The Eye Drop Killer
How a former nurse almost got away with murder.
Steven Clayton was 64 years old when his wife murdered him using off-the-shelf eye drops. Former nurse, Lana Sue Clayton, pumped the drops into Steven’s drinking water until he succumbed. Lana then watched as Steven suffered for 3 days before dying. Investigators initially believed that Steven had died from a fall, but a later toxicology report alerted them to foul play and they arrested his wife.
The Claytons first made the front page in 2016, when Lana Clayton ‘accidentally’ shot her husband with a cross-bow.
The incident was believed by all to be accidental. Steven survived and the shooting seemed to be nothing more than an innocent misadventure that a couple might laugh about for years to come.
It takes a far more sinister place in one’s memory, however, given subsequent events and the painful death of Steven Clayton just a couple of years later.
Steven Clayton was worth a lot of money. He and his wife owned a $1million home in the affluent Lake Wylie and enjoyed a lifestyle of privilege.
