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investigators began to suspect that debbie may have intentionally poisoned herself. it made me very angry. i mean, if anybody knew me, they would know that i would never do this to myself. i mean, first of all, i wouldn t do it to my children. second of all, it s just, if i wanted to hurt myself, i wouldn t do it this slow, torturous, painful way. tony suspected sarah smith s family may have had something to do with the poisoning. sarah smith was tony s patient who had died during surgery. anthony thought that dan smith was trying to get even with him for taking his wife away from him, and he thought enough to say, well, maybe dan was trying to take my wife away from me. investigators searched for arsenic throughout the pignataros home. we searched the house from top to bottom looking for
when tony pignataro was released from prison, he had difficulty finding a job since his medical license was revoked and the terms of his parole prevented him from leaving the area. for years he had, you know, went to school, done residencies. he had gone quite a few years to do this, and that was taken away from all of us. to make matters worse, vandals spray-painted the word killer on the side of the pignataros home. he claimed to have received death threats, but he didn t know where they were coming from, other than, you re going to pay for sarah smith s death. tony realized he would never get his medical license back. the stress took its toll and the pignataros separated. a few months later, the couple reconciled. tony pignataro s mother supported them financially, or
revealed their product contained arsenic. he told me that two of those hand stacks, which would contain four tins, would be enough to be fatally toxic to a 150-pound man. investigators found this brand of insecticide in a store not far from the pignataros home. you don t want to believe it. you don t want to believe that someone you loved and lived with could actually do this to you. there s no, there s no answer. i don t know. a check into tony s background provided a possible motive. he became associated with a few cons in prison and was able to get involved with heroin. and he kept in contact with one particular person who would supply him with his narcotics after he got released from
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