agonizing death of his kid brother matt marc podolak marched with satisfaction as holly mcfeeture walked into the courtroom i finally felt like we were going to make this happen. please rise! again, the case against holly was possibly a leech no guarantees here but, mark knew it. i was extremely nervous. oh my gosh! being in that courtroom and you don t know how it s going to turn out you have no idea how it s going to turn out. truth was, the prosecution didn t have much to work with. without any hard evidence to pin on holly, their case boiled down to a process of elimination. someone did this to mad. who else could ve been? other than his fiancée. in this case, telling a story would be crucial because there wasn t a whole lot else to do, right? absolutely. prosecutor brian began his story with the scene inside the hospital room the night matt died. his body was shutting down.
poisoning. cleaned out the bank account. are you trying to accuse me of something? a brother determined to find a killer. how dare anybody do that to my little brother? it wasn t supposed to happen like this. a toxic mystery and an emotional trial. is the jury being out long a bad thing or a good thing? it was a mystery from day one. from that time, right around the end of the hockey season. it made sense of what was happening to matthew podolak,
happens, i want every member of the police department to be on it and over there and searching the house and everything. and i understand that it s not realistic but i wanted somebody to find out what the hell happened. and it seemed like nobody know, it didn t seem that way. and time started to go on. and i became extremely frustrated. matt s father, lynn, a former cop himself could see the problem. the case fall was stuck. it became a catch 22 situation. the coroner said he couldn t labeled it as a homicide without more evidence from the police. well, at the very same time. cleveland homicide was saying that they can t investigated as a homicide until the corner rolls it a homicide. and so, it remains, month after month, year into year and still the manner of death was listed as undetermined. just like mark, matt father, lynn, made something of a pest of himself.
sent him to the doctor and got him on medication for that as well. what happened to matt podolak. who knew? apparently not the corner. who had still not issued any official report. and, then finally, three months after matt s death, mark got a call from his mother. come to a family meeting, she told him. she refused to tell them what would be said there. because, i knew that he would be very, very upset the news was too bizarre, too shocking to share over the phone coming up the whole family was there, and i kind of lost it the coroner s report makes it clear, matt s death wasn t just strange. it was also highly suspicious we were all thinking it was kidney failure, we were not expecting that. it was my mission to find an answer for this. when dateline continues. 0?
matt s fiancée, holly, her whole family infect suspected somebody at work headed out for him. but mark and his family, well, they were looking closer to home. how close? let s put it this way. the two sides of the family weren t talking anymore. and already existing mistrust ramped up in the hospital years before when matt was in the icu. that s when matt s brother, mark, began to wonder if holly was in some way responsible for matt mysterious illness. my mom and i had a specific conversation, i remember. it just thinking that she could ve done this to him. and we were kind of like, i don t know, maybe. but at the time, we didn t know why he passed. and then, there was the funeral. holly s family said she was very upset, cried in the car before going in, but when