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It is a good and narrow house, we have never had any problems. I'm sure you guys enjoy this. A New York home buyer gets more than he bargained for when a home inspection finds a

decades

-old

mummified

body, the crime gone. undiscovered victim not missing and killer unpunished check this out now investigators face a double mystery identifying the victim and finding the name of the killer at a rural Indiana hospital a sudden, skyrocketing death rate raises critical questions about one of the nurses It appears that a poisoner has joined the personal group, but the evidence is scanned and building the case will require intensive care.

When faith is lost, the result may be a murder, leaving investigators to solve another loss of life case. trust in this episode, some of the names have been changed. Nassau County, New York, on Long Island is home to nearly one and a half million people, close enough to enjoy the benefits of New York City while maintaining a quiet suburban lifestyle . No visible water damage in the fall of 1999, a new resident took the final tour of the home he was. about to buy a good fit, you know, it's nice, the solid old structure had withstood more than 50 New York winters within its walls, half a century of history had passed, some were left behind,

hidden

in the crawlspace , a hermetically sealed 55-gallon drum.

I tried to move according to the seller it had always been there too heavy to move the owner assumed it was full of construction debris I can't the buyer wanted him gone a couple of times he's a heavy fool who has to go I can't stay here together they managed to move it to the curb but the garbage man refused to take it his weight exceeded the limit hoping to split the load the owner tried to remove the lid the rust had made it almost impossible he finally managed to break the seal the stench was amazing and unmistakable inside there was a withered hand the owner rushed to call the police that's the police emergency operator 475 had only caught a glimpse but that was all he needed

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Brian Parpan and Robert Edwards arrived along with the crime teex the owner described the situation the detective parpan took it from there the first impression was an overwhelming smell when we opened the barrel inside the barrel we could see a hand that certainly looked human the barrel itself and the information we initially had at the scene we thought we were looking at something that probably has between 18 and 20 years old, yes, before moving the barrel, Detective Paran ordered it to be carefully photographed inside and stinking outside.

Detective Robert Edwards strategized him like we closed the barrel at that point and decided what we were going to take. the whole package to the medical examiner's office where we could do a very in-depth investigation, you know, this is a little unusual, you arrive at someone's house, a new owner comes to take over and he sees, looks in a small space and finds a 55g drum we finally

found

out there is a body inside now we want to make sure there is nothing buried in the area around the house before handing it over to anything else when they couldn't find evidence of other bodies around the house the investigation moved to the medical examiner's office we can put the others investigators process the contents of the barrel their most puzzling find handfuls of pellets or shot I thought it was some guy the

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had no idea what they were made of or what they were used for I labeled some to send to the laboratory below Green liquid the bag again its chemical composition and relevance remain a mystery at least for now new excavations placed homicide detectives in more familiar territory a small bag emerged from the depths its soaked contents practically disintegrating still perhaps I had a clue, can you get to it?

Yes, and then the

mummified

victim in the airless water log grave hid a secret for so many years. The body hid more peculiar objects beneath the single stem of a plastic flower. I'm not sure what this is. plastic a locket with an inscription see Patrice from Uncle Phil, suggesting that the victim was female, some more liquid and some sediment here and among the sediment two gold rings, one with the initials mhr inscribed on the inside, so that the jewelry could certainly be important we have a first name uh Patrice we have a middle name Uncle Phil so this gives us some background that we can look up and try to figure out who we're dealing with who the victim is but the most obvious clue was maybe the barrel itself, look at this, there is only some kind of identification on the bottom, we didn't see it before because it is not finished yet, you want to get a photograph of that well overturned, it revealed stamped and raised letters and the fragment of a sticker or logo. once it served a more legitimate purpose the authorities would follow up but first the victim had to be freed removing the remains from the barrel was quite laborious it took quite a long time uh it was done very, very slowly the material that was in Finally we learned that the barrel was It was heavy, they removed it ladle by ladle, separated it, set it aside for our lab to test, and then moving the body was done very carefully so as not to cause any additional damage to the remains.

They were sent to the medical laboratory, let's see what we have here, Detective Parpan and his team turned their attention to an address book taken from the victim's purse. Oh this is completely saturated, can you get a picture please? The liquid had reduced the pages to little. more than pulp, let me look for a clue, it didn't look promising, try not to tear it up, but a business card

hidden

inside the purse showed a little more potential, be careful it came from a doctor in Union City, New Jersey, Bo, that's

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ly Down the hall, the victim herself underwent an examination.

Her mummified body was carefully measured even though time had reduced her remains. His bones revealed his approximate living height of 49. His bone structure indicated that he was probably in his twenties and possibly of Hispanic descent. As part of his autopsy, he had an x-ray and films revealed that he suffered a massive head injury and skull fractures. they showed an unusual gold bridge in her mouth such a pretty head and exposed much more that she was pregnant short term pregnancy look at the cause The death here was somewhat obvious in the blunt trauma to the head, the pregnancy that was a shock to everyone.

It probably gave us an initial reason in our minds that we would be dealing with someone so late in her pregnancy. attention to the dental work that appears to have been done outside the United States, the additional things that came out of the otopia and the forensic odontologist briefed us on dentistry, the unusual type of dental activity that was there, so we were dealing with someone from another country, so we were able to find a race and an age and the fact that this person was obviously a homicide victim but a pregnant homicide victim, the autopsy told investigators a lot about the victim, but not the most crucial thing. who was she after all this time there was still flesh left on her fingers and out of the possibility that her prince could be raised according to standard procedure, some of her fingers were amputated and sent to Detective Charles Costello.

I was informed that I would be receiving fingers from the individual in the drum and did not know what to expect as to the condition of the skin the tissue the body of the tissue of the fingers I would receive although still flexible the wrinkled fingers did not lend themselves to the normal ink roller to remove the wrinkles and expose the ridge detail Costello used a hypodermic to inflate the tips with air but the skin deflated too quickly Costello revised his plan what I did I took some thread and devised a tourniquet or put a tourniquet around the second toe from the finger in the same way you would stop the blood.

He was trying to keep the air from escaping his finger. I tied him as tight as I could. I tried again with the hypodermic needle and was successful in getting it to inflate and stay inflated. He rolled and printed his finger. And after a search of New York State and FBI fingerprint files turned up no matches, it has been said that you can tell a person by the company they keep, and that's what investigators were counting on. victim's address book saturated and almost useless provided last desperate chance to find his identity most of the pages were stuck together too fragile to move too discolored to read forensic document examiner Joan Ferner began to gently separate the loose pages The process could not be rushed as each page was dried then I separated them and returned the address book to the drying chamber.

What I had to do was take the evidence and I had to put it in a forensic drawing cabinet which helps extract the moisture and which helps the fibers of the paper become stronger so that the pages can be handled. The best detectives already had an address to follow up from the doctor's business card in the victim's purse. Shit. It's not a good number that doesn't work. The number had been disconnected. Let's review the book. The book about Jersey. I got Jersey's book here. We should have known what we needed. It's right at the top a New Jersey phone book provided a doctor with the same name at a different address.

Detectives were dispatched. Yes, we would like to talk. They learned that the doctor had died long ago. Would you mind coming with me? Can I answer his question? Questions about their daughter had taken over the practice, but they had only kept records for 5 years. I'm not sure I can help you, even if the victim had been a patient 20 years ago, today it was like he never existed and that meant someone had gotten away with a murder in New York Detectives Brian Parpan and Robert Edwards pursued a ghost an anonymous pregnant woman murdered

decades

ago by a stranger like salent they had a locket for Patrice I love Uncle Phil we have a doctor's name At least something and they had his ring with the initials mhr on it, it wasn't much help everyone is trying to find what detectives notified the missing person squad, providing only a name and asking them to go back in their database to 1980, nothing further.

The timing had been computerized, so we had people come in and start searching, do a manual search of the records. We're looking at an area of ​​over five or six million people and a lot of people disappear in a uh, in that period of time. Bobby, there's nothing here, I can't do anything, another dead end, do nothing for us, yes, in the Nassau County crime section, detectives like Charles Kti took a different approach, focusing on the mysterious pellets

found

in the barrel, we are trying to determine a possible origin of the pellets themselves or in this particular case it could be related to The Barrel in which burned pellets were found giving off the unmistakable smell of plastic, a chemical analysis determined that they were used polystyrene to make common household items if we can trace An Origin, we could link it to a possible suspect who might have been in contact with a deceased.

He was going to talk to some of the manufacturers with the theory that the industrial shot and the industrial barrel were linked, Detective. parpan followed a lead detective parpan from the county homicide squad. He was glad to know they were still doing business. We were able to contact them by telling them the templates and numbers we had on the barrel. They were able to inform us that. One barrel in particular was manufactured in March 1963 and that barrel because it had a sticker on it or would have been sent to a chemical company, that company closed in 1970, but was acquired by another that detectives traced to the new company we made the manager quality control checked the lot number on these barrels and determined that the barrel contained a green liquid D that was discontinued in 1970 the same green liquid that submerged the victim we were making until investigators felt they were making progress I'm just trying to get information here B so we can try to understand what we're doing.

They now had a timeline for the murder between 1963, when the cannon was manufactured, and 1970, when the back-to-back die was discontinued, but building permits indicated that the crawl space was not excavated until the 1980s. , so the murder had to have occurred after that date. 290 researchers wanted to talk to the owners who built the addition. 72 because the location where it was found was found under a house, so we're looking at what we believe is a short list of suspects. Our initial thought waswho built this extension. You don't expect anyone in the house to leave something like this there.

You would hope that someone would have the opportunity to be one. there without being detected we could put it there we knew it was going to present a problem and these people can I get you something to drink according to City Hall records? The extension was built in 1984 creating the crawl space where the barrel was found. The investigators made a call. about the owners of the house at that time 1972 they bought it in 1971 the extension was already there it was completed yes, but they had surprising news I don't know, they informed us that the extension was already there and that it was not until they sold the house, which is the certificate of occupancy, it was actually signed and filed, the family bought it in the crawlspace that existed years before there was any official record of it muddying the road, but not for long, the flower business, the flowers , the flowers, yes, yes, they also reported. tells us that the people they bought the house from owned a plastic flower company as detectives got closer and closer to the possible identity of the killer.

Forensic document examiner Joan Ferner shed light on the victim in some of the address book pages. She had dried out enough to read, but after decades bathed in Dy liquid and bodily fluids, most of the entries were no longer readable. The user used an alternative light source to decipher the Faded writing. The video spectral comparator is an instrument that is connected to a computer monitor and there are a series of cameras, filters and light sources that allow you to see from the ultraviolet to the infinite range of the spectrum and allows you to see outside the range that the eyes can normally see, among the first things the device revealed were the name, address, and resident alien number of the book's owner, the female victim who knew we had hit the target. and that this was something significant, investigators knew too much and Edwards received immigration records and a photograph of the victim Angelica Maro Quinn, born in El Salvador in 1941, immigrated to the US in 1966 and died before that the decade ended. country she came to the United States to work as a babysitter and then started working at a plastic flow company based on the work we did in the city to obtain information about the Melrose flower we were able to identify who the owners of the Melrose flower were.

I'm glad to move on. The company had two owners. One of them, Howard Elkins, also owned the house at the time the addition and crawl space were built. I spoke to all the other owners of the house. Mr. Elkins was the only one who was out of state. Howard. Elkins, the owner of the house when the crawlspace was excavated, had become the prime suspect in the murder of Angelica Maroquin. We will review this entire area, but the gap between suspicion and ultimate justice can be wide and investigators still had miles to go. Investigators had given a name. and the face of an anonymous murder victim now tracked her killer before confronting their prime suspect Howard Elkins New York detectives Brian Parpan and Robert Edwards traveled to Florida to talk to their former business partner Yes, I recognized the photos of the barrel. and said that the company used to receive Dy in fact and that it contained that the detective asked him about Howard, which in itself was not because he knew that Mr.

Elkins had had an affair while working at Melrose's uh Plastic and Flower Company . There is no information about it, but she knew that he was having an affair and she also knew that Mr. Elen's wife and her father-in-law had found out about it. The affair was with one of the employees, a petite Hispanic woman with long dark golden hair. bridor she left what do you mean she left he didn't know much about her he never showed up for work one day she stopped coming to work well ladies coming home from work he remembered that shortly after the woman stopped coming to work he I took a phone message to Howard Elkin, my former partner, so he was a landlord in Hoboken, New Jersey, no, I don't

real

ly care what he wanted to know, if Mr.

Elkins wanted to keep the apartment, the woman no longer lived there , the partner appeared. I gave the message to Elkin and the next day he saw him come to work with his car full of boxes and a television. The detectives were now absolutely convinced that Elkin was his man. The description that the business partner gives of this particular person. We are dealing with a mummified body is exactly what we are seeing when we remove the body from the barrel. We are armed with information but we reveal nothing. The researcher spoke with Howard Elkins himself. Have you ever had an affair that he invited?

We entered and it was almost like a game. He knew that we knew that we knew that he knew that we knew that he was trying to get information from us and we were trying to get information from him, but he didn't give up. Elin denied that she had never seen that. type of barel conru jobs workers and I'm sorry I don't know anything about those, you are going to tell us that you have never seen a barrel like that before he remained calm and indifferent at work and we believe that he is involved here, the researchers would not. give in I know where that Barrel came from I know where his Manu is we didn't insist on him at all I mean we told him that as far as we are concerned you killed this girl I can't apologize I have a Hello, his wife called, yes I'm sorry , I can't talk right now, we talked about Elen talked to her for a few moments and then asked the detectives to leave, folks, I'm sorry, I really don't have anything else to say, I can't talk.

I would appreciate it more if you would leave right now they asked him to provide a DNA sample home I have nothing to say but he refused I will tell you what we are going to leave we are going to leave because you and but we are going to return, I stood right in front of him and I said M alkin, we're leaving, I want you to know something, we're going to get a warrant and we're going to get a warrant for your blood. We're going to take your blood to the dead baby and that dead woman and we're going to come back, we're going to put you in jail for the rest of your life, you understand that Mr.

Alin, have a good day now and we'll be back, but that was Detective Parpan last saw Howard Elkins the next day. We tried to get the court orders and they took a while to arrive. That night they notified us that they called us to see if we had him in our custody, apparently his his wife was looking for appeared the next day his dark secret kept hidden for 30 years had finally destroyed him the investigation continued the medical examiner took a blood sample the DNA was compared to the unborn child Angelica Maroquin carried the baby was her work on the address book then names and phone numbers were revealed after 30 years none worked except one yes hello this is what we are doing is uh we are taking to After Angelica's friend had been wondering about her all this time, the incident that happened on Long Island was when it was like this, it's just Rec, she told investigators that she thought the young woman had returned to her family and was surprised to find out how she had finished his story, a book we were interested in, provided the detectives with the missing chapters, appear there and what they can know after losing.

I contacted Angélica a few years ago, the woman received a call from her saying that he was having an affair with her boss but that everything was going well, this my angel every night and he rented her an apartment and he was going to leave them his wife. she. English now what happened to her but a few months later she started to get bitter she returned to the Country I don't know what to do Angelica told her friend that she was pregnant and her boss refused to leave his wife Angelica had told her wife about the matter and her boss threatened her life her friend said that Angelica seemed scared when she called she asked her friend to come see Angel and when she got to the apartment Angelica there was no one there the door was open Angelica the table was set for lunch there was no no signs of struggle no signs of struggle but Angel wasn't there he waited a while then went to the local police yes it was too early to file a missing person report he was married that was the last time anyone had I've seen Angelica Maroquin, but you know she said he treated her very well.

Investigators assumed that between the time the friend spoke to Angelica on the phone and the time she arrived at the apartment, Elkin had shown up and ended her life. Killers often turn on their loved ones. leaving behind traces of their callous ways others take advantage of those who empower them with blind trust Clinton Indiana a small town of 5,000 residents but in 1995 that number began to suspiciously decline the local hospital served the health needs of the residents of Clinton the sick They came here hoping to get better and most of them did in 1994 after a sudden stomach ailment.

Ethel Roa was recovering wonderfully. I'm very well. I'm sure her husband John could finally relax. Ethel would be home soon. Things were going very well in the intensive care doctor's report. It was good so I went to the cafeteria to eat something and have a coffee. I would say that about 15 or 20 minutes later he came back and the photo he had was totally opposite to how I left it when Roa returned his wife was in cardiac arrest no one could explain. why this woman on the verge of recovery would suddenly go into heart failure was a mystery to the doctors my wife was never treated for heart disease ever she had no medical record of anything related to heart disease she never took any type of medication or nothing three three cc of Epi very good flat line still doctor we have Ro he was dead the official cause of death was acute heart failure I'm going to have to call him Ethel Roa was not the only one over the next year The number of deaths in the hospital's ICU of the county continued to increase dramatically.

Something about these sudden and mysterious deaths didn't seem right. The nursing staff became suspicious, let's call it 137, hoping to find some explanation for the sudden increase in deaths. The supervising nurse checked her. personnel record books over the course of the previous years some disturbing patterns emerged between 1993 and 1994 the mortality rate tripled compared to the previous years in those two years 102 deaths were recorded many were elderly, but a worrying fact emerged almost everyone was improving before their sudden passing after reviewing all the charts the nurse could find only one similarity in a large percentage of the deaths one nurse in particular was on duty this is my job the data suggested a chilling scenario she took the information to the hospital administrator hoping he had overlooked something that might explain his suspicions but the numbers didn't lie number of deaths patients at a small Indiana hospital had to face the possibility that a member of the hospital staff could be a murderer They were dying at an alarming rate and it seemed their deaths were no accident just check the heart one more time Opul's understanding moved up the chain of command at the county hospital they called Indiana State Police Investigator Frank Tury Detective Tury in March 1995 I was contacted by the Clinton Police Chief, who had contacted us before our first meeting.

We had talked to each other about what it could be and obviously your first thought is drug theft. , something like that. You don't think about a murder investigation, which was probably the last thing on our minds. The researchers met with hospital administrators. The usual case here he was told that the prosecution centered on a nurse named Orville Lynn Majors. All indications are at that moment. The entire hospital staff had to continue with their suspicions. I'm not sure what it means exactly, since they had no evidence of murder, they couldn't even give Tury the name of a single victim in a normal investigation.

He wants to try to figure out who did it as if it's a who done it kind of thing, but in this case he went completely the other way around. I felt like we had a very good suspect, but we had to find out who he killed and how he killed them. Tury requested a meeting with nurse Orville Lynn Majors. I wanted to talk to him before the hospital found out. They pulled him out, he was under investment investigation, it was too late, they had suspended him and I had already had a lawyer contact them, so we knew it was going to be very difficult, that was probably the first stumbling point in the investigation .

The next stumbling point was the mountains of technical data and his colleagues had to cross-check if hospital patients were being murdered then the evidence was buried somewhere in this mountain of records there were shorthand notes from nurses that meant something to them, to them.we meant absolutely. nothing, so we had to be fully educated in medical terminology and decipher medical records in this crucial preliminary phase of the investigation. Every detail mattered, whether it related to Orville Linnn Majors or not. He was going to be a suspect or not, but at first he seemed like a good suspect, but we wanted to be very open-minded about it and I wanted, it was very important to me that we eliminate any possibility that it wasn't him.

News of the investigation was leaked to The media feared that the publicity would damage the investigation, but the grim reaper stories offered a mixed blessing, but made people realize that possibly something had happened and these people They started contacting all the local law enforcement agencies saying, "You know when my wife or my mother." husband, grandmother, whoever it was, died in that Intensive Care Unit, we saw something that at the time we thought seemed strange, maybe suspicious, but the last thing you think about is that nurse who is taking care of your family member, she is killing them Okay?

So we talked a little. A little on the phone chy he kept track of the messages he received from people who had lost loved ones in the hospital. I was alone. One woman recalled that Nurse Orville Majors injected something into her mother's IV immediately before she died. Before she was her medication. The woman's death fit. The patient's health pattern was improving until the time she suffered cardiac arrest. He started leaving the room again and again. Investigators kept hearing similar stories of mysterious injections with fatal results, which is what kept the case often moving at full speed and at that time.

At that point we knew that as investigators we had a really serious problem and most likely a homicide investigation. The case seemed to grow every day. Tury developed a database to organize the enormous amount of information he collected to prove that Orville Majors was killing people. He first had to prove that the alleged victims had died of unnatural causes for the investigation to be successful. he had to determine the most likely victims of foul play to help decipher medical records. Tury assembled a team of specialists, including Dr. Michael Olinger, an expert in emergency medical care. compared suspicious deaths to records of patients who died under less questionable circumstances suspicious deaths stood out in each case death suddenly struck a recovering patient we were actually becoming medical detectives we were analyzing these cases trying to determine if this was unnatural or unexpected type of event, investigators continued to investigate and tried to gather everything they could about Orville Majors and any other potential suspects, so we interviewed nurses, doctors, healthcare staff from all facets of the hospital, nutritionists, janitors, anyone who might have entered that Intensive Care Unit and we looked at them as possible suspects or eliminate them completely, but it always came back to Majors that I, a nurse, reported seeing him inject a patient who died almost instantly.

Dr. Olinger instructed investigators to record the deaths based on the level of suspicion they needed to link Majors to each death he took. The most suspicious cases for special deputy prosecutor Greg Carter Carter was not convinced. I know there are many variables at play there and that to charge and convict someone of a criminal act you have to prove them guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, so the associations or patterns themselves did not cause me to draw any conclusions. , that's a real problem. To me, this hospital had virtually no records to be able to file criminal charges against Orille Lin Majors.

The prosecutor required some forensic evidence of poisoning. We knew that if we could find a toxin in the autopsy, it would be a big step toward finding a smoking gun, but that in itself wouldn't necessarily be the smoking gun. We knew we had to somehow link that toxin to our suspect. Do you know anything else? Do you know what was the first thing Tury had to do to find the toxin and that meant that the exhumation took a decision? Tury began the delicate work of asking survivors for permission to dig up their loved ones for autopsy.

I have to exhume her body and do an autopsy if there was evidence, she was buried with the victims and we will keep in touch. It was a very difficult time for them obviously and for us as well I think the families that the investigators dealt with. I knew they were doing the best they could to try to solve this case and find out why their family member died. Finally the autopsies began, the medical examiner looked for a variety of toxins and found absolutely nothing when they did the first two or three. autopsies and they never found an obvious cause of death or a toxin, we were disappointed, then we realized it was unusual that they didn't find an obvious cause of death, it was a new way of thinking about death.

In this case, the fact that nothing suspicious was found provided reason for suspicion—in fact, it might be the biggest clue yet. Dr. Olinger examined the electrocardiogram readings of deceased patients to find a common pattern that we recognized: many of these patients who died would die from a sudden loss of cardiac activity, their heart would be beating well, and suddenly, in less than one minute, they would get a magnification of their heart rate and then, Flatline, Dr. Olinger reasoned any substance that caused patients to die like that must also occur naturally in the body so it wouldn't stand out in the autopsy it would let the killer go unnoticed it would be the perfect poison in the Indiana hospital patients died mysteriously researchers suspected poison medical researchers were investigating toxins that would kill quickly and leave no trace Dr.

Michael Olinger knew of a compound that would work like this potassium chloride potassium chloride could kill a Olinger suggested that researcher Churchy bring a toxicologist and a heart specialist on board. He brought in medical toxicologist Dr. Brent Furby to assist him. experience because potassium is present in healthy bodies if used as a poison, it would be difficult to prove that when people die within a few hours, usually their potassium increases considerably and can even triple, so it can be determined that someone has injected potassium into a patient. post morum, particularly if they have been exuded, is actually very difficult, in fact I think it is practically impossible for the healthy heart to use potassium to control its rhythm.

Too much potassium overwhelms the organ, which simply shuts down, and although the presence of postmortem potassium would prove nothing, a potassium poisoning victim would show telltale signs of the toxin that cardiologist Eric Prosi was brought in to look for. Potassium is a kind of pivot of the cell membrane potassium in the proper concentration allows the normal flow of electricity in a cell if you suddenly give it a large amount of potassium it reaches the heart very quickly what it does is affect the membrane of the heart so that it cannot have flow of electricity and when that happens the heart stops.

Do you care about this medicine? Not only is potassium stealthy, but it is also. easy to obtain show us where you keep it yes, we keep it detectives discovered that a nurse could take a vial of potassium chloride from the hospital supply without anyone realizing it was missing here is where the medication is kept a vial of potassium chloride potassium would provide smoking Weapons researcher Frank Churchy desperately needed it. He obviously wanted an advance search warrant for Lin Major's property and we simply couldn't understand that the information we had received that would give a suspicion of what he was doing were events that had happened 2 years prior to our investigation, so obviously, He did not give us the deadline to obtain a search warrant.

Tury attempted to question Majors, but his attorney would not allow her client to provide specific answers. thanks, the case was in danger of stalling Greg Carter and Frank Tury needed stronger evidence to obtain search warrants for Major's house for a substance. I understand that you and Lon's roommates are right, you contacted Major's housemate, he moved into my house and, uh, at first I was suspicious and reluctant to talk to the authorities, but they eventually won his trust. . He owned the house in which he and Majors lived. He told investigators that one day, while he was tidying up the garage, he came across some vials of potassium chloride here.

It was finally The Elusive Smoking Gun who was willing to sign that the housemate gave the police permission to search his house. This is one that we have prepared. More vials were found at the facility, one thing led to another and the discovery allowed investigators to obtain a Warrant to Search Major's truck. More vials appeared. They were prosecuted as evidence at this time that they had linked Majors to potassium chloride. They had to rule out any other possible cause of death. Many of the patients died of heart disease, but now poisoning was suspected, cardiologist. Bruce Waller was called in to do an autopsy on the hearts and find evidence of that disease.

He would look for blockages in the arteries, see if there has been a heart attack, and examine the remaining valves and other aspects of the heart. If the heart was completely normal, then I would suspect some other toxin as the cause of death the hearts were healthy the suspicions were confirmed the investigators had gathered enough evidence to arrest Orville Linnn Majors on suspicion of murder the evidence concluded that Lyn Major was carrying to a patient in intensive care The unit developed the opportunity for him to be alone with that patient, injected him with potassium chloride and caused death, and did it to make it appear medically that this person took a turn for the worse and died.

The investigation took almost 4 years, but in the end it paid off. Orville Lin Majors was found guilty and sentenced to 360 years in prison. There is no colder deception than a betrayed trust. When that betrayal turns deadly, the police turn to forensic science to avenge the victims of broken trust