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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...

And it's like you can hear everything, and if i were to put something in ryan's mouth that he didn't want, i believe he would have cried or something or fought it. and, you know, there was no way. >> while in jail, stallings learns some startling news. she is pregnant with the couple's second child. coming up, could this child be the key to proving stallings' innocence? >> you say you'll continue to fight until you're completely exonerated? >> all the way. ♪

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, and people are now claiming that since this second child was born, maybe the first child also had this genetic disease. so he just asked me, could you please run these and ...

While ryan is still in the hospital, in concern for his safety, the missouri department of social services removes him from patty and david's custody. after 11 days, ryan, now in stable condition, goes to his new home with a foster family. the state allows the stallings only supervised visitations with their son. during one of their visits, patty is left alone with ryan for a few minutes and gives him a bottle feeding. two days after the visit ryan again falls ill. and his foster parents rush him back to the hospital. the st. louis sheriff's department believes patricia stallings may be to bla...

Illness? >> shoemaker runs a series of tests on ryan's blood. >> it immediately became apparent that yes, the first child had had methylmalonic acidemia. >> so shoemaker tells prosecutors two important facts. one, ryan had mma. but two, because mma is not always fatal, it was most likely the poison his colleague found and not the disease that killed ryan. >> in every instance they said this child had ethylene glycol poisoning. >> in fact, the st. louis city medical examiner also finds signs of the poisoning in ryan's brain. he tells the prosecutor that there are crystals consistent with a by-p...