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Deadly Exposure

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Accidental carbon monoxide poisoning is the cause for hundreds of American deaths every year, but according to police in Lima, Ohio, one of those deaths wasn’t an accident – in this Dateline classic, they say it was murder. Kate Snow reports. Originally aired on NBC on June 24, 2011.

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0:00.0

She was a wife. She was a mother.

0:02.6

She was the most amazing woman I've ever met in my life.

0:06.0

And then suddenly, one day she was gone, poison, my carbon monoxide.

0:11.6

He's like, I couldn't get a pulse. I couldn't get a pulse. I couldn't get a pulse.

0:17.6

Her husband blamed a faulty water heater.

0:20.6

Police blamed him.

0:22.6

You don't think this is an accident.

0:24.2

No. There was just one problem, and it was a big one.

0:28.2

No one could figure out exactly how he might have done it.

0:31.8

He's an expert in gases. He's an asthesiologist.

0:34.2

Did you kill your wife, Kathy?

0:51.0

Thanks for joining us. I'm Lester Holt.

0:53.0

Hundreds of Americans die every year from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.

0:58.0

But according to police in Ohio, one of those deaths wasn't an accident.

1:02.8

It was murder.

1:03.8

And they say if anyone would know how to use a deadly gas to murder someone,

1:08.2

it was their prime suspect.

1:10.4

Here's Kate Snow.

1:19.4

He's come back to where it all began.

1:21.8

To the town, the streets, he knew so well.

1:24.8

Remembering the old times when life was simple, love was young,

1:29.0

and the future held so much promise.

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