Chappaqua Poison

An American Tragedy

The Evidence Archive Edition

In one of the wealthiest communities in America, a woman poisoned her partner with psychiatric medications for over a year. When he discovered what was happening, she took their daughter across the country. When he went to court to get his daughter back, the court ordered him to erase his own record of what happened. Then the people who tried to help were removed, one by one, until no one was left who had seen what happened.

54 chapters of documentary narrative built on 2,185 authenticated exhibits — court documents, laboratory analyses, sworn testimony, text messages, and photographs from five independent archives. Every claim is sourced. Every source is verifiable. A jury in San Francisco heard this evidence and found the mother liable for battery, fraud, and malice. The courts that were supposed to protect the child have not acted on the verdict.

The Evidence Archive Edition is a companion to a live federal civil rights complaint in the Southern District of New York. A great work of American nonfiction arrives fall 2026. This is the evidence it stands on.

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