—OGDEN NASH In his heart and in his head Chris Morgan fully believed that Ann Miller (by this time going by her new married name, Ann Miller Kontz, but Morgan just couldn’t bring himself to call her that) had convinced Derril Willard to give Eric poison that night at the bowling alley. He also strongly suspected that Ann had already experimented by giving Eric small doses throughout the summer of 2000. And after Eric managed to pull through the first hospitalization, Morgan believed that Ann went back to what was convenient—more arsenic. But this theory still was not sitting well with Dr. Marsha Ford (no relation to Tom Ford), who headed North Carolina’s Poison Control Division. According to Morgan, Dr. Ford remained unconvinced that a woman as educated as Ann Miller would have continued to use such a pedestrian poison when, as a scientist, she clearly had access to and knowledge of other dangerous chemicals. Especially considering that UNC Hospitals had already determined that arsenic was a factor in Eric’s first hospitalization, Dr.
