The Number That Sent a Man to Trial: Digoxin, Drugs, and Doubt
The Number That Sent a Man to Trial: Digoxin, Drugs, and DoubtThe moment Vernon Rice found Angela Ferris behind a pantry shelf, a single lab value - digoxin 4.1 ng/mL - turned a missing-person case into a homicide that would hinge on one number and one unexamined assumption. How did a drug level more than four times the therapeutic ceiling become the linchpin of a prosecution when the victim had no digoxin prescription but did have a routine spironolactone prescription?In this episode, we lay out what happened from discovery to indictment: the scene at the Calvary Fellowship food pantry, the…
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