he made studying one Waneta Hoyt. Ms. Hoyt, you see, murdered all five of her children. Only the wise Dr. Steinschneider accepted Waneta's explanation that the children died of crib death. "Had to be," she theoretically told the great doctor, "else how do they end up dead?"

Dr. Steinschneider considered this a great find, indeed, and proceeded to commandeer a large section of a New York teaching hospital, procure federal funds for research, and join forces with the makers of "apnea" devices that would detect changes in breathing of designated "at risk" infants before they could die of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). "SIDS must be hereditary," proclaimed the great doctor, "else why are ALL of Waneta Hoyt's children dying?"

Dr. Steinshneider's research on SIDS was published in major andthe great doctor to please, please pay attention to this woman because we are certain she is killing those babies. How all five of Waneta's children died when only SHE was present. How the few physicians who were skeptical about Ms. Hoyt and Dr. Steinschneider were thwarted in their attempts at dissent by a medical establishment that had everything to gain by allowing no consideration to hints that this woman might be killing her children. How the prosecutors and investigators slammed, even 25 years after the childrens' deaths, directly into that same medical establishment, now more interested in covering their stupid behinds than bringing this woman to justice.

It's simply unbelievable. Yet it really happened. The book and the tale is a study in why human beings should seriously