Steve Robinson

I was telling your fantastic and wildly talented producer Jeremy earlier,

It reminds me of a case, a pod case I investigated for Barstool where an individual was found dead in a trailer with a hypodermic syringe next to him.

He was known to be a drug user and the cops just said, oh, he overdosed, case closed, it's done with.

But as Kirk Minahan and I investigated this case more, what we came to believe was that the syringe was actually given to him filled with insulin by someone who wanted him dead because he had knowledge of some other crimes.

The autopsy never tested for insulin.

No one ever, you know, would think that that would be something that would happen.

And they didn't find any meth or heroin in this guy's system, but he was a drug user and he was dead and there was a syringe and who cares?

We're not going to look too close into it because he was just a, you know, as far as we're concerned, he was a garbage human being because he was addicted to drugs.

So who cares to look very close?

It's kind of the same thing with 70H in that

Yes.

No, I'm not.

Absolutely same.

And I'll give them credit that when we made our case in the podcast, they reopened that death, which was classified as an accidental overdose and charged it as a homicide.

And the prosecutor later dropped the charges.

So law enforcement 100% did their job in that instance.

The reason why I brought that case up is because if someone were to

die of an overdose of 7-OH, there aren't tests available to determine, well, do they have 7-OH metabolites in their bloodstream?

Like, what does it metabolize as?

There's this idea, I think, like maybe the CSI concept is that you could take a blood sample from someone who's died and drop it in a little machine, and it's going to tell you everything they consumed for the last 24 hours.