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, matt the hockey amateur, matt the hunter, the fisherman, the athlete. it would make sense from the very first day that matthew podolak woke up with the pain in his back. and after what happened in the hospital a couple of months later, nothing made sense after that. [noise] god knows there were accusations. well yes, plenty of those. and a brother, mark, from whom the stories, the mystery became a kind of obsession. it s had quite an effect on me over the past seven years. the story of what happened to matt
but, though the case was not the strongest. there was publicity. antifreeze poisoning? holly was suddenly famous but not in a good way. the old brooklyn little league, told the once beloved coach that she wasn t welcome anymore. and holly mcfeeture prepared to defend her life in court. coming up his body was shutting down his organs were systematically shut down ice tea spiked with antifreeze? the prosecution s theory of how holly poisoned math. you can t smell it and you can t see it in the tea. he would have no way to know that it s coming. it s so secretively done. when dateline continues. i work out whenever i can. but with my moderate- to-severe eczema, it can be tough. my skin was so uncomfortable. the itching was so bad.
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and she couldn t hear because the faucets running. and here s matt, down on his knee, like hello! and then she realized, oh my gosh, you re proposing. that is a kind of romantic little setup. i thought so. the bubbles. i thought that was pretty romantic. after samantha came along, matt and holly, now engaged, went to vegas to witness a friend s wedding, lynn kuriko. did you also make a force wedding? yes, actually. yes holly and matt said we should do a double wedding. but holly knew that her family would not be happy with that so i think that that s what made them not get married. didn t get married. but something happened in vegas. nine months after that, josh was born. from what holly has told me, josh was planned in vegas. ready or not, matt was not the father of samantha. and the baby boy he nicknamed,
like, being of matt had been taken out of the home. but it was what holly hadn t cleaned up that made the biggest impression on rebecca. those bottles of chemicals on the kitchen floor what was hollies response when you asked her about those items? one of the items was brought up us antifreeze for matt to winterize his boat. but, who winterize is their boat in the summer? remember, matt died in july, said the prosecutors, so rebecca s story was evidence that hawley had access to antifreeze around the time of matt s death she was able to put antifreeze in the kitchen of holly mcfeeture after the death of matt podolak. now they needed to convince the jury that holly actually fed the antifreeze to matt. that would take a little doing.