The Gaslighting of Hannah Pettey | Post Mortem

What this episode is about

The narrative centers on the harrowing case of Hannah Pettey, a young mother from Alabama who survived a near-fatal poisoning suspected to involve her husband and mother. As investigators delve deeper into the circumstances surrounding her illness, conflicting stories from key individuals reveal the complexities of trust and betrayal within her family.

Key takeaways

• Survivor stories are rare gems; Hannah Petty proves that resilience can outshine even the darkest attempts at murder.
• Love can blind, even in toxic relationships—Hannah's journey illustrates how red flags can be hard to see.
• Lead poisoning not only wreaks havoc on health but echoes in emotional scars—Hannah's ongoing battle is a grim reminder.
• Incredible medical feats become ordinary when faced with extraordinary cases; Hannah's bowel irrigation was a first for doctors.
• Every ache Hannah feels is a haunting reminder of survival; trauma doesn't just disappear, it lingers like an unwelcome guest.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Natalie Morales (Host) · 14 min speaking
• Amarie Green (Guest) · 9 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 5:00: Hannah Petty, lead poisoning, Amarie Green, attempted murder
2. 5:00 – 10:00: Nicole Petty, Lieutenant McDerman
3. 10:00 – 15:00: Chad Morgan, Lieutenant McDerman, milkshakes, Nicole Petty
4. 15:00 – 20:00: supplements, attempted murder, 2025, Chad Morgan
5. 20:00 – 22:30: Brian Petty, 2025, Chad Morgan

Notable quotes from "The Gaslighting of Hannah Pettey | Post Mortem"

• In to host today to talk with Amarie Green about a story she reported on. It is about the attempted murder of Hannah Petty who incredibly survived after being poisoned with…

  about Hannah Petty · at 0:10

• For Hannah, she had just been sort of spit out of this incredible roller coaster ride. Brian had been charged but had not gone to trial yet. And so she's kind of still stuck in…

  about attempted murder · at 2:30

• By her composure and she truly is a medical miracle. you see that X-ray of the lead impacted within her colon. It was it just lit up that X-ray.

  about lead poisoning · at 3:34

• Of liquid and on her brain or in and around her brain and that stuff had to be taken out. The fact that she has survived is stunning. she is probably still going to be living…

  about medical miracle · at 4:28

• Past and was now doing it again. is was there any evidence of any of this? So Chad Morgan is Brian's defense attorney that we met. He wasn't his first defense attorney, but he…

  about Chad Morgan · at 10:54

• Did Lieutenant McDer look into Nicole much at all? It seemed like he she was cleared pretty quickly. McDarman says she behaved like a concerned mother whereas Brian didn't seem…

  about Nicole Petty · at 12:17

• Supplements every day which investigators believed it's was their theory that those may have been the capsules that were filled with lead.

  about supplements · at 15:00

• Behavior and felt that he acted like a guilty person, at least like a person that didn't care. Well, in August 2025, Brian was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility…

  about Brian Petty · at 21:01

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Hannah Petty — Person · Central victim/survivor (core subject of episode) · 2 mentions · first at 0:16
  She survived severe lead poisoning that investigators allege was an attempted murder; her medical course, marriage, and recovery anchor the narrative.
• Brian Petty — Person · Primary suspect/defendant (convicted) · 2 mentions · first at 2:34
  Hannah Petty's husband; charged and convicted for attempted murder via lead poisoning, with alleged financial motive tied to life insurance policies.
• Amarie Green — Person · Main guest (reporter/interviewee) · 2 mentions · first at 0:10
  She reported the Hannah Petty case and provides investigative details, interviews, and trial outcomes across multiple years.
  Interview like? What was your impression of her mindset? It was 2 years ago, right? It's 2023. I really did feel like for Hannah, she had just been sort of spit out of this…
• Nicole Petty — Person · Secondary suspect / key witness (mother of victim) · 2 mentions · first at 5:59
  Hannah Petty's mother; initially considered a possible suspect and later discussed as being quickly cleared; provides emotional and contextual testimony.
• Chad Morgan — Person · Defense attorney (referenced participant) · 4 mentions · first at 10:58
  Brian Petty's defense attorney; advanced alternative theories (milkshakes, prior childhood illness) and chose not to present witnesses at trial.
• Lieutenant McDerman — Person · Lead investigator (law enforcement perspective) · 3 mentions · first at 9:18
  He is cited for assessing behavior, motive (life insurance), and access (daily exposure) in narrowing suspicion toward Brian Petty.
  Did Lieutenant McDer look into Nicole much at all? It seemed like he she was cleared pretty quickly. McDarman says she behaved like a concerned mother whereas Brian didn't seem…
• Danny Hill — Person · Key tipster/witness (contractor) · 1 mention · first at 16:32
  His call led investigators to search Brian Petty's office and obtain lead from X-ray room walls, supporting access-to-lead evidence.
  Lead to Brian until they got a phone call, which was very key in the case from Danny Hill, who's a contractor who had worked in Brian's office to install what is sort of like…
• Angela Craig — Person · Referenced prior case subject · 1 mention · first at 0:39
  A prior poisoning case discussed by the same team; used as a comparison point (milkshakes, spouse poisoning) to contextualize the Hannah Petty case.
  Actually, it is not. The last time we spoke about a poisoning case, it was a case that you had worked on, Angela Craig. And we did this actually live on stage at Crime Con. It…

Concepts & topics

• lead poisoning — Concept · Core mechanism of alleged crime / medical crisis · 2 mentions · first at 0:18
  The episode centers on intentional lead poisoning as the method of attempted murder and the extraordinary medical response that saved Hannah Petty.
• attempted murder — Concept · Primary criminal charge/topic · 3 mentions · first at 0:16
  Frames the legal proceedings against Brian Petty and the episode’s central true-crime narrative.
• supplements — Concept · Alleged delivery method (theory) · 4 mentions · first at 15:00
  Investigators theorized capsules/supplements could have been used to administer lead daily, though no capsules were recovered.
• medical miracle — Concept · Characterization of survival outcome · 2 mentions · first at 3:34
  Used to describe Hannah Petty’s unlikely survival given the severity of lead burden and invasive treatment measures.
• coma — Concept · Medical condition during hospitalization · 1 mention · first at 2:53
  Explains Hannah Petty’s hazy memory and severity of illness; she was in a coma for much of the hospital period.
  The memories were hazy. She sort of remembered the early days more than what happened to her in the hospital. She was in a coma for a lot of that time. And in fact, there were…
• medical induced coma — Concept · Specific treatment measure · 1 mention
  Cited as part of the extraordinary medical intervention used while doctors attempted continuous bowel irrigation to remove lead.
  Was all out. They had never had to do anything like that before. They didn't even know if it would work. It's part of the reason why they put her in this medically induced…
• milkshakes — Concept · Comparative detail / defense theory element · 3 mentions · first at 0:51
  Milkshakes are referenced both as a hallmark of the earlier Angela Craig case and as a defense insinuation about how lead could have been administered.
  Her mother, might have actually been responsible for poisoning Hannah. Now, Brian's defense attorney suggested it was perhaps put into some daily milkshakes that Nicole would bring to Hannah.
• Colorado dentist — Concept · Referenced comparative case archetype · 1 mention · first at 0:46
  Refers to the earlier Crime Con-discussed case where a dentist poisoned his wife; used to draw parallels (milkshakes) to this episode.
  Craig. And we did this actually live on stage at Crime Con. It was about a Colorado dentist who was accused and then recently convicted of poisoning his wife using milkshakes.…

Places & events

• 2025 — Event · Trial and sentencing year (major case milestone) · 2 mentions · first at 19:08
  June 2025 trial and August 2025 sentencing to life with parole possibility are key resolution points discussed in the episode.
  Behavior and felt that he acted like a guilty person, at least like a person that didn't care. Well, in August 2025, Brian was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility…
• 2022 — Event · Timeline anchor (hospitalization and arrest year) · 1 mention · first at 16:15
  Marks Hannah Petty’s January 2022 hospitalization and Brian Petty’s September 2022 arrest, structuring the case chronology.
  Of us have at home. that right there is come on. Yeah. So, it was in September 2022, Brian was arrested.
• 2023 — Event · Timeline anchor (interview year) · 1 mention · first at 2:27
  Used to date Amarie Green’s early interview with Hannah Petty while Brian Petty was charged but pre-trial.
  For Hannah, she had just been sort of spit out of this incredible roller coaster ride. Brian had been charged but had not gone to trial yet. And so she's kind of still stuck in…
• Crime Con — Event · Referenced live event (prior episode context) · 1 mention · first at 0:42
  Used to situate the hosts’ prior collaboration on a poisoning case (Angela Craig) and to draw parallels to the current story.
  Spoke about a poisoning case, it was a case that you had worked on, Angela Craig. And we did this actually live on stage at Crime Con. It was about a Colorado dentist who was…

Full transcript with timestamps

0:06 Welcome to Postmortem. I'm 48 hours correspondent Natalie Morales stepping in to host today to talk with Amarie Green about a story she reported on. It is about the attempted murder of Hannah Petty who incredibly survived after being poisoned with lead. Ann Marie, thanks for joining me. Thank you. It's good to be here. And what an incredible story and a survivor's story as well. But this isn't the first poisoning case that we've unpacked together. Right. Actually, it is not. The last time we spoke about a poisoning case, it was a case that you had worked on, uh, Angela Craig. And we did this actually live on stage at Crime Con. It was about a Colorado dentist who was accused and then recently convicted of poisoning his wife using milkshakes. and milkshakes actually sort of make an appearance in this case as well.

0:58 Yeah, we're going to get into all of that. All right, it was January 2022. Hannah Petty, she was a 22-year-old Alabama mother of two and she was admitted to the hospital following 6 months of suspicious symptoms. By the time she got there, though, doctors said that she had just hours left to live. Now, investigators believe she had been poisoned. And they quickly zeroed in on two possible suspects, and that would be Hannah's mother, Nicole, and Hannah's husband, Brian. Now, I have to tell you, Anarie, as I was watching this episode, I kept flip-flopping back and forth between the two, hearing their different stories and trying to figure out, okay, who is actually responsible for poisoning Hannah? You know what, Natalie? You're kind of not the only one. We had a lot of access in this case. Obviously, we had a victim who survived, so we could talk with her about her experience, but Hannah's

1:51 mother, Nicole, we spoke to several times. Hannah, we spoke to several times, and then Brian we were able to talk to. And this is over a span of a couple of years. Um, and so with each interview, you sort of learn a little bit more. The people that we spoke to, particularly Hannah, you see her evolve and change over the years. Yeah, we're going to dive into that first interview, the first time you're meeting Hannah. And as you said, it is so rare in a case like this that we actually have a survivor to be able to talk with us. And when you first met her, what was the interview like? What was your impression of her mindset? It was 2 years ago, right? It's 2023. I really did feel like for Hannah, she had just been sort of spit out of this incredible roller coaster ride. Brian had been charged but had not gone to trial yet. And so she's kind of still stuck in limbo, still trying to figure out what happened to

2:45 her. For a lot of what she went through, the memories were hazy. She sort of remembered the early days more than what happened to her in the hospital. She was in a coma for a lot of that time. And in fact, you know, there were a number of times throughout where she sort of was like, "Did Brian ask about me? You know, what did he say about me?" you could tell that there was still a part of her that um was still wondering was there love? Was this by mistake? Could he have actually done this? Was everything that I thought the life that I had built, was that all, you know, a mirage? So, you could see that she was still wrestling with it.

3:24 Yeah. I mean, it's very understandable that she was conflicted in all of this, but you do see her evolve and sort of grow as you said. I I was just so amazed by her composure and she truly is a medical miracle. I mean, you see that X-ray of the lead impacted within her colon. It was it just lit up that X-ray. It was unbelievable to see that. Yeah. The reason she could not keep anything down and she was losing weight is because she literally had lead filling her digestive system. So, she couldn't get the food down. She couldn't get the water down. it would go through and then come right back up. That's how much lead was in her system. Um, the doctors did something that they had never done before. They irrigated her bowels. Like they had to literally, you know, flush this stuff out of her system. They did it 24/7, like around the clock until it was all out. They had never had to do anything like that before. They didn't

4:20 even know if it would work. It's part of the reason why they put her in this medically induced coma. It's also as you see in the hour, you know, she had sort of liquid and on her brain or in and around her brain and that stuff had had to be taken out. The fact that she has survived is stunning. Um she is probably still going to be living with the um side effects of this for her entire life. But think about this, Natalie. Like every pain or ache she ever feels, she's going to wonder is this is this the lead that's still in my system that's going to be haunting her forever.

4:55 has to be so incredibly painful physically and emotionally of course what she went through. Now in the hour we do see that Hannah throughout seemed to try to make her marriage work despite though some pretty big red flags. I mean did their relationship start off that way too? So you know she was very young right? She's a teenager. Um he's much older 10 years and 10 months I believe she said. Um and it did not start out that way. She says that he would bring her flowers. He was really sweet th those first 6 months. But then slowly she started getting these kind of red flags. So he was a little controlling.

5:35 He would ask about, you know, the things that she wore. You know, if the skirt was above the knee, why are you wearing that? If she was talking to, you know, she said she had been working at a restaurant for a little bit. And if she was talking to somebody there, a man there for a little bit longer, he would make comments. And by the time she's getting married, she is really wondering um if she should go ahead with this. And Nicole says to her, "You can back out at any time. You can have this baby. You don't need to be married cuz just remember everyone, she was already pregnant." But also, it was her wedding day. We hear stories all the time about people getting cold feet on their wedding day. It's a nerve-wracking decision. So once again, she put that to the side. But then there was this really concerning incident. A couple years into their marriage, they went on a little vacation to North Carolina and she tells

6:27 this incredible story about the couple getting into a car accident. Um, we had her retell it. We actually sat in a car with her. So, I want to play some portion of that interview about this accident that didn't make it into the hour. I was asleep in the passenger seat and I woke up because like I don't know I think the smell woke me up because my like chest started burning like my nose started burning.

6:52 What were you smelling? And it smelt like chemicals. I mean that's the only way to explain it. It was just like straight up chemicals. I wake up. I went up and I turned to Brian and he has his shirt covered over his nose and I was like, "What is that smell?" And he just shrugged his shoulders. Like he didn't give me an answer. He just shrugged his shoulders and just kept stra staring straight ahead like with his shirt covered over his nose. And then I put my my oh I forgot my feet were on the dashboard cuz that's how I was sleeping in the car.

7:23 And I put my feet down and it was like slopping wet on the floorboard. And I told him I was like something spilled. And he said oh okay or whatever. Little bit of time goes by and he said, "I laid a jug of milk down in the back." He said, "See if that's what spilled."

7:42 And so, is that what you do? Sort of turn around. Yeah. So, I unbuck. You want me to unbuckle? So, I unbuckled and I turned around like this and I'm like looking, but it was like dark though. So, I'm like looking and then that's when the car went completely off the side of the road like this, like straight into a ditch. And it just kept going and going and I was just like holding on to the back of the seat. And I remember like I hit my head on the window really hard. I think I had a concussion cuz I started throwing up the next day. And then we flipped the car sitting this way and then um it immediately hitches flames under my feet.

8:27 Scary. Yes. So, she says Brian has no problem getting out of the car, not attempting to help in any way. She does eventually make her way out of the car, but then he tells her to tell police officers that she was the one driving and she does and that is what's on the police report now. She says at the time she thought it maybe had something to do in with insurance. So, she just sort of went along with what he said. I want to remind everyone we are talking about a very young woman here who's you know traumatized by this accident and so she just kind of went along with it. It's unbelievable. I mean hearing that story and and that as you said was not in the hour. I mean that's a giant red flag.

9:14 But then there's the other huge red flag for me as a viewer when we learned that Hannah, she told Lieutenant McDerman that Brian had taken out a life insurance policy while they were still dating. I mean, I had never even heard of that before. I didn't even know that was possible. Yeah. And and you know, Hannah was aware of the life insurance policy. Her friends said that Brian kind of framed it as like, well, this is something that adults do, you know, and of course all of Hannah's friends are are her age, right? So, he seems like the older, more knowledgeable man, but she does remember him saying, and she said this to me a couple of times, she remembers Brian saying things like, "If only I had a million dollars, then I would really be able to get this chiropractic business to the next level." I mean, while she is still in the hospital, he is trying to take out more life insurance policies. They

10:06 weren't all approved, but it would have been like $5 million if he had been successful. So, here's the interesting thing is that while Hannah is in the hospital, let's remember she's, you know, trying to survive this horrible ordeal, Brian insinuated that Nicole, her mother, might have actually been responsible for poisoning Hannah. Now, Brian's defense attorney suggested it was perhaps put into some daily milkshakes that that Nicole would bring to Hannah.

10:36 Yes. Brian also brought up, I thought this was interesting. There was a time during Hannah's childhood, I believe in second grade, where she had a lot of uh lapses from going to school because she was sick. She was in the hospital. And Brian's defense attorney again insinuated perhaps Nicole was responsible for poisoning her in the past and was now doing it again. I mean, is was there any evidence of any of this? So Chad Morgan is Brian's defense attorney that we met. He wasn't his first defense attorney, but he was the one that ended up trying the case. He talked about these milkshakes and um he said, you know, Nicole would come over to the house when Brian wasn't around and no evidence of that at all, right?

11:20 No evidence that as you and Hannah said she doesn't drink milkshakes. Nicole said I was barely over there. I mean, he never liked me. So, I you know, I certainly wasn't over there every day feeding her milkshakes. In regards to Hannah being sick in second grade, Chad Morgan did have evidence of that. We went over to his office and it's true that second grade nurse in elementary school had notes that indicated that, you know, she had seen Hannah several times, that Hannah complained about stomach aches, that eventually she was taken to UAB hospital and then she got better. Um, when I spoke to Hannah and her mother about that period of time, they they basically said, "Yeah, I was sick and then I got better. We went to the hospital and got better." That happens sometimes. Um, zero evidence that Hannah was poisoned in any way, shape, or form in second grade, but certainly there was evidence that that

12:14 the nurse remembers her being quite ill. Did Lieutenant McDer look into Nicole much at all? It seemed like he she was cleared pretty quickly. McDarman says she behaved like a concerned mother whereas Brian didn't seem to behaving the way you expect. But it was really more than that. They knew from the doctors that Hannah was intentionally poisoned. And based on just the volume of lead in her system, they believe that it was something that was probably happening on a daily basis. Only Brian had access to Hannah on a daily basis.

12:46 All right. Well, Amry, you also interviewed Hannah's mother, Nicole. Was she eager to share her side of the story?

12:53 She was not. Um, the first interview that we did, the first time we went down to Huntsville, it was really just to talk to Hannah, but Nicole was there um to be supportive. She was in another room and but she was she was talking the whole time to our producer and she was saying things like, you know, that's not exactly correct. Hannah doesn't really remember. And so after the interview was over, I said to Nicole, you know, why don't you sit down with us because you have a much better memory of what was going on with Hannah while she was sick, while she was in the hospital. And we do this first interview and I thought, what happened to the woman who was doing all this talking in the other room? She was very limited um and conservative in the way she answered my questions. So once we were finished, she told me a story that kind of put it a little bit in perspective. Um she said that while

13:49 Hannah was in the hospital and she thought her daughter was going to die, she was praying and she actually got up and found like a closet where nobody was and closed it and got on her knees and was praying to God to save her daughter. And then she realized that it was the wrong prayer. And she began praying to God that she could forgive whoever did this to her. And she believed it was Brian, that she could forgive Brian. And once she started praying to to develop a forgiving heart, she believes that Hannah's health turned the corner. And she did not want to shatter that. She did not want um to say anything that would allow a a lack of forgiveness to seep into her heart.

14:41 Wow. Well, let's go back to the investigation because Lieutenant McDerman clearly felt that it was the life insurance policies that were the clear financial motive, but was there any more concrete evidence that police had against Brian at that time? Um Hannah said that he made her take these supplements every day which investigators believed it's was their theory that those may have been the capsules that were filled with lead. Brian of course denies that completely.

15:12 Yeah. But interestingly I don't think they found any evidence of the pills anywhere, right? Or the capsules. You would think, you know, yes, he's a chiropractor, probably has access to supplements and all of that, but they never could really find the the the vehicle with which the lead was administered, right? They never found any capsules, any empty capsules, any filled capsules, anything at the house. Brian told them they could search and they did a thorough search. What is sort of interesting is that Hannah told us that Brian would keep tons of supplements at the house, but when investigators got there, they didn't find anything. Um doctors asked him, "Listen, can you just bring in these supplements or these capsules, whatever, whatever you were giving her?" And you know, he doesn't. And I thought what was so evasive of Brian is when he sends pictures of, you know, what are over-the-counter supplements that a lot

16:10 of us have at home. I mean, that right there is like, come on. Yeah. So, it was in September 2022, Brian was arrested. He pleaded not guilty to attempted murder. But as you were talking here, you know, police really didn't have any concrete physical evidence to link the lead to Brian until they got a phone call, which was very key in the case from Danny Hill, who's a contractor who had worked in Brian's office to install what is sort of like lead walls around the X-ray room. And investigators then they go and get a search warrant. They open the walls and get a piece of the lead from the walls. And I I was at that point I was like, "Okay, that's it.

16:53 They've got their evidence." Was that the smoking gun, Amarie? I mean, almost. The prosecution told me that it's really important if you can to figure out a way to put the murder weapon in the hands of the defendant. They had already arrested Brian, which I thought was pretty risky to arrest him before you even knew, you know, where the lead was coming from. And you don't have the capsules. So this this was one of two key pieces that were was missing. You know, at least they know that he had access to lead. Well, Brian was freed on half million dollar bond, but he was required to report to jail every weekend, which again, I was surprised. I mean, I'd never heard of weekend jail before that exists.

17:33 Yeah, we asked uh Madame about it. Um he said he's not sure exactly why he got that, but his guess is that the judge kind of wanted to give him an opportunity to work and support his family. He's got two little kids at that point. Um of course he wasn't going to be working as a chiropractor. And so what we know what ended up happening with him is he was living in a trailer in his grandmother's backyard. Um he said it was really difficult to find work because he had to always check in every Friday. So as rare as it is for us to hear directly from the victims. I mean it's very rare that we get to interview the defendant before the trial and you had that opportunity. I mean we saw him with the ankle monitor. You're talking to him, sitting on the bench with him. We did. We, you know, we interviewed him for a few hours and then we went on out to a park and then we were able to talk to him again there

18:28 talking about what it was like to come to that very park with his kids and the things that he misses about his family and it was a really interesting conversation but also very frustrating. I found him to be evasive to the point where a few times I'm like, "Can you just answer the question?" Like, I'm going to ask you again, Brian, this direct question. I need a direct answer. Now, keep in mind, he flat out denied poisoning Hannah. I asked him directly and he said, "No." But I left there not knowing whether I I felt anything about his guilt or innocence. I had no idea.

19:08 So, it was June 2025. Brian's trial finally gets underway. Brian's defense team said that the state lacked clear-cut evidence. I was shocked though at trial, they didn't present a single witness. I mean, what was the defense's strategy with that? I mean, you were shocked. I was shocked because the last time we had spoken to Chad Morgan before the trial, he really kind of talked a a big game. I mean, he's a like I don't know if you could really tell you. I know we show those bodybuilder pictures. He's huge. You know, he's quite a presence. Um, and he's a former police officer. I really thought he was going to come out like gang busters and he just didn't. And you know, part of the his argument was um the state didn't prove their case. The state doesn't even have a single capsule or supplement and they searched his house. And so he thought that would be, you know, strong enough. Chad Morgan says it was kind of

20:09 like a team decision to go forward simply poking holes in the prosecution's case. So the jury then gets the case on a Wednesday afternoon. The very next day, they come back, they return a verdict, guilty. And you spoke to a juror who called Brian a monster. I mean, why do you think they were so clearly um convinced of his guilt? so quickly. Here's the thing. Sometimes defendants testify even when they don't testify. And the jury was watching Brian the entire time, at least with the juror that that we spoke to basically said he did himself no favors. He was smirking.

20:55 He was making faces. They did not like him. did not like his behavior and felt that he acted like a guilty person, at least like a person that didn't care. Well, in August 2025, Brian was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. He's now appealing that verdict. After everything that Hannah went through with her two beautiful kids. I mean, how is she doing today? She's amazing. Um, with each interview she has gotten stronger, clearer, but she is every bit as sweet as she appears on camera. You know, once again, I'm going to reiterate, she was very young when she met Brian, and she is not that same person now. She went back to college. She got her, you know, teaching degree. She is now a teacher. Like, she is someone who makes things happen. Um Hannah and Brian are still married. Uh she has not been able to get a divorce yet. The criminal case really complicated the divorce

21:57 proceedings. A lot of stuff had to be put on hold. So the next date for these divorce proceedings, December 2026, and that will ultimately kind of move her towards the freedom that she wants. The kids do not visit Brian, but Hannah does come from a very loving, supportive family, and she also has the support of Brian's family as well. So, those two kids are going to be all right.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "The Gaslighting of Hannah Pettey | Post Mortem"?

Natalie Morales (Host), Amarie Green (Guest).

What is "The Gaslighting of Hannah Pettey | Post Mortem" about?

The narrative centers on the harrowing case of Hannah Pettey, a young mother from Alabama who survived a near-fatal poisoning suspected to involve her husband and mother. As investigators delve deeper into the circumstances surrounding her illness, conflicting stories from key individuals reveal the complexities of trust and betrayal within her family.

What is mentioned in this 48 Hours episode?

20 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Hannah Petty, lead poisoning, Brian Petty, attempted murder, Amarie Green, Nicole Petty. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "The Gaslighting of Hannah Pettey | Post Mortem"?

The episode runs 23 min; the transcript is about 4,003 words in 31 timestamped sections.

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