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[music] >> When you look in the mirror and you see the tracheotomy scar, does it bring back
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those memories? It does. Yes, it does. I just try not to to dwell on it, you know. Have you
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thought about what you'll tell your children in the future? I want to be honest with them because they
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do have a right to know the truth. I started first feeling like I was getting sick of August 2021 and started
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getting severe abdominal pain. I was feeling so nauseous all the time. November is when it started getting
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really really bad. >> How worried were you at this point? So, on the bad days, I would ask, "Do you
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need to go to a doctor? What What do you want to do?" And she says, "No, I'm okay. It'll go away." And most of the
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time it it did. [music] I mean, I had lost so much weight. Things finally got to the point where I
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said, "Hey, you're you're losing a lot of weight." That's when I started getting concerned.
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Why did you take her to see the nurse practitioner, Carey Griffith? When she was yellow. By that time, she was pure
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yellow. Her mom grabbed my arm and she said, "Promise me, whatever this is, you'll
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find it." She was terrified. I was just in such immense pain all the time. It just progressively got worse and
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worse. >> And I thought, "This little girl has two babies and she is dying." is what I'm
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thinking. That's what it looks like. She's dying. Yes, we've got to get her help and we've got to get her help fast.
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I insisted she go to the hospital. And did she go? She did. What was that drive like?
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Oh, fast. Fast. I just remember just praying and driving. That's all I did was just praying and driving.
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How long do you wait in that emergency room? 10 hours. >> [music] >> And then she said, "Mom, something's
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wrong." And then that's when she broke into the seizure. That was terrible. Just complete jerking
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and foaming and eyes just never stopped moving back and forth. When you see a picture of Hannah
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when she was in the hospital, I think everyone had the same thought, "What on Earth put her in this position? What
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could have made her body deteriorate to the point where she's unrecognizable?" It's
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heartbreaking. How close was Hannah to dying? I don't think it's an overstatement to
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say hours, maybe days. Someone said, "We figured out what's wrong with you. It's lead poisoning. You've been lead
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poisoned." That's the lead. Mhm. It's just a shaving of the lead. Soft enough to scrape off with a knife
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and put in a little capsule? Absolutely. I was at that time a suspect. Everybody
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had to be a suspect. [music] I'm going to ask you a direct question. Did you try to poison your wife? No.
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The first thing that Hannah said to my friends when she got home was she believed Nicole had concocted this whole
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thing. One of the other doctors I spoke to said, "You have to leave because she is now under a protective order."
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I remember them saying, "Either he's done it, she's done it, or you've done it. But someone [music] is intentionally
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trying to kill your daughter."