斯坦因施耐德博士经过实例分析认为,SIDS是可以遗传的,这也可以解释为什么在同一个家庭中会有多个婴孩猝死。华内特后来又生下了两个孩子——茉莉和诺亚,尽管博士悉心照料,但是这两个孩子依然没能逃脱死亡魔咒。1972年,斯坦因施耐德博士在《儿科学》杂志发表了一篇里程碑式的论文。他在论文中写到SIDS是一种遗传性疾病,和婴儿睡眠窒息有关。论文引起了强烈反响,而斯坦因施耐德博士所推荐的睡眠监视器的销量也大幅上涨。二十年以来,霍伊特一家(也就是论文中所提到的“H”一家)的遭遇,也成为了医学界的悲剧范本。
However, in the early nineties, a district attorney in upstate New York, who had been tipped off by a suspicious forensic pathologist, took a closer look at Steinschneider’s paper and opened an investigation. As Richard Firstman and Jamie Talan recount in their book, “The Death of Innocents,” under questioning by police in 1994, Waneta Hoyt confessed that her children had died not from S.I.D.S. but, rather, because she had smothered them. She later recanted this confession. But, in 1995, she was convicted of killing all five children and sentenced to seventy-five years in prison.
然而,在九十年代的早些时候,纽约州北部偏僻地区的一名地方律师在一个颇富质疑精神的法庭病理学者的指导下,重新阅读了斯坦因施耐德博士的论文,并展开了一系列调查。理查德·福斯特曼和杰米·塔兰两人将调查结果写进《无辜者之死》一书中。1994年,在警察的审讯中,华内塔·霍伊特承认她的孩子并非死于SIDS,而是她亲手闷死的。然而随后,她又推翻了自己的口供。1995年,华内塔因为杀害自己的五个孩子被定罪,并判处七十五年徒刑。
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