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[Music] we are floating along lake wiley south carolina which is a roughly 20 mile long lake
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as we've been cruising along here it has looked like an episode of lifestyles of the rich and
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famous a lot of wealth it certainly is there are million dollar homes if you look at this one here this is the
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clayton estate steven and lana moved into it in 2015 and it's actually modeled after president george
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washington's mount vernon estate stephen clayton was a very well-liked person had lots of friends very sociable
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lana worked as a nurse in several different veterans affairs hospitals [Music] stephen clayton was found dead at the
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bottom of a staircase at the outset this appeared to be a natural death it looked like a man who had fallen down
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a flight of stairs yes who had been ill according to his wife and then she found him unresponsive
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she was crying and she was upset is it allowable to have somebody pray over oh yes ma'am
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so if there's someone you i pulled in the driveway right over here my main goal at that point was to try
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and help land to console her when did you start to see things that troubled you right away he didn't show any signs
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of any sort of medical issues she made no mention of attempting to revive him we decided to call the coroner and see
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if we could get either an autopsy or a toxicology report i am the coroner for york county south
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carolina luckily family started picking up on some red flags my name is demi garvin i am a forensic
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toxicologist when demi's toxicology report came across my fax machine i was like hmm what is tetrahydrosaline
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and then immediately demi and i were on the phone together i was like whoa wait tetrahydrosaline is the common
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ingredient in visine the eye drop the eye drop when it is given orally via the mouth it is very toxic
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and can render someone into a coma within 15 to 30 minutes can it create a heart
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attack it can't it has a devastating effect on your body somebody one time told them well rising
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without them close bathroom and you put like two drops in his coffee can imagine him doing that i can't
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imagine anyone doing that so who then becomes the suspect lana clayton she reported on her own that stephen
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clayton liked to place a few drops of visine in his coffee each morning and i did not kill my husband
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there was another death that appeared to be of natural causes related to a cardiac arrest of stacy hunsucker
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they found the high levels of tetrahydrosaline in her system it's very possible that it was a copycat
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situation the suspect in that case heard about our case down here uh saw it on the news
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so what you're saying is that this little bottle could be a murder weapon absolutely
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