antifreeze. st. louis detectives search the stallings home, and in the basement they find an open container of antifreeze. antifreeze they believe this mother may have used to poison her own child. while ryan is still in the hospital, in concern for his safety, the missouri department of social services removes him from patty and david s custody. after 11 days, ryan, now in stable condition, goes to his new home with a foster family. the state allows the stallings only supervised visitations with their son. during one of their visits, patty is left alone with ryan for a few minutes and gives him a bottle feeding. two days after the visit ryan again falls ill. and his foster parents rush him back to the hospital. the st. louis sheriff s department believes patricia stallings may be to blame. we have sent formulas, baby
when the unsolved mysteries program came out and we saw that the evidence of methylmalonic acidemia had been specifically forbidden at the trial, well, that seemed really just unjust. and so i took it upon myself to try to find out exactly what the laboratories had done who claimed they found ethylene glycol. shoemaker teams up with senior st. louis university biochemist dr. william sly. the scientists have a hunch ethylene glycol may never have been present in ryan s blood and that the lab technician may have made a mistake. under dr. sly s supervision, shoemaker runs tests on ryan stallings blood sample to see if they can detect elements that can be mistakenly read as ethylene glycol. the scientists begin by looking at boiling points for various compounds. each compound boils at a certain temperature and is represented by a peak on a graph.
ryan s death. at this point i think we need to take a look at the laboratory data that should exist, although, none of it s been made available to anyone. auble interviews stallings in jail. when you heard that david junior was stricken with similar type symptoms, what went through your mind? i bawled. i was very scared. i am very scared for him. and i think it s sickening that he has to get sick to prove a point. uh-huh. under media pressure, that mma might have been the cause of ryan stallings death, prosecutors agree to postpone patricia stallings trial. our office s position is that we will spare no cost to get at the truth. and that s going to entail medical experts from across the
suggesting that mma, not poison, may have been the cause of ryan s death. at this point i think we need to take a look at the laboratory data that should exist, although, none of it s been made available to anyone. auble interviews stallings in jail. when you heard that david junior was stricken with similar type symptoms, what went through your mind? i bawled. i was very scared. i am very scared for him. and i think it s sickening that he has to get sick to prove a point. uh-huh. under media pressure, that mma might have been the cause of ryan stallings death, prosecutors agree to postpone patricia stallings trial. our office s position is that we will spare no cost to get at the truth. and that s going to entail medical experts from across the
but in july, 3-month-old ryan falls ill. he is vomiting and listless and seems to have difficulty breathing. patricia stallings rushes her son to the hospital. serum and blood samples are taken from ryan and sent to an outside laboratory. the results from the lab are shocking. blood tests reveal an elevated level of ethylene glycol, an ingredient found in antifreeze. the hospital immediately starts ryan on an ethanol drip to counteract the poison. the diagnosis would begin a medical and forensics mystery that will take years to unravel. the people at the hospital determined pretty readily that they believed that the baby had been poisoned with ethylene glycol, the common ingredient in antifreeze. st. louis detectives search the stallings home, and in the basement they find an open container of antifreeze. antifreeze they believe this mother may have used to poison her own child.