the heating and air conditioning business was a lucrative one for david castor. his perfectionism and attention to detail were well-suited to the job. my dad was a very particular guy. he liked everything a certain way. whenever we worked on something, if something was like a quarter inch off or wasn t perfectly level, we d start right from scratch, do it again. things were going well for david castor until his father died. the two had been very close and david was having a hard time dealing with the loss. he was very depressed. i really felt for him. i just couldn t imagine what was going through his head. david s wife stacey told friends he began to drink heavily and his behavior became erratic. when he locked himself in the bedroom and wouldn t come out, stacey called police. my husband has locked himself in our bedroom for the last day. friday night, we got into an argument.
question him, he went on the run. but he couldn t control his curiosity about the case and called detectives from all over the country. he ultimately thought he could beat the system. well, in doing that, we were able to trace his phone calls. with a warrant, investigators tapped his roommate s phone, just to see if partin would eventually call him. and that s what he did. when partin called his roommate, the police were listening in. they traced the call to a pay phone in fayetteville, north carolina. we knew that mr. partin was involved in the air conditioning business. we had a general area where the phone call came from.
of course, the biggest problem they have out there is you don t get a whole lot of rain. olgie and leita nobles ran the town s air conditioning business, and they had no shortage of customers. perhaps it was the strain of both living and working together, but the two didn t always see eye to eye. it was that kind of different relationship where there was love involved but you don t tell it from the outside. mr. nobles had a real drinking problem, and they argued like cats and dogs. at age of 70, olgie died after a lengthy illness. shortly after the funeral, his wife before leita checked herself into a hospital. she hasn t been feeling well for weeks. i was just sick. just vomiting all the time. just death little sick at my stomach and i just get weaker and weaker. leita blamed the stress of her husband s death for her illness but doctors found nothing wrong and released her.
there was sub lethal but it certainly would be toxic. with leita s permission, investigators exhumed her husband s body five months after he died. his autopsy revealed lethal doses of arsenic in all of his major organs. olgie nobles death was now ruled a homicide. my first thought is that there s somebody that s real close to the nobles that needs them dead for some reason. only two people had access to the food in the nobles home. they had a son who was disabled who lived in the house who, of course, had to be a little suspect. and it was telling, too, that the nobles son showed no signs of arsenic poisoning. the other person was the man who bought the nobles air conditioning business, timothy
away to san angelo where he met the nobles. they lent scoggin the money to buy their air conditioning business. he was to repay them in monthly installments. prosecutors believe he poisoned the couple so he could avoid making those payments. olgie nobles died from the poison but 69-year-old leita built up resistance to it. this lady was so tough, her inner strength was so strong, her will to live was so strong, and her body was able to absorb this and build up a tolerance to it, but probably if you had ten people out there, you know, nine of those ten would have probably died from it. had leita died, police would never have questioned the cause of her death or her husband s. so they would never have made the connection to the norton sisters.