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Chalice in the Dirt: How a Priest's Ritual Hid Arsenic Murder

Chalice in the Dirt: How a Priest's Ritual Hid Arsenic Murder

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Chalice in the Dirt: How a Priest's Ritual Hid Arsenic Murder

A tarnished communion chalice was found upright in garden mulch with rust-colored residue inside - and it turned out to be the only physical trace of a method that had already killed one parishioner and was still killing another six blocks away. How did a routine object from St. Ambrose Parish become the clue that reframed two unexplained deaths as something far more deliberate?

In this episode, we trace the morning the chalice was discovered, the lives of the victims, and the medical detective work that shifted two death certificates from undetermined causes to a shared pattern; what led a forensic toxicologist to suspect chronic heavy metal poisoning, and where that question took the investigation.

Person: Carol Pruitt
Date: February 14, 2009 (admission in multiorgan failure)
Location: St. Ambrose Parish, Harlan Falls
Person: Raymond Solis
Date: March 28, 2009 (death)

- The chalice was found by utility meter reader Peggy Meyer on an early March Tuesday beside an outdoor spigot in the church grounds.
- Carol Pruitt, age 39, was admitted to Harlan Falls Regional Medical Center in multiorgan failure on February 14, 2009.
- Carol administered insulin to her cat Bishop at exactly 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. every twelve hours for fourteen months.
- Raymond Solis, age 64, died on March 28, 2009, with death attributed to cardiac arrhythmia and late-onset diabetic neuropathy.
- Forensic pathologist Dr. Patricia Norwood reviewed both death certificates and contacted toxicologist Dennis Morgan, who noted a symptom pattern consistent with chronic heavy metal exposure.

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