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wrong. he said your family was in an accident. and my world just dropped down from underneath me. the scene told the story why did you find? something i don t want to see again. yuck a deadly crash on a dark road. two gone, one barely alive. to a tragic accident. but look closer. can all of the broken glass and twisted metal, was there a clue to a crime? the last thing i wanted to have was to have to take a double fatality and not treat it as a homicide. murder. and no one saw coming. two families in torment. i couldn t deal with it. we were both just a small town trial with big emotions. you took it. you did it. and the verdict that would shake them all. hello, and welcome to dateline. a dangerous highway in big sky country. that was a setting for a deadly crash that would seem to unite to families in shock and heartbreak. except they were about to find out that the truth about what. . ,. happened on that fateful night m ....
one reason why, take a look at these two viles. in one, a lethal dose of heroin. in the other, so little you can barely see it is a lethal dose of fentanyl. cheap to make, easy to smuggle, simple to mix into other drugs. fentanyl abuse and deaths are a nationwide problem, some states are especially hard hit. the darkest colors on the map represent the greatest number of deaths per 100,000 with ground zero being appalachian, west virginia. throughout the hour we ll talk about ways of addressing this deadly public health crisis, one is the help line you see there from the federal government, substance abuse and mental health services administration. 1-800-622-help. 1-800-622-help. swoun talk to a resource to draw on perhaps. tonight we ll talk about the government response also senator lindsey graham and public health specialist handling cases up close. but again, just about enk here with me has been affected by the crisis in their own ways and those stories we hope will ....
From underneath me. jason s wife, 35-year-old erin thompson was four months pregnant. their son caden who just put the drums at his school concert was 13, and just like that they were gone. the crash was head on. in jason thompson s life, the lights went out. i ll never forget that news. laura of course will erin s mother, diana. we were both just bonkers, just nor her sister amber who with her husband missed erin so much they made plans to move to montana to be close. not possible now. that was the hardest piece of news we could fathom. to lose both of them and the baby. it just doesn t even seem like ....
With me has been affected by the crisis in their own ways and those stories we hope will be at the heart of the hour ahead. with me here tonight is erin rockwell. he was a college freshman, he die. she is hear with her son caden who joins us. also april and owen mardin are with us. in the audience is rick rockwell, logan s dad and jada martin, jordan s sister. thank you all. thank you for being with us. i appreciate it. thank you. thank you for having us. will you just start by when you got the call about jordan, did you you re a police officer. you work at a small university. you had heard about fentanyl. but did you know it could be in pills? when you got that call, did you know what happened to your son? no. at the time we didn t know what happened to him exactly. ....