mcfeeture. fell in love with the wrong woman. she was toxic to him. this was the closing message. a stark visual. look how easy, said the prosecutor, for halle to mix antifreeze into matt s beloved ice tea. look how hard it is for matt to detect the poison. odorless, colorless, sweet tasting. the defense, appeal to the heart. there were two tragedies in the story, they said. matt s death and holly suffering nothing could be done about the first, said the defense. but, the jury could rectify the second. you ve got to end the night here. and you ve got to put to russ this families tragedy. this could be a close call. the jury went out no verdict at the end of the first day. or the next. matt s brother, mark, didn t know what to think you don t know is the jury being out long a bad thing our good thing holly sister, chrissy, was nervous she tried to stick
joe bird could provided. holly briefly dated a man named jameson kennedy, a year or so after matt died. and, according to kennedy, during a wine and sex driven evening, holly made some kind of confession. this, thought the prosecutors, was gold what did he claim he heard? he heard to have heard holly makes feature confess by saying she put something in his drinks. then, prosecutor brian mick dunn and that she wanted to stop but then his kidneys had failed. and that was compelling evidence. but, all with something. mr. kennedy was not exactly the local church pastor, his rap sheet was longer than in fact, when he came up with a little offering about holly, he was in county jail. under rest for beating up some cops. so, a snitch. as a prosecutors, we don t
factory. hollywood big needed every once in a while firm. how many occasions do you recall that happening? half a dozen. and, holly always make sure to include matt s favorite drink, he said. half a gallon of more of respray ice tea antifreeze is sweet, otherwise tasteless. could halle of spiked the tee? you can t smell it and you can t see it from the tee. he would have no way to know that it s coming. but, why in heaven s name which he do such a thing? what was her motive? well, as the prosecution saw it, at least, all those arguments met and holly were having represented that throws of the relationship. a relationship she wanted to leave and he did not. stubbornly. because he didn t want to lose custody of those kids. so, it s your claim that he was sticking like glue. and to get rid of them, she had to poison him. that is how she saw the way out. a way out.
what did you think when you heard that. i mean, that seems a fair fairly serious allegation. oh, yes, absolutely. i thought that it was ridiculous, it s that somebody would actually think that i mean, seriously. that s silly. you laugh. why would somebody kill somebody over a life insurance policy? well, they do it all the time. well, i know my sister didn t. because holly is a very strong woman. and if, you know, she was not happy with him, she would ve left. yes, holly and her family heard all the whispers. they knew all about the podolak suspicion. which they said were absolutely baseless. that business about stealing money from the bank account, for example did she understand she was breaking the law when she did it? no. absolutely not. she was thinking that she had to take care of her children and his. what else would she was she supposed to do? as for getting rid of his stuff, erasing him from her
weird as she looked back on that. so, when she heard about the corners report and the podolak s family suspicion, she contacted the family i thought to myself, i d expose my family to murder. she seemed to me like she believed that holly poisoned matthew. was she a little freaked out by this? she stated that she was afraid of halle. so, queen kept an eagle eye on holly mcfeeture. and one day, he heard about holly and the karaoke bar. holly and her sister were singing a song by the dixie chicks. it s a song about an abused woman in a relationship with the man who, to get back at the man, ends up poisoning his food. and they were up there singing the song and laughing about it. this was after matthew s death. i thought it was really cold