CNN Forensic Files July 19, 2015 04:27:00
Entire episode might have been a ploy for pignataro to get his medical license back. he gave debbie poison. she developed gastric symptoms. he then tried to convince her doctors to perform gallbladder surgery that she wouldn't survive. had debbie died during surgery, tony could argue, as he did in sarah smith's case, that people occasionally die in surgery and that he shouldn't have been singled out. >> and in tony's eyes, that would have vindicated him. see, my own wife died under a doctor's care in a hospital while having surgery, and that's what we felt was his prime motivation. >> but why ...