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In light of kathy augustine's death and the murder charges against chaz higgs, greg augustine set out demanding answers in his father's death. what really happened to his dad, charles? could he have been killed the same way kathy augustine allegedly was? >> any prudent person would have to go through the decision to exhume their father because chaz was his nurse in the hospital. >> three months after kathy died greg had his request honored. police in las vegas exhumed charles augustine's body to see if he also had succinylcholine in his system. greg and the police waited for answers as chaz hi...

Both of us, and that he was driving very erratically. >> she sounded terrified? >> she was hysterical. yeah. yeah. i had never heard her that upset before. you know, you look back at it and you say, was there more i could have done? >> suspicion hung in the air. turns out the very day kathy augustine died police here in reno received an intriguing phone call, a phone call that would change everything. >> a nurse calls, a fellow nurse of chaz higgs, and says you know, i think you need to know something. >> that nurse met chaz higgs for the first time at this hospital the day before kathy august...

Injecting her with a drug called succinylcholine. now it was the defense's turn, and they would argue that chaz higgs had no reason to kill his wife and that the prosecution hadn't presented any credible evidence that proved otherwise. higgs's attorney, david houston. >> chaz was not a calculating murderer. he was not a murderer of any sort. >> i'm placing before you three photographs. >> the defense began by picking apart the prosecution's scientific testimony, beginning with that mark on kathy's left hip. they called their own pathologist to the stand, who said the wound looked too fresh to ...

Augustine's mysterious collapse. >> that could not have been received by that person on july 8th? >> highly unlikely that it could have been. >> the defense also poked holes in the fbi's urine test, portraying them as too sloppy to truly indicate whether succinylcholine was in kathy's system when she died. >> the fbi never created a proper control sample to test against kathy augustine's urine. >> doctor, if i were to put this in somebody and then start squeezing -- >> but the most persuasive bit of testimony may have come here, when cross-examining the prosecution's anesthesiologist, defense ...

>> the tipster, nurse kim ramey, told police higgs said there was a much better way to commit murder. >> and then made specific reference to succinylcholine was a drug that was wiser to use because it was virtually undetectable. >> if used correctly it paralyzes respiratory muscles to allow the insertion of breathing tubes. but it is a powerful drug that if misused can cause organ failure and even death. it quickly dissipates from the bloodstream, leaving few traces. police launched a full-blown investigation. they quietly requested an arrest warrant and sent augustine's urine and blood sample...