Snapshot · Morbid
James Taylor had a serious heart attack in 1970 after extreme stress from a police roadblock, giving him a pre-existing cardiac history that later masked his suspicious death.
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By the late 1960s the Taylors' arguments have spilled into the front yard; in one incident James drags Blanche down their driveway on her coat. But the real defining event comes in late September 1973, when James starts suffering what he thinks is flu — swollen glands, headaches, and escalating symptoms that soon include blistering on hands and feet, clumps of hair falling out, and a swelling face. Doctors run tests but James, worried about costs, asks them to stop. On October 2nd, Blanche gives him ice cream for a sore throat; within an hour he is writhing in violent projectile vomiting, describing the sensation of something clawing out of him. Blanche sends her daughter away, makes up the couch, and goes to sleep. In the morning she finds James dead — face blue-purple, hands twisted into claws. Her response: call his family members one by one, then call Raymond Reed and ask him to come over, and finally call an ambulance. His death is ruled a heart attack. Nobody examines the symptoms that preceded it.
Blanche carried on a near-openly public affair with her Kroger boss Raymond Reed for nearly 10 years before his wife divorced him.
James Taylor told Blanche his throat was too sore to eat dinner. She brought him ice cream. Within an hour he was writhing in agony, describing the feeling of something clawing out of him from the inside. Blanche made up the couch and went to sleep.
When Blanche found her husband dead, she called his relatives, her daughters, and her affair partner Raymond Reed before she called an ambulance. The order of those calls is its own kind of confession.
James Taylor died at 45 with symptoms — hair loss, blistering, facial swelling — completely inconsistent with the heart attack listed as cause of death.
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