Sniffing Revenge

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A woman dies suddenly at home. Investigators are unable to determine the cause of death until they receive a call from the ex-wife of the dead woman’s husband. The sensitive nose of a toxicologist ends up sniffing out murder.

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0:00.0	What happens when a healthy middle-aged woman suddenly collapses and dies?
0:07.0	And medical science can't find the cause of death.
0:11.0	Months later, a second forensic-look-discovered evidence that had been right under their noses the entire time.
0:30.5	Dana Point, California, just 60 miles south and a world away from Los Angeles is a haven for those seeking a quiet ocean-side lifestyle.
0:42.0	In 1988, it was home to Janet and Richard Overton and their 17-year-old son, Eric.
0:49.0	Sixty-year-old Richard was a successful computer consultant and part-time professor.
0:56.0	Forty-six-year-old Janet was a member of the local school board.
1:01.0	She was such a genuinely nice person, smiling and had good things to say.
1:09.0	The Overton's lived on a tranquil cul de sac.
1:13.0	After 19 years of marriage, they seemed to be a classic example of when opposites attract.
1:19.0	While Janet was outgoing and high school-educated, Richard held a PhD and was much more reserved.
1:27.0	He was always the loner and I don't understand that he graduated from high school after three years.
1:34.0	He was editor of one of his campus newspapers. As I said, he was a very smart man.
1:40.0	Janet was passionate about her work on the school board. A job she took seriously at one point she served as president.
1:48.0	But her number one priority was her son.
1:52.0	She took such pleasure in him and I know that one of her goals was to hand him his diploma when he walked across the stage, graduating from Dana Hills High School.
2:05.0	On January 24th, Janet and her son, Eric, packed up the family van to spend the day on a yacht with some friends.
2:14.0	But before leaving the house, Janet collapsed. Eric told his father who immediately called for an ambulance.
2:24.0	By the time emergency personnel arrived, Janet was unconscious. When they got to the hospital, she was dead.
2:35.0	An autopsy found no indication of how she died.
2:40.0	They did not find anything that they were comfortable calling a cause of death or even close.
2:46.0	Surprisingly, Janet's medical records indicated she had made 60 visits to different doctors, clinics and hospitals in the last year.
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