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She went from probably a stomach bug to coding seven times in less than 24 hours. On Monday, July 20th, 2015, Mary
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Yoder was fine. She was seeing patients, smiling, working a full day, but by that
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evening, she was violently ill. And by Tuesday morning, her husband Bill drove her to the hospital. Doctors ran tests,
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fluids helped, she seemed stable, but the hospital wanted to keep her overnight just to observe. So, Bill went
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home to sleep. Around 10:00 p.m., an hour after he left, Mary crashed. She fell in the
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bathroom and was moved to the ICU. Her heart stopped 4:17 a.m. The hospital tried to call Bill again
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and again. No answer. He says he plugged his phone in in another room to charge. State troopers
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had to physically go to his house to wake him up. And the house was only 15 minutes away from the hospital, but it
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took him an hour to get there. Mary's sisters can't shake that detail. They understand going home. They
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understand thinking it's just a stomach bug. But not keeping your phone nearby? Not
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rushing to the hospital immediately? Then later, they learned Mary died from colchicine poisoning. And here's what
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unsettled them even more. Colchicine can be used in a process to grow super potent marijuana.
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Years earlier, Bill had experimented with enhancing marijuana plants. At first, he told people he'd never
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heard of colchicine. Is that just a series of coincidences or something that doesn't sit right?