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911 Yeah, uh This is No, state road 135. My husband's in the our bedroom floor. He's non-responsive
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and I need an ambulance urgently. Marsha Allen called 911. Do you want to start CPR if I help you?
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Uh, yeah, I could I could do that. Go ahead. She appears to be crying on the call.
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She appears to start getting a little panicked. He's laying here with his mouth open. Go
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ahead. And he's white. Is he cold to the touch? First responders get there, what do they
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find? They found Harold Allen unresponsive. He was dead. Yes. Harold and Marsha Allen had only been
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married for a year, year and a half when this happened. Harold had had some health problems, so
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it wasn't initially a huge surprise that he would have died. And what was the cause of death determined to be at that
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time? It was um heart problems. About 6 months after Harold's death, Marsha wrote a self-help book about grief and
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losing someone that you loved. About Harold, she says, "He was my world. The grief I was experiencing
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after my husband passed away was unbearable and still is." Well, this is just a grieving woman
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missing her husband. A burglary call come the radio. Our detectives were going to Marsha's
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house. We started investigating the burglary and in the process we're told there's a
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murder involved here. This one is murder. Okay. I know that. I have not gone to nobody
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and said anything because I don't have no proof on it. Stephen White told me that Marsha Allen
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had killed her husband Harold by poisoning her root beer float. Marsha went into the kitchen
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and made a root beer float with whipped cream and sprinkles on top of it. And she poured something out of a bottle
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into there. Poison is unique. I think you see it in movies because it makes a good show, but it's not normally how
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homicide or death is carried out. The toxicology report came back ethylene glycol was in Harold's system.
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It's the main component in antifreeze. If you're consuming ethylene glycol, you're not going to know. You're not
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going to smell it. You're not going to taste it. If you put it in a root beer float with ice cream and root beer,
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you're not going to know until it's too late. I think if the burglary wouldn't have
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happened, there would be no way that we would know about it at all.