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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 patty's exoneratio...

The bottle patty used to feed ryan during the visit is also sent to the lab and comes back positive for traces of ethylene glycol. prosecutors believe they now have enough evidence to make their case. police arrest patty stallings and charge her with assault. while stallings sits in jail, ryan's condition worsens. patty is desperate to see her son, but the judge won't allow it. still in the hospital with only his father by his side, ryan dies three days later. patricia stallings is now charged with murder. reporter john auble with ktvi-tv in st. louis follows the case closely and interviews st...

The evidence of methylmalonic acidemia had been specifically forbidden at the trial, well, that seemed really just unjust. and so i took it upon myself to try to find out exactly what the laboratories had done who claimed they found ethylene glycol. >> shoemaker teams up with senior st. louis university biochemist dr. william sly. the scientists have a hunch ethylene glycol may never have been present in ryan's blood and that the lab technician may have made a mistake. under dr. sly's supervision, shoemaker runs tests on ryan stallings' blood sample to see if they can detect elements that can ...

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 lab data but like shoemaker and sly finds none. >> the compound being identified as ethylene glycol, it was obviously something else. the dat...

By a peak on a graph. they soon discover that a misidentification could be possible. >> there were peaks there that, sure enough, looked like they might have been interpretable as ethylene glycol. >> what looked like antifreeze may have actually been something else. shoemaker and sly contact prosecutor george mcelroy about obtaining the methods the lab used when they got the original results. mcelroy agrees and gives the scientists full access to the data. >> the one outside laboratory was using a method called gas chromatography. it's a method where you inject compounds into this column and t...