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Patty stallings has spent eight months in jail awaiting trial for the poisoning death of her 5-month-old son, ryan. while in jail, stallings gives birth to a second child the couple names david junior, or d.j. for short. the state fears the stallings may cause harm to the new baby and places him in foster care. st. louis reporter john auble interviews david stallings, who is furious. >> i've never been arrested. i have never smoked or drank. i have no record, period. >> shortly after his birth, d.j. begins exhibiting the same alarming symptoms as his brother ryan had, but d.j. is taken to a di...

At the time. there was some discussion that she might not be guilty at all, and i felt it incumbent on me to study the facts, look at the evidence, and decide whether it really ought to be tried. >> mcelroy contacts medical experts at st. louis university. a toxicologist there tests the samples and confirms from his findings that ryan's blood does contain high levels of ethylene glycol, a main ingredient of antifreeze. he then brings the sample to his colleague, dr. james shoemaker, to look for signs of mma. >> he said, i understand you are a specialist in the diagnosis of genetic diseases, an...

Similar to the peak of ethylene glycol, but when the two peaks are superimposed, there's a clear separation. it's a shocking result. the compound in ryan's blood was not antifreeze. >> so you could say wait a minute, this is not ethylene but must be something else. >> that something else turned out to be propionic acid, a compound found naturally in those who suffer from ryan's genetic illness. because of the similarity in boiling temperatures, sly and shoemaker believe the lab and toxicologist misread the result as ethylene glycol. the scientists now believe patty is innocent, and they approa...

When the two peaks are superimposed there was a clear separation. it's a shocking result. the compound in ryan's blood was not antifreeze. >> so you could say wait a minute, this is not ethylene but must be something else. >> that something else turned out to be propionic acid, a compound found naturally in those who suffer from ryan's genetic illness. because of the similarity in boiling temperatures, sly and shoemaker believe the lab and toxicologist misread the result as ethylene glycol. the scientists now believe patty is innocent, and they approach both the prosecution and defense lawyers...

Suggesting that mma, not poison, may have been the cause of 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 a...