1 00:00:09,067 --> 00:00:11,378 >> WE ARE FLOATING ALONG LAKE WYLIE, SOUTH CAROLINA, 2 00:00:11,413 --> 00:00:17,000 WHICH IS A ROUGHLY 20-MILE-LONG LAKE. 3 00:00:17,033 --> 00:00:19,000 >> Reporter: AS WE'VE BEEN CRUISING ALONG HERE, 4 00:00:19,033 --> 00:00:23,000 IT HAS LOOKED LIKE AN EPISODE OF "LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND 5 00:00:23,033 --> 00:00:23,931 A LOT OF WEALTH. 6 00:00:23,964 --> 00:00:24,861 >> IT CERTAINLY IS. 7 00:00:24,896 --> 00:00:26,137 THERE ARE MILLION-DOLLAR HOMES. 8 00:00:26,172 --> 00:00:29,861 IF YOU LOOK AT THIS ONE HERE, THIS IS THE CLAYTON ESTATE. 9 00:00:29,896 --> 00:00:32,619 STEVEN AND LANA MOVED INTO IT IN 2015, AND IT'S ACTUALLY 10 00:00:32,655 --> 00:00:34,344 MODELED AFTER PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON'S MOUNT VERNON 11 00:00:34,378 --> 00:00:39,310 ESTATE. 12 00:00:39,344 --> 00:00:41,412 STEVEN CLAYTON WAS A VERY WELL- LIKED PERSON. 13 00:00:41,448 --> 00:00:46,171 HAD LOTS OF FRIENDS, VERY SOCIABLE. 14 00:00:46,206 --> 00:00:50,171 LANA WORKED AS A NURSE IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT VETERANS' 15 00:00:50,206 --> 00:00:55,240 AFFAIRS HOSPITALS. 16 00:00:55,274 --> 00:01:01,862 [ SIREN WAILING] >> STEVEN CLAYTON WAS FOUND DEAD 17 00:01:01,896 --> 00:01:03,000 AT THE BOTTOM OF A STAIRCASE. 18 00:01:03,033 --> 00:01:06,240 >> AT THE OUTSET, THIS APPEARED TO BE A NATURAL DEATH. 19 00:01:06,275 --> 00:01:06,896 [ INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER] >> Reporter: IT LOOKED LIKE A 20 00:01:12,034 --> 00:01:13,034 MAN WHO HAD FALLEN DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS. 21 00:01:13,067 --> 00:01:15,793 >> YES, WHO HAD BEEN ILL, ACCORDING TO HIS WIFE. 22 00:01:15,826 --> 00:01:17,826 AND THEN, SHE FOUND HIM UNRESPONSIVE. 23 00:01:17,861 --> 00:01:25,137 SHE WAS CRYING, AND SHE WAS UPSET. 24 00:01:25,171 --> 00:01:25,516 >> [ CRYING] >> I PULLED IN THE DRIVEWAY 25 00:01:35,033 --> 00:01:36,310 RIGHT OVER HERE. 26 00:01:36,343 --> 00:01:37,861 MY MAIN GOAL AT THAT POINT WAS TO TRY AND HELP LANA, TO 27 00:01:37,896 --> 00:01:39,171 CONSOLE HER. 28 00:01:39,206 --> 00:01:41,861 >> Reporter: WHEN DID YOU START TO SEE THINGS THAT TROUBLED YOU? 29 00:01:41,896 --> 00:01:43,275 >> RIGHT AWAY. 30 00:01:43,310 --> 00:01:45,033 HE DIDN'T SHOW ANY SIGNS OF ANY SORT OF MEDICAL ISSUES. 31 00:01:45,067 --> 00:01:48,896 SHE MADE NO MENTION OF ATTEMPTING TO REVIVE HIM. 32 00:01:48,930 --> 00:01:51,206 >> WE DECIDED TO CALL THE CORONER AND SEE IF WE COULD GET 33 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:53,896 EITHER AN AUTOPSY OR A TOXCOLOGY REPORT. 34 00:01:53,930 --> 00:01:57,896 >> I AM THE CORONER FOR YORK COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. 35 00:01:57,930 --> 00:02:07,724 LUCKILY, FAMILY STARTED PICKING UP ON SOME RED FLAGS. 36 00:02:07,757 --> 00:02:09,000 >> MY NAME IS DEMI GARVIN. 37 00:02:09,033 --> 00:02:10,275 I AM A FORENSIC TOXICOLOGIST. 38 00:02:10,310 --> 00:02:13,481 >> WHEN DEMI'S TOXICOLOGY REPORT CAME ACROSS MY FAX MACHINE, I 39 00:02:13,516 --> 00:02:19,000 WAS LIKE, "HMM, WHAT IS TETRAHYDROZOLINE?" 40 00:02:19,033 --> 00:02:21,861 AND THEN, IMMEDIATELY, DEMI AND I WERE ON THE PHONE TOGETHER. 41 00:02:21,896 --> 00:02:23,000 I WAS LIKE, "WHOA, WAIT." 42 00:02:23,033 --> 00:02:27,550 >> TETRAHYDROZOLINE IS THE COMMON INGREDIENT IN VISINE. 43 00:02:27,586 --> 00:02:28,896 >> Reporter: THE EYE DROP? 44 00:02:28,931 --> 00:02:30,103 >> THE EYE DROP. 45 00:02:30,137 --> 00:02:33,000 >> WHEN IT IS GIVEN ORALLY VIA THE MOUTH, IT IS VERY TOXIC 46 00:02:33,033 --> 00:02:38,861 AND CAN RENDER SOMEONE INTO A COMA WITHIN 15 TO 30 MINUTES. 47 00:02:38,896 --> 00:02:40,793 >> Reporter: CAN IT CREATE A HEART ATTACK? 48 00:02:40,826 --> 00:02:41,688 >> IT CAN. 49 00:02:41,723 --> 00:02:43,000 IT HAS A DEVASTATING EFFECT ON YOUR BODY. 50 00:02:51,378 --> 00:02:56,000 >> CAN'T IMAGINE HIM DOING THAT. 51 00:02:56,033 --> 00:02:56,826 CAN'T IMAGINE ANYONE DOING THAT. 52 00:02:56,861 --> 00:03:00,343 >> SO, WHO THEN BECOMES THE SUSPECT? 53 00:03:00,378 --> 00:03:03,000 LANA CLAYTON. 54 00:03:03,033 --> 00:03:06,033 SHE REPORTED ON HER OWN THAT STEVEN CLAYTON LIKED TO PLACE A 55 00:03:06,068 --> 00:03:12,103 FEW DROPS OF VISINE IN HIS COFFEE EACH MORNING. 56 00:03:12,137 --> 00:03:15,137 >> I DID NOT KILL MY HUSBAND. 57 00:03:23,033 --> 00:03:25,758 >> THERE WAS ANOTHER DEATH THAT APPEARED TO BE OF NATURAL 58 00:03:25,793 --> 00:03:31,000 CAUSES, RELATED TO A CARDIAC ARREST OF STACY HUNSUCKER. 59 00:03:31,033 --> 00:03:35,033 THEY FOUND THE HIGH LEVELS OF TETRAHYDROZOLINE IN HER 60 00:03:35,067 --> 00:03:36,448 SYSTEM. 61 00:03:36,481 --> 00:03:40,067 >> IT'S VERY POSSIBLE THAT WAS A COPYCAT SITUATION. 62 00:03:40,103 --> 00:03:43,378 THE SUSPECT IN THAT CASE HEARD ABOUT OUR CASE DOWN HERE, 63 00:03:43,413 --> 00:03:44,620 SAW IT ON THE NEWS. 64 00:03:44,655 --> 00:03:47,965 >> Reporter: SO, WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS THAT THIS LITTLE 65 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:48,586 BOTTLE COULD BE A MURDER WEAPON. 66 00:03:48,620 --> 00:03:50,620 >> ABSOLUTELY. 67 00:04:45,033 --> 00:04:47,000 ♪ ♪ >> I'M A VIETNAM VETERAN, SO 68 00:04:47,103 --> 00:04:48,206 I'VE SEEN THINGS, DONE THINGS. 69 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,240 >> Reporter: BUT JAMES BLACKLEDGE WASN'T READY FOR WHAT 70 00:04:51,274 --> 00:04:54,586 WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN AS HE RODE BY THE HOME OF STEVE AND LANA 71 00:04:54,620 --> 00:04:57,654 CLAYTON ON THE MORNING OF JULY 21, 2018. 72 00:04:57,689 --> 00:05:02,310 >> I WAS OUT RIDING MY MOTORCYCLE, COMING DOWN THIS 73 00:05:02,343 --> 00:05:03,654 ROAD, AND, ALL OF A SUDDEN, I SEE A WOMAN RUNNING ACROSS 74 00:05:03,689 --> 00:05:10,896 THIS YARD, AND SHE WAS WAVING ME DOWN. 75 00:05:10,930 --> 00:05:13,586 >> Reporter: IT WAS LANA CLAYTON, WHO APPARENTLY HAD JUST 76 00:05:13,620 --> 00:05:14,413 RUN OUT OF HER HOUSE. 77 00:05:14,447 --> 00:05:17,689 >> SHE FLAGGED ME DOWN, STOPPED ME. 78 00:05:17,723 --> 00:05:30,481 AND FIRST THING SHE SAID WAS, "CALL 911." 79 00:05:30,516 --> 00:05:33,896 >> Reporter: AS BLACKLEDGE STAYED ON THE PHONE WITH THE 80 00:05:33,930 --> 00:05:35,516 DISPATCHER, HE WATCHED LANA RUN ACROSS THE STREET TO A 81 00:05:35,550 --> 00:05:40,516 NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE. 82 00:05:40,550 --> 00:05:42,689 >> ALL OF A SUDDEN, I HEARD THIS LOUD KNOCK ON THE SCREEN. 83 00:05:42,723 --> 00:05:45,206 IT ALMOST SOUND LIKE SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, WAS GOING TO BUST THE 84 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:46,620 GLASS OUT. 85 00:05:46,654 --> 00:05:47,896 IT WAS LANA. 86 00:05:47,930 --> 00:05:50,586 >> Reporter: TERRY FLOYD IS A CLOSE FRIEND OF LANA AND STEVE. 87 00:05:50,620 --> 00:05:53,240 >> AND I ASKED HER, OF COURSE, WHAT WAS WRONG, AND SHE JUST 88 00:05:53,274 --> 00:05:55,654 KEPT SAYING, "IT'S STEVE, IT'S STEVE." 89 00:05:55,689 --> 00:05:59,137 >> Reporter: THE TWO JUMPED INTO TERRY'S GOLF CART AND DASHED 90 00:05:59,172 --> 00:06:02,310 OVER TO THE CLAYTON'S FRONT DOOR. 91 00:06:02,343 --> 00:06:05,000 >> AND I SAID, "WELL, WHERE IS HE?" 92 00:06:05,033 --> 00:06:11,240 AND SHE SAID, "HE'S AT THE BASE OF THE STAIRS THERE IN THE 93 00:06:11,274 --> 00:06:12,862 FOYER." 94 00:06:12,896 --> 00:06:14,550 >> Reporter: AND WHAT WERE YOU THINKING AS ALL OF THIS IS 95 00:06:14,586 --> 00:06:15,757 UNFOLDING? 96 00:06:15,793 --> 00:06:17,413 >> I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS AN ACCIDENT, A STRANGE ACCIDENT. 97 00:06:17,447 --> 00:06:20,000 THEN, WHAT I REALLY THOUGHT WAS STRANGE WAS, SHE SAT ON THE 98 00:06:20,033 --> 00:06:20,793 FRONT STEPS. 99 00:06:20,826 --> 00:06:23,723 THE MAN WENT INSIDE THE HOUSE. 100 00:06:23,757 --> 00:06:24,793 >> I TRIED TO GET A PULSE. 101 00:06:24,826 --> 00:06:28,689 I COULDN'T GET A PULSE. 102 00:06:28,723 --> 00:06:32,620 AND, I-- I...AND I-- I JUST, I KNEW HE WAS DEAD. 103 00:06:32,654 --> 00:06:39,000 >> Reporter: ACCORDING TO LANA, STEVE HAD COME DOWN WITH A BOUT 104 00:06:39,033 --> 00:06:42,000 OF VERTIGO THREE DAYS PRIOR. 105 00:06:42,033 --> 00:06:45,550 NEWS REPORTER KRISTI O'CONNOR OF WBTV COVERED THE STORY. 106 00:06:45,586 --> 00:06:51,000 >> HE WAS NAUSEATED AND DIZZY AND BEDRIDDEN. 107 00:06:51,033 --> 00:06:53,896 >> Reporter: THEIR BEDROOM WAS ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF THIS 108 00:06:53,930 --> 00:06:56,103 HOUSE, RIGHT? 109 00:06:56,137 --> 00:06:57,310 >> THAT'S EXACTLY CORRECT. 110 00:06:57,343 --> 00:07:00,482 >> Reporter: LANA SAID SHE CHECKED ON HIM AROUND 11:00 THAT 111 00:07:00,516 --> 00:07:03,964 MORNING AND FOUND HIM SOUND ASLEEP, SO SHE WENT OUTSIDE 112 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:04,757 TO MOW THE LAWN. 113 00:07:04,793 --> 00:07:07,896 >> SHE MADE SURE HE HAD HIS WATER. 114 00:07:07,930 --> 00:07:09,516 SHE HAD HIS MEDICATIONS AND THINGS NEXT TO HIS BED, MADE 115 00:07:09,550 --> 00:07:15,206 SURE HE HAD EVERYTHING HE NEEDED. 116 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,137 >> Reporter: LANA WAS A NURSE, A CALLING THAT MADE STEVE'S 117 00:07:17,172 --> 00:07:19,274 SISTER, ROSIE, VERY HAPPY. 118 00:07:19,310 --> 00:07:23,793 >> I FELT, "WOW, SHE'LL BE THERE FOR HIM, GOD FORBID, SOMETHING 119 00:07:23,826 --> 00:07:27,793 SHOULD HAPPEN, HE SHOULD FALL ILL." 120 00:07:27,826 --> 00:07:31,310 >> Reporter: THE COUPLE MET ONLINE IN 2010. 121 00:07:31,343 --> 00:07:34,206 THREE YEARS LATER, THEY MARRIED IN NEARBY CHARLOTTE, NORTH 122 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:35,586 CAROLINA. 123 00:07:35,620 --> 00:07:39,516 >> I SENSED THAT MY BROTHER LOVED HER VERY MUCH, THAT SHE 124 00:07:39,550 --> 00:07:40,447 LOVED HIM VERY MUCH. 125 00:07:40,481 --> 00:07:44,516 >> Reporter: IT WAS LANA'S SECOND MARRIAGE. 126 00:07:44,550 --> 00:07:47,310 STEVE'S FAMILY HAD LOST COUNT ON THE NUMBER OF TIMES HE'D BEEN 127 00:07:47,343 --> 00:07:48,447 DOWN THE AISLE. 128 00:07:48,481 --> 00:07:50,896 >> I THINK THE NUMBER'S SOMEWHERE AROUND SIX OR SEVEN. 129 00:07:50,930 --> 00:07:52,447 STEVE LOVED BEING IN LOVE. 130 00:07:52,481 --> 00:07:57,862 UH, YOU KNOW, IT DIDN'T ALWAYS WORK OUT WELL FOR HIM. 131 00:07:57,896 --> 00:08:00,447 >> Reporter: STEVE'S NEPHEW, KRIS PHAGAN, SAYS HIS UNCLE WAS 132 00:08:00,482 --> 00:08:02,379 AN ACCOUNTANT BY TRADE WHO, IN THE 1980s, CREATED A HIGHLY 133 00:08:02,413 --> 00:08:06,274 SUCCESSFUL PHYSICAL THERAPY BUSINESS TARGETING SPORTS 134 00:08:06,310 --> 00:08:07,206 INJURIES. 135 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:08,447 AND HE MADE MILLIONS OFF OF THIS, CORRECT? 136 00:08:08,481 --> 00:08:10,067 >> HE DID. 137 00:08:10,103 --> 00:08:15,447 HE THEN FULLY RETIRED AT THE AGE OF 40. 138 00:08:15,481 --> 00:08:17,550 >> Reporter: FROM ALL OUTSIDE APPEARANCES, WHAT WAS THEIR LIFE 139 00:08:17,586 --> 00:08:18,654 LIKE HERE? 140 00:08:18,689 --> 00:08:21,447 >> I WOULD SAY... DARE TO SAY THAT THEY HAD IT ALL. 141 00:08:21,481 --> 00:08:25,481 >> Reporter: BUT ON JULY 21, 2018, WHEN LANA CAME IN AFTER A 142 00:08:25,516 --> 00:08:32,447 COUPLE HOURS OF YARD WORK, SHE DISCOVERED HER 64-YEAR-OLD 143 00:08:32,481 --> 00:08:36,344 HUSBAND WAS DEAD. 144 00:08:36,379 --> 00:08:39,379 >> MYSELF AND A FEW OF THE OTHER NEIGHBORS, WE CONSOLED IN HER. 145 00:08:39,413 --> 00:08:43,517 ALL THE NEIGHBORS WERE BEHIND HER 110%. 146 00:08:43,551 --> 00:08:45,620 >> Reporter: WHEN YORK COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES ARRIVED, THEY 147 00:08:45,654 --> 00:08:50,826 FOUND LANA IN DISTRESS OVER HER HUSBAND'S APPARENT FALL DOWN THE 148 00:08:50,861 --> 00:08:52,481 STAIRS. 149 00:09:04,481 --> 00:09:05,931 >> Reporter: THE OFFICER ON THE SCENE AND A FRIEND COMFORTED 150 00:09:05,965 --> 00:09:10,481 HER. 151 00:09:14,102 --> 00:09:16,000 >> Reporter: AS WORD SPREAD ABOUT STEVE'S SUDDEN DEATH, HIS 152 00:09:16,033 --> 00:09:19,620 NEPHEW NICK FRENCH, WHO'S A POLICE OFFICER IN A NEARBY TOWN, 153 00:09:19,654 --> 00:09:22,000 RUSHED TO THE MANSION. 154 00:09:22,033 --> 00:09:24,102 THAT'S NICK INSIDE THE HOUSE. 155 00:09:26,033 --> 00:09:28,309 >> SHE GAVE ME A-- A BIG HUG, STARTED CRYING. 156 00:09:28,344 --> 00:09:37,000 RIGHT AFTER THAT, I WALKED IN WHERE STEVE WAS AND SAW HIM. 157 00:09:37,033 --> 00:09:40,000 IT WAS VERY MUCH A SHOCK. 158 00:09:40,033 --> 00:09:41,793 I LOVED STEVE, AND TO SEE HIM IN A VULNERABLE POSITION LIKE THAT 159 00:09:41,826 --> 00:09:45,136 WAS VERY DIFFICULT FOR ME. 160 00:09:45,172 --> 00:09:48,344 >> Reporter: SHORTLY AFTER 1:00 P.M., CORONER SABRINA GAST 161 00:09:48,379 --> 00:09:50,654 RECEIVED A CALL THAT STEVE HAD DIED. 162 00:09:50,688 --> 00:09:55,724 I HAVE A DEPUTY CORONER, AND SHE RESPONDED TO THE HOME. 163 00:09:55,758 --> 00:09:57,826 >> Reporter: GAST SAYS HER DEPUTY SAW NOTHING SUSPICIOUS 164 00:09:57,861 --> 00:10:01,551 AND BELIEVED THE CAUSE OF DEATH WAS MOST LIKELY DUE TO A HEART 165 00:10:01,586 --> 00:10:04,000 ATTACK. 166 00:10:04,033 --> 00:10:05,654 >> SHE CONCLUDED AT THAT POINT IN TIME THAT IT APPEARED TO BE 167 00:10:05,688 --> 00:10:09,000 A NATURAL DEATH. 168 00:10:09,033 --> 00:10:11,033 >> Reporter: BUT BEING AN EXPERIENCED COP AND 169 00:10:11,067 --> 00:10:14,965 INVESTIGATOR, NICK FRENCH COULDN'T HELP NOTICING SOME RED 170 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,724 FLAGS ABOUT LANA'S ACTIONS IMMEDIATELY AFTER SHE FOUND 171 00:10:18,758 --> 00:10:19,931 STEVE. 172 00:10:19,965 --> 00:10:21,344 >> THERE WERE AT LEAST TWO PHONES IN THAT HOUSE, AND SHE'S 173 00:10:21,379 --> 00:10:23,033 A NURSE. 174 00:10:23,067 --> 00:10:25,551 WHY WOULDN'T SHE HAVE CALLED FROM ONE OF THOSE PHONES? 175 00:10:25,586 --> 00:10:27,136 AND ALSO, WHY WASN'T SHE DOING C.P.R. WHEN THEY ARRIVED ON 176 00:10:27,172 --> 00:10:31,033 SCENE? 177 00:10:31,067 --> 00:10:33,793 >> Reporter: THAT'S WHEN HE BEGAN TO MAKE MENTAL NOTES. 178 00:10:33,826 --> 00:10:35,309 >> STEVE ALWAYS HAD HIS PHONE ON HIM. 179 00:10:35,344 --> 00:10:39,067 ALWAYS. 180 00:10:39,102 --> 00:10:40,758 IT WAS HIS LIFELINE. 181 00:10:40,793 --> 00:10:46,826 WE WERE NOT ABLE TO FIND STEVE'S PHONE ANYWHERE. 182 00:10:46,861 --> 00:10:47,447 I DON'T KNOW. 183 00:10:47,481 --> 00:10:48,688 I'M LOOKING FOR MESSAGES. 184 00:10:48,724 --> 00:10:51,033 >> Reporter: NICK ALSO NOTED LANA'S REACTION WHEN THE DEPUTY 185 00:10:51,067 --> 00:10:52,965 CORONER ASKED ABOUT FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS. 186 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,274 >> LANA SAID, "IT'S JUST TOO MUCH RIGHT NOW." 187 00:10:55,309 --> 00:10:57,931 SHE HAD HER HEAD IN HER HANDS, AND SHE SAID, "I HAVE NO IDEA." 188 00:10:57,965 --> 00:10:59,931 >> Reporter: SO, THE DEPUTY CORONER OFFERED TO TAKE STEVE'S 189 00:10:59,965 --> 00:11:08,931 BODY TO THE MORGUE AND RUN SOME TESTS. 190 00:11:08,965 --> 00:11:11,033 >> AND SHE LOOKED UP FROM HER HANDS AND SAID, "THAT FUNERAL 191 00:11:11,067 --> 00:11:14,517 HOME, THE ONE THAT'S RIGHT DOWN THE STREET. 192 00:11:14,551 --> 00:11:18,481 LET'S TAKE HIM THERE AND HAVE HIM CREMATED." 193 00:11:18,517 --> 00:11:19,758 AND IT WAS JUST THAT QUICK. 194 00:11:19,793 --> 00:11:21,654 SHE WENT FROM "I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M GOING TO DO" TO "LET'S 195 00:11:21,688 --> 00:11:23,000 HAVE HIM CREMATED." 196 00:11:23,033 --> 00:11:25,481 >> Reporter: NICK WANTED TO CALL KRIS AND LET HIM KNOW THEIR 197 00:11:25,517 --> 00:11:27,033 BELOVED UNCLE HAD DIED. 198 00:11:27,067 --> 00:11:30,136 HE SAYS LANA INSISTED SHE DIDN'T WANT KRIS TO SEE HIS UNCLE IN 199 00:11:30,172 --> 00:11:31,033 THAT STATE. 200 00:11:31,067 --> 00:11:32,965 >> KRIS IS AN ADULT. 201 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:33,620 HE'S A BIG BOY. 202 00:11:33,654 --> 00:11:36,758 THAT SHOULD BE KRIS' CHOICE. 203 00:11:40,654 --> 00:11:42,586 >> I STARTED THINKING, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING'S GOING ON. 204 00:11:42,620 --> 00:11:44,551 SO, WHEN SHE TOLD ME NO THE THIRD TIME AND YELLED AT ME, I 205 00:11:44,586 --> 00:11:45,447 WALKED UPSTAIRS AND CALLED KRIS. 206 00:11:45,481 --> 00:11:47,067 >> Reporter: WHY WOULD YOU BE EXCLUDED? 207 00:11:47,102 --> 00:11:49,724 >> THAT I COULDN'T TELL YOU. 208 00:11:49,758 --> 00:11:51,067 IT STILL PUZZLES ME TO THIS DAY. 209 00:11:51,102 --> 00:11:54,136 >> Reporter: KRIS THEN CALLED STEVE'S SISTER, ROSIE, IN 210 00:11:54,172 --> 00:11:55,067 FLORIDA. 211 00:11:55,102 --> 00:11:57,861 >> I STILL HEAR HIM CRYING. 212 00:11:57,895 --> 00:11:59,067 I COULDN'T SPEAK. 213 00:11:59,102 --> 00:12:00,379 IT WASN'T REAL. 214 00:12:00,413 --> 00:12:02,344 IT DIDN'T SEEM REAL. 215 00:12:02,379 --> 00:12:05,413 >> Reporter: FOR THREE DAYS PRIOR TO HIS DEATH, ROSIE HAD 216 00:12:05,447 --> 00:12:07,586 BEEN WORRIED SHE COULDN'T REACH HER BROTHER ON THE PHONE. 217 00:12:07,620 --> 00:12:14,136 >> SUDDENLY, THERE WERE NO REPLIES, AND THAT WAS NOT LIKE 218 00:12:14,172 --> 00:12:14,793 HIM TO JUST COMPLETELY CUT OFF. 219 00:12:14,826 --> 00:12:17,620 I THOUGHT IT WAS VERY ODD. 220 00:12:17,654 --> 00:12:22,274 >> Reporter: ALSO ODD WAS WHAT NICK WOULD LATER DISCOVER IN 221 00:12:22,309 --> 00:12:23,481 STEVE'S UPSTAIRS BEDROOM. 222 00:12:23,517 --> 00:12:26,724 >> THE STATE OF THE BEDROOM INDICATED TO ME THAT STEVE HAD 223 00:12:26,758 --> 00:12:27,965 BEEN IN THAT BED MULTIPLE DAYS AND HE WASN'T ABLE TO GET OUT OF 224 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:29,931 THE BED. 225 00:12:29,965 --> 00:12:33,895 JUST A CULMINATION OF EVERYTHING WE SAW OUT THERE WAS HIGHLY 226 00:12:33,931 --> 00:12:35,102 SUSPICIOUS. 227 00:13:02,033 --> 00:13:04,172 >> I TRY NOT TO GO INTO THE HOUSE A WHOLE LOT. 228 00:13:04,206 --> 00:13:06,000 THAT'S WHERE THE BAD MEMORIES ARE, REALLY. 229 00:13:06,033 --> 00:13:08,447 >> Reporter: FOR STEVE'S NEPHEW, KRIS PHAGAN, VISITING HIS 230 00:13:08,481 --> 00:13:10,309 UNCLE'S HOME BRINGS BACK MIXED EMOTIONS. 231 00:13:10,344 --> 00:13:14,000 >> BUT OUT HERE IS WHERE WE ENJOYED PARTIES. 232 00:13:14,033 --> 00:13:15,654 >> Reporter: IN THE BEST OF TIMES AT THIS HOUSE, WHAT WAS IT 233 00:13:15,688 --> 00:13:17,000 LIKE? 234 00:13:17,033 --> 00:13:18,206 >> A LOT OF FUN. 235 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:21,481 YEAH, THE DOGS RUNNING AROUND, THE KIDS CHASING THEM, STEVE 236 00:13:21,517 --> 00:13:22,688 TELLING JOKES, MUSIC GOING. 237 00:13:22,724 --> 00:13:25,965 >> Reporter: ONE FAVORITE MEMORY: THE JULY 4th PARTY LANA 238 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:27,481 AND STEVE THREW... 239 00:13:27,517 --> 00:13:31,274 >> ♪ 'CAUSE I LOVE YOU. >> Reporter: ...JUST WEEKS 240 00:13:31,309 --> 00:13:32,240 BEFORE HIS DEATH. 241 00:13:32,274 --> 00:13:33,965 >> STEVE WAS ALWAYS BIG ON JULY 4th. 242 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,379 HE HAD HUGE CELEBRATIONS OUT HERE. 243 00:13:37,413 --> 00:13:41,136 WE'D HAVE A DANCE FLOOR RIGHT HERE, FIREWORKS OUT THERE. 244 00:13:41,172 --> 00:13:44,033 >> Reporter: TO MOST OUTSIDERS, THE COUPLE APPEARED HAPPY AND IN 245 00:13:44,067 --> 00:13:44,931 LOVE. 246 00:13:44,965 --> 00:13:48,274 >> I THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD RELATIONSHIP. 247 00:13:48,309 --> 00:13:50,033 SHE ALWAYS KISSED STEVE ON THE FOREHEAD THERE AND SAID, "I LOVE 248 00:13:50,067 --> 00:13:56,309 YOU." 249 00:13:56,344 --> 00:13:58,136 [ LAUGHS] >> Reporter: BUT DR. NAN SAYE, 250 00:13:58,172 --> 00:14:00,895 A VETERINARIAN WHO TOOK CARE OF THEIR DOGS AT THE CLAYTON 251 00:14:00,931 --> 00:14:01,586 MANSION... 252 00:14:01,620 --> 00:14:02,551 >> STAY. 253 00:14:02,586 --> 00:14:04,481 >> Reporter: ...CLAIMS IT WAS ALL A FACADE. 254 00:14:04,517 --> 00:14:06,033 WHEN YOU SAW THE TWO OF THEM TOGETHER, WERE THEY A LOVING 255 00:14:06,067 --> 00:14:06,724 COUPLE? 256 00:14:06,758 --> 00:14:07,654 >> NO. 257 00:14:07,688 --> 00:14:08,481 NO. 258 00:14:08,517 --> 00:14:10,000 I-- I WONDERED WHY THEY GOT MARRIED. 259 00:14:10,033 --> 00:14:11,309 IT WAS STRANGE. 260 00:14:11,344 --> 00:14:16,000 THE SIMPLEST THING WAS THAT SHE DID NOT SPEAK WHEN HE WAS IN THE 261 00:14:16,033 --> 00:14:18,000 ROOM. 262 00:14:18,033 --> 00:14:21,000 >> Reporter: THEN, THERE WAS A BIZARRE INCIDENT IN THE BEDROOM 263 00:14:21,033 --> 00:14:24,000 JUST TWO YEARS BEFORE STEVE'S DEATH. 264 00:14:24,033 --> 00:14:29,000 LANA SAID SHE ACCIDENTALLY SHOT HER HUSBAND IN THE HEAD... 265 00:14:29,033 --> 00:14:29,931 WITH A CROSSBOW, WHILE HE SLEPT. 266 00:14:29,965 --> 00:14:31,000 >> STEVEN HIMSELF SAID IT WAS AN ACCIDENT. 267 00:14:31,033 --> 00:14:36,000 LANA SAID IT WAS AN ACCIDENT. 268 00:14:36,033 --> 00:14:39,000 >> Reporter: MIRACULOUSLY, STEVE'S INJURY WAS MINOR, AND 269 00:14:39,033 --> 00:14:42,000 POLICE NEVER FILED CHARGES. 270 00:14:42,033 --> 00:14:44,586 I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY CROSSBOWS YOU HAVE IN YOUR BEDROOM, BUT 271 00:14:44,620 --> 00:14:46,895 THAT SEEMED KIND OF STRANGE, RIGHT? 272 00:14:46,931 --> 00:14:48,067 >> YES. 273 00:14:48,102 --> 00:14:52,413 >> Reporter: LANA AND STEVE MOVED ON FROM THAT INCIDENT, 274 00:14:52,447 --> 00:14:54,102 BUT TWO MONTHS BEFORE HIS DEATH, STEVE CONFIDED TO KRIS 275 00:14:54,136 --> 00:14:58,931 THAT THEIR MARRIAGE OF FIVE YEARS WAS IN TROUBLE. 276 00:14:58,965 --> 00:15:01,379 >> HE HAD MENTIONED THAT HE WASN'T AS HAPPY AS HE THOUGHT HE 277 00:15:01,413 --> 00:15:02,758 WAS GOING TO BE. 278 00:15:02,793 --> 00:15:04,793 >> Reporter: WHEN KRIS GOT TO THE HOUSE THAT DAY, HE COMFORTED 279 00:15:04,826 --> 00:15:06,067 LANA. 280 00:15:06,102 --> 00:15:14,000 SHE TOLD HIM SHE NEEDED HIS HELP IN ORGANIZING STEVE'S AFFAIRS. 281 00:15:14,033 --> 00:15:17,344 >> AND I SAID, "WELL, THE FIRST THING WE NEED TO DO IS FIND THE 282 00:15:17,379 --> 00:15:19,586 WILL, AND THAT'LL TELL US WHAT STEVE'S WISHES WERE IN TERMS OF 283 00:15:19,620 --> 00:15:22,447 WHETHER HE SHOULD BE BURIED OR CREMATED." 284 00:15:22,481 --> 00:15:24,931 >> Reporter: KRIS WAS STARTLED BY LANA'S RESPONSE. 285 00:15:24,965 --> 00:15:27,620 >> SHE SAID, "WELL, THERE IS NO WILL." 286 00:15:27,654 --> 00:15:29,620 AND I SAID, "NO, THERE'S A WILL. 287 00:15:29,654 --> 00:15:30,379 I KNOW THAT THERE IS. 288 00:15:30,413 --> 00:15:31,481 I'VE SEEN IT." 289 00:15:31,517 --> 00:15:34,447 STEVE HAD ASKED ME TO BE HIS EXECUTOR. 290 00:15:34,481 --> 00:15:36,793 AND AT THAT POINT, SHE STOOD UP AND SAID, "I SAID THERE IS NO 291 00:15:36,826 --> 00:15:43,586 WILL," AND SHE WENT INTO THE HOUSE. 292 00:15:43,620 --> 00:15:45,102 >> MY "AH-HA" MOMENT CAME ABOUT THE SAME TIME. 293 00:15:45,136 --> 00:15:47,965 >> Reporter: NICK WAS GOBSMACKED WHEN HE HEARD LANA BADMOUTHING 294 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,413 STEVE. 295 00:15:50,447 --> 00:15:52,826 >> SHE WAS IN THE KITCHEN, AND SHE WAS TELLING THESE LURID 296 00:15:52,861 --> 00:15:55,654 STORIES OF ALL STEVE'S ILLICIT DRUG ABUSE. 297 00:15:55,688 --> 00:15:58,724 >> SHE USED THE WORDS "HE WAS A HARDCORE DRUG ABUSER," AND SHE'S 298 00:15:58,758 --> 00:16:00,274 TELLING THESE STORIES, AND SHE'S LAUGHING. 299 00:16:00,309 --> 00:16:03,620 >> Reporter: AND YOU GUYS HAD KNOWN HIM FOREVER. 300 00:16:03,654 --> 00:16:04,758 >> MY WHOLE LIFE. 301 00:16:04,793 --> 00:16:08,102 >> DID YOU EVER SEE HIM HIGH ON ILLICIT DRUGS? 302 00:16:08,136 --> 00:16:08,447 >> NEVER. 303 00:16:08,481 --> 00:16:11,206 >> MM-MM. 304 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:11,620 >> NEVER. 305 00:16:11,654 --> 00:16:14,551 >> NEVER. 306 00:16:14,586 --> 00:16:16,758 SHE BASICALLY SAID THAT SHE DIDN'T WANT AN AUTOPSY DONE 307 00:16:16,793 --> 00:16:22,688 BECAUSE SHE WAS WORRIED ABOUT WHAT THE TOXICOLOGY WOULD SHOW. 308 00:16:22,724 --> 00:16:25,033 AND, YOU KNOW, FOR ME, IT WAS JARRING WHEN I HEARD IT. 309 00:16:25,067 --> 00:16:26,931 >> Reporter: NICK WOULD SOON BE JARRED AGAIN. 310 00:16:26,965 --> 00:16:29,033 HE WENT UPSTAIRS, WHERE LANA HAD SAID STEVE WAS BEDRIDDEN FOR 311 00:16:29,067 --> 00:16:30,861 THREE DAYS. 312 00:16:30,895 --> 00:16:33,000 >> THE BED WAS THE WORST PART OF THE UPSTAIRS, JUST DRENCHED 313 00:16:33,033 --> 00:16:35,136 AND I ASKED LANA, AND SHE SAID, "OH, STEVE DOES THAT WHEN HE HAS 314 00:16:35,172 --> 00:16:36,413 VERTIGO. 315 00:16:36,447 --> 00:16:39,379 THAT HAPPENS."” >> REALLY MADE ME THINK HE WAS 316 00:16:39,413 --> 00:16:41,861 THERE SUFFERING AND-- AND COULD REACH NO ONE FOR HELP. 317 00:16:41,895 --> 00:16:45,586 >> Reporter: A SHORT TIME LATER, KRIS SAYS LANA DEMANDED THAT 318 00:16:45,620 --> 00:16:49,309 EVERYONE LEAVE. 319 00:16:49,344 --> 00:16:51,344 >> WHEN WE GOT IN THE CAR, MY WIFE AND I, I SAID, "SOMETHING 320 00:16:51,379 --> 00:16:53,688 IS WRONG."” >> Reporter: NICK WAS HAVING 321 00:16:53,724 --> 00:16:56,344 A SIMILAR CONVERSATION WITH HIS WIFE. 322 00:16:56,379 --> 00:16:57,724 >> WE WERE BOTH OF THE OPINION THAT SHE HAD A HAND IN 323 00:16:57,758 --> 00:17:01,620 HIS DEATH. 324 00:17:01,654 --> 00:17:02,826 WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW. 325 00:17:02,861 --> 00:17:05,619 >> Reporter: MEANWHILE, ROSIE WAS TRYING TO RECONCILE HOW 326 00:17:05,654 --> 00:17:07,826 STEVE'S VERTIGO MAY HAVE LED TO A HEART ATTACK. 327 00:17:07,862 --> 00:17:10,034 >> IT SEEMED TOO WEIRD TO ATTRIBUTE WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO 328 00:17:10,067 --> 00:17:17,378 HIM TO WHAT WE ALREADY KNEW WERE HIS VERY BENIGN, LIGHT SYMPTOMS. 329 00:17:17,413 --> 00:17:20,654 >> Reporter: ON SUNDAY, THE DAY AFTER STEVE'S DEATH, KRIS AND 330 00:17:20,689 --> 00:17:23,481 HIS WIFE HAD PLANNED TO HELP LANA FIND HIS WILL. 331 00:17:23,517 --> 00:17:25,619 >> LANA SAID, "DO NOT COME HERE. 332 00:17:25,654 --> 00:17:27,758 THIS IS MY HOUSE. 333 00:17:27,792 --> 00:17:28,378 HE WAS MY HUSBAND. 334 00:17:28,413 --> 00:17:29,619 I WILL HANDLE EVERYTHING." 335 00:17:29,654 --> 00:17:37,654 AND SHE HUNG UP. 336 00:17:37,689 --> 00:17:39,517 >> Reporter: THAT'S WHEN NICK AND HIS WIFE DROVE TO KRIS' 337 00:17:39,550 --> 00:17:41,034 HOUSE. 338 00:17:41,067 --> 00:17:42,344 >> WE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER. 339 00:17:42,378 --> 00:17:44,205 WE WENT THROUGH THE SMALL TALK, AND I SAID, "SOMETHING'S WRONG." 340 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:45,792 >> I SAID, "THANK GOD, BECAUSE WE FEEL THE EXACT SAME WAY."” 341 00:17:45,826 --> 00:17:47,034 >> AND WE WENT TO WORK. 342 00:17:47,067 --> 00:17:51,792 AND WE KNEW ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT WE HAD TO DO WAS GET 343 00:17:51,826 --> 00:17:55,067 IN TOUCH WITH THE CORONER'S OFFICE. 344 00:17:55,103 --> 00:17:57,723 >> Reporter: IT WAS A RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK. 345 00:17:57,758 --> 00:18:01,689 LANA HAD SCHEDULED A CREMATION FOR THE VERY NEXT DAY. 346 00:18:01,723 --> 00:18:04,619 >> STEVE WAS AT THE FUNERAL HOME, AND THEY CAN MOVE FORWARD, 347 00:18:04,654 --> 00:18:05,448 SO WE... 348 00:18:05,481 --> 00:18:07,792 >> Reporter: WITH WHATEVER LANA SAYS. 349 00:18:07,826 --> 00:18:09,103 >> EXACTLY. 350 00:18:09,136 --> 00:18:12,654 >> Reporter: NICK AND KRIS DEMANDED THE CORONER ORDER AN 351 00:18:12,689 --> 00:18:13,689 AUTOPSY AND A TOXICOLOGY TEST. 352 00:18:13,723 --> 00:18:14,862 SHE AGREED. 353 00:18:14,895 --> 00:18:20,034 >> WE WERE RELIEVED AT THAT POINT, BUT WE ALSO KNEW THAT 354 00:18:20,067 --> 00:18:21,136 LANA DIDN'T KNOW. 355 00:18:21,172 --> 00:18:25,172 >> Reporter: WHEN THE AUTOPSY WAS DONE, THE FAMILY'S 356 00:18:25,205 --> 00:18:26,103 SUSPICIONS WERE CONFIRMED. 357 00:18:26,136 --> 00:18:32,413 STEVE HAD NOT SUCCUMBED TO A HEART ATTACK. 358 00:18:32,448 --> 00:18:33,240 >> THEY LOOKED AT THE CHEST. 359 00:18:33,275 --> 00:18:35,895 THEY LOOKED AT THE HEART, THE LUNGS. 360 00:18:35,931 --> 00:18:37,619 NOTHING REALLY SUSPICIOUS WITH THE AUTOPSY. 361 00:18:37,654 --> 00:18:41,654 >> Reporter: BUT THE TOXICOLOGY RESULTS REVEALED SOMETHING 362 00:18:41,689 --> 00:18:44,172 SINISTER: NOT HARDCORE DRUG USE BUT THE PRESENCE OF POISON, A 363 00:18:44,205 --> 00:18:49,448 CHEMICAL FOUND IN EYE DROPS. 364 00:18:49,481 --> 00:18:52,550 AND IN AN INSTANT, STEVE'S DEATH BECAME HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS. 365 00:18:52,586 --> 00:18:55,240 FORENSIC TOXICOLOGIST DEMI GARVIN. 366 00:18:55,275 --> 00:18:56,481 SO, SUDDENLY, THIS COULD BE A POISONING? 367 00:18:56,517 --> 00:18:58,067 >> YES. 368 00:18:58,103 --> 00:19:01,689 IT WAS, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE CAUSE OF DEATH. 369 00:19:01,723 --> 00:19:04,378 >> WAS IT AN ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSE? 370 00:19:04,413 --> 00:19:05,689 WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT. 371 00:19:05,723 --> 00:19:06,344 WAS IT A HOMICIDAL OVERDOSE? 372 00:19:06,378 --> 00:19:09,550 >> HIS MOBILITY IS LIMITED. 373 00:19:09,586 --> 00:19:10,723 HE'S INCAPACITATED. 374 00:19:10,758 --> 00:19:13,895 IT WILL CAUSE RESPIRATORY DEPRESSION, WHICH THEN CAUSES 375 00:19:13,931 --> 00:19:15,931 DEATH. 376 00:19:36,034 --> 00:19:39,000 >> Reporter: WHEN CORONER SABRINA GAST FIRST REVIEWED 377 00:19:39,034 --> 00:19:40,172 STEVE CLAYTON'S TOXICOLOGY REPORT, THERE WAS A CHEMICAL 378 00:19:40,205 --> 00:19:46,000 FOUND IN HIS BLOOD THAT SHE HAD NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE. 379 00:19:46,034 --> 00:19:47,964 >> "HMM, WHAT IS TETRAHYDROZOLINE? 380 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:48,964 I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS." 381 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:52,931 SO I HAD TO LOOK UP WHAT TETRAHYDROZOLINE WAS. 382 00:19:52,964 --> 00:19:56,689 I WAS LIKE, "WHOA, WAIT."” >> Reporter: AND WHAT IS IT? 383 00:19:56,723 --> 00:19:57,826 WHAT IS THIS DRUG? 384 00:19:57,862 --> 00:19:59,654 >> TETRAHYDROZOLINE IS THE COMMON INGREDIENT IN VISINE. 385 00:19:59,689 --> 00:20:00,895 >> Reporter: THE EYE DROP. 386 00:20:00,931 --> 00:20:01,964 >> THE EYE DROP. 387 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:02,550 >> Reporter: GET THE RED OUT. 388 00:20:02,586 --> 00:20:04,067 >> EXACTLY. 389 00:20:04,103 --> 00:20:07,034 >> Reporter: AND STEVE'S RESULTS REVEALED A LARGE AMOUNT OF THE 390 00:20:07,067 --> 00:20:10,067 CHEMICAL, WHICH IS FOUND IN A NUMBER OF BRANDS OF EYE DROPS. 391 00:20:10,103 --> 00:20:12,792 >> IN FACT, AT A CONCENTRATION OF 68 NANOGRAMS PER MIL IN THE 392 00:20:12,826 --> 00:20:13,723 BLOOD SAMPLE. 393 00:20:13,758 --> 00:20:14,826 >> Reporter: AND, IN ENGLISH, THAT MEANS? 394 00:20:14,862 --> 00:20:16,586 >> IN ENGLISH, THAT MEANS I'M VERY WORRIED. 395 00:20:16,619 --> 00:20:18,103 >> Reporter: IT'S A LOT. 396 00:20:18,136 --> 00:20:20,172 >> IT'S A LOT. 397 00:20:20,205 --> 00:20:24,034 >> Reporter: FORENSIC TOXICOLOGIST DEMI GARVIN WAS 398 00:20:24,067 --> 00:20:26,448 AWARE OF THE MANY WAYS TETRAHYDROZOLINE, ALSO KNOWN AS 399 00:20:26,481 --> 00:20:28,895 T.H.Z., COULD BE ABUSED. 400 00:20:28,931 --> 00:20:36,862 >> WE REFER TO THIS DRUG AS A MODERN-DAY MICKEY FINN, WHERE A 401 00:20:36,895 --> 00:20:40,067 SUBSTANCE IS INTRODUCED INTO A BEVERAGE WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF 402 00:20:40,103 --> 00:20:43,826 THE INDIVIDUAL WHO'S GOING TO CONSUME IT, FOR PURPOSES OF 403 00:20:43,862 --> 00:20:44,448 INCAPACITATING THEM. 404 00:20:44,481 --> 00:20:45,413 THAT COULD BE FOR ROBBERY. 405 00:20:45,448 --> 00:20:47,723 IT COULD BE FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT. 406 00:20:47,758 --> 00:20:48,931 IT COULD BE FOR BOTH. 407 00:20:48,964 --> 00:20:52,964 >> Reporter: IN THE MOVIE "WEDDING CRASHERS," A CHARACTER 408 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,481 SQUIRTS EYE DROPS INTO THE DRINK OF HIS RIVAL, CAUSING TROUBLE. 409 00:20:55,517 --> 00:20:59,723 >> OH, NO. 410 00:20:59,758 --> 00:21:03,275 >> NAUSEA, VOMITING, REDUCED HEART RATE, DIZZINESS, 411 00:21:03,309 --> 00:21:04,481 CONFUSION. 412 00:21:04,517 --> 00:21:07,000 >> Reporter: BUT IF A POISONER EMPTIES AN ENTIRE BOTTLE IN 413 00:21:07,034 --> 00:21:10,000 SOMEONE'S DRINK, IT CAN ATTACK THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. 414 00:21:10,034 --> 00:21:12,067 >> AND IF BREATHING SLOWS SUFFICIENTLY, IT WILL CAUSE 415 00:21:12,103 --> 00:21:15,862 RESPIRATORY DEPRESSION, WHICH THEN CAUSES DEATH. 416 00:21:15,895 --> 00:21:19,723 >> Reporter: POISONING WITH EYE DROPS IS ALSO THE PLOTLINE OF AN 417 00:21:19,758 --> 00:21:25,344 EPISODE OF THE CBS DRAMA "C.S.I." 418 00:21:25,378 --> 00:21:26,654 >> THERE WAS TETRAHYDROZOLINE IN THE VICTIM'S DRINK. 419 00:21:26,689 --> 00:21:27,723 >> SHE KILLED HIM WITH EYE DROPS. 420 00:21:27,758 --> 00:21:33,826 >> WELL, IT'S NOT THAT FAR- FETCHED. 421 00:21:33,862 --> 00:21:34,862 >> IT'S COLORLESS, ODORLESS AND TASTELESS. 422 00:21:34,895 --> 00:21:35,931 >> AT ALL. 423 00:21:35,964 --> 00:21:38,067 >> Reporter: SO, LIKE, I HAVE A WATER BOTTLE HERE. 424 00:21:38,103 --> 00:21:38,931 IF IT WAS IN THERE, I WOULDN'T KNOW IT. 425 00:21:38,964 --> 00:21:40,172 >> CORRECT. 426 00:21:40,205 --> 00:21:43,103 >> Reporter: THE RESULTS OF STEVE CLAYTON'S TOXICOLOGY WERE 427 00:21:43,136 --> 00:21:44,344 A POTENTIAL GAME CHANGER. 428 00:21:44,378 --> 00:21:47,275 THE INITIAL ASSESSMENT AT THE SCENE IS, THIS APPEARED TO BE 429 00:21:47,309 --> 00:21:47,895 A NATURAL DEATH. 430 00:21:47,931 --> 00:21:49,517 WHAT ARE YOU THINKING NOW? 431 00:21:49,550 --> 00:21:51,895 >> I'M THINKING, "WOW, WE'VE GOT SOME WORK TO DO." 432 00:21:51,931 --> 00:21:55,481 THE NEXT PHONE CALL WAS TO THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE. 433 00:21:55,517 --> 00:21:56,931 >> WELL, NOW, OF COURSE, THERE ARE A WHOLE SERIES OF QUESTIONS 434 00:21:56,964 --> 00:21:58,723 THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED. 435 00:21:58,758 --> 00:22:03,378 >> Reporter: SOLICITOR KEVIN BRACKETT ACTS AS THE PROSECUTOR 436 00:22:03,413 --> 00:22:07,034 IN YORK AND UNION COUNTIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 437 00:22:07,067 --> 00:22:10,586 >> FIRST AND FOREMOST: HOW DID THE VISINE GET IN HIS SYSTEM? 438 00:22:10,619 --> 00:22:13,964 >> WE DIDN'T KNOW IF HE HAD INTENTIONALLY TAKEN THE 439 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,517 TETRAHYDROZOLINE WITH THE INTENT OF HARMING HIMSELF. 440 00:22:15,550 --> 00:22:19,723 >> Reporter: TO FIND OUT, THE CORONER CALLED LANA IN FOR AN 441 00:22:19,758 --> 00:22:21,103 INTERVIEW. 442 00:22:21,136 --> 00:22:22,619 DESCRIBE THE WOMAN THAT WAS SITTING ACROSS FROM YOU. 443 00:22:22,654 --> 00:22:26,034 >> I WOULD DE-- DESCRIBE HER AS CONFIDENT. 444 00:22:26,067 --> 00:22:29,619 >> Reporter: BY NOW, LANA KNEW THAT AN AUTOPSY HAD BEEN 445 00:22:29,654 --> 00:22:30,895 PERFORMED ON STEVE. 446 00:22:30,931 --> 00:22:35,275 WHAT SHE DIDN'T KNOW WAS THAT INVESTIGATORS FROM THE SHERIFF'S 447 00:22:35,309 --> 00:22:39,172 OFFICE AND THE F.B.I. WERE IN THE NEXT ROOM, LISTENING IN. 448 00:22:39,205 --> 00:22:42,689 >> WE HAD SET UP MICROPHONES IN THE OFFICE SO THAT THEY COULD 449 00:22:42,723 --> 00:22:51,067 HEAR THE QUESTIONS AND HER RESPONSES. 450 00:22:51,103 --> 00:22:53,964 >> WE WERE TRYING TO GET INFORMATION FROM HER ABOUT HOW 451 00:22:54,000 --> 00:23:04,000 HE USED THE PRODUCT, HOW-- HOW OFTEN DID HE USE THE PRODUCT. 452 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:13,654 HE USED THE PRODUCT, HOW-- HOW OFTEN DID HE USE THE PRODUCT. 453 00:23:13,689 --> 00:23:15,275 >> HE WOULD PUT IT IN HIS COFFEE EVERY MORNING SO THAT HE WOULD 454 00:23:15,309 --> 00:23:16,517 HAVE A BOWEL MOVEMENT. 455 00:23:16,550 --> 00:23:20,862 >> IT WOULD NOT BE SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD EVER WANT TO DO. 456 00:23:20,895 --> 00:23:27,723 >> WHAT THAT COMMENT DID TELL US PIS THAT SHE WAS AWARE THAT WE 457 00:23:27,758 --> 00:23:41,964 WERE GOING TO FIND VISINE IN HIS SYSTEM BECAUSE SHE PUT IT THERE. 458 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,862 >> IMMEDIATELY, SHE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT TETRAHYDROZOLINE WAS. 459 00:23:43,895 --> 00:23:45,309 >> Reporter: YOU SAW IT ON HER FACE? 460 00:23:45,344 --> 00:23:46,654 >> SHE SAID, "OH, YES, THAT'S VISINE." 461 00:23:46,689 --> 00:23:51,136 THAT WAS WHERE IT CLICKED FOR ME OF, "OH, OKAY, THIS IS KIND OF-- 462 00:23:51,172 --> 00:23:53,689 THIS IS REALLY ODD."” >> Reporter: THAT'S WHEN THOSE 463 00:23:53,723 --> 00:23:55,723 INVESTIGATORS NEARBY ENTERED THE ROOM, SURPRISING LANA. 464 00:24:13,931 --> 00:24:20,000 >> Reporter: LANA CLAYTON BEGAN TURNING ON HER HUSBAND. 465 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,931 >> Reporter: LANA CLAYTON BEGAN TURNING ON HER HUSBAND. 466 00:24:44,481 --> 00:24:46,240 >> WE NEVER SAW ANY EVIDENCE OF THAT. 467 00:24:46,275 --> 00:24:46,758 >> Reporter: NEVER? 468 00:24:46,792 --> 00:24:49,067 DID YOU EVER SEE IT? 469 00:24:49,103 --> 00:24:51,586 >> I NEVER SAW IT. 470 00:24:51,619 --> 00:24:54,136 AND NOT ONLY DID WE NEVER SEE IT, BUT THERE WAS NO RECORD OF 471 00:24:54,172 --> 00:24:55,103 ANYTHING LIKE THAT. 472 00:24:59,517 --> 00:25:01,517 >> Reporter: THE TWO INVESTIGATORS PRESSED HER. 473 00:25:37,448 --> 00:25:39,103 >> Reporter: WITH THE TOUGH QUESTIONING, BRACKETT SAYS LANA 474 00:25:39,136 --> 00:25:43,067 GOT DEFENSIVE. 475 00:25:51,309 --> 00:25:52,481 >> Reporter: LANA THEN STOPPED THE INTERVIEW AND RETURNED TO 476 00:25:52,517 --> 00:25:55,481 THE MANSION. 477 00:25:55,517 --> 00:25:57,378 INVESTIGATORS FOLLOWED HER HOME, WHERE SHE CONTINUED TALKING. 478 00:25:57,413 --> 00:26:01,205 THEY RECORDED THE CONVERSATION. 479 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,964 >> AFTER THAT CONVERSATION, THE SITUATION CHANGES SIGNIFICANTLY. 480 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,758 >> Reporter: WHAT LANA CLAYTON TOLD INVESTIGATORS WAS NOTHING 481 00:26:07,792 --> 00:26:10,826 SHORT OF A CONFESSION. 482 00:26:23,792 --> 00:26:27,723 >> Reporter: THAT AMOUNT OF T.H.Z. WOULD HAVE CAUSED STEVE 483 00:26:27,758 --> 00:26:28,964 TO STOP BREATHING. 484 00:26:49,344 --> 00:26:52,034 >> Reporter: WHEN NICK LEARNED OF LANA'S CONFESSION, HE CALLED 485 00:26:52,067 --> 00:26:53,172 KRIS. 486 00:26:53,205 --> 00:26:55,792 >> HE SAID, "SHE DID IT." 487 00:26:55,826 --> 00:26:59,205 AND-- AND I-- I KNEW IMMEDIATELY WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT, AND I 488 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,378 HAD A FEW CHOICE WORDS AND SCREAMED. 489 00:27:02,413 --> 00:27:03,067 STARTED CRYING, AS WELL. 490 00:27:03,103 --> 00:27:07,654 >> Reporter: THIS WAS MURDER. 491 00:27:07,689 --> 00:27:07,964 >> CORRECT. 492 00:27:18,034 --> 00:27:21,000 >> Reporter: AFTER ADMITTING SHE EMPTIED A BOTTLE OF EYE DROPS 493 00:27:21,034 --> 00:27:24,034 INTO HER HUSBAND'S WATER, LANA KEPT TALKING TO THE 494 00:27:24,067 --> 00:27:26,034 INVESTIGATORS BACK AT THE MANSION. 495 00:27:34,034 --> 00:27:36,517 >> Reporter: SHE QUICKLY TRANSFORMED FROM A GRIEVING 496 00:27:36,550 --> 00:27:39,000 WIDOW INTO AN EMBITTERED WIFE. 497 00:27:44,034 --> 00:27:47,000 >> Reporter: SUFFER, BECAUSE LANA CLAIMED SHE WAS FED UP WITH 498 00:27:47,034 --> 00:27:47,654 STEVE'S CONSTANT DEMANDS. 499 00:28:05,895 --> 00:28:09,034 >> Reporter: LANA TRIED TO CONVINCE INVESTIGATORS THAT SHE 500 00:28:09,067 --> 00:28:11,964 NEVER WANTED TO KILL STEVE. 501 00:28:18,136 --> 00:28:19,931 >> SHE'S ADMITTED THAT SHE'S POISONED HIM. 502 00:28:19,964 --> 00:28:22,792 >> Reporter: SOLICITOR KEVIN BRACKETT. 503 00:28:22,826 --> 00:28:24,136 >> SHE'S TRYING TO THINK OF HER STORY THAT KEEPS HER OUT OF, YOU 504 00:28:24,172 --> 00:28:27,172 KNOW, THE TRICK BAG. 505 00:28:27,205 --> 00:28:31,000 >> Reporter: AS LANA'S STORY EVOLVED, IT NOW INCLUDED 506 00:28:31,034 --> 00:28:33,481 ALLEGATIONS OF PHYSICAL ABUSE. 507 00:28:40,931 --> 00:28:42,792 >> Reporter: IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE THAT HE WAS PHYSICALLY 508 00:28:42,826 --> 00:28:44,964 ABUSING HER? 509 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:45,758 >> NO, NO. 510 00:28:45,792 --> 00:28:48,826 >> Reporter: STEVE'S SISTER, ROSIE: 511 00:28:48,862 --> 00:28:50,826 >> THE WAY SHE PORTRAYED HIM, I DON'T KNOW THAT PERSON. 512 00:28:50,862 --> 00:28:55,034 NOBODY THAT KNOWS STEVE KNOWS THAT PERSON. 513 00:28:55,067 --> 00:28:59,034 >> Reporter: THE UNFLATTERING PORTRAIT OF STEVE DOES NOT RING 514 00:28:59,067 --> 00:29:01,862 TRUE FOR THOSE WHO LOVED HIM. 515 00:29:01,895 --> 00:29:05,240 ILIANA IVANOVA WAS STEVE'S GIRLFRIEND FOR ALMOST THREE 516 00:29:05,275 --> 00:29:06,413 YEARS BEFORE MEETING LANA. 517 00:29:06,448 --> 00:29:11,034 WAS HE EVER ABUSIVE TOWARD YOU, VERBALLY OR PHYSICALLY? 518 00:29:11,067 --> 00:29:13,067 >> NEVER, NEVER. 519 00:29:13,103 --> 00:29:15,034 HE WAS NOTHING CLOSE TO BEING ABUSIVE. 520 00:29:15,067 --> 00:29:18,000 THIS IS COMPLETELY MADE UP. 521 00:29:18,034 --> 00:29:20,481 EVERYBODY WHO KNEW HIM KNEW HOW GENEROUS AND LOVING AND KIND HE 522 00:29:20,517 --> 00:29:22,689 IS. 523 00:29:22,723 --> 00:29:27,619 >> Reporter: HIS FORMER PARTNERS SHARED SIMILAR SENTIMENTS ABOUT 524 00:29:27,654 --> 00:29:30,619 THE ABUSE CLAIMS. 525 00:29:30,654 --> 00:29:32,103 >> THEY DID NOT BELIEVE THEM. 526 00:29:32,136 --> 00:29:36,275 SOME OF THEM STILL CONSIDERED HIM TO BE THE LOVE OF THEIR 527 00:29:36,309 --> 00:29:37,481 LIFE. 528 00:29:37,517 --> 00:29:39,136 >> Reporter: AND WHAT ABOUT THAT BIZARRE CROSSBOW SHOOTING 529 00:29:39,172 --> 00:29:42,619 INCIDENT BACK IN 2016? 530 00:29:42,654 --> 00:29:53,723 LANA CHANGED HER STORY, ADMITTING IT WAS NO ACCIDENT. 531 00:29:53,758 --> 00:29:58,689 >> Reporter: NICK FRENCH AND KRIS PHAGAN DIDN'T LEARN OF THE 532 00:29:58,723 --> 00:30:01,895 CROSSBOW STORY UNTIL AFTER STEVE'S DEATH. 533 00:30:01,931 --> 00:30:04,344 THEY DON'T BELIEVE LANA WAS DEFENDING HERSELF. 534 00:30:04,378 --> 00:30:06,689 NICK, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT STORY? 535 00:30:06,723 --> 00:30:08,309 >> UNOFFICIALLY, HORSE- [ BLEEP]. 536 00:30:08,344 --> 00:30:10,240 >> Reporter: DO YOU THINK THAT WAS AN ATTEMPTED MURDER? 537 00:30:10,275 --> 00:30:11,378 >> ABSOLUTELY. 538 00:30:11,413 --> 00:30:12,240 I THINK IT WAS, YEAH. 539 00:30:12,275 --> 00:30:12,619 >> 100%. 540 00:30:12,654 --> 00:30:13,862 ABSOLUTELY. 541 00:30:13,895 --> 00:30:17,067 WE THINK THAT WAS HER FIRST ATTEMPT AT DOING THIS. 542 00:30:17,103 --> 00:30:18,172 THAT WAS HER FIRST TRY. 543 00:30:18,205 --> 00:30:20,964 >> Reporter: AFTER LANA'S DEVASTATING INTERROGATION, 544 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,964 INVESTIGATORS LEFT HER AT THE MANSION TO PREPARE AN ARREST 545 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,034 WARRANT. 546 00:30:25,067 --> 00:30:26,619 THAT'S WHEN SHE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. 547 00:30:26,654 --> 00:30:30,654 >> SHE TOOK SOME PILLS AND TURNED THE GAS ON. 548 00:30:30,689 --> 00:30:34,481 SHE LEFT NOTES INDICATING THAT SHE FELT BAD ABOUT POISONING 549 00:30:34,517 --> 00:30:35,689 HER HUSBAND AND THAT SHE COULDN'T LIVE WITH HERSELF. 550 00:30:35,723 --> 00:30:38,619 >> Reporter: A NEIGHBOR WENT TO THE HOUSE THAT MORNING AND 551 00:30:38,654 --> 00:30:42,103 CALLED FOR HELP. 552 00:30:42,136 --> 00:30:45,964 >> SHE WAS TREATED BRIEFLY AT THE HOSPITAL AND TAKEN INTO 553 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,172 CUSTODY AT THAT POINT. 554 00:30:47,205 --> 00:30:50,619 >> Reporter: BRACKETT HAD DEVELOPED A DRIP-BY-DRIP THEORY 555 00:30:50,654 --> 00:30:54,689 OF THIS EYEDROP CRIME. 556 00:30:57,413 --> 00:30:58,758 >> SHE INCAPACITATED HIM WITH A SMALLER AMOUNT AND THEN 557 00:30:58,792 --> 00:31:04,240 GRADUALLY RAMPED IT UP UNTIL THE FATAL DOSE. 558 00:31:04,275 --> 00:31:06,689 >> Reporter: THAT WOULD EXPLAIN WHY STEVE WAS BEDRIDDEN FOR 559 00:31:06,723 --> 00:31:07,931 THREE DAYS PRIOR TO HIS DEATH. 560 00:31:07,964 --> 00:31:11,000 BRACKETT THEORIZES THAT STEVE MAY HAVE SOMEHOW ATTEMPTED AN 561 00:31:11,034 --> 00:31:13,550 ESCAPE. 562 00:31:13,586 --> 00:31:16,034 >> HE MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN A SURGE OF ADRENALINE, REALIZING THAT HE 563 00:31:16,067 --> 00:31:18,240 WAS VERY, VERY SICK AND HE NEEDED HELP. 564 00:31:18,275 --> 00:31:22,619 AND HE TRIED TO GO FOR HELP AND MADE IT AS FAR AS THE BOTTOM 565 00:31:22,654 --> 00:31:23,240 OF THE STAIRS, WHERE HE DIED. 566 00:31:23,275 --> 00:31:24,792 HE COULDN'T CALL FOR HELP. 567 00:31:24,826 --> 00:31:30,619 HIS PHONE COULD NOT BE FOUND AFTER HE DIED. 568 00:31:30,654 --> 00:31:36,723 >> Reporter: ON AUGUST 31, 2018, MORE THAN A MONTH AFTER STEVE'S 569 00:31:36,758 --> 00:31:41,103 DEATH, LANA CLAYTON WAS FORMALLY CHARGED WITH MURDER. 570 00:31:41,136 --> 00:31:43,586 >> I THINK LANA CLAYTON HAD SEVERAL MILLION REASONS WHY SHE 571 00:31:43,619 --> 00:31:46,654 WANTED HER HUSBAND DEAD. 572 00:31:46,689 --> 00:31:52,758 >> Reporter: YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS? 573 00:31:52,792 --> 00:31:54,000 >> YES, EXACTLY RIGHT. 574 00:31:54,034 --> 00:32:00,378 >> Reporter: STEVE'S FAMILY SPECULATES LANA STARTED PLANNING 575 00:32:00,413 --> 00:32:02,344 STEVE'S DEATH BACK IN 2016, WHEN LANA CONVINCED HIM TO MOVE FROM 576 00:32:02,378 --> 00:32:06,586 NORTH CAROLINA TO THE MANSION IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 577 00:32:06,619 --> 00:32:08,723 >> IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR HER TO BE IN SOUTH CAROLINA, AND I 578 00:32:08,758 --> 00:32:10,000 THINK I WAS ABLE TO PUT SOME PUZZLE PIECES TOGETHER AFTER THE 579 00:32:10,034 --> 00:32:13,826 >> SHE WAS MARRIED TO A VERY WEALTHY MAN. 580 00:32:13,862 --> 00:32:16,481 AND IF THAT MAN WERE TO DIE IN THE ABSENCE OF A WILL, THEN HE 581 00:32:16,517 --> 00:32:19,034 WOULD DIE INTESTATE, WHICH, UNDER SOUTH CAROLINA LAW, LEAVES 582 00:32:19,067 --> 00:32:21,448 HER INHERITING THE ENTIRE ESTATE. 583 00:32:21,481 --> 00:32:24,758 >> Reporter: AND REMEMBER, LANA INSISTED THERE WAS NO WILL. 584 00:32:24,792 --> 00:32:27,034 KRIS RECALLS SHE BECAME AGITATED WHEN HE ASKED HER ABOUT IT THE 585 00:32:27,067 --> 00:32:29,103 DAY STEVE DIED. 586 00:32:29,136 --> 00:32:30,826 >> SHE STANDS UP. 587 00:32:30,862 --> 00:32:32,000 SHE TURNS, LOOKS ME RIGHT IN THE EYE AND SAYS, "THERE IS NO 588 00:32:32,034 --> 00:32:37,723 WILL," JUST LIKE THAT. 589 00:32:37,758 --> 00:32:39,378 >> Reporter: KRIS IS CERTAIN LANA DESTROYED THE WILL IN A 590 00:32:39,413 --> 00:32:43,000 FIRE THE NEIGHBORS SAW HER START THE DAY AFTER STEVE'S DEATH. 591 00:32:43,034 --> 00:32:45,517 >> MY PERSONAL OPINION IS THAT'S THE FIRST THING THAT SHE BURNED. 592 00:32:45,550 --> 00:32:48,309 THIS IS THE FIRE PIT, PETER. 593 00:32:48,344 --> 00:33:01,378 HIS WHOLE LIFE, IN PAPER, WAS BURNED RIGHT HERE. 594 00:33:01,413 --> 00:33:06,034 >> Reporter: ABOUT THREE WEEKS AFTER LANA'S ARREST, THERE WAS 595 00:33:06,067 --> 00:33:09,344 ANOTHER SUSPICIOUS DEATH, JUST 12 MILES AWAY IN MOUNT HOLLY, 596 00:33:09,378 --> 00:33:10,758 NORTH CAROLINA. 597 00:33:10,792 --> 00:33:13,240 >> THE METHOD OF KILLING IN THAT CASE WAS THE SAME AS OURS, A 598 00:33:13,275 --> 00:33:13,895 POISONING WITH T.H.Z. 599 00:33:13,931 --> 00:33:15,103 >> Reporter: WITH EYE DROPS? 600 00:33:15,136 --> 00:33:17,689 >> WITH EYE DROPS, YES. 601 00:33:17,723 --> 00:33:22,067 >> Reporter: FOR INVESTIGATORS, IT SEEMED LIKE DEÉJAÀ VU. 602 00:33:22,103 --> 00:33:23,654 >> OUR OFFICE WAS CONSULTED ON THAT BECAUSE IT HAPPENED 603 00:33:23,689 --> 00:33:26,931 IN SUCH CLOSE PROXIMITY. 604 00:33:26,964 --> 00:33:30,964 IT'S VERY POSSIBLE THAT THE SUSPECT IN THAT CASE HEARD ABOUT 605 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,103 OUR CASE DOWN HERE, SAW IT ON THE NEWS. 606 00:33:34,136 --> 00:33:38,964 >> Reporter: 32-YEAR-OLD STACY HUNSUCKER, A MOTHER OF TWO YOUNG 607 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,931 CHILDREN, WAS FOUND DEAD BY HER HUSBAND, JOSHUA HUNSUCKER. 608 00:33:42,964 --> 00:33:46,964 JUST LIKE IN THE CLAYTON CASE, HER CAUSE OF DEATH WAS INITIALLY 609 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,964 RULED A HEART ATTACK. 610 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:53,034 >> SHORTLY AFTER STACY DIED, HE COLLECTED ALMOST $250,000 FROM 611 00:33:53,067 --> 00:33:55,586 TWO LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES TAKEN OUT ON HER BEHALF, AND 612 00:33:55,619 --> 00:34:01,344 THAT APPARENTLY DIDN'T SIT RIGHT WITH STACY'S MOTHER. 613 00:34:01,378 --> 00:34:03,448 >> WE GOT INVOLVED BECAUSE STACY'S MOTHER CONTACTED US WITH 614 00:34:03,481 --> 00:34:05,689 THE POSSIBLE INSURANCE FRAUD. 615 00:34:05,723 --> 00:34:16,000 WHO WOULD EVER GUESS THAT AN INSURANCE FRAUD INVESTIGATION 616 00:34:16,034 --> 00:34:18,000 COULD LEAD TO A FULL-BLOWN MURDER INVESTIGATION? 617 00:34:36,034 --> 00:34:37,931 >> THEY WERE HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEARTS. 618 00:34:37,965 --> 00:34:40,481 THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN TOGETHER. 619 00:34:40,516 --> 00:34:42,896 >> Reporter: STACY AND JOSH HUNSUCKER HAD BEEN MARRIED FOR 620 00:34:42,931 --> 00:34:44,965 EIGHT YEARS BEFORE HER TRAGIC DEATH FROM AN APPARENT HEART 621 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,206 ATTACK. 622 00:34:46,240 --> 00:34:48,827 STACY HAD SUFFERED FROM HEART PROBLEMS AND HAD A PACEMAKER. 623 00:34:48,862 --> 00:34:52,481 >> STACY WAS A PARALEGAL AT ONE TIME, AND THEN WAS A PRESCHOOL 624 00:34:52,516 --> 00:34:56,413 TEACHER. 625 00:34:56,447 --> 00:34:58,447 HE WAS A PARAMEDIC-- A FLIGHT MEDIC, ACTUALLY, AT ATRIUM 626 00:34:58,481 --> 00:35:00,481 HEALTH, THE MAJOR HOSPITAL SYSTEM IN THE CHARLOTTE AREA. 627 00:35:00,516 --> 00:35:03,309 >> Reporter: REPORTER KRISTI O'CONNOR SAYS JOSH'S ACTIONS 628 00:35:03,344 --> 00:35:08,516 AFTER STACY'S PASSING RAISED EYEBROWS. 629 00:35:08,550 --> 00:35:12,000 >> I NEVER SAW HIM SAD, EVER. 630 00:35:12,034 --> 00:35:13,481 >> Reporter: IN FACT, BABYSITTER KAILYN MACDONALD, WHO LOOKED 631 00:35:13,516 --> 00:35:18,413 AFTER THE COUPLE'S CHILDREN AFTER STACY'S DEATH, SAYS JOSH 632 00:35:18,447 --> 00:35:20,481 WAS DATING A COWORKER, JENNIFER ELKINS. 633 00:35:20,516 --> 00:35:24,585 >> HE WAS HAPPY WITH HIS NEW GIRLFRIEND, VERY HAPPY. 634 00:35:24,619 --> 00:35:28,275 AND IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT JEN. 635 00:35:28,309 --> 00:35:30,724 >> Reporter: FOR STACY'S MOTHER, SUZIE ROBINSON, THAT WAS A RED 636 00:35:30,757 --> 00:35:32,516 FLAG. 637 00:35:32,550 --> 00:35:36,516 ANOTHER ONE WAS WHEN SHE LEARNED JUST 48 HOURS AFTER STACY'S 638 00:35:36,550 --> 00:35:47,000 DEATH, JOSH STARTED THE PROCESS OF COLLECTING $250,000 IN TWO 639 00:35:47,034 --> 00:35:49,931 LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES. 640 00:35:49,965 --> 00:35:52,896 SUZIE CALLED THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE TO 641 00:35:52,931 --> 00:35:57,000 INVESTIGATE. 642 00:35:57,034 --> 00:35:59,413 >> HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR SUZIE, WE MAY NOT HAVE ANY OF THIS MURDER 643 00:35:59,447 --> 00:36:01,068 INVESTIGATION. 644 00:36:01,103 --> 00:36:03,172 >> Reporter: MIKE CAUSEY IS THE COMMISSIONER OF THE NORTH 645 00:36:03,206 --> 00:36:05,793 CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE. 646 00:36:05,827 --> 00:36:10,965 HIS AGENTS GOT INVOLVED IN STACY'S CASE IN MAY 2019. 647 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,862 >> IT WAS REFERRED TO OUR CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS' 648 00:36:13,896 --> 00:36:15,034 DIVISION. 649 00:36:15,068 --> 00:36:19,757 INITIAL REPORTS FROM THE LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT HAD IT A 650 00:36:19,793 --> 00:36:21,034 NATURAL DEATH, HEART ATTACK. 651 00:36:21,068 --> 00:36:22,550 >> Reporter: BUT STACY'S BODY HAD BEEN CREMATED AT THE REQUEST 652 00:36:22,585 --> 00:36:24,413 OF HER HUSBAND. 653 00:36:24,447 --> 00:36:25,619 NO AUTOPSY. 654 00:36:25,655 --> 00:36:27,275 >> NO AUTOPSY. 655 00:36:27,309 --> 00:36:31,793 JOSHUA ACTUALLY DID NOT WANT AN AUTOPSY DONE BECAUSE HE DIDN'T 656 00:36:31,827 --> 00:36:33,378 WANT HER CUT UP. 657 00:36:33,413 --> 00:36:35,240 >> Reporter: BUT THE AGENTS GOT A HUGE BREAK WHEN THEY 658 00:36:35,275 --> 00:36:40,724 DISCOVERED STACY WAS AN ORGAN DONOR, AND A VIAL OF BLOOD HAD 659 00:36:40,757 --> 00:36:44,447 BEEN COLLECTED AND STORED BEFORE SHE WAS CREMATED. 660 00:36:44,481 --> 00:36:49,793 THAT BLOOD WAS SENT OUT FOR A TOXICOLOGY SCREENING. 661 00:36:49,827 --> 00:36:53,793 >> THERE WAS TRACES OF SOME POISON, SPECIFICALLY T.H.Z., A 662 00:36:53,827 --> 00:36:57,550 COMMON CHEMICAL THAT'S USED IN EYE DROPS TO GET THE RED OUT. 663 00:36:57,585 --> 00:37:00,516 >> Reporter: IN THE HUNSUCKER CASE, HAVE YOU GIVEN AUTHORITIES 664 00:37:00,550 --> 00:37:03,619 THERE SOME ADVICE BASED ON YOUR EXPERIENCE HERE? 665 00:37:03,655 --> 00:37:06,240 >> YES, THAT THE PRESENCE OF THE TETRAHYDROZOLINE IN THE 666 00:37:06,275 --> 00:37:09,481 CONCENTRATION THAT WAS REPORTED WARRANTED FURTHER INVESTIGATION. 667 00:37:09,516 --> 00:37:13,862 >> THEY ENDED UP ACCUSING HIM OF POISONING HER WITH 668 00:37:13,896 --> 00:37:15,068 TETRAHYDROZOLINE. 669 00:37:15,103 --> 00:37:16,896 >> Reporter: ON DECEMBER 19, 2019, 15 MONTHS AFTER STACY'S 670 00:37:16,931 --> 00:37:22,724 DEATH, HUNSUCKER WAS CHARGED WITH HER MURDER. 671 00:37:22,757 --> 00:37:26,000 HIS ATTORNEY SAYS THE ALLEGATIONS WILL BE STRENUOUSLY 672 00:37:26,034 --> 00:37:29,000 OPPOSED. 673 00:37:29,034 --> 00:37:33,000 >> $500,000 SECURED. 674 00:37:33,034 --> 00:37:36,000 >> Reporter: EXPERTS FEAR HOMICIDAL POISONINGS HAVE BEEN 675 00:37:36,034 --> 00:37:39,619 GOING UNDETECTED BECAUSE THEIR SYMPTOMS CAN MIMIC NATURAL 676 00:37:39,655 --> 00:37:43,137 ILLNESS, AND LABS DON'T ROUTINELY SCREEN FOR THEM. 677 00:37:43,172 --> 00:37:45,137 DO YOU THINK THAT THIS DRUG SHOULD BE PART OF A BASIC SCREEN 678 00:37:45,172 --> 00:37:47,931 IN A TOXICOLOGY TEST? 679 00:37:47,965 --> 00:37:48,793 >> YES. 680 00:37:48,827 --> 00:37:50,275 >> Reporter: DO YOU FEEL THE SAME WAY? 681 00:37:50,309 --> 00:37:51,965 >> YES, BECAUSE IT IS SO INNOCUOUS. 682 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,309 IT'S ODORLESS. 683 00:37:55,344 --> 00:37:56,619 IT'S TASTELESS. 684 00:37:56,655 --> 00:37:58,724 ANYBODY CAN BUY IT. 685 00:37:58,757 --> 00:38:00,585 >> Reporter: IN A STATEMENT, JOHNSON & JOHNSON, THE MAKERS OF 686 00:38:00,619 --> 00:38:04,137 VISINE, SAID THEY ARE "DEVASTATED THAT ANYONE WOULD 687 00:38:04,172 --> 00:38:11,585 USE OUR PRODUCT FOR SUCH AN ABHORRENT ACT," AND "VISINE IS 688 00:38:11,619 --> 00:38:13,516 CLEARLY LABELED FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY AND SHOULD NEVER BE 689 00:38:13,550 --> 00:38:15,413 SWALLOWED." 690 00:38:15,447 --> 00:38:20,103 IN LANA CLAYTON'S CASE, SHE DECIDED TO PLEAD GUILTY TO 691 00:38:20,137 --> 00:38:29,240 TAMPERING WITH FOOD AND DRUGS AND VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. 692 00:38:29,275 --> 00:38:31,481 >> Reporter: SHE CONTINUED TO INSIST SHE NEVER MEANT TO KILL 693 00:38:31,516 --> 00:38:31,655 HIM. 694 00:38:41,034 --> 00:38:44,000 >> Reporter: HER DEFENSE TEAM PAINTED LANA AS A VICTIM WHO 695 00:38:44,034 --> 00:38:47,344 SUFFERED FROM P.T.S.D. STEMMING FROM SEXUAL ABUSE IN HER PAST. 696 00:38:47,378 --> 00:38:53,206 >> SO, THEIR CLAIMS WERE THAT SHE WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED 697 00:38:53,240 --> 00:38:57,172 THROUGHOUT HER YOUTH AND THAT WENT UNREPORTED TO AUTHORITIES. 698 00:38:57,206 --> 00:39:01,206 THEN, WHEN SHE WENT INTO THE U.S. AIR FORCE, HER DEFENSE TEAM 699 00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:04,413 SAYS THAT SHE WAS RAPED BY THREE SERVICEMEN. 700 00:39:04,447 --> 00:39:06,655 >> Reporter: BUT THAT ALLEGED ASSAULT ALSO WASN'T REPORTED. 701 00:39:06,688 --> 00:39:12,172 LANA TOLD THE COURT IT WAS STEVE'S TREATMENT OF HER THAT 702 00:39:12,206 --> 00:39:13,240 MADE HER SNAP. 703 00:39:23,827 --> 00:39:28,585 >> I TOLD THE JUDGE, "I KNEW IT HAD TO BE VERY DIFFICULT TO 704 00:39:28,619 --> 00:39:33,240 SEE SOMEONE WHO LOOKS SO FRAIL, SO GENTLE, SO QUIET AND MEEK, 705 00:39:33,275 --> 00:39:37,034 AND THINK THAT THAT PERSON COULD BE A COLD-BLOODED MURDERER." 706 00:39:37,068 --> 00:39:41,172 >> WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE. 707 00:39:41,206 --> 00:39:45,172 MISS CLAYTON, YOU SURE HAVE TANGLED THIS ONE UP. 708 00:39:45,206 --> 00:39:49,172 >> Reporter: ON JANUARY 16, 2020, JUDGE BURCH SENTENCED LANA 709 00:39:49,206 --> 00:39:50,516 CLAYTON TO 25 YEARS IN PRISON. 710 00:39:50,550 --> 00:39:53,550 >> I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS ENOUGH. 711 00:39:53,585 --> 00:39:56,688 MY BROTHER WAS MY WORLD. 712 00:39:56,724 --> 00:39:58,000 HE WAS THE CENTER OF MY WORLD. 713 00:39:58,034 --> 00:40:01,655 >> SHE STOLE AN AMAZING MAN FROM A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT LOVED HIM. 714 00:40:01,688 --> 00:40:05,206 >> THERE'S A HUGE HOLE IN EVERYONE THAT KNEW STEVE, AND I 715 00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:11,034 THINK THAT THAT HOLE WILL BE THERE FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES. 716 00:40:11,068 --> 00:40:13,206 >> Reporter: LANA CLAYTON DECLINED OUR REQUEST FOR AN 717 00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:16,585 INTERVIEW, WRITING IN AN EMAIL: "IT'S BEEN A LONG JOURNEY FOR 718 00:40:16,619 --> 00:40:20,034 ME, AND IT HASN'T BEEN EASY COMING TO TERMS WITH STEVEN'S 719 00:40:20,068 --> 00:40:21,172 DEATH. 720 00:40:21,206 --> 00:40:24,240 I'M NOW AT PEACE." 721 00:40:24,275 --> 00:40:25,862 AND AS FOR STEVE'S LOVED ONES, THEY ARE STRUGGLING WITH THEIR 722 00:40:25,896 --> 00:40:27,896 LOSS. 723 00:40:27,931 --> 00:40:33,172 >> NONE OF US CAN EVER BE MADE WHOLE BECAUSE STEVEN IS GONE. 724 00:40:33,206 --> 00:40:36,516 >> Reporter: ROSIE PRAYS THE MOTHER OF STACY HUNSUCKER MAY 725 00:40:36,550 --> 00:40:37,827 FIND PEACE. 726 00:40:37,862 --> 00:40:42,068 >> WE HAVE A SAYING IN SPANISH THAT SAYS "LA SANGRE LLAMA," 727 00:40:42,103 --> 00:40:48,309 WHICH MEANS "THE BLOOD CRIES OUT FOR JUSTICE." 728 00:40:48,344 --> 00:40:53,137 I WOULD LIKE TO ONE DAY MEET THE MOTHER OF THAT PRECIOUS GIRL 729 00:40:53,172 --> 00:40:55,619 THAT WAS KILLED USING THE SAME METHOD, BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE 730 00:40:55,655 --> 00:41:05,137 HER DAUGHTER'S BLOOD WAS CRYING OUT FOR JUSTICE, TOO. 731 00:41:05,172 --> 00:41:05,757 Captioning sponsored by CBS Captioned by 732 00:41:07,585 --> 00:41:17,206 Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org 733 00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:18,585 >> Reporter: I'M ERIN MORIARTY, >> Reporter: I'M ERIN MORIARTY, 734 00:41:25,862 --> 00:41:31,344 "48 HOURS," AND THIS IS "MY LIFE OF CRIME." 735 00:41:31,378 --> 00:41:33,172 >> SUBSCRIBE ON APPLE PODCASTS OR WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR 736 00:41:33,206 --> 00:41:36,000 PODCASTS. 737 00:41:37,172 --> 00:41:39,585 >> ♪ BE A LITTLE BIT BRAVE, DON'T EVER BE AFRAID TO... ♪ 738 00:41:39,619 --> 00:41:41,137 >> JUST HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS. 739 00:41:41,172 --> 00:41:43,793 >> ♪ SAY WHAT YOU GOTTA SAY... >> DO YOU THINK IT'S TIME FOR 740 00:41:43,827 --> 00:41:45,378 SCHOOLS TO REOPEN? 741 00:41:45,413 --> 00:41:47,137 >> ♪ SAY WHAT YOU GOTTA SAY... 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