The Nurse who fatally poisoned husband with eye drops:
Lana Clayton said she found her husband Steve Clayton dead at the bottom of a staircase in their South Carolina home. The businessman, who created physical therapy clinics, had been married to his wife for five years when he died. Initially, the coroner's office ruled Clayton died from a possible heart attack. However, Clayton's nephew, Nick French, a police officer in a nearby town, noticed something was odd about Lana's behavior when he rushed to the mansion to console her."She made no mention of attempting to revive him," French tells "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant. "And Steve always had his phone with him. We were not able to find Steve's phone anywhere."
Concerned about the nature of his death, the family asked for an autopsy and a toxicology test. The blood test revealed an unusual chemical tetrahydrozoline in Steve Clayton's blood that would shift the investigation into a whole new direction. What happened in the Clayton household? And could that case have led to a copycat But James Blackledge wasn't ready for what was about to happen as he rode by the home of Steve and Lana Clayton on the morning.
James Blackledge: I was out riding my motorcycle...coming down this road... … And all of a sudden, I see a woman running across this yard...and she was waving me down. It was Lana Clayton who apparently had just run out of her house.
James Blackledge: She flagged me down, stopped me. And the first thing she said was "call 911."
JAMES BLACKLEDGE: I was just ridin' by and a woman came running out and said her husband fell down the steps and she thinks he's dead. As Blackledge stayed on the phone with the dispatcher, he watched Lana run across the street to a neighbor's house.
Terry Floyd: All of a sudden, I heard this loud knock on the screen. … It almost sounds like somebody, you know, was gonna bust the glass out. … It was Lana. Terry Floyd is a close friend of Lana and Steve.
Terry Floyd: And I asked her, of course, what was wrong. And she just kept saying, "It's Steve. It's Steve.” The two jumped into Terry's golf cart and dashed over to Clayton's front door.
Terry Floyd: And I said, "Well, where is he?" And she said, "He's at the base of the stairs there in the foyer."
Peter Van Sant: And what were you thinking as all of this is unfolding?
James Blackledge: I just thought it was an accident, a strange accident. Then, what I really thought was strange, as she sat on the front steps. The man went inside the house.
Terry Floyd: I tried to get a pulse. … I couldn't get a pulse. And I just, I knew he was dead.
Kristi O'Connor: He was nauseated and dizzy and bedridden.
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