his exchange for a story. one more question to answer. if it wasn t holley who was it? for that, the defense offered doctor robert, bucks forensic pathologists. matt was not poisoned slowly over time said doctor bucks. the corner simply made a mistake. all that pain matt suffered in the weeks before his death, that was from simple kidney stone, said doctor buck. nothing at all to do with antifreeze. is a symptom of ethylene glycol lead poisoning. it shouldn t be, no. now, this was not the case of chronic antifreeze poisoning. this was a textbook case of acute poisoning. one large dose, said doctor. bucks this is a massive human injection. these injections are going to have to drink almost a pint of it. and the most likely person to a poisoned him with the drink of
and then one day, matt tagged along with holly to one of the kids to ball game. he was already sick by that time. though, nobody knew yet how sick. he was sitting under this tree, all alone, said rebecca. watching the game. you could tell he didn t feel well. you could tell that he was in pain. he shifted in the chair quite often. and, four days later, matt was dead. after the funeral, rebecca had tried to comfort holly and help with the kids. if she needed help with the children, if the children needed something, yes. it was just the kind of help her. when the coroner s report came out and shocked everyone, holly told, rebecca, of course, right away what did you think when you heard that he died of antifreeze poisoning? kind of put the mystery of how this healthy 31 year old actually passed, suddenly. you know, he was poisoned but who would want to poison
police at four 408711234. investigators are offering a 50,000 dollar reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction. that s all for this edition of dateline. i m andrea canning, thank you for watching. for watching how could this happen? a very healthy 31 year old just winds of dead? a young father s death, so sudden, so strange. we wanted answers. the word poison just kept coming up. it was antifreeze poisoning. he can t smell it, you can t see it. someone wanted him dead. someone who was hiding something. the details of the case are very salacious. there are six. there is the allegation of the
death by antifreeze poisoning, the and pointing at her. matt s fiancée and the mother of his children, holly mcfeeture. holly mcfeeture was a suspect from day one. prosecutors were appointed. brian make done in and they were frustrated but we were missing missing pieces, missing critical links on the case. evidence already collected was madly inconclusive. for example, detectives recovered two bottles of antifreeze in the garage were halle and matt lived. but it turned out somebody else had been living in the house for more than a year by the time they found. it whose antifreeze was it? nobody knew. but still, was there a way that we could go ahead and link it up? nope. tests confirmed that the garage antifreeze did not match the antifreeze that killed matt. but, remember holly s friend, rebecca vega? detective quinn found her name in the old file. calder up and discovered that
and see where this goes. and you might lose we might lose. and we all agreed that we wanted to go with it. we ve suffered long enough. case number 564 to 65, holly mcfeeture. so, in 2012, six years after matt podolak s s death, holly was indicted for aggravated murder and contaminating substance for human consumption. from her mugshot, it did not look like she was too worried about the outcome of the case. but this was serious maximum sentence. life without parole. her attorney, brett jordan applied for bill. she was scared, she missed her kids, i would say probably in some state of shock at that point. the judge took a look at the circumstantial case against her and granted the bill request. half 1 million bond with an ankle bracelet. but, felt the case was not the strongest. there was publicity. antifreeze poisoning?