Investigators hope some evidence remains in the bedding. The sheet was treated with chemicals. To more clearly reveal the stains, parts were cut out and labeled because the stains occurred on virtually every part of the sheet. Well, samples were taken from all areas. The same process was repeated with the pillowcase to see if anything besides the makeup could be identified.

The pattern of the stains suggested that the pillow was not simply wiped over the victim's face with what appeared to be lipstick or what characterizes lipstick, but that there is an imprint on the pillowcase of what It seemed to be a tooth print. Teeth marks and are located in this area. Below the blue stain, the blue coloration comes from laboratory testing. People at the Christmas party told police they had seen the victim wearing makeup when they found his body. He didn't have any, but the pillow revealed that he went to bed using it, apparently having bitten it hard.

The pillow or pillow had been pushed forcefully against her face before she died. A bruise on her nose suggested she was pressed with tremendous force. Samples of the pillowcase and sheet were sent to the state police crime lab for testing. analysis, meanwhile investigators were awaiting results Police interviewed Norbert Crabtree and a business associate, who admitted that on the day of the death, Lowell Amos had called his room at 8:30 a.m. m. saying that he needed help. It wasn't specific. Crabtree, who was awakened by the call, did not arrive until 9:30 with another business associate. Lowell told them that Roberta was dead and gave them a bag to keep.

Detective Patrick Hanahan was assigned to the case. The items were described as a hotel linen wipe that was stained and smelled very bad. a sports coat and a syringe without a needle in a small leather case. Amos collected the items from his friends. Investigators later never recovered them to determine what happened. They had to rely on the available evidence, i.e. the sheet and the pillowcase. Lab results showed traces. of cocaine on the entire sheet but that was all the test results were the lack of urine or presence of urine the lack of semen or seminal fluid and the only thing that was identified in the brown areas was characterized as vegetative matter the identity of the Las brown spots were inconclusive, they did not shed light on what happened, they only deepened the mystery.

The fact that cocaine was also smeared around the sheet and stuffed under the sides simply told investigators what they already knew: Lowell Amos had manipulated the scene out of fear of being blamed for or contributing to his wife's death. hide evidence proving he murdered her while investigators pondered who Lowell could be, a mouse's past began to catch up with him, it seemed Amos may have been a real Ladykiller as word spread about the investigation. After the death of Roberta Amos, investigators in Detroit learned a lot about suspect Lowell Amos. He had a disturbing history with women who came forward and said that before he married Roberta they met him in a bar, had a drink with him, and woke up in his apartment with I don't remember how they got there.

Other women reported becoming violently ill after being intimate with him. They claimed they had been drugged, but the most surprising revelation is that they were yet to arrive. I started receiving phone calls from family members. I received phone calls from private doctors. police officers investigators friends from as far away as Oregon most of the information that came in concerned not only Roberta Maori Amos but also the humility of her husband. I was informed that this was not his first wife to die at a young age under suspicion. In circumstances none of the deaths were considered criminal at the time, but times had changed with the death of Roberta Amos.

It shed new light on old events in 1994. Michigan changed its rules of evidence. Past incidents could now be included in a current criminal trial if Ms. A dark history could be shown to have any bearing on Roberta's death. The case against him would be the first tried under the new rules. Nancy Westfeldt, the assistant prosecutor of Wayne County, Michigan, was brought in to see if the rule applied to Lowell Edward Amos if we could somehow prove what Mr. Amos' true intentions were to look back and look at these other women, look at their lives, look at their deaths, look at how Amos had treated them and, in the end, what he did to them when the first lady died.

Amos Sondra Amos died in 1979 at age 36, the couple had been married for nine years according to Lowell. Sondra mixed Dalmane with a sedative with wine and she had to collapse and hit her head on the bathroom counter, although Sandra's autopsy revealed traces of Dalmane. and alcohol in your system. It was not enough to incapacitate her, most of the drug was still in her stomach undigested, it only showed a small abrasion above her eye, it was not enough to knock her out or kill her, the cause of her death was not determined, the circumstances were not suspicious enough to launch it.

An investigation, however, in retrospect, one detail stood out after Sandra was taken away. A neighbor came in and found Camus burning something in the fireplace. He told the neighbor it was his wife's clothes bloody from the accident, but whatever he killed Sandra left no bleeding cuts or lacerations there. There was no blood at the scene and she was taken away with the clothes she was wearing when she died, so the question for us was what was burning in the fireplace and why was it so important that they destroy it before anyone saw exactly what was. It was Lowell Edward Amos received $350,000 as the beneficiary of his first wife's insurance soon after came wife number two Carolyn Amos Lowell's mistress while he was married to Sandra their marriage was unstable the sticking point was the huge insurance policies Lowell continued to take out. for his new wife when he would not abandon these policies in 1988 Carolyn kicked him out of the house he went to live with her mother Mary Tolls, 76, stayed with her for about two weeks when she became ill and was taken to the emergency room her The doctor commented that she looked like she was on drugs, but none of the medications she was prescribed could explain her disorientation in the hospital, and she began to recover.

She sent him home. Carolyn Amos called Mary Tolls every day to check on her for a few weeks after Towles returned from the hospital. Carolyn's call was answered by Lowell, who had just discovered that his mother had apparently been dead for several hours. Carolyn ran home with a friend and found Lowell packing his belongings into his car. She didn't want anyone to know he lived there. Lowell. he inherited over a million dollars from his mother's estate no autopsy was performed on Mary Tolls due to her age Carolyn let Lowell return to the house nine months later in the spring of 1989 Carolyn - was dead according to LOL's report to police that he brought Carolyn a glass of wine while she was in the bathroom blow-drying her hair when he went to check on her, later finding her dead on the bathroom floor, eerily like his first wife, medical assistance It took a while to get to his secluded house.

By then it was too late to revive her. Amos suggested she may have been electrocuted by the dryer. An examination of the cable showed that she had been cut, but Carolyn was not electrocuted. The cause of her death was never determined, although the case was never determined. pursued the medical team found inconsistencies at the scene the wine glass found later rinsed and in the dishwasher was missing and the position of the victim's body suggested that her pajama top had been moved and her pajama pants were pulled up at the ends and The bottom of her feet and waist were raised, as if she had been moved, certainly not in the position they would have been in if she had collapsed to the ground.

Lowell received $800,000 from his second wife's insurance policies for investigators. Lowell Amos was the kiss of death to the women he supposedly loved Detective Hanahan believed it had to be more than a coincidence. I have had three close relatives die. I have never been within 500 miles of any of them when they died. Lowell Amos was in the company of these four people when they died, he benefited emotionally and financially from their deaths like the other deaths. Roberta Amos remained dead for some time before authorities were notified who wanted to ensure that each of these women could not receive help.

She wanted to make sure that none of them could be resurrected. None could be medically resuscitated because she loved all of these women. Although Roberta's marriage was failing, she enjoyed some professional success shortly before her death; she had bought a house with her own money and her plan was to end it legally.her marriage to Lowell and starting over Lowell Edward Amos had no financial interest in her death investigators believe he couldn't bear the thought that she had rejected him the similarities between the death of Roberta Amos and Lowell's other wives was enough to expose him as an opportunistic serial killer who murdered for money or simply to end an inconvenient marriage based on the evidence collected and the ghosts of his past authorities had what they needed to arrest him for the murder of his third wife Roberta Amos in the photographs of that night roberta maori amos seemed happy seemed to be having a good time she must have had hope for the future so she shouldn't have done it at trial the prosecution presented an account of Roberta's last night Amos's life after leaving sweet Norbert Crabtree, the couple went to their own room where Lowell dissolved a large amount of cocaine and water.

He was somehow able to incapacitate the victim once she was subdued. He used a syringe to administer the lethal dose of cocaine and then perhaps as she was convulsing he smothered her with a pillow, then scrubbed the body and cleaned the crime scene as best he could before calling Crabtree to dispose of the remaining evidence. of his crime Lowell Edward Amos was sentenced to life in prison without parole Lowell Amos escaped suspicion through the subtlety of his crimes, but his past and forensic analysis eventually caught up with him, other murderers are more obvious in their methods, although they can be just as difficult to catch.

Monday, March 24, 1986 began like any other Monday at 8:30 a.m. employees of Transamerica title insurance company in Tempe Arizona were already in the office their weekends of faded memories as her co-workers, Julie Ann Williams, 46, started the day with a trip to the break room where the coffee, but preferred a drink of cold water. Just a sip of water told him something wasn't right. If she went with you, she immediately didn't feel well and she headed to the women's bathroom. She didn't know it, but she couldn't get help when Julie Williams was found in the women's bathroom shortly.

Before 9:00 a.m. m., she went into cardiac arrest when the paramedics arrived, she had fallen into a coma and was rushed to the hospital. There was something in the water as co-workers discussed what had happened. One of them, Diane Harry, was on the phone. For her husband, she was more worried than the rest because something similar happened to her a few days before when the police came to investigate Diane Harry's husband, Lewis Harry, he was already there looking for what could have poisoned the water I was drinking, but it wasn't just a contaminated cooler. Tempe Police Sergeant Mike Palmer led the investigation.

I detected an odor inside the room as I examined almost every cup or container of any type and the coffee pot that was there. I could see that there was some kind of smell. of substance and almost all of us at that time decided that someone had not intentionally placed whatever this material was in these containers to hurt people. The office workers were lucky that no one else was injured except Julie Williams after she remained in a coma. It wasn't so lucky whoever spread the poison in the break room was now a murderer. Samples of the unknown poison were taken for identification.

The police searched for fingerprints, but no suspects turned up. Police interviewed office workers. Diane Harry told

detectives

that the previous Friday she became ill after having a sip of whiskey at home that Saturday a cup of tea affected her in the same way that she was sick all weekend she could barely get out of bed and I He said the smell of the substance inside his home in Phoenix was roughly the same smell as the substance in the break room. She was worried that she would be the poisoner's target, so she called her husband into her office when Julie Ann Williams became ill.

The police spoke with Luis. Harry was also worried that someone was trying to poison Diane. Harry said that he had been receiving threatening letters from the abusive boyfriend of a woman he had helped, perhaps this was his revenge. Luis was sent home to collect the letters along with the whiskey. bottle and teapot so they could be analyzed Meanwhile the police collected the security cards that each employee needed to enter the building Investigators suspected that whoever planted the poison did so at some point over the weekend a check with the security company showed that only one security card had been placed used that weekend at 10:18 Saturday morning, it belonged to Diane Harry when I confronted the lady.

Harry about her card being the only one she used over the weekend, she denied using it, the only thing she could tell me was that she didn't know where it was other than the fact that it should have been in her bag because that's where it was . She had placed it the last time she used it, in fact, the card was in her purse on Monday morning when she went to work. She has been bedridden all weekend and never left the house. You are up to now. All the evidence pointed to Diane. Harry, but it was too early to know if she was the prime suspect or intended victim as detectives attempted to identify the criminals.

The scientists were trying to name her poison samples from the office water cooler, the coffee creamer, and the sugar bowl along with the teapot and whiskey. The bottles from Harry's home were taken to the Arizona Department of Public Safety crime lab, where they were analyzed by Supervisor Jim Timmons. He knew that the poison was a fast-acting white powder that helped him reduce the evidence of it. I actually came up with a nice short list of poisons that could have resulted in the information he had heard about the case and the short list was arsenic, strychnine or cyanide.

The researchers applied a series of tests to the compound to further narrow down the list and check and recheck its results. The results were displayed through an ultraviolet light, so the unknown substance was measured in a device called a spectrophotometer. Strychnine, which absorbs ultraviolet light, would give a reading. Arsenic and cyanide, which reflect UV rays, would not register the unknown substance. It gave a reading on the spectrophotometer, showing that it was not strychnine, they then performed a test for arsenic, dissolving samples of the substance in acid and placing the copper wire in the resulting solution. If arsenic was present, it would adhere to the wire and turn it black.

There was no arsenic present. The unknown poison. There was probably cyanide in Harry's office and home to be sure. Timmons used a commercial kit to identify the cyanide. It's actually a very simple test but it involves some pretty complex chemical reactions. Ultimately what happens is a red dye forms if you have cyanide. and this is tested on a strip of paper dropped into a solution and in this case it was positive, indicating that cyanide was present to remove all shadow of a doubt. Humans further confirmed their results with a gas chromatograph and mass spectrometer. The substance was sealed in a test tube. of acid, if it really was cyanide, they would heat the hydrogen cyanide gas like a mini gas chamber, the gas was extracted and injected into the apparatus, which confirmed that the cyanide gas was created, the test battery would provide evidence essential forensic for the courtroom if the poisoner was ever brought to trial.

Timmons wasn't done yet. Cyanide most commonly appears in two forms: sodium cyanide and potassium cyanide. Both are equally lethal. A technique called energy-dispersive X-ray analysis allowed him to simultaneously verify several elements in the compound he found, potassium. Samples from Harry's office and home gave identical results. Both were potassium cyanide. The water cooler alone had enough cyanide to kill one hundred and fifty people. The killer had set his traps at both locations and cast a wide net to catch a victim. Dianne Harry was lucky to be alive or he tried to disguise her role as a poisoner.

The interrogation continued. My question is Harry about her husband's ability to obtain her electronic card that allowed him access to the building and she said that he could have done so, but as far as she knew it was in her purse, she indicated to me that she was not sure where had been there that Saturday morning from about 9:00 in the morning until 12:30, if Diane really didn't use her security card on Saturday, maybe her husband. Was he the only other person who would have had access to it? She said he was running errands that day. She could not account for his exact whereabouts at the time the card was used to enter the building.

She insisted that the murderer was the jealous one. The boyfriend of the woman she had helped had the threatening letters to prove it while the documents were being examined. Investigators further investigated Luis Harry's movements. Their search for him led them to a convenience store across the street from his wife's office building. We can find. an individual who actually observed a black man driving a blue sports car, which is what mr. Harry entered at approximately the time his wife Diane Harry's key card was used to open the door of the business which gave investigators the leverage they needed to serve a search warrant on Luis Harry's office.

He worked in the athletic department of a community college in Wastebasket detectives found a label from a chemical supplier, a white powder on a shelf and a small plastic knife also splattered with powder that was later identified as cyanide. The cyanide found in his office does not prove that he put it there. A defense attorney might argue. that whoever tried to poison his wife also left cyanide in Lewis' office, the next discovery would be much more difficult to explain, plus there was a notebook we found that had the handwritten version of the threatening letters that had been mailed to him on The final threatening letters, the pad and a box of envelopes, were taken to the Department of Public Safety where they were analyzed by forensic document examiner Bill Flynn.

In many ways, handwriting is even more individualistic or individualizing than DNA, for this reason there are groups of people in society such as monozygotic twins or identical twins who in fact have identical DNA characteristics; However, in forensic handwriting identification we have never found two people who have exactly identical handwriting characteristics. The writing in the letters was compared to samples of Lois Harry's handwriting taken. From business forms in his office and at the Department of Motor Vehicles, Flynn was able to tell that Harry had actually written drafts of the two threatening letters he claimed had been sent to him.

After perfecting his writing, he typed them up and mailed them. Analysis of the envelopes showed that the letters Harry presented to the police were sent in slightly defective envelopes, the unused envelopes in the box confiscated from Harry's office, or similar defects. Flynn took advantage of that weakness to strengthen his case, a defect of the type we had seen in what was in that envelope was actually rare, the reason it was rare is that it would be serious enough to close the line. They would actually have to clean up the envelope creation line and restart it to eliminate that type of error for Luis Harry. the defective envelopes were especially incriminating, but they did not seal their fate.

The forensics have only proven that he had sent the threatening letters to himself. He now had to prove that he had kept his poisoned promises to link Lewis Harry to the poisoning of his wife's office. Detectives needed to prove that he had purchased the cyanide. They went to the chemical company listed on the label found in his office and obtained its sales records. The employee recalled selling potassium cyanide to an African-American man named Charles Holley on the receipt. He contacted an African-American man named Charles Holley. He told police he had never bought cyanide. His signature did not look like the one on the receipt.

Polly Lewis Harry was asked to give a writing sample. We asked Lewis Harry to write the name Charles Hawley. He did that and from the previous writings that I had in my office and now with the new copies I was able to identify Lewis Harry is actually writing the name which was all the detectives needed to present their case against Lewis Harry according to the scene of the accusation. Luis Harry received threatening letters from the ex-boyfriend of the woman who was secretly Harry's new lover. The letters gave Harry the idea to write his own more threatening letters and send them to himself, implicating the ex-boyfriend with whom he previously practiced his poison pen letters.writing them down when his attempts to poison Diane Harry at home didn't work, he secretly borrowed her security card, snuck into her office and poisoned everything he could find in the break room, he was a frequent visitor to his office. wife, so his fingerprints were not suspicious, but when his wife called him after Julie Ann Williams was poisoned, he wasted no time in going to the office to drop off even more friends while pretending to show concern.

Diane Harry's trust in her husband was firm to the end throughout the investigation, she refused to believe that he could be the poisoner, although she was not convinced by the evidence, the jury saw the murder of Julie Ann differently Williams Lewis Harry was sentenced to life in prison for first degree murder plus an additional 105 years for attempted murder and is serving at least 95 Years Even after Luis Harry's conviction, Diane Harry swore she was a victim of circumstances, her feelings changed a year later, when his brother discovered the box of cyanide hidden in Harry's attic. For every criminal who believes he has committed the perfect murder, there is a team of dedicated Investigators tried to prove him wrong in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the morning of March 28, 1990.

Six-year-old James Woodward called his father because he couldn't find his mother. The Woodwards had been separated for three months. David Woodward told his son to go to him. He asked the neighbor for help. The boy told the neighbor that he thought his mother was locked in the bathroom, but that he couldn't hear any sounds from inside. She followed James into the bathroom, picked the lock and found Debra Woodward, 30, submerged in the bathtub. a smell of solvent was in the air paramedics and the deputy medical examiner arrived to study the scene the victim showed no bruises or abrasions to suggest she slipped in the bathtub nothing to indicate why she may have drowned and there was no explanation for the smell that permeated the room according to forensic pathologist Sparks BZ the situation is peculiar from the beginning a normal, healthy adult generally does not drown in four or five six inches of water in a bathtub we look for some explanation for that in the autopsy they took blood and examined for alcohol that could have contributed to the drowning while the body is wet, the injuries may be hidden, but as it dries further, as is revealed as the examination continues, a chilling revelation emerged from the woman's own lips. victim.

Examination of the inside of the lips showed lesions inside the lips. lips suggesting that something had been placed forcefully over the deceased's mouth and pressed against the teeth causing injuries to the inside of the lips, the case looked more like a homicide at the time blood analysis showed no alcohol in the system of the victim, but revealed a volatile substance similar to acetone nail polish remover. A blood sample was placed in a gas chromatograph to better identify the substance. It turned out to be ether. In fact, all the tissues in the victim's body were saturated. Ether is a volatile liquid. which can depress the central nervous systemdepending on the amount inhaled, which can cause dizziness, loss of consciousness, or death from respiratory failure.

It was once a common form of medical anesthesia. It was replaced by more predictable and safer methods. Ether can be produced in the body through the breakdown of some other chemicals or drugs. the victim could have taken it. Chief toxicologist Ronald Becker did not believe that was the case, but the fact that it was distributed throughout the tissues and at very high concentrations was a good indication that this was a significant substance that was not an artifact that was actually involved. in knocking her unconscious the victim had enough ether in her system to knock her out it was the drowning that did her this was not an accident while investigating the suspicious death of Deborah Woodward the police discovered that she was still separated from her husband David she shared her home with until he could sell himself in an unconventional timeshare deal, his three children stayed in the house while Deborah and David took turns living there and sharing custody of the children.

The plan was designed to create some stability for the children, but friction between the couple lay just beneath the surface. Deborah had a restraining order that prevented her husband from going near the house while it was her turn to live there. None of the couple's problems escaped the scrutiny of Albuquerque police Detective Damon Fae, who was investigating Deborah Woodward's murder now that he had done it. to explore every part of her life and I had to open all the vessels of her life, one of them was her diary, particularly macabre to read because I could see the buildup to her marriage to David, all her emotion that goes hand in hand with that, the new marriage, her early years and then her deterioration in her Diaries that Deborah entrusted to a friend for safekeeping, she recounted the physical and emotional abuse she endured Dave slapped me in the bathroom ruined my clothes broke things so much anger hell absolute hell after the separation Deborah tried to move on with her life she started dating and was starting a serious relationship but her husband was jealous and she was afraid of what he might do according to investigator Faye she had her neighbor a police sergeant retired to keep an eye on her, especially at night, and had in fact come to Deborah's rescue on several occasions when she felt that David had been lurking around or had heard knocking in the night, she wanted him to investigate.

She would cross the street and take care of things by walking around her house from time to time, so she had a passing knowledge of domestic turbulence. The neighbor told police that six months earlier Deborah had noticed something strange in her car. She offered to take a look and discovered. that David was an electronics expert in a garage and put a recorder in his car that turned on every time he started the engine. He had also broken the phone lines to the house. There was nowhere in the house where she couldn't go and he couldn't hear whatever it was.

If the conversation was happening, then he could take these tapes and dissect them, review them again, listen to them and that would only infuriate him. David was doing everything in his power to keep an eye on his wife while Debra devoted all her strength to cleaning up. Bill, it was a tough game of tug of war and it seemed like something had finally broken. The neighbor told police that several days before the murder he saw David Woodward dismantling the motion sensor spotlights he had recently installed around the perimeter of the house. He didn't think about it at the time, it seemed too convenient now.

Woodward had the motive and the opportunity to kill his wife, but where was the gun? Although ether was obviously used to incapacitate the victim, it was the impurities it contained that attracted the attention of investigators. The killer had used an impure industrial grade fluid, such as that used in carburetor starting fluid, considering David worked at a shop that seemed like a likely source if they could link him to a brand of starting fluid with the same contaminants. much closer to closing. the case they tested every can they could find with no matches while investigators were busy tracking the ether one of Woodward's coworkers contacted the police now a man there are so many tables that a year earlier he would have talked about getting away with using a substance volatile as ether Woodward claimed it would be untraceable, he was very detailed about it, the coworker wasn't paying much attention and what you do is spray him based on this lead and other circumstantial evidence gathered at this time that the police obtained .

A warrant to search the garage on August 8 seized a variety of chemicals, including more cans of carburetor starting fluid. We never found any brands that were perfect, but we found some that were very close and that we could put a star next to like The Possible Source of the Aether in Deborah Woodward's Blood Sample, but in terms of evidence it was enough. David Woodward was arrested based on evidence police reconstructed the murder of Deborah Woodward. It was the victim's habit to take a bath at night after putting the children to sleep well. She was preparing to take a bath.

David used his key to enter the house. He had already dismantled the motion sensors so he could sneak into the yard under the cover of darkness. once in the house he saturated a rag with starter fluid overpowered his wife and caused the marks seen in the autopsy while the victim lay unconscious david pushed her head under water he thought the ether would evaporate and with it all the evidence would disappear of a crime the truth of the matter is that the dead tell many stories if you have a competent team of forensic investigators that includes the police at the scene, the people who perform the autopsy and who take the samples and the laboratory that analyzes the samples, David Woodward received a life sentence for murder and an additional nine years for aggravated robbery for entering the house and abusing his wife.

No poison is perfect, the clearest liquid or the finest powder still leaves its residue and, although When the victim appears unmarked at first, science can reveal how death was inflicted and how justice was served to the poisoner.