Buckhalter’s mother, Gina, recalled a disturbing phone call she got from Gerod. “One day I was at work and he called and said, “Mom, I’m gonna die if you don’t help me,” she said. “He said, ‘I’m addicted to pain pills and I have to take more and more to get the effect.’ The amount of drugs that he was on was lethal.”
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