Spears case: What happened in the hospital bathroom? | Forensic Files

I look at this photo here of the bathroom in the hospital room and it's just absurd that any juror could
determine that she would go into that bathroom with anybody be able to walk in with the bathroom door wide open and
just just walking in on her poisoning her son this is a dumb plan the door wide open right and we talked about how
is she doing this physically in such a small room it's just so bizarre I mean right exactly I mean the whole thing
makes no sense the end of this tube is so small that how do you take a hard plastic cup and pour some sort of
substance down the tube overcome the pressure exerted by Garnet stomach at the other end of this tube and force
fluid within just a few minutes into his body right and this this tube I mean the
interior of this tube is the size of a coffee straw you know and and this cup that you can't it's not malleable and
you got to pour this fluid right down it it's going to spill all over the place right

Lacey Spears' defense team describes the reasons they say it was impossible for Spears to poison her son, Garnett, with salt during a hospital stay through his feeding tube in the bathroom.

Brief Summary

The episode critiques the implausibility of a poisoning scenario in a hospital bathroom.

Key points

Absurdity of the Plan. Discussing the illogical nature of the actions taken in the hospital bathroom.
Physical Impossibility. Questioning how the act could physically happen given the constraints.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

This is a dumb plan.

Commenting on the absurdity of the situation.

0:15WatchApr 10, 2016

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