00:00You're a detective and you find an old man dead in his recliner.
00:04The neighbor called it in, said the front door had been open for days.
00:08The coroner says it was heart failure, but you notice his fingernails have faint white banding.
00:15The tox report came back positive for arsenic, enough to kill slowly over weeks, mimicking heart failure perfectly.
00:24You want to check his water, but you can't find the well.
00:27You ask the neighbor if he knows where it is, but he says he barely even knew the guy.
00:33You drive to the next property to ask another neighbor, but there's no one there.
00:38You try the next one, same thing.
00:41Every lot on this ridge is empty, so you search yourself.
00:46And 40 yards past the tree line, hidden in the brush, you find it.
00:50And besides, you see boot prints in the mud.
00:53It looks like size 13, the old man wore nines.
00:58Inside the shaft, you find a slow-dissolving arsenic compound designed to poison every glass of water he drank.
01:06You pull the property records of this area, and suddenly those empty plots make sense.
01:12That one neighbor owns all of them.
01:15He had bought every lot on this ridge except the old man's, who was the last holdout.
01:22You go back to the neighbor to ask a few more questions,
01:26and notice a pair of big muddy boots sitting on the porch.
01:31Yes.
01:31Yes.
01:32Yes.
01:32Thanks
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