Chapter 4 - Linda Had Been Giving Emily Unknown Pills
Emily remembered the vitamins from Lark Medical.
Small white tablets.
No label.
Linda brought them each morning.
“She said they were iron.”
Hospital staff asked whether Emily had any remaining pills.
Vincent remembered the apartment.
A weekly pill organizer sat beside the untouched soup.
Police preserved it.
Laboratory testing showed the tablets were not iron.
They contained a sedating prescription medication not prescribed to
Emily.
The medication could cause drowsiness and confusion.
Physicians evaluated potential pregnancy risks based on dose and
exposure.
Emily began shaking.
“I thought pregnancy was making me sleep all day.”
Ryan had repeatedly told Vincent the same thing.
Pregnancy hormones.
Exhaustion.
Mood swings.
The medication had helped make that story believable.
Linda insisted she did not know what the pills contained.
“Ryan gave them to me.”
Ryan claimed Linda arranged them.
Again, mother and son pointed at each other.
Prescription records eventually showed Samuel Kerr obtained the
medication through an improper channel.
Payments to Lark Medical came from Linda’s checking account.
That looked terrible for her.
But the memo line on the first payment read:
RYAN — EMILY CARE.
Linda said Ryan asked her to pay because he did not want Emily seeing
medical expenses.
Vincent listened without interrupting.
He wanted a simple villain.
The evidence was giving him a system.
Ryan controlled appointments.
Linda administered pills.
Kerr supplied them.
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And Emily became too exhausted to understand why her own body no longer
felt like hers.
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