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| 00:00:10 | >> It was clear that she was not
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understand it.
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| 00:00:20 | >> Narrator: Six days later,
nancy dillard lyon was dead.
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| 00:00:26 | >> I didn't quite understand
what it was that had killed her.
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| 00:00:35 | >> Narrator: But doctors were
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only ones.
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center.
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doctors made two telephone
calls.
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to suggest a thorough autopsy.
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have a patient here, and i
"
>> Narrator: The other
was to police.
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was suspicious, and it needed to
be investigated.
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was investigated.
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| 00:04:04 | They were absolutely correct.
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| 00:04:05 | >> Narrator: Investigators
learned that nancy was about to
testify at the embezzlement
trial of her former boss from
trammell crow.
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| 00:04:15 | Nancy told friends she was
uncomfortable at the thought of
testifying against her former
colleague.
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| 00:04:21 | Part of that may have resulted
from a threatening letter she
received.
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| 00:04:26 | >> "Stay out of the bagwell case
or you and your family will face
"
>> it was a, I guess, kind of a
veiled threat.
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| 00:04:34 | No one ever knew where it came
from.
|
| 00:04:37 | >> Narrator: At nancy's autopsy,
the pathologist found no signs
of disease in her internal
organs.
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| 00:04:45 | But toxicology tests revealed
some surprising results.
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| 00:04:51 | Nancy lyon had been poisoned
with arsenic.
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| 00:04:55 | >> Well, all the specimens
showed significant amounts and
levels of arsenic.
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| 00:05:00 | And what that shows is that the
poison was absorbed through the
tract, that it was
distributed through the blood.
|
| 00:05:07 | >> Narrator: Patients often
don't know they're poisoned,
since the symptoms are so
common.
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| 00:05:11 | >> You know, people don't think
about a poisoning immediately.
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| 00:05:15 | They think it's just some
natural thing, and when you have
nausea and vomiting, that
certainly is a common symptom.
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| 00:05:22 | >> Most of the poisonings that
you see nowadays are of a much
more sophisticated variety that
are harder to detect initially
or even after doing tests, so
arsenic was a surprise.
|
| 00:05:38 | >> Narrator: The manner of death
was ruled a homicide, but
questions remained.
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| 00:05:44 | Investigators discovered a
receipt among nancy's papers --
a receipt for arsenic.
|
| 00:05:50 | Nancy's husband richard said she
bought the poison to kill a
colony of fire ants in their
yard.
|
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problem and a bad problem,
especially with individuals who
have really small children.
|
| 00:06:07 | Fire ants can get all over you
and almost cover parts of your
body before they even start
biting and stinging.
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| 00:06:15 | >> Narrator: And friends also
revealed nancy had been
depressed over the past year.
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| 00:06:20 | She discovered her husband was
having an affair, and the couple
briefly separated.
|
| 00:06:26 | >> Richard had met anoer
woman, and she felt he was going
through a midlife crisis.
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| 00:06:32 | So she said, at first, her take
was, "hey, I'm going to stay
patient.
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counseling," because she was
just devastateeally.
|
| 00:06:42 | >> I wouldn't discount a woman
making herself ill or even
taking something to make herself
ill to get the attention of her
husband.
|
| 00:06:54 | >> Narrator: Yet, medical
experts were skeptical that
nancy committed suicide.
|
| 00:06:59 | >> I don't believe that for a
minute.
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| 00:07:02 | I mean, you've got someone who's
dying a very, I would consider,
hideous death, certainly capable
at any time of voicing that she
had taken the poison, because
the symptoms are both painful
and you certainly are
deteriorating with this.
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| 00:07:19 | >> Absolutely ludicrous.
|
| 00:07:20 | She had two children she loved
very dearly as a mother.
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| 00:07:24 | She was young.
|
| 00:07:25 | She had everything to live for.
|
| 00:07:29 | It is absolutely ludicrous to
believe that somebody would
poison themselves with arsenic.
|
| 00:07:35 | >> Narrator: Also among nancy's
papers was a diary, and it
contained a blockbuster
revelation.
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| 00:07:42 | She accused her older brother
bill of sexual abuse when they
were younger.
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| 00:07:48 | Nancy said she feared her
brother and questioned his
ability to control himself.
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read.
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nancy's brother angrily denied
the allegation but couldn't
explain why she had written this
in her diary.
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richard was the killer, since
they knew he was having an
affair with another woman.
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| 00:08:17 | >> I did not poison my wife,
nancy dillard lyon, nor did i
have anything to do with her
tragic death.
|
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shortage of suspects.
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home?
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| 00:08:32 | Who sent the threatening letter?
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| 00:08:35 | Why did nancy accuse her brother
of sexual abuse, and would he
kill to keep her quiet?
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divorce her husband?
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| 00:08:47 | >> In the event that this case
becomes a murder charge, this
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| 00:12:18 | >> Narrator: Investigators had
plenty of suspects but little
evidence in the poisoning death
of nancy lyon.
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| 00:12:25 | The only thing they knew was
that nancy didn't kill herself.
|
| 00:12:30 | >> No way you would do it.
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| 00:12:33 | It's too painful.
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| 00:12:34 | It's too drawn-out.
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| 00:12:36 | It's a horrible way to die, and
you're very aware and very
conscious up until the very end
of it.
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| 00:12:43 | There's no way you would kill
yourself that way.
|
| 00:12:46 | >> Narrator: When a person
ingests arsenic, the poison
attaches itself to the hair
follicles.
|
| 00:12:54 | As the hair grows, the poison
residue remains he hair
shaft and becomes a permanent
record.
|
| 00:13:04 | So scientists cut nancy's hair
into 7-millimeter pieces.
|
| 00:13:09 | Each piece corresponded to a
2-week period.
|
| 00:13:14 | Each piece was placed in a
separate vial and then exposed
to radiation in a nuclear
reactor.
|
| 00:13:23 | >> The sample can by analyzed
as-is in most cases, just simply
weighed in to a radiation dial.
|
| 00:13:29 | Most other methods require
dissolution of the sample.
|
| 00:13:33 | >> Narrator: When scientists
examined the hair with gamma-ray
spectrophotometry, they
discovered a startling piece of
information.
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| 00:13:42 | Nancy had ingested small doses
of arsenic every week starting
four months before her death.
|
| 00:13:51 | The dose of arsenic increased
four weeks before her death.
|
| 00:13:56 | The highest amount of arsenic
was in nancy's system two weeks
before her death.
|
| 00:14:03 | >> Her levels were anywhere from
4 to 100 times what normal
levels were, so it was a very
significant level, and it was
lethal.
|
| 00:14:11 | >> Narrator: The forensic tests
showed the poisoning started
when nancy's husband richard
moved back home after the
separation.
|
| 00:14:20 | But richard wasn't the only
person in nancy's life who had
both motive and access.
|
| 00:14:27 | Nancy's handwritten diary
alleged her brother bill had
sexually abused her as a child.
|
| 00:14:34 | Investigators wanted to know
whether this was a possible
motive.
|
| 00:14:39 | To see if these entries were
written by nancy, investigators
sent the diary to a forensic
document examiner,
hartford kittel.
|
| 00:14:49 | >> Handwriting examination is
based upon two distinct facts.
|
| 00:14:54 | No two people write exactly
alike.
|
| 00:14:58 | Within the writing of a single
individual, there's normal
variation.
|
| 00:15:02 | It's this normal variation that
we associate or we don't
associate with the questioned
writing.
|
| 00:15:09 | >> Narrator: Surprisingly, nancy
and richard's handwriting looked
strikingly similar.
|
| 00:15:14 | Friends said this was
intentional.
|
| 00:15:17 | While in college, nancy had
written some of richard's
research papers, and she
mimicked his writing.
|
| 00:15:24 | >> The similarities in these two
writers was significant.
|
| 00:15:28 | But they weren't able to
completely make their
handwriting look the same
because they had two different
minds that were picturing things
a little differently.
|
| 00:15:41 | But they tried to make them look
the same.
|
| 00:15:43 | >> Narrator: Kittel first looked
at known handwriting samples
from both nancy and richard.
|
| 00:15:49 | Despite their similarities,
there were differences.
|
| 00:15:53 | >> She used her ampersands quite
extensively through her writing,
SO EVERY 5th, 6th LINE WILL HAVE
An ampersand on it in her known
handwriting.
|
| 00:16:05 | Whereas richard always used the
"
>> kittel also noticed that
nancy and richard made their
CAPITAL "I"s DIFFERENTLY.
|
| 00:16:17 | >> Richard just used one
downstroke, like a one, whereas
nancy used a downstroke, like
the one, and then a cross at the
top and the bottom.
|
| 00:16:28 | She was willing to take a lot
more time in executing them than
richard was.
|
| 00:16:33 | >> Narrator: Their lowercase
"F"s WERE DIFFERENT, AS WELL.
|
| 00:16:37 | >> Richard used a clockwise
motion, coming down from the top
of the "f" down to the bottom.
|
| 00:16:45 | He'd swing off in a clockwise
motion to finish off the lower
loop of the "f," whereas nancy
always came down and went
counterclockwise to finish off
"
>> Narrator: Kittel concluded
richard wrote the diary entries
about nancy's brother bill.
|
| 00:17:03 | >> Absolutely.
|
| 00:17:06 | Certain that he had written
that.
|
| 00:17:09 | >> 100% Certain.
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| 00:17:10 | >> Yes.
|
| 00:17:11 | >> Narrator: Prosecutors now
believed richard lyon had forged
nancy's diary to cover up the
murder.
|
| 00:17:19 | >> It never crossed his mind he
was going to be caught.
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| 00:17:22 | He thought he had it aced, and
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to murder somebody.
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| 00:20:58 | >> Narrator: Richard lyon
insisted he had nothing to do
with the poisoning death of his
wife nancy.
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| 00:21:05 | As proof, he offered a receipt
for arsenic that he said nancy
had signed.
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experts whether this was, in
fact, nancy's signature.
|
| 00:21:18 | >> I wasn't able to reach a
conclusion as to authorship.
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the company listed on the
receipt told prosecutors all
they needed to know.
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"no, it's a forgery.
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discovered that arsenic was not
shipped to the lyons' home, but
to a post-office box richard
opened.
|
| 00:21:47 | >> There was no reason in the
world to have a post-office box
set up at preston center for him
to get this arsenic.
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legitimate, why aren't you
having it delivered at home or
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| 00:22:01 | It's because it's nefarious
reasons of having it delivered
to a post-office box.
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| 00:22:06 | >> Narrator: In the hospital
before she died, nancy lyon told
her doctor about a suspicious
incident that occurred several
months earlier.
|
| 00:22:16 | >> She said one time, when they
were separated, they had gone to
the movies together.
|
| 00:22:22 | And richard had gone and got her
a drink.
|
| 00:22:24 | And when he brought it to her
and she drank some of it and she
said it tasted awful and she
looked in there, there was a
white powder on the top of the
drink.
|
| 00:22:32 | >> Narrator: Nancy said she
became violently ill later that
night, and she told her doctor
something else.
|
| 00:22:42 | >> "My husband, he's been giving
me these capsules for the last
several months, and he says,
'nancy, go take these.
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|
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>> Narrator: Police confiscated
every pill in the lyons' home
and sent them for forensic
testing.
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| 00:23:02 | Two pills tested positive for
barium carbonate, a toxic
chemical used in the production
of glass.
|
| 00:23:12 | Despite her suspicions, nancy
never directly accused richard
of poisoning her.
|
| 00:23:18 | >> Nobody wants to believe that
they're married to somebody that
can murder.
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| 00:23:23 | I mean, because then what are
you saying about yourself?
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| 00:23:28 | >> And it's kind of outside the
realm of most people's reality
that someone would poison you.
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| 00:23:34 | And I don't think she wanted to
believe it, and I think that she
was embarrassed or ashamed to
say anything about it.
|
| 00:23:40 | >> Narrator: Prosecutors believe
the motive was money and the
desire to live with his
girlfriend.
|
| 00:23:46 | >> He didn't want her, but he
wanted the family affiliations
and the alliances.
|
| 00:23:52 | I think that it was partly
money, and it was partly just
the position that he wanted.
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| 00:23:57 | And he couldn't have either one
with just a divorce.
|
| 00:24:02 | >> Narrator: Prosecutors believe
richard first tried to kill
nancy by putting barium
carbonate in her vitamin pills
and may have put it in nancy's
soda at the movies.
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| 00:24:16 | When that didn't work, he used
arsenic.
|
| 00:24:19 | Forensic testing showed nancy
started ingesting arsenic in
september around the time she
and richard reconciled.
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| 00:24:29 | The fatal dose was administered
two days before nancy was
admitted to the hospital where
she died.
|
| 00:24:38 | To hide his involvement, richard
created the fake invoice for the
arsenic, and forensic analysis
proved that it was richard who
wrote the sex-related entries in
nancy's diary, implicating her
brother as a possible suspect.
|
| 00:24:55 | >> I think it was calculating.
|
| 00:24:57 | He thought himself as a ladies'
man.
|
| 00:24:59 | I think he was a cold-blooded
killer, and he did it in the
most dispiteous way possible,
slowly ingesting arsenic to his
wife.
|
| 00:25:08 | >> Narrator: When he went on
trial for murder, richard lyon
pled not guilty.
|
| 00:25:15 | But the forensic handwriting
analysis, the timeline of the
poisonings captured in nancy's
hair, and the discovery of
poison in vitamin pills found in
the home were difficult to
deflect.
|
| 00:25:29 | Richard's girlfriend even
testified, claiming richard lied
by telling her that nancy had a
rare and fatal blood disease.
|
| 00:25:39 | >> Any time that you catch a
defendant or any witness in a
lie, and that was a pretty big
one and I don't think a
coincidence, that she was going
to die from a fatal blood
disease.
|
| 00:25:49 | I think that those things
immediately begin to color their
view of him.
|
| 00:25:53 | And he was a liar -- he would
lie.
|
| 00:25:55 | >> Narrator: It took a jury less
than three hours to convict
richard lyon of first-degree
murder.
|
| 00:26:02 | He was sentenced to life in
prison.
|
| 00:26:06 | >> I've worked lots of cases
like this and the question was
always why not just a divorce.
|
| 00:26:11 | >> They may be intelligent, but
they're criminally stupid.
|
| 00:26:15 | And for good reason, and thank
god they are, because we
couldn't catch them.
|
| 00:26:21 | >> It was hard for me to believe
that he had actually killed his
wife, and it had just finally
brokenown based on the shape
of an "f" and an "l" and an
"r," and just scratchings on a
piece of paper.
|
| 00:26:33 | --Captions by VITAC--www.vitac.com
>> Narrator: A computer hard
drive holds hundreds of secrets.
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| 00:26:43 | Every keystroke, every download,
every deletion tells a story.
|
| 00:26:48 | But if someone downloads a song
about murder, does it make him a
killer?
|
| 00:27:23 | It was a hot august night in
jacksonville, florida, and a
time of celebration for april
and justin barber.
|
| 00:27:32 | It was their third wedding
anniversary, and april was about
to finish her training as a
radiology technician.
|
| 00:27:39 | >> April barber had gone into
the field of oncology,
specifically radiology-type
treatment for cancer patients,
which was inspired by her
mother's death with cancer.
|
| 00:27:52 | >> Narrator: Justin had good
news, too.
|
| 00:27:54 | He had just got a job as a
financial analyst for a large
lumber company.
|
| 00:27:59 | >> He was a very good guy --
very smart, very successful, had
everything going for him.
|
| 00:28:04 | I mean, just like my sister.
|
| 00:28:06 | I mean, they were two of a kind,
I guess.
|
| 00:28:10 | >> Narrator: The couple's
anniversary dinner was at an
italian restaurant.
|
| 00:28:15 | Later, they took a walk along
the beach.
|
| 00:28:22 | But their romantic evening ended
there when a man with a gun
demanded money.
|
| 00:28:29 | >> Give me your money and your
jewelry.
|
| 00:28:31 | >> Narrator: April diverted the
man's attention.
|
| 00:28:34 | Justin tried to grab the gun.
|
| 00:28:36 | ..
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| 00:28:38 | And that's the last thing justin
remembered.
|
| 00:28:43 | When he regained consciousness,
he realized he had been shot and
was bleeding.
|
| 00:28:51 | He found april unconscious and
facedown in the water.
|
| 00:28:58 | Justin dragged april's body
about 100 yards, toward their
car, but his wounds made it
impossible to carry her up the
long flight of stairs.
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