against patricia stallings based upon the death of her child, ryan. and i m satisfied, i m convinced that patricia stallings did not poison her child. dr. rinaldo believes that ryan stallings died of mma. the same genetic illness his brother d.j. was born with. he also believes that the inaccurate lab reports led doctors to administer the wrong treatment, the ethanol drip, which possibly contributed to ryan s death. the ethanol drip was also the suspected cause of the calcium oxalate crystals found during ryan s autopsy. and not ethylene glycol. scientists also suspect that the process of washing ryan s baby bottle caused the false readings of ethylene glycol when the
his blood has been tested at two independent laboratories. both found ethylene glycol in ryan s system. and the autopsy revealed calcium oxalate crystals in ryan s brian, consistent with ethylene glycol poisoning. tests on ryan s baby bottle also found trace amounts of ethylene glycol. everyone was saying there was ethylene glycol in the body. tests from different laboratories showed that. and everyone agreed if there s ethylene glycol in the body, it wasn t mma that killed the child. so the murder case against patricia stallings went to trial. prosecutors were seeking the death penalty. despite the genetic illness diagnosed in d.j., patricia stallings defense attorney could not produce one medical expert to testify that it was mma and not antifreeze poisoning that caused ryan s death.
d.j. was rushed to st. louis children s hospital. ironically, it was the hospital patricia planned to take ryan to before she got lost. doctors diagnosed d.j. with a very rare metabolic disorder called methylmalonic acidemia, or mma, which inhibits the body s ability to process food, especially proteins. it also produces toxins in the blood. to prosecutors, it was a startling development. they wondered if ryan stallings might have died of the same disease instead of ethylene glycol poisoning. we went back to square one, met again with all the doctors and said, look, something s not right here. matter of fact, released her from custody at that point on a recognizance bond, which is unheard of in a murder case. but the prosecution s medical experts did not believe that ryan died of mma.
bottle was tested. the conviction of patricia stallings had been a mistake. oh, wow. if d.j. hadn t been born, patty stallings would be in jail for the rest of her life without parole and no one would have ever raised a second question. patricia stallings filed lawsuits against the hospitals doctors and laboratories that had misdiagnosed ryan. all were settled before going to trial. their son d.j., who by being born with mma, led scientists to the real killer of his brother ryan, is managing his disease with a special diet and other treatments. it is strange that such a small mistake on paper could make such a huge change in the lives of people. but in this case, you can see that a few millimeters of difference in where a peak appeared on a sheet of paper made all the difference in a
very different. dr. shoemaker suspected that ryan stallings died of mma and had not been poisoned with ethylene glycol. but dr. shoemaker was a junior member of the faculty at the time and knew that his conclusions would be challenged by experts. when prosecutors learned about these new test results, they were stunned. was it possible that patricia stallings had been convicted of a murder that never happened? the stallings hired attorney your credit is in pretty good shape. pretty good? i know i have a 798 fico score, thanks to the tools and help on experian.com. kaboom. well, i just have a few other questions. chuck, the only other question you need to ask is, what else can you do for me? i ll just take a water. get your credit swagger on. become a member of experian credit tracker and find out your fico score powered by experian. fico scores are used in 90% of credit decisions.