Dateline Presents: Trace of Suspicion

Hey, it's Josh McWoods from Dateline with a special preview of my new podcast called

Trace of Suspicion.

Death comes for us all eventually.

We can never know exactly when, where, or how.

What is known is that the Grim Reaper is always out there waiting, checking our names

against a list, like some Bill Collector on Commission.

United States Marine Sergeant Todd Summer had every reason to think his appointment with

death was still decades away.

After all, he was only 23.

Except sometimes the years don't matter.

As he got ready for bed that night in February 2002, the Reaper was watching.

Todd had been battling some kind of bug for more than a week, nausea, diarrhea, stomach

pains, chills, fever, the full menu of misery.

The doctors at the Miramar Marine Base in San Diego thought this might be food poisoning.

Maybe that gas station egg roll, he had eaten.

We do not know how much sleep Todd Summer actually got that night.

We do know that at about 1.30 in the morning, his wife Cindy was awakened by the sound of

her husband gasping for breath.

He got up and he walked towards the bathroom and turned around and just looked at me and

like just couldn't catch his breath.

Years later, the memory of that night is still fresh for Cindy.

I went over to him and I'm like, what's the matter?

He just looked at me and he said, I'm all right, I'm okay, I'm fine.

And then he just fell down and I just kind of freaked out.

That is Cindy back in 2002, on the phone to 911, Cindy remembered the basics of CPR

from her days as a swimmer in middle school and says she did what she could.

I'd never done it before, other than on a dummy, so I really wasn't sure the exact sequence

of how things should go.

A platoon of paramedics, EMTs and cops were only minutes away, but by then it seemed the

grim reaper had her husband in a death embrace.

And police and fire got there and it was just they had taken me out of the room and it

was just all blurred from there.

This story is about the why and the how of Todd Summers' death that night.

It is about the wife he left behind and the questions that have persisted for more than

20 years.

Well, we learned that they had some money issues.

It is a story about private behavior and public shame.

She started having a lot of people over and a lot of parties shortly after his funeral.

I understand everybody says it's the sex.

We understood how it doesn't look good.

The experts say that people do some pretty strange things in our region.

And it is the story about investigators who found reasons to believe Todd Summers'

sudden death was really a cold and calculated case of murder.

This was really strange for a 23-year-old seemingly healthy marine to die, so why don't

we run one more test because poison could have been an option here.

I'm Josh Manquets, thanks for listening.

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