Carbon Monoxide Poisoned Two Children’s Brains After Their Landlord Ignored the Danger
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">by Robert Riggs</h3>
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<p>This isn’t the kind of story I usually tell.</p>
<p>The police didn’t converge on the scene with sirens blaring and guns drawn.</p>
<p>But what happened inside a Dallas apartment complex was just as devastating and just as unforgivable as a cold-blooded murder.</p>
<p>In 2015, a silent killer slipped into the home of two young children. Not through malice, but through neglect, greed, and a rusted furnace exhaust pipe no one wanted to fix. </p>
<p>The carbon monoxide gas that leaked out of it took their minds, leaving them permanently brain-damaged, trapped in silence.</p>
<p>For nine years, their mother fought a legal battle against apartment owners and their insurance company, which denied everything. </p>
<p>What followed was a story of delay, deception, and courtroom drama that will outrage even the most hardened true crime listener.</p>
<p>This episode is a departure from my usual reporting, but it’s one I had to tell. </p>
<p>Because sometimes, the deadliest crimes aren’t committed with a weapon. </p>
<p>They’re committed with indifference.</p>
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<p><strong>Legal Resources Mentioned In This Story:</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://tedlyon.com/">Ted B. Lyon Personal Injury Lawyer</a></p>
<p><strong>Science Resources for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39348519/">Dr. Lindell Weaver</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/antidote-carbon-monoxide-poisoning">Science.org</a></p>
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