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Hannah Petty is getting sick. She's a young mother and no one seems to know what's wrong with her. She is losing
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weight and she's getting weaker and weaker. When she finally gets an x-ray, her body lights up like a Christmas
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tree. Turns out someone's been poisoning Hannah with lead and whoever it is, they're probably pretty close to her.
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Some of the lead inside Hannah looked like shards, but other pieces looked like tiny discs. Something that lead
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investigator thought could easily be created with a simple hole punch. This is the type of lead that Brian had
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access to. The lead that we recovered from the office was very thin. It would be thin enough that it could be shaved
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or whatever. One of the things I learned covering this case is that lead is pretty readily available and also comes
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in a lot of different forms. And in this case, the lead was on sort of these sheets. So, imagine the bendability of a
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pipe cleaner, um, but something close to wallpaper sheets, almost a wallpaper. But there's
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sort of a thick layer on top that is lead. You can scrape it off with a knife, you can roll it around in your
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finger and you can understand why investigators felt that it would also be really, really easy to put it into
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capsules and hide it. I have to stress that they never found the capsules. This is their theory as to how Hannah was
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poisoned by lead.