American Monster on ID: Was foul play involved in Steve Claytons death?

Publish date: 2024-04-20

In July 2018, resigned mogul Steve Clayton was found lethargic inside his home in Lake Wylie by his better half, Lana, who had quite recently gone into the house in the wake of trimming the grass. A clinical inspector at first decided that he died of normal causes – a coronary failure – after his significant other guaranteed he was sick and incapacitated with dizziness for three days at that point. In any case, a resulting dissection and toxicology report decided that a synthetic found in eyedrops were distinguished in his body in huge sums.

His significant other, Lana Clayton, guaranteed her better half favored adding a couple of drops of Visine in his espresso each day, yet she later admitted to spiking his beverages herself with a deadly portion. She asserted that he had been harmful towards her, which made her demonstration. Be that as it may, investigators accepted she killed him for the cash. Lana confessed to intentional homicide and altering food or medications.

ID’s American Beast will return to the homicide Steve Clayton from eyedrops harming in an episode named The universally adored Uncle. The authority summation of the episode states:

“Steve and Lana Clayton appear to be a dedicated couple, however all isn’t as it appears; an evil arrangement is carried on throughout the span of a few days, leaving one of them dead.”
The forthcoming episode airs this Friday, May 19, at 8 pm ET.

Lana Clayton called 911 on July 21, 2018, and let them know that she had possibly gone into the house subsequent to trimming the grass when she found her significant other Steve inert at the lower part of the flight of stairs.

Steve Clayton was a resigned mogul who was once had a pioneering progress in the games recovery field. He was living with his 52-year-old spouse on a waterfront property, which was designed according to President George Washington’s Mount Vernon Bequest. Lana, his seventh spouse, was a medical caretaker from Oklahoma. The couple had hitched in 2015 and gotten comfortable the Lake Wylie, South Carolina,.

As per Oxygen, Lana intially let specialists know that Steve was sick and disabled for two or three days yet wouldn’t see a specialist. She guaranteed she attempted to direct CPR when she found the 64-year-old inert. Be that as it may, she couldn’t turn him onto his back.

Agents guaranteed that the coroner’s fundamental assessment tracked down no signs of swelling or scraped areas, which reasoned that Steve Clayton didn’t die from the fall. The staining in his body recommended that he experienced a coronary failure. In any case, Lana would not finish an examination, asserting that it could uncover humiliating mysteries about the casualty partaking in cannabis.

Steve’s relatives, who were dubious of his better half, got some information about his will when she purportedly became unfriendly, which provoked relatives to finish an examination. In August, a toxicology report at long last uncovered that there was tetrahydrozoline, a substance found in eye drops that can cause cardiovascular and respiratory issues, and even passing whenever ingested, present in his framework in enormous sums.

Steve Clayton died in the wake of consuming a lethal measure of Visine, however his significant other didn’t appear to be shocked by the disclosures. Lana guaranteed that Steve favored taking a couple of drops of Visine in his espresso each day. In addition, her record of the occurrence, when asked once more, was conflicting with everything she previously said to police.

Specialists likewise found out about an occurrence with a crossbow from 2016 when Lana purportedly released a bolt at Steve that struck him in the head. At that point, the couple let police know that it was a mishap.

During an ensuing pursuit of their property and her PDA, she confessed to putting “Visine in his water” since she had become worn out on his controlling, manipulative, and harmful ways. The medical caretaker guaranteed her significant other was vicious and hit her in the past before at long last confessing to exhausting a full container of the eye drops into the casualty’s water. As per Oxygen, Lana Clayton said:

“I pressed it hard. I was so furious. I simply maintained that him should have looseness of the bowels to be hopeless.”

Lana never owned up to wanting to kill or damage Steve, yet investigators presumed that it was a homicide in view of all the proof they found while researching his uncommon passing. They estimated that Lana needed to keep up with her rich lifestyle, yet their marriage had arrived at its limit, and without a will or prenuptial understanding, she would acquire Steve’s riches.

In January 2020, she confessed to deliberate homicide and altering a food or a medication causing demise and was condemned to 25 years in jail without the chance for further appeal in Steve Clayton’s homicide. ore deeply study the case on ID’s American Beast this Friday at 8 pm ET.

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