Lana Clayton says she didn't mean to kill her millionaire husband when she poured a lethal dose of an over-the-counter eye medication into his drinking water.
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Lana Clayton says she didn t mean to kill her millionaire husband when she poured a lethal dose of an over-the-counter eye medication into his drinking water. 2021 Mar 13
Lana Clayton said she found her husband Steve Clayton dead at the bottom of a staircase in their South Carolina home. The businessman, who created physical therapy clinics, had been married to his wife for five years when he died.
Initially, the coroner s office ruled Clayton died from a possible heart attack. However, Clayton s nephew, Nick French, a police officer in a nearby town, noticed something was odd about Lana s behavior when he rushed to the mansion to console her.
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Lana and Steve Clayton had been married for five years, and were living in Lake Wylie, S.C. According to Steve s family they had a loving marriage.
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The Clayton s lived on waterfront property in this home, modeled after President George Washington s Mount Vernon Estate.
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On Saturday July 21, 2018, Lana Clayton says she walked inside after mowing the lawn and discovered her husband unresponsive at the bottom of these stairs.