A young farmans on timely death raised suspicions.

When a young policeman died the same way it was no coincidence.

Scientists wondered if these tiny crystals were the cause.

A farmans job is exceptionally dangerous and for Andy Thompson the year 2000 was particularly troublesome.

First, he fell off a fire truck in coming Georgia and broke his nose.

When he had surgery to repair the damage he developed a life threatening staff infection.

The doctor told him this is a very, very serious situation. You can doctor him this very easily.

Randy survived that but his health problems continued.

One of his friends found him sprawled on his kitchen floor vomiting and incoherent.

He started hallucinating. He looked at me and said, get back in your damn cage.

I said, what are you talking about Randy? I said get in your cage.

I realized he thought he was talking to his bird.

This was diagnosed as a severe stomach virus.

But gradually he improved thanks to help from his common law, wife Lynn.

Every time I talked to him he sounded stronger and stronger and he said,

I'm going to make grilled cheese with sweet tea. He said, I held it down, didn't throw it up.

So we're good right now. So that's good. So maybe you're on the uphill side of this.

Two days later his condition deteriorated and Randy Thompson died.

A daddy taken from his children for no reason. A man taken from a career that he loved for no reason.

At Randy's autopsy toxicology test found no trace of drugs or alcohol in his system.

But the medical examiner found evidence of heart trouble.

He did have a large heart. He did have some significant coronary artery disease.

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