The death of a beloved chiropractor becomes a criminal investigation when authorities discover she’d been poisoned. Andrea Canning reports on a dramatic update in the case.Andrea Canning and Josh Mankiewicz go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/4j0qfTvListen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/237yte7iDf1d9kkWfOxc70
Chapter 1: What is the dramatic new twist in Mary Yoder's death case?
Tonight on Dateline, a stunning new ending in a deadly case of poison.
It didn't seem like it could be real. Like, how would this happen to me? People aren't waiting for facts to come out. I'm innocent and people want me to be guilty.
Mary was a chiropractor, very social, very active.
Healthy people don't just drop dead. Nobody, nobody could do anything.
Did somebody deliberately give this to Mary? Did somebody poison Mary?
So many things start gelling to make us suspicious. The poison is found in Adam Yoder's Jeep.
They had asked me flat out, do you think Adam could have killed his mother? You always look at the husband.
They had found Bill to be with another woman.
They were sure my father had done this.
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Chapter 2: How did Mary Yoder's family and friends react to her sudden death?
He's like, okay, we did get a cause of death back. It's colchicine. I said, what? She's like, do you repeat it? It's colchicine. I'm like, the gout medication? I was completely confused. I mean, the only capacity that I knew that was as a short-term acute treatment for gout. Which we knew our mother didn't have.
I was like, what? Well, how did she get it? She didn't know. So I said, so she was poisoned then? And she said, well, we have to find out how it got into her system.
Where's your mind going now? Are you thinking foul play? I was the first one to take that leap. I was the first one. I was just getting all these bits and pieces of information, and it was not making sense.
Three months after Mary's death, Sharon decided to contact the police. Lieutenant Robert Nelson, now retired, was a detective with the Oneida County Sheriff's Office.
She asked if we would get involved in the investigation to determine how Mary got this in her system.
Do you feel that this is something that would fall under your purview?
Yes, at this point, we're like, well, we need to get ahold of the ME's office to see exactly, you know, what they have. What did they rule as the cause of death?
The detective learned there was nothing in Mary's medical history to explain why she'd be taking colchicine. Why would she have this poison, this drug, in her system?
That they didn't know. That's when they started looking at different things. She took all these supplements. They looked at supplement contamination. Anything there? Never. We finally got the test back from there and nothing from there. Negative.
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