Summary
Doctors don't know why the young scientist is gravely ill. When tests finally reveal the cause, it's too late to save him. Police hope that lab analysis of his hair - showing when attempts were made on his life and what was used - will lead to the killer.
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| 0:00.0 | Up next, a young man falls ill and no one knows why. |
| 0:05.0 | Maybe he had been exposed to something through his work. |
| 0:08.0 | Despite the best of medical intensive care, he dies. |
| 0:12.0 | Does accidental? Is it suicide? Is it homicide? |
| 0:17.0 | But investigators know there must be a clue somewhere. |
| 0:21.0 | The more we looked into it, the more bizarre it got. |
| 0:30.0 | The research triangle in Raleigh, Durham, North Carolina, home to many high-tech research and development companies. |
| 0:42.0 | 30-year-old Eric Miller worked there looking for a cure for pediatric aids. |
| 0:47.0 | His wife Ann was also a scientist working for a large pharmaceutical company. |
| 0:52.0 | Eric and Ann Miller were living the American dream. |
| 0:55.0 | They had good jobs, they had a beautiful baby, they lived in a nice house, |
| 0:59.0 | they attended church. |
| 1:01.0 | Despite a satisfying professional life, Eric developed health problems |
| 1:06.0 | that some suspected might have been related to his job. |
| 1:10.0 | He exhibited a lot of flu-like symptoms, vomiting, fevers, headaches, |
| 1:17.0 | and people generally thought that he had a virus or that he had a bacterial infection, |
| 1:22.0 | that they just couldn't isolate. |
| 1:26.0 | One night, while bowling with his friends, his symptoms were so severe, he had to be hospitalized. |
| 1:33.0 | Ann Miller said he was pale and white and he was holding a trash can |
| 1:37.0 | and said he had eaten a hot dog at the bowling alley and felt like he had gotten food poisoning. |
| 1:42.0 | Eric was put into intensive care, but when his condition improved, he was released. |
| 1:48.0 | Several days later, he was hospitalized again. |
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