Carbon Monoxide Poisoned Two Children’s Brains After Their Landlord Ignored the Danger

2025-10-28

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by Robert Riggs This isn’t the kind of story I usually tell. The police didn’t converge on the scene with sirens blaring and guns drawn. But what happened inside a Dallas apartment complex was just as devastating and just as unforgivable as a cold-blooded murder. In 2015, a silent killer slipped into the home of two young children. Not through malice, but through neglect, greed, and a rusted furnace exhaust pipe no one wanted to fix. The carbon monoxide gas that leaked out of it took their minds, leaving them per...

by Robert Riggs

This isn’t the kind of story I usually tell.

The police didn’t converge on the scene with sirens blaring and guns drawn.

But what happened inside a Dallas apartment complex was just as devastating and just as unforgivable as a cold-blooded murder.

In 2015, a silent killer slipped into the home of two young children. Not through malice, but through neglect, greed, and a rusted furnace exhaust pipe no one wanted to fix.

The carbon monoxide gas that leaked out of it took their minds, leaving them permanently brain-damaged, trapped in silence.

For nine years, their mother fought a legal battle against apartment owners and their insurance company, which denied everything.

What followed was a story of delay, deception, and courtroom drama that will outrage even the most hardened true crime listener.

This episode is a departure from my usual reporting, but it’s one I had to tell.

Because sometimes, the deadliest crimes aren’t committed with a weapon.

They’re committed with indifference.

Legal Resources Mentioned In This Story:

Ted B. Lyon Personal Injury Lawyer

Science Resources for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Dr. Lindell Weaver

Science.org

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