Carter Roy

And that's exactly what they do.

There's no government investigation, no shutdown, and no arrests.

The company keeps operating, and the girls keep licking radium off of their paint brushes.

But then something happens that's harder to ignore.

On June 7th, 1925, USRC's own chief chemist, a man named Dr. Edwin Lehman, dies.

Same symptoms as the dial painters.

Okay, now here's what's important.

Edwin Lehman is a scientist.

He's not some teenage girl from the factory floor.

When the dial painters got sick, the company could dismiss them.

Hysterical women, weak constitutions, promiscuous girls with syphilis.

But Edwin Lehman, he's one of them.

He's educated and credible.

He's, let's face it, a man.

Lehman's death forces the county physician, a pathologist named Dr. Harrison Martland, to get involved.

He performs the autopsy on Lehman.

When he tests Lehman's bones, he finds that they're radioactive, extremely radioactive.

And Martlin doesn't stop there.

He develops tests to detect radium in living people.

He starts examining the sick dial painters.