On June 26, 1995, people in Oakland County, Michigan, watched workers in protective suits cut apart a backyard shed. They wore respirators, loaded debris into containers marked with radiation warnings, and tried to reassure anxious neighbors.
The shed belonged to the mother of David Hahn. By then, the danger was no longer a private problem inside one family's yard. Investigators feared that radioactive contamination could move through the surrounding area. The person at the center of it all was not a government scientist or a criminal with access to a national laboratory.
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