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Eric Miller and Ann Miller met in a biology class at Purdue University. Both were accepted into graduate programs at N.C. State University, relocated to NC and married in 1993. Eric was a postdoctoral fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, while Ann worked at GlaxoSmithKline in Research Triangle Park.

By 2000, the young couple owned their own home, had two cars and a boat, and had a baby girl.

On Nov. 15, 2000, Eric Miller, Willard and two of Willard's co-workers went bowling. Miller fell ill with flulike symptoms about an hour after drinking a beer that he complained was bitter; it had been bought and poured for him by Willard.Miller ended up in the hospital that night and stayed for a week.

On Nov. 30, Eric Miller again became violently ill after eating a meal prepared by his wife, investigators say. This time, doctors detected high levels of arsenic in his system. He died on Dec. 2, 2000.

Phone records show that in the fall of 2000, Ann Miller and her co-worker, Derril Willard, called each other almost 110 times. The calls increased in frequency before and after the times when investigators suspect Eric Miller received doses of arsenic. One 24-minute call came less than two hours before Miller died.

Willard committed suicide more than a month after Miller died. In a note addressed to his wife, Yvette, he denied any involvement in Miller's death. However, before shooting himself with a .357-caliber Magnum revolver, Willard sought the legal advice of Raleigh lawyer Richard T. Gammon.

Willoughby, the district attorney, asked a judge to order Gammon to disclose what Willard had told him about Miller's death. Gammon fought to keep his conversations with Willard confidential, citing a client's need to talk freely with a lawyer.

In the four years since her husband died, Ann Miller moved to Wilmington,NC and married a Christian rock musician, Paul Martin Kontz.

In May 2004, after a lengthy legal battle over attorney-client privilege, the North Carolina Supreme Court ordered Gammon to divulge information to investigators that Willard had told him about Miller's death - that Ann Kontz injected poison in Miller's IV line during a hospital visit.

In September 2004, Kontz Kontz, 35, was charged with first-degree murder. Kontz is now serving a 25-year prison sentence.

Miller's parents share custody of their granddaughter with Kontz's sister  and brother-in-law. A judge has denied Kontz any visitation rights with the child.


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