There was no fear of anything. I dont know if something snapped. I was shocked. I couldnt say anything. A doctor comes home but not for long. An hour later, she was back at the hospital she just left. She had this blank stare in her eyes. Three days later, she was dead. I said, she is my child and i gave birth to her and i want to know what happened to her. At first, it was just a medical mystery. For all intents and purposes she should be alive. It was out of this world. It made no sense. But soon, it became a Murder Mystery. Because once they discovered what killed her, the next question was who. If he couldnt have her, no one was going to have her. I still have it made sense of it. Welcome to dateline. The doctor was in the business of saving lives but the doctor became a patient one Out Of The Blue she collapsed and was rushed to the e. R. Now the seemingly Healthy Woman in the prime of her life was fighting for her life. It was a medical mystery or was it . This is the case for do
county s associate medical examiner performed his autopsy on autumn klein the phone rang. the voice on the other end was from the hospital. autumn s blood test were back. dr. todd luckasevic was startled to hear what the lab found. lethal, deadly amount of cyanide. what did that tell you? that told me that i have a cause of death now. cyanide. the poison of the nazi death camps and the jonestown massacre of the 70s. lethal, fast killing stuff. not a common cause of death. i have done approximately 3500 cases in my career and this is my first case of cyanide poisoning. the lab s toxicology work, found cynadine levels of 3. 35 milligrams per liter in autumn s blood. so this is a lot of cyanide? that is correct. still, he needed to confirm
and tragically in so many of these cases die. so as you said the five cases so far with this latest case, laiala cox of staten island, still, though, no connection between these five cases, seven cases in the last year. but it s troubling and dominican authorities are having trouble, having difficulty explaining it. of course, it is causing some people to cancel their trips, even though the u.s. state department has not issued any kind of travel advisory and the u.s. embassy here has said that they don t see any reason for people to have any concern. these deaths are under investigation by dominican authorities. the fbi is assisting with some toxicology work that is expected to be released in the next few weeks. again, no connection between these separate incidents.