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Choked up like that. >> its right under the surface. what viewers dont realize is how much pressure the candidates are under. how much criticism they take every day. how little sleep they get. how little food they eat. how they are trying so hard. how they care so much about this country. all you have to do is ask them something about their personal life and newt showed that he is a human being. he is never treated that way. rick santorum is coming up here. he had -- ask him about his daughter. ...

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In the family. the saying was that one sids death in a family is sids. two is suspicious and three is homicide. >> dr. molly depena, who is a sids expert and performed autopsies on three of the noe children agrees that a serial sids case just isnt possible. >> apparently because its not a genetic phenomenon, it is a natural, as far as we know, death, they are simply, sudden, unexpected and unexplained deaths. >> if the children werent dying from sids, then what or who was killing them? on severa...

Story after story, one more disturbing than the next. >> there was another time when the cat scratched the kid and tried to strangle her or whatever. so its just all these stories. im not saying that none of these stories had any, you know, validity at all because kids get into things. but in this case, what ended up happening is more like theyre saying, why did you have a dry cleaning bag near the crib? >> the noes took catherine to the worlds fair in new york in 1964. and two vacations at the ...

Mother harming her children to gain attention, usually from doctors and nurses. but during the 1950s and 1960s, little was known about munchausens or the mysterious crib death, today known as sudden infant death syndrome. which is what doctors said several of the noe babies died from. >> sids is the sudden death of an infant below the age of 1 where a very thorough investigation fails to explain why the death occurred. >> dr. mark feldman is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the university o...

>> you dont get two and three cases in a family. its not part of the nature of that phenomenon. with our present knowledge now. the medical examiner would not call a second one in a family a sids. >> richard firstman co-wrote "death of innocence," the book that started stephen frieds quest. >> it doesnt run in families. there are no studies suggesting that it is genetic. when you put all the factors together and you have two, and certainly three and four in a family, you need to look very hard a...

It was considered an odd case. >> constance was the first noe baby the doctor performed an autopsy on. the doctor said she found no apparent cause of death. but instead of ruling it crib death, or sids, she said the cause was undetermined. >> no cause of death is apparent in the conduct of the autopsy. it was just nothing. which, of course, is quite unusual. >> the first person i called was molly depena. she is a very famous, used to be a very famous pediatric pathologist. she had done a number ...

Anything physically wrong with the baby. constances death piqued the interest of police in the medical examiners office. after five babies born to the same young parents died under mysterious circumstances, they started asking questions. >> the police looked into this. they didnt look into it for very long and they didnt decide there was anything to do about it. but the problem with prosecuting any kind of sids cases is that there are certain ways people kill children that dont leave a sign. if ...

>> it was a pattern in those days that the family doctor would refer their maternity cases to the specialists, including psychiatric treatment. >> but dr. gangemi would later come to regret his decision not to refer marie for psychiatric treatment. >> ironically, the doctor would later privately be coming to the medical examiners office saying i want you to help me do something about these people. and i dont know what to do. >> it was during this period that "life" magazine wrote an article abou...