Carter Roy

One woman has glowing spots on her legs and thighs.

Another's back glows almost to the waist.

They conclude the radium isn't just on them, it's in them.

The drinkers submit their report in the summer of 1924.

Their conclusion.

Radium is almost certainly causing the illnesses.

They recommend immediate safety precautions.

This is not what Roeder wants to hear.

He pressures the drinkers into not publishing their report publicly.

The Harvard School of Public Health depends partly on USRC funding, so the drinkers don't want to sour that relationship.

When they push back anyway, Roeder threatens to sue.

After that, the drinkers back down and agree to keep their findings private.

But Rotor isn't satisfied with silence.

He needs the opposite to prove the factory is safe.

And then he does something that crosses the line from negligence into conspiracy.

Roeder takes the drinker's report, the one that says the factory is dangerous, and rewrites it.

He changes the damning conclusion to glowing praise.

He claims a contagious infection must be to blame for the girls getting sick.

At the factory, he says, quote, every girl is in perfect condition.

Then he submits this forged document to the New Jersey Department of Labor in the drinker's name, without the drinker's knowledge.