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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 the other way around. now we want a public apology, which they will not grant us. >> four years after ...

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 simply conjecture. >> outside the courthouse, stallings reacts to the news. >> it's not fair beca...

>> you've maintained all through this that you didn't kill your child. do you think you're 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 ryan's serum and confirms drs. sly and shoemaker's results, that ryan did have mma. he looks for any evidence of ethylene glycol in the sample and lab data, but like shoemaker and sly, finds none. >> the compound being identified as ethylene gl...

It's 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 found in antifreeze. the hospital immediately starts ryan on an ethanol drip to counteract the pois...

Ryan's death. >> at this point i think we need to take a look at the laboratory data that should exist, although, none of it's 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 it's sickening that he has to get sick to prove a point. >> uh-huh. >> under media pressure, that mma might have been the cause of ryan stallings' death, prosecutors agree to postpone patricia stallings' trial. >> our office's ...