30 miles away at kaiser hospital, doctor lapointe was waiting as well. three days had passed since she sent out brigida samples. brigida, in pain the whole time. finally, the lab results came back. just as he suspected, it was thallium. a lot of it. brigida husband and young son seemed to be clear of the toxic metal, but she was in serious danger. her levels were off of the charts? they really were. more than 1000 times the acceptable level. wow, that is unbelievable. a hospital staffer had driven through the night to get hold of prussian blue pills. doctor lapointe started brigida on them immediately. but, with so much thallium in her system, dr. lapointe worried that prussian blue would not be enough to save her. he also put her on dialysis to filter her blood. it was a slow process.
it was a and the second time, walk me through what you did. i threw it in with a soup. race told law enforcement, he doled out the poison, based on brigida weight. starting with one gram of thallium, late summer 2017. you thaw based off or wait, and what you read, one about one killer? basically. bob eta got sick, but you obviously didn t die, so we update the last time. he opted up to five grams. he thought i was going to do it. it should ve been a lethal dose, but race didn t factor in his wife s will to live. all the doctors, the nurses, the detectives say, it s your quiet strength that allowed you to pull through. do you believe that? yeah, i struggle with that.
no. did you poison or wife? no. please remain still, test is about to end. nine times the investigator asked the same questions, and every time uto and he seemed sure, and passed. testing went on, the polygraph are eventually stopped, let him take a break, came back in. let s have a seat there. confronted him, and said, i don t believe anything you re saying. so, you filled your test. not only do flu tests, you failed miserably. that s when you can. vest right then and there. right after the. polygraph race broke. the details of how we tried to kill his wife began tumbling out. i can t really remember, most visible or. ray stole the investigated that the first time he fed thallium to brigida, it was in a sandwich.
in the context of what we are seeing, like, oh my gosh. a telltale sign? if it is in her gut, what does that tell you about how she s getting this? food, right? somebody is feeding it to her? she is eating it, someone is giving it to her, yes. it is what doctor lapointe had feared. he took that unusual precaution that left brigida s family in the dark. i cleared everyone out of the room, because everybody was bringing gifts, food. everybody out. a lot of people come to the hospital poisoned, and they get worse if someone else is bringing them more poison. so i just wanted all of the variables off of the table. so far, doctor lapointe had done a lot of things right. but, he knew against thallium, that might not be enough. in a lot of these cases, people cannot recover, people can t feel their legs again or they will never hear back. even if brigida survived, there was no telling if her life would ever be the same. coming up. who could be behind this?
In rat poison. it was really good as a road and decide. it was outlined in the 1970s. it s really good at killing things, at the end of the day. highly toxic,. you had never treated anybody else for thallium poisoning. no. this was your very first case. yeah. yet, there is no quick way to confirm mrs. sufficient. hospitals rarely see patients with thallium poisoning, and don t have a way to test for it. so, no hospital is just going to put a drop of blood and have a come back, yes, thallium. so you have to send these things away. now, i m looking at a two or three-day delay. days that, he knew, bring it might not. half we have a very scary situation, where we have a test that s infrequently reported, that i need now, that is the send out. it s scary, it s serious, it s been frequently done, and it s exotic. you re in a race against time, when it comes to saving her life. yeah.