like, being of matt had been taken out of the home. but it was what holly hadn t cleaned up that made the biggest impression on rebecca. those bottles of chemicals on the kitchen floor what was hollies response when you asked her about those items? one of the items was brought up us antifreeze for matt to winterize his boat. but, who winterize is their boat in the summer? remember, matt died in july, said the prosecutors, so rebecca s story was evidence that hawley had access to antifreeze around the time of matt s death she was able to put antifreeze in the kitchen of holly mcfeeture after the death of matt podolak. now they needed to convince the jury that holly actually fed the antifreeze to matt. that would take a little doing.
her eyes out before she even went in. i don t even know how i would be able to do that myself go in and see him lying there in the casket. if that was my fiancée, i probably wouldn t be able to go in that room. because i would want to scream and cry and ask for him to just be back. matt and holly son, josh, was just six months old. and he cried, a lot. so, said chrissy, holly repeatedly had to leave the reception line to care for her colicky baby she was in the basement with josh because she was nursing. she had to still take care of her kids and show them that she had to be strong. holly s friend, rebecca baker, did what she could to help. especially with that little boy, so young. this poor baby, he would ve never known his father. how could this happen? all of a sudden, a very healthy 31 year old, young man just winds up that. it s kind of strange. kind of strange?
four days later, he took a turn for the worse. way worse. holly called her father, matts father a 9-1-1. i got a call from holly saying that there s something wrong with matt. so i talked to, matt and he said that i do not feel, good i fell off the couch and i m really dizzy. so i said, get in the ambulance. holly s father, mike arrived and followed him to the hospital, where things went bad fast. it was nerve-racking because all we kept hearing about was, okay they re trying to dial in on his kidney issue. well, then that medication was making his heart go so than they try to address the heart. and they kept seesawing back and forth. and nobody seem to know really what it was causing? no. matt faded in and out of consciousness. doctors told holly and family members, go home, get some rest. and then another few hours later, they called everybody back to the hospital, right away, they said. one look at the icu and big brother mark felt his world come apart.
what happened to her? what was the sentence? she was given the first time offenders program, so she didn t do any jail time. then, there was the life insurance. it wasn t much, including matt 401(k) amounted to just $15,000. but here s what made matt s brother mark suspicious. my brother was talking about a couple of days before removing her from the life insurance policy, removing her from, as a beneficiary of the policy in the 401 k. and that s how serious it was getting. and so, holly actually got 10,000 of that insurance, it seemed to mark to confirm what he had been thinking since the beginning. she must have killed him. in my mind, there was nobody else. there was no other way that it could ve happened. and none. so, the first reaction is shock. what s the second reaction? anger. and then sadness. how dare anybody do that to my little brother. how dare they? but really, 10,000 in left
and he kind of moved up through the ranks. the thing that excited him about it was that he was going to take over. my uncle was kind of grooming him to become the boss. i remember him, in many cases, telling me about how he was looking forward to that. but what matt wanted, perhaps most of all, was a family. and so, when he met holly, holly mcfeeture matthew fell in love. he fell in love 100 and 10%. and he really loved holly. there were some people who planned out their lives very carefully. those people may have taken issue with matt and holly, whose daughter samantha was born, give or take, nine months after they met. the marriage part became later they decided. he loved being a dad. he loved that little girl. and loved holly. holly loved him. holly told her sister, chrissy, the story of how they mention they got engaged. it was during a romantic weekend in niagara falls, just before samantha was born. holly was preparing a bubble bath.