Deadly American Beauty (St. Martin's True Crime Library) by Glatt John

Author:Glatt, John [Glatt, John]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2007-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

At 8:15 a.m., after Professor Rossum had left to take Pierce to school, Kristin remembered that she had forgotten to tell Greg’s boss, Dr. Gruenwald, about the tragedy. Her mother immediately volunteered to call.

As Kristin had done the previous day, Constance called Greg’s personal voicemail and immediately hung up. She tried the same number again, this time asking for Dr. Gruenwald’s son, Chris, who shared the same line as Greg, and left a message. Then she called 411 and got Orbigen’s main switchboard number.

Kristin then called Michael Robertson at the ME’s office and he agreed to call Dr. Gruenwald and give him their number.

It was just after 9:00 a.m. when Gruenwald drove into the Orbigen parking lot, hoping to see Greg’s car in its spot. When he didn’t see it, he walked into the building, planning to make another round of calls to find Greg. As he was putting down his briefcase, his assistant, Esme Nguyen, told him there was a phone call for him from a Michael Robertson, whom he had never heard of.

Dr. Robertson introduced himself, saying, “Don’t ask me any questions. This is regarding Gregory de Villers, and something’s happened to him.”

Robertson then gave him Kristin’s parents’ phone number in Claremont, telling him to call immediately. When Dr. Gruenwald asked what had happened to Greg, Robertson told him to call the Rossums and hung up.

When Dr. Gruenwald called the number, Constance Rossum answered, introducing herself as Kristin’s mom. He told her he was very concerned about Greg and asked what had happened.

“Oh, he passed away yesterday,” Constance told him. “Well, he took some drugs and it was an allergic reaction.”

Totally shocked by the news, Dr. Gruenwald asked her what drugs, as he knew Greg hated them. Constance said that her son-in-law had taken cough medicine over the weekend with some other drugs, as he was not feeling well. The drug combination must have produced an allergic reaction, she told him.

As a medical doctor, Dr. Gruenwald asked exactly what drugs he had taken, and Constance told him that Greg had not felt well on Saturday, and had continued taking medicine through Sunday. Then, when she told him Greg’s allergic reaction had happened Monday night just before he died, Dr. Gruenwald became suspicious.

“This is totally unusual,” he said. “When you have an allergic reaction, like a bee sting, it comes right away, not after two days. It was the first thing that made me a little suspicious there’s something maybe going on.”

Throughout Monday morning, Kristin made calls to friends from her parents’ house in Claremont, informing them of Greg’s death. She also received a call from Greg’s childhood friend and neighbor Laurie Shriber, who had heard the sad news from Bertrand de Villers.

“I was truly beside myself,” said Shriber. “I wanted to hear from Kristin what had happened. I took the liberty of calling her at her father’s home.”

When she asked how Greg had died, Kristin said he had taken an overdose of over-the-counter sleeping pills.

“Well, she was not crying,” Shriber remembered.

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