After the cyanide poisoning death of 23-year-old Christopher Erick in 2012, his mother, Kim Erick Smith, began a years-long fight for answers. She believes not only that her son didn’t die by suicide, but that key details surrounding his final days point to something far more sinister.

In this episode, we walk through Kim’s own archived investigation. She lays out claims involving early warnings, missing toxicology tests, a cremation pushed through before results came back, and a series of messages that repeated the same unsettling phrase about Chris’ death. She also details financial records tied to a cyanide purchase, contradictions in official explanations, and disturbing findings she says she uncovered after viewing the crime-scene photos years later.

It’s a heavy, complicated timeline. And it raises the question at the center of this case. Was Chris’ death a suicide? Or was something else happening inside that Midlothian home?

Listen and decide for yourself.

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