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within a 12-month period, scoggins' two closest friends, leita and olgie nobles were both poisoned with arsenic, and his friends catherine and cordelia norton also died suspicious deaths within a day of one another. >> he was the last person alone with cordelia, and he was the last person alone with catherine. >> he wanted money, he wanted riches and he liked the lavish style of particularly the nortons. i mean they traveled all over the world. they had friends from all over the world come visit them, and he was included in that circle. >> if scoggin poisoned the norton sisters, no one could prove it. they had both been cremated. all that remained were their ashes. >> he believed he could burn up the evidence and he would be safe. >> in the average cremation, the body is subjected to temperatures of more than 2,000 degrees fahrenheit for up to three hours.
the connection to the norton sisters. >> and nobody would have ever known the difference. >> tim scoggin was arrested and charged with murder and intent to commit murder. >> he's a very effeminate kind of a man. in fact, when he talked on the phone, people thought he was a woman, and he passed himself off as secretaries sometimes and called himself kim. by his voice, you couldn't tell the difference. he had to be a cold, calculating individual. >> i've talked to a lot of serial killers, but this guy here was the cold-bloodiest, most ruthless killer that i've dealt with. >> scoggin was convicted and sentenced to two life sentences. >> people kill for money. it's the root of all evil. it really is. that is absolutely true. that's all he done it for was money.
scoggin then moved 130 miles away to san angelo where he met the nobles. they lent scoggin the money to buy their air conditioning business. he was to repay them in monthly installments. prosecutors believe he poisoned the couple so he could avoid making those payments. olgie nobles died from the poison, but 69-year-old leita built up resistance to it. >> this lady was so tough, her inner strength was so strong, her will to live was so strong, and her body was able to absorb this and build up a tolerance to it. but probably if you had ten people out there, you know, nine of those ten would have probably died from it. >> had leita died, police would never have questioned the cause of her death or her husband's. so they would never have made
tim scoggin was the prime suspect in the murders of cordelia and catherine norton, olgie nobles and the attempted murder of leita nobles. >> mr. scoggin had no criminal record. he certainly didn't appear like any kind of tv crook. in fact, he was the proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing. he appeared to be completely nonthreatening and a loving friend to all his victims. >> investigators found arsenic in some antacids in leita's home but couldn't find out where it came from, until the owner of a local supermarket called to offer some information. he said when he saw scoggin's picture in the newspaper, he remembered selling him a large
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amount of rat poison. he even remembered the brand. cowley's original rat and mouse poison. >> he remembered mr. scoggins coming in looking for some sort of poison to kill varmints of some kind. >> i think he didn't buy it that day, but he came back several days later and bought more than one bottle. i don't recall how many. >> forensic document examiners analyzed the cremation request orders signed by the norton sisters and a $30,000 check the sisters made out to scoggin shortly before their death. they concluded the documents were forgeries. it was written during the time of their death which made it even more suspicious because the ladies were extremely ill at this time, and they wasn't in the stage of just giving away $30,000 because they were deathly ill. >> prosecutors believe that scoggin set his sights on the
millions mining granite. the two sisters never married and lived in a large mansion while running separate businesses. 75-year-old catherine was the younger of the two. >> her nickname was girly. she was very frilly, very lady-like. >> catherine ran a flower shop and met tim scoggin while he was working for a local funeral home. 83-year-old cordelia was a beer distributor and a cattle rancher. >> she was rough. she had a man style haircut. she wore khaki clothes and she could cuss better than any sailor you ever saw. >> as scoggin got to know the sisters, he spent increasing amounts of time doing their chores, cooking for them. he acted as their driver and helped them with their medications. >> they were lonely. they needed someone to talk to.
norton sisters almost from the minute he met them. the norton sisters liked scoggin, and he would often eat meals and stay overnight in their hillside mansion. prosecutors think scoggin poisoned them after he learned the sisters planned to include him in their will. as a mortician, scoggin had access to the necessary paperwork to forge the sisters' names on cremation papers. but in a forensic first, scientists found a huge amount of arsenic in the ashes. when scoggin learned the sisters had left him out of their will, he was angry, but undeterred. for his trouble, scoggin forged a check on the sisters' account for $30,000, discovered later by forensic experts.
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scoggin. but leita refused to believe either one was responsible. she had an excellent relationship with her son, and tim scoggin was like a member of the family. >> i didn't know what to think because i just -- i just couldn't, you know, believe it. >> leita nobles will look you right into the eye and tell you exactly what she thinks, and that's what she did. she looked us right in the eye and told us tim scoggin wasn't doing that, that we were on the wrong track and he would never do that. she trusted him completely. >> tim scoggin was 33 years old, single and had a close personal relationship with the nobles, but a background check revealed an unusual past. before buying the nobles' business, scoggin lived in llano, texas, about 130 miles away. while there, he met two elderly sisters, catherine and cordelia norton. the last surviving members of an old texas family that made