Scenes of a Crime is a fascinating documentary examining
the case and confession of Adrian Thomas. On September 21, 2008, one of Adrian Thomas’s four-month-old
twin sons, Matthew, was taken to the hospital for difficulty breathing. The admitting doctor identified signs of
Sepsis (caused by infection) and started to treat Matthew with antibiotics and ordered
testing. Matthew was transferred to another
hospital where Dr. Walter Edge, who was working in the Pediatric Intensive Care
Unit, was concerned with fluid around Matthew’s brain. Dr. Edge suspected the fluid was the result
of intentional abuse and notified the police; Child
Protective Services removed Thomas’s six other children from the home. Later at the hospital, Dr. Edge told the detectives
“somebody murdered this child, this child [is] going to die.”
