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Mary Yoder was poisoned, and no one was investigating. After toxicology confirmed that Mary
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died from a massive colchicine overdose, a drug that by the way she was not even
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prescribed, her family, specifically her sisters, assumed that police were on it.
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So, they waited for updates, or for interviews, or for someone to ask some questions, but nothing came.
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So, in mid-October, Mary's sister Sharon picked up the phone and called the Oneida County Sheriff's Office herself.
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She basically said like, "Hey, my sister died from a medication that she wasn't taking. What's happening with the case?"
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And the response was, "What case?" There was no open investigation. The medical examiner had
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ruled her death a poisoning, but law enforcement had never been notified. Somewhere along the way, the findings
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just weren't passed on. And Mary's husband hadn't alerted authorities, either. So, it took her sister pushing
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for answers for police to finally open a case. How does a confirmed poisoning sit for
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weeks without a criminal investigation?