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In a message dated 4/16/2005 8:46:04 P.M. Central Daylight Time, Treblclef2

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http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/breaking_news/11389203.htm

 

CBS show to focus on Christopher Pittman

 

'48 Hours' will explore whether

Zoloft led child to kill

 

NICHOLE MONROE BELL

Staff Writer

 

The Christopher Pittman case is scheduled to be featured Saturday on " 48

Hours, " a national television news magazine show, according to CBS officials.

 

The show, titled " Prescription for Murder? " will explore whether the

antidepressant Zoloft led Pittman to kill his grandparents, Joe and Joy

Pittman of Chester County, S.C., while they slept in November 2001. Pittman was

convicted of two counts of murder in February and is serving a 30-year prison

sentence. Pittman was 12 at the time of the killings.

 

A CBS spokesperson said the show, which will air at 10 p.m/9:00 Central

time - will feature an on-camera interview with Pittman, who discussed the

case

while he was out on bond during his 2 1/2 week trial. During the interview,

Pittman says the drug triggered voices in his head, and the killings were

like watching a movie.

 

" I was just laying there trying to go to sleep, and it was just like these

voices in my head, just echoing in my head, getting louder and louder and

faster, " Pittman told CBS correspondent Erin Moriarty.

 

" And what were these voices saying? " Moriarty asked.

 

" Kill. "

 

Prosecutors and jurors said they believed Pittman was a troubled youth who

was angry about being disciplined for a fight on the school bus, and knew what

he was doing when he killed the Pittmans. They noted that Pittman fled after

the killings and initially lied to police. He later told police his

grandparents deserved to die, and jailers saw him bragging to other inmates

about the

killings after his arrest.

 

The Pittman case has gained national attention because it was believed to be

the only time the Zoloft defense was used in the case of a child charged

with murder. The case also came as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

ordered

stricter warnings on antidepressants because of concerns the drug triggers

suicide in children and adolescents.

 

Want to Watch?

 

" Prescription for Murder? " a " 48 Hours " episode featuring the Christopher

Pittman case, is scheduled to air at 10 p.m./9:00pm Central Time ON Saturday

on CBS.

 

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