Jim Crocker, the overnight deputy who was supposed to guard the prisoner but who killed him instead, didn't kill himself, since despite a death scene staged to suggest that he ate his gun, it’s obvious to a trained investigator like Virgil Flowers that Crocker was enjoying the favors of a female visitor only a few seconds before he departed this life. But the case turned darker the night that Coakley arrested her suspect, whose apparent suicide in his cell is pretty clearly murder as well. The wounds that were supposed to have disabled Flood had obviously been inflicted after death, and Bobby all but confessed to Warren County Sheriff Lee Coakley. In fact, because the information was not giving out the right data, people’s lives were in danger because doctors were unable to treat patients with what they needed.An open-and-shut case of murder leads Virgil Flowers, of Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension ( Rough Country, 2009, etc.), to a twisted, century-old conspiracy.ĭespite his efforts to pass off Jacob Flood’s death as an accident, it’s no secret that Robert Tripp, 19, killed the farmer with a baseball bat.

The handheld devices that could monitor blood glucose levels and could “read' many substances in the blood were spurious. There were systems failures and malfunctions every day. Swept up in fame and seeking to become wealthy, she was too blindsided by the glory the media showered on her to see that Carreyrou and other financial analysts had discovered Theranos for what it was and was not. Furthermore, she is prohibited from serving on the board of any public company for 10 years. She ultimately forfeited much of her stock in Theranos and turned over $500,000. CEOs, politicians and mega-billionaires everywhere had been bamboozled into giving millions to Holmes because they trusted that she was a genius. The following year it was worth exactly zero. In 2015, the company was valued at $9 million. Shouting matches broke out in the executive offices. A “hatchet man” was adept at, as they called it, “disappearing employees.” Things started to unravel in 2007 when former employees were found to be stealing “intellectual property” and started a company somewhat similar to Theranos. Workers were quitting in droves because of burn-out.

She wanted a 24/7 commitment from the people working in the top echelon on down. He explains for the reader the meticulous system that Holmes set up. Carreyrou writes about the machinations that drove the company between the years of 20.

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