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Unraveling chain of events in grand forks was about to turn his world upside down. >> i always kind of enjoyed the psychedelic experience and it started with experimenting with lsd in high school. and then i started ordering what people would call designer drugs off the internet and just experimenting with those. and, you know, just realized that there was money to be made in distributing them in small quantities. >> carlton had an idea to turn synthetic hallucinogens to a business. he would limit customers to those like him, knowledgeable and interested in experimenting with synthetic highs. ...

And i make no mistake that we knew that people were consuming it. i don't know why it grew to fast, but we were processing 30,000 to $40,000 a month in credit card payments. >> reporter: and at that point, you thought that you had a legitimate shop? >> yes, i did. >> reporter: at that point, motion resources was up and running for eight months. until one day carlton saw a story on the news about drug overdoses in grand forks, north dako dakota. >> i saw a story on the news of a overdose death in grand forks, and then quickly, there was a news report that showed a baggy that had the special 25 ...

Could explain the entire conspiracy to us. >> mikelis would avoid prosecution but charles carlton would not be so lucky. when police raided motion resources and carlton's home, they found this critical piece of evidence. proof that carlton's guise of legitimacy, his drugs were sold for research was just a cover for their real purpose. in his own hand, carlton detailing how to use his drugs and how dangerous they could be. >> a journal documenting these substances being used by mr. carlton and the effects and various amounts of the substances and how they would affect the body. that was powerfu...

Before the deaths, did you consider, i got to stop this? >> i did. you know, it was the cause of probably quite a few arguments between my wife and i. she didn't want to have anything to do with it and have me to do with it. i should have listened to her advice. >> at one point, she destroyed your office. she had enough. she knew you were doing wrong. >> she did. and so did i. >> carlton said he was becoming paranoid. he had good reason. one of his colleagues, a man named harry george nicolas suddenly quit and records were missing. in grand forks, federal prosecutor chris myers got a phone cal...

>> nicolas would avoid prosecution but charles carlton would not be so lucky. when police raided motion resources and carlton's home, they found this critical piece of evidence. proof that carlton's guise of legitimacy, his drugs were sold for research was just a cover for their real purpose. in his own hand, carlton committ detailing how to use his drugs and how dangerous they could be. >> a journal documenting these substances being used by mr. carlton and the effects and various amounts of the substances and how they would affect the body. that was powerful evidence to show that they knew f...