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🗓️ 22 September 2022
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0:00.0 | In May of 1975, a 45-year-old father of two named Frank Kelly was fighting for his life in the hospital in Anniston, Alabama. |
0:14.0 | Frank had always been super healthy. He basically never needed to go to the doctor. |
0:20.0 | But over the past year, Frank had been |
0:22.4 | experiencing this mysterious sickness. It started with nausea. Then, he couldn't stop throwing up. |
0:30.3 | Eventually, he became basically too weak to walk. He first went to his doctor on May 19th. He said he had this extreme nausea and stomach tenderness. |
0:41.5 | The doctor thought that he had a viral stomach ache. But after his condition continued to get even |
0:46.7 | worse, Frank was admitted to the hospital on May 23rd. At this point, the doctors thought that he |
0:53.0 | had something called infectious hepatitis. |
0:55.8 | His family, which was his wife Marie and his children, Carol and Mike, were terrified. They were |
1:01.5 | at his bedside constantly. Then, very suddenly, in the early morning hours of May 25, 1975, |
1:09.5 | Frank Hilly died. His family was shocked, and it was so sudden that the doctor |
1:15.7 | asked for an autopsy. The autopsy showed that Frank had hepatitis. He also had swelling of the |
1:22.4 | kidneys and the lungs, bilateral pneumonia and an inflammation of the stomach. The cause of death was determined to be infectious hepatitis. |
1:31.2 | It wasn't until four years later in 1979 |
1:34.5 | that a series of events, including several poisonings, |
1:39.3 | meant that Frank's body was exhumed for testing again. |
1:43.4 | This time, they did more specific forensic testing. |
1:47.1 | And this testing would reveal that Frank Hilly had extremely high levels of arsenic in his body. |
1:54.2 | Ranging anywhere, doctor said, from 10 to 100 times the average amount that a person would have, |
2:00.3 | an amount that would have been |
2:01.6 | impossible for him to ingest naturally. At this point, everyone knew that Frank Hilly had been |
2:07.6 | poisoned. And his wife, Marie, was the prime suspect. Now, this case has had its share of one-hour |
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