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Apartment so we requested a search warrant. then we made a beeline for where mike lived. landlord let us in. we were absolutely astonished. this guy had a chemistry lab in his kitchen. >> they found poisons, all different kind of poisons. >> he had strict nine, poison for rats, ants, taking pictures, do you see any ant infestation? no. we searched his whole apartment. knob ants. >> and they found recipe cards how to make cyanide bombs rice botulism. >> like somebody would have a box of recipes, he had a book

>> mike wanted to volunteer to work the ambulance to follow the guy around. we were like, no way. we are not sure what he's capable of so we went to the administrator and started telling him about it. that's when the police were called. detective meyer came in and started taking our reports. >> they started laying out all these facts and all these things. my head was swimming before the day was over because i'm thinking what on earth am i getting into here. >> i couldn't figure out why he would do what he did. >> my theory he wanted our shift because he filled in a lot. i don't think that toda...

He set mine down and it was open. i looked at him and said what did you did pee in my soda? he said, no. he said his stomach was upset so he drank a little to settle it. i poured it into and ice with glass, drank probably 3 maybe 4 big drinks of it. pretty soon i was getting sick to my stomach. so i ran into the restroom and i started vomiting and i really thought i was going to die. a lady friend of mine came in to check on me and i looked up and i told her i think something is not right. go out and get the rest of my soda. she came back in and said mike dumped it down the drain. he thought y...

All of it? i drank half of it and in bed three days. >> we documented everything we had. we sent it over to the states attorneys office and we went from there to the arrest situation. >> the paramedics and the police set up a trap to get dr. michael swango to show up at a location where he could be arrested without incident. they got the help of the county coroner wayne johnson to help bring him in. >> mike was dying to become a deputy coroner. he wanted to be in the coroner's office and how they got him in after they got the warrant, they called him to get a picture taken for i.d. and that's ...

Favored him. he was the only child of of the 3 sent to a private school. >> he was very bright. valedictorian high school class. >> he was considered pretty much the star of the family. he really was quite and excellent musician. when he first went to college it was in music gifted with a clarinet, he had a music scholarship. >> mike was just a normal guy. he was pretty straight laced but he was easley agitated. people would just kid him all the time. and of course, rooming with him, i would hear about it. and there would be times where he would be absolutely lit. he would pace the floor. you ...