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Blanche Taylor Moore, The Oldest Woman on Death Row (Part 2)
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Two Surgeries, No Answers: Medical Mystery Deepens
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Dwight is admitted to hospital and X-rays reveal a significant mass in his intestines. Surgeons open him up and find nothing — not even a blockage — just inflammation. His intestines are physically removed and inspected end-to-end. A second mass appears in a different location on follow-up scans, and a second surgery produces the same baffling result: nothing. [1] — Ash Kelley "Pooled arsenic in Dwight Moore's intestines looked exactly like a solid mass on X-rays because arsenic is a heavy metal X-rays can't penetr…" 49:47 Meanwhile, Blanche grows progressively less present and less caring, and Dwight's family starts to wonder if the engagement is over. Dwight, ever optimistic, attributes her distance to personality rather than malice. Ash and Alaina note with dark irony that Dwight consistently recovered fastest during the stretches when Blanche wasn't around.
Dwight Moore's EKG results appeared to be the profile of a much older person who had suffered years of heart problems, despite him never smoking, drinking excessively, or having a prior cardiac history.
Doctors told Dwight there was a mass but had no explanation for it. Before anyone called for next of kin or a specialist, Blanche was on the phone telling his sisters the mass was cancerous. It matched a pattern: she had a habit of calling time of death before emergency services.
Dwight Moore underwent two surgeries in which his intestines were fully removed and inspected, with surgeons finding nothing both times because the arsenic had already moved through his system.
