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most press the wnba has ever got. over a traveling violation. how stupid is she? who tries to enter a foreign land with illegal substances? >> youre going to get me put on no watch list. >> greg: she wants left thailand with a dozen ferrets -- dont ask her how. at least if youre going to enter a country with drugs be better at it. maybe spend a day or two at our border to see how its done well call this guy for some advice. your clapping now. isnt that why god made the cavity? its how ...

There, his work history there? >> reporter: well, fascinating new details tonight about that. they are laying out some real detail about how troubled his tenure here was. it was only for less than a year that he was here. he had a succession of performance-related issues, troubles with fact checking and news judgement. he had angry outbursts and run ins with colleagues. he confronted a news anchor who was assigned to review one of his scripts. it was shortly after that time that they decided to ...

In jail. >> theyre saying that you somehow put something into that -- >> right, and thats just -- unless they think im a magician or something, thats just ridiculous because like i said, youre in these little cubicles and its like you can hear everything, and if i were to put something in ryans mouth that he didnt want, i believe he would have cried or something or fought it. and, you know, there was no way. >> while in jail, stallings learns some startling news. she is pregnant with the couples...

Antifreeze. >> st. louis detectives search the stallings home, and in the basement they find an open container of antifreeze. antifreeze they believe this mother may have used to poison her own child. while ryan is still in the hospital, in concern for his safety, the missouri department of social services removes him from patty and davids custody. after 11 days, ryan, now in stable condition, goes to his new home with a foster family. the state allows the stallings only supervised visitations w...

If there was no poison, what were the crystals in ryans brain? he theorizes that the crystals may be a result of the ethanol drip treatment ryan was given at the hospital to counteract the suspected poison, a treatment that, while correct for someone poisoned with antifreeze, was completely wrong for someone with mma. >> you have a child with a disease which causes severe acidosis, frankly, you know, to give him large toes doses of a is not exactly a step in the right direction. you knows, that ...

To the stallings. he has spent his entire life up till now in foster care. in 1993 stallings files a wrongful death suit against the hospital and lab for the mistreatment and misdiagnosis of her son ryan. she receives an out-of-court settlement. >> it was our goal to get this over with so we can go on with our lives. >> the stallings ask for a public apology, but the lab and hospital remain silent as the case was not brought to court. >> they ran us through the coals in the public when it was th...

Stallings trial begins. for eight months stallings has been out on bond with charges pending. her 11-month-old son d.j. has remained in the care of his foster family. mcelroy deals a crushing blow to the defense. he files a motion seeking to block them from mentioning ryan or d.j.s mma diagnosis. the judge agrees. >> to suggest that ryan died of mma at that point was pure speculation. there was not an expert anywhere that i ever heard of that said that it was even a likely thing. all of that was...

>> youve maintained all through this that you didnt kill your child. do you think youre about to be -- get some acquittal there? >> yes, sir, definitely. >> stallings defense team brings on an expert acceptable to the prosecution. he is dr. pierro renaldo, a world-renowned pediatrician and biochemical geneticist from yale university. renaldo studies ryans serum and confirms drs. sly and shoemakers results, that ryan did have mma. he looks for any evidence of ethylene glycol in the sample and lab...

Its summer 1989, and patricia and david stallings are beginning their lives as a married couple. they have recently had their first child, named ryan. but in july, 3-month-old ryan falls ill. he is vomiting and listless and seems to have difficulty breathing. patricia stallings rushes her son to the hospital. serum and blood samples are taken from ryan and sent to an outside laboratory. the results from the lab are shocking. blood tests reveal an elevated level of ethylene glycol, an ingredient ...

Ryans death. >> at this point i think we need to take a look at the laboratory data that should exist, although, none of its been made available to anyone. >> auble interviews stallings in jail. >> when you heard that david junior was stricken with similar type symptoms, what went through your mind? >> i bawled. i was very scared. i am very scared for him. and i think its sickening that he has to get sick to prove a point. >> uh-huh. >> under media pressure, that mma might have been the cause of...