fitzgerald. >>h, my god, sheher lips are blue and -- and i n't -- i don't feel aulse. i don't feel a pul >> reporter:s a ory parent wantso he, buthis mom and dad feel compelledo she. iseemed surreal. lievable. unimaginle >> rorter: tara fitzgerald was no typical tnage at least that's what her closest friendsay. >> she lked at the world so mucheeper and with smuch more meaninghan anyone thai have met. >> reporte mt oplee worried abt om drees and was worried about what kinds of thi >> she was very philosopcal. she want to -- she wand to kn how the world worked and how the universeorkeand how d worked. >> i'd consider her an oldoul. >> such an old soul. >> yh. [ laughter ] >> reporter: but tara also h a lighte more carefree sid "quirky" is the key word when it comes to tara.

of a dferent sense of hur, anit -- she knewow to make everyone eryone laugh. >> she liked to make faces. and her and her friendwould ju act goofyometimes and th -theynj that. reporter: she lith her pant tom and mai, and her little sister in the quiet suburban city of woodbury, minnesota, not far fm thtwin cities. >> tara was a really energetic kid from a very young e. >> reporter:ording to her dad, she was a bit of a daredevil. >> yes, i got it. >> she liked to dokateboding and climbing walls. she'd do the -- tubing. rr:n the back of a at? >> yea on e backf the boat. 'cause we had the cabin. and -- she would jus a daredevil on that. >>he liked going and -- just kind of taking risks and stuff. >> reporter: but hamily and friends agree, tars greatest

sement. and so she'd play music down there a lot. and she and i woulgo down there and jam. >> i just did it. i just did it. >> she was playing guitaa lot, anshe s gettininto music a the classic '70s stuff, the beatles, lynyrskynyrd. huge, huge- huge o fan. >> rorter: yet, none of th goin the w of school. her mother, mai,ays tara was a brht hor rstt o loved learn. >> sheould reabooks -- four or fivbooks at onc and she was sitting eating dinner, and, you rdi book at e ime. >> ror you'davtoell her to te e book away from the table? >> yeah, right. bua lot of times, like, how could you ye at a kid when they read a ok? >> yeah. >> reporter: smart kid, tom? >> yes, she was a smart kid. science just came easily for her. >> reporter:nde ac her c.college admissions am, tara was or the moon.>> she lovedo rub in an brag.

in all capital lette thughout our whole coersa, h gh, lwh i g [ ht i di't evey." >> reporte it wajanuary 10 2014, and to celebrate her score and good gras, tara asked if shcohave a friday night sleepover. >> at atime was so happy >> reporter: can't turn her down. so she --eah, i can't turn her down. so say, "se. >> reporter: and the girl that came over was sody you kw? >> know, we di't knoher as well as -- as -- her clo -- clcoref gifriends. but tara knew her ty wl. and they would just sit the and watch scary movies or whatever and chat and talk >>nd e junk food >> it madee feel vy secure ing that ty we in -- in the lower vel our he an hangg out together wherey d somece from us andet they're fe. >> repter: there w sosomef tara's fri knew, at her parents didn't. tara was planning to eeriment that night with d. >>heain purposof having the sleever wato try it.

>> reporter: to y lsd? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: tara's friends say eir group, including tara, dn'tsual drink or do drs. >> as far aslike, you know, gog toarties and dgsnd alcol wasn'teally something that was like her. reporter: but still, this was high school, and they weren't exactly shocked thatara ed to try somethi illegal. >> i td her, "that's a spid idea." >> reporter: and you lefit at that? yeah. anshe didn't really wanna be talked out of it. >> i think everyone kinda knew it was kind bkelist type thing for her. i mean, she was reallynto the les and they obviouslyalk abouat kinof t in ng >> repen keo maorteenagers. tariend ca over their fray n sleepover and the two girlspent the night doing eir own thing in t basement. >> i could hear the rls down there laughing. and n' go down ere d ta to anjust wted lea them alone. >> reporter: iade their privy?>>eah. repter:heext morning tom anmai t e gis slp innd quilyeft e house

ra's little sist. they assum everything was fine athe house, unl they got a antic call. it was t mother of the friend o'slept over. >> she called and said that she waat our house and that they couldn't wake ta u >> rorte they couldn't we r ? >> rhtth, e sa, e -- somethinabout, "th she'-- she's taken some -- some drug or something." and i was, lik "what? yocan't wake her up?" i sa, "cl 1." ani imdiely got off th phone anabmai and we ot out the d go for home eporter:gs? thouldn'om it. bura'sentsas wel thr whe coity, were abouto an welce edion. >> i never would've thought at shd ta anythg. never in mlion years. >> what exactly had happened to

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blue andand i don't. don't fe pulse. i don't fe a pulse. >> you don't feel a lse? >> corre >> correct. >> oy. um try to shake heand shout-'a youka' doeshe respond? >> a arare you . >> are ylright tara? e you okayweetie? nothing. thing. >> tara are yo? >> tnd maiaced home to find their hou sund. just a loofops car and ambulance. i s prayin'. >> and t paramedics were working on h, trying to geher reat. i talked to her. i was just, you know, sayin', "please tara u ow, co back," and yin' to encouge her. >> they put her in the ambulance, took her to t hospital. >> then i went. mai was just inconsoble,o i had to just leave. i-- i went by lf and iro

so i wn-- i was inhere wither whe-- a the doctorsked ly for almostalf an hour toave tara -- d en they had to stop. >> they just told me that-- "it wasn't gonna happen," so they re g were gonna stop their effos. yeah, don't know. i was in shock i went d laid on her and criedt seemed surreal. unbeliev unbelievable. >> is a rrible story to hear on tv, a tragedy. u ner thought it cou happen. >> n in a million years. >> you neverhink that woul happen. anso, when it happens, u don't lieve it. no. >> tara's friends knew she was planning to take l-d that night. but it never occurred to them that she could die. >> she assed me, "it'sot erous." and-- ani didn't know ything

and so i assumed that she must doinger research on it. mai called them tbreak the news. >> she was really hysterical. she s saying, "en, your best friend died." and she keptelling that over and over. >> oh, my god. what did you do? >> ias just so shocked. and it was iwas, like,o meant. >> my first response w, "are you kiing?" because it didn't feel real yet. . but then it was verything kind ohit oe. andt s all ju-- evethg ll apar itigators were surised to-- b bsomething else. commander brian mueller is the head of the local drug task force. ene heard tara overdosed o l-s-d, it just didn't add up >> we dot see thatith-- lsred drug >> l--also known as acid---was created by a resrch chem ck in the s d has been studied for decades. much is known about its fect

knows d can trigger deadly behavi. >> somebjumps out a ndow or as oubecause of the lsd? >> absolutely. yeah. injurethemes ogets in a fight yeah mps out a wiow >> buthe drug itself is no usually deadly. >> an lsd overdose tically isn't gonna happen in r exrience and so, our coern at that time is immediate wt s ingested, yoknow, was that the cause of her death and is there anymore out ther >> even tara gef sicken fa was perpled. >> whehear"ad,i thought had neveheard about anybody overdosing from acid. so it smereally peculiar. i mean this some of the things tha rning tgh myind. >> and ather queion -- if tara and her friend both took e drug, d on live thother die? michelle frascons the lead dective. >> how dyoexplain th?>>erg. mean, thats ing we hadtok at. y do we havehas able communite with us a few

terview ro, anave one th g th tautoy? oufit thwas to talto the ie, o ovs quite a bit of informationro at eveni, at least a decen meline. we did pne forensics immediately. >>hat did that tl yoabout what happeneafr miight >> we knowrom their phones that this s a planned event. theyad disss it. ey toopictures >> this is a photo of tara, taken just momts after she took the drug. d that's what an actual l-d tab looks like. it was unclearo detectiv whetr those are two tabs or e tathe apart. heeatheyadected e ghof the0twas becae tara's parents wer nnbeone in the f a sporting event for her sister. d,o, thiwagonna give them time to recover. >> tara and her friend had planned it allut, even arnging to have another frnd on staby to ll, in case

and teenagerso, ty had their phes outtaking photosndideos. >> this is some of the videotake that night. e video showed investigators how e t wem n, igh -- >>ow d >>m. >> to this -- tara lying unresponsi on thbasement floor. she was in serioroublebut her frnd never woke tara's parents who were right utairs, and she ner called 9-1-1. but she did call therid who'd agreed to he in an emgency -- and she sped right over >> it sounds like she comes in rough a window. sothing's not rit thar e's not mmunatinanore. she's not lking to. d this-- trisier who com ys"i sit witonhe fl i, you know, rub her hair. i just hope it's allonna go away.

>> s stays for aitf ti. anultilyays threas foavg is, well, one, she had to get a carom but colyshe just-- it was too ea >>oo freak >> yeah. didn't wanna have t al with it. >> the friend sleepingver this heartbreaking note tos thenof. dear tara, this is the worst night of our lif and it i'tver. love, e friend." ow do the ies explain nocag r lp? aty y y they simp they didn't a gein trouble they didn't want their pents be t dappointed. these were a honor roll students. >> and they thought they could wait it out? >> right. >> because the teenagers didn't think l-s-d was alat dangerous, let alone deadly. she assumed tt it w genuine lsd. and she must havread somewhere that you-- you can't overdose on genue lsd. >> and the policwere thiing g those same les -it

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>> rep them synthetic s to a w s vepeinust st sen y. they are made fr chemils that can be unpredictable and are memes so masquading as other betteknowdrugs. tara'sase was the first time lice in this suburwe dealing with a synthetic drug deh. antara's fends say they knew little, ifnythinabou w of drugs. >> i know our health ass, which all gh schlers are quired to take, they do speak ofetic drugs. but is kind of made out to se like onof those you're noreally gonna see it in your life kinof drugs. >> are tre lots of drugs in e high school? it was caal thear a mariana and alhol ur grade or iour high school. but y up into t hier, more dangerous drugswe wodn't hea--lly hear about at so atartieswoulpe be -- they'd be sming pot, righ >> yeah. it was-- >> drinking? uh-huh. anything mo than at? >>o.

anhing more that it uallwod haeen mething that was aittlbit more private >> we were -- absolutely teifie biggt feara po depamentnds a coun as tha--omhingdead in tall dosd ented r high school, notju our community, t our ki.>> reporter:nvestigators' first prioty w locatg e drugs d getting them off the street. that meant finding the perso who sold them to tara. search tough h tt meag pointed to one name. >>o,'re leig away figure outhere's terson th-- >>ere'e ern. yup. -- ga i ta? anwho s that? >> b norlaer. >> and who is he? >> brian was cpletelunknown to us. >>eporter: brian was a high school junr, honors student, football player and a close of friend otara's >> n bee troubleefor never been inrole. never be in trouble before. >> repor yet sehow, brian s mixed upn a drug deal.

sold ta e tabs for t dolleach so, you need to find b right away >> wneed to brian >>ter:t was sarday aftern--ust hos afr tara died -- a her frids were gathered at her home. >> i rember waing and seeing mai on the couch and heing her scream. and the atmospre was just nse and everneas absoluly heartoken >> rorter: two of tara's frieknew tt brian sold h thdrug a texhim to m but dt we looking fohim too. >> he lived by tara. e and erin walked d he drovand we metp wi h o the re a jt we his ca tell m wh ened.o yoys walkiro there uh-huh. >> and brian is driving a car. >> yeah ian drove up to here eah. and we were walking frothat way. >> reporter: sitting in the car,

>> i mean head to dealith long his losing his fon top of ng, i gave her that drug so i ink it w sch for him juind of allat in silence. >> repter: but the silence was broken when a car pulled up -- ansomee apoached the window it w the pole. >>hat happens? tells brian to get outf the car, erin? >>el brian to get out of the car. so tn ll stepped out of thcar. anotr officeasd jessie and i to put our hands in the back of thear. tookurhos us everything. youcenes? >> yea >> so you're watching brn be handcuffed? yeah. eporte dn athe statiorianitted right away tt he hadupplied the drugs to tara. and he was earl i didt wa tll. >> you didn't want to kill her? >> no! [ crying ] >> was brian a drug user, a dealer? sething hd

>> n that we bieve >> reporter:an said thdrug deal w a one-time thing. somethg he'done as a favor for his frnd tar >> do you know what nd odrug it was? >>up. >>hat was it >> lsd. >> okay. and ist actuly lsd, as far as you kw, or is it sothin' se? >> i'm fairly positive it is. >> ok. >> repter:anas reluctant to s where he got it but eventually he gave police a me. hos istairg? >> a friend of mine. >> reporter:fficers went right out to fd him. th questiod alista at his ho whee confessed to seing brian the drugs, but said he was no drug dealer eith he said bought the drugs from yet anotheodry hh school t - sydnohnson. this is becoming evore concni foraw enforcement. because we have t made it ou of tigol y >> wre tse kids we' lkinabout?>> tre gd ki th've neveen in oue withheaw.

for the joty of th, straight a's honor society nor roll kid >> repter:nd n they were all ineriousrouble.ra's werst ey heardheole inveigs gog. >> iik wt the -- are you kiing me? brian noanr waonthat ves to h? how -- what is going on here? how cathis be? >>our whole world being-- >> turned upside dn.>> -- shen? >>urned den mplete.i-- he would be la pson in the world that i would've imagined that she would've gottenomething from. >> responsible kid? >>ery sponsible, very good inflnce.>> and he -- he is smart kid. >> reporter: it was that trd student from theigh school - sydney johnson who ge police the next important piece of information. a first na and cell phone he had a girlfriend whwent to woodbury hh. >> cole the lead we've enwaitg we have an adult. we have a drug dealer. we have the connection to the

le. >> reporter:heext y, 18r-leatenaer arrested with mohan thirty doses of the same ara took. readto be sold >> so,e's mof the stuff. he's peddling it. he's sel it. ot only doeshaveore of e stuff, he has more othe uff knowing that seone has alady di in oucommunity. >> reporter:ettives later doh cole and his attoey, and cole conrmed whatuthorities aeady suspected. he w lying to his clients, tellinthem the drugs were d because he knethey wouldn' want synthetics. >> becau people don't like that stuffthey think it's, they know it's bad, you kn? >> reporr:olice webout to finout extly killed tarazgal-- a dcover that iwaleat wen y beyo way beyo theuiet suburb. coming up. manyynthetic drugs are paag to seem completel

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that s. they thi it's -- ty know it's b, you know >> but y k-i. >> yeah. >> h you ever heard of it before? >> never. had never dealt with it before. >> reporter: 2-5-i is a new chemic that was onade ilgal in the u.s. two months bere ta ed. it can cause hlucinations, like lsd. t in tars caset also led to seizus, restory distress a ultimately card arrest. it sometim gs the seet na, "n-bomb" or "smiles." detectives were abt to sh us the doses th'd szed in ta'se. >> this is the size of tt. >> wait, that's-- that'she drug? on that little -- nyink pie per?>> it's smalr an my pky fingeail. >> reporte typallyacged iny ecesf tinfoil, i almostks le tras but inside, the drugare so potent, investigators have t handle them with gloves. >> the reason that -- detective frascone and i are

you c absorb that and become -- that -- the drug in there -- he drug could gein your system? >> could ayou just simply by absorption. >> reporter: a when you ta a closer look, it's easy to e how some tabs cobe stronr than others.>> there's no way of knowing the of drug on this tab here, and thisndividual tab >> they all look difrent>>ow would anywhat ey're gettin >> tha the biggest problem d our biggt concern is that thle proce is so unscientif >> repte it's a problem that's becomtional concern well. across t country, e drug enforcement administration has en an incread number of cases involving synttic drug sales,verdoses and deaths. weaid a t to aondescript builng that's deintense securi.it'she dea's reseah an testing b where weet wit supechemt, jl ad. >> are we still in t midst of agrowing idem when it ces to synthetics?

>> reporter: this a lab has analyzed anddentified more thour hured different types ofynth seized in t u.s. mo othese chemicals have one thing in common,hey've bee manufactured the sole purpe of cating chea creationigh. th is the base cmical that tara insted >> in vial is 2-5-i. >> is it just a powder? >> it is a powder. reporter: when dissolved into a liquidthe 2-5-i oaked or eye dropped onto perfoted paper to create doses at look just like d tabs. >> it looks very simar to ls it's dosed in levels that are ve similar to lsd. >> iit chemicalllike lsd iis nothecally like lsd. >>eporter: a drop of 2-5-i is far strongera drop of lsd. and if you apply too much, a singose cabe fat. >> it's like rsian roulette. you don't know unt it's too te

at effect it's gng to have, d it really just t one timehaveery ous effects. >> reporter: these new chemi arturned io drugs that come in all difnt forms -- powdills, crystals, even quids.some arelers. but ths other, eve way that kids get r hands on nthetiugs. many areol stores or head shopin packages like these, desied to make thelook harmless. >> says, "does not ctain a a-bann substans." statemts like ese are -- a ry misleing. >> even though they're in ashy packages >> they're not regulated th're not nsistent. ey're not safe. they're not tested.>> reporter:he dea hven found problems witwhat's sometimes called synthetic majuan

ngikthe majua th's bn galized in s stes the plant material has been coated osprad with a synthec dr, making it ch mo potent and ponty adly. >> this is a combination of plant material that has been dosewith a dru >> and somebody d ro that ansmoke it? >> correct, right. >> reporter: but one of the scariehings about l these synthetic drugs is wre they' coming from,nd how diffilt it itotop the ow into the united states. asis it r soone heren amica to -- buy these emical >> too ey, extrely ey. a cole clicks and it'sits y. >> reporr: coming up -- synthetic drugs, all-too temptio kids. why alers love them, too -- >>ou me oua ,5-oso veme in theschemicals, u can probab make about a ter of a milli dlars on the street. >> that'a hugeeturn investment

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internetithows up in a package. >> there rsonably savvy thway they packaget and you only imagine howy paag aresiti our borders evy sing d. you're tking about mlions and millions and millions of ages. fiing e one withhead uff it,rddo. >>ter: findi a website that willing tsell and ship these chemica st tyour doorstep, that's pretty easy. >>y producer found several wees where you can prett easilyuy a ia kilo - whh is few pounds, rig? ounds. >> 2.2 pnd if s c do , yo ? >>ell, shean't do legall t yes. if shean do it, anne can do . >> we dn't, by the way. >> oh, i'm glad to hear that i d prefer thau not. >> repter: thiis veo shot insiden actual lab in china whe synethet dgs are mafactured.

the law and ha them ipped thu.s., dealing synthetic drugs can be easier and cheaper thanealing drugs like me and lsd. ba chemicals a sold ready made no chemistry eerience required. a relatively sll investment careap enoous profits. only ty amount of e chemical is need for one dose, so ko gog y. >> sodwho knows is business can turn that int 6,500 or so foil pacts for resale.if you make out a $1,500 or so invent -- in these chemic youan probably make about a arter of a million dollars on the street. >> that's ge return on invest >> is big rkup. they're in it to makney. d they don't care whose life ey take. >> it is -- gamble everye. a kid getsd ofne o these things, they're gambng. except ty're gaminwi their life. >> baut's inconsistt? >>bsolutely, rht you i could uy t sam thing onhe se y in the

to you, and i end up dea >> rorter: that was apparently what happened in ta's case. e tabs she aer friend took were haphazardly made. d onlyara ended up wita deadly dose. >> she had this high lel of this -- this dg. >> had you er heard -- >> never heard oit. ani'm sure tara hadn either, you know. th thought they were takin something compteferent than what they were. >> what did yoknow about synthetic drugs forehi >> nothing. rorte a trafficki of syns be tougho osecute. because as soon as the federal government deems one chemil compound illegal, foreign labs alter its mocular strue. producg a similar veion that not officy ba he flain d the tianth's rig. so theres me degre playincatch-up. soli a k-a-mole where youck o anthen sething elspops up?

detees hadntified ur cal pethrehi school sten and a dealer who were invon e drugales that leado hedeath. and after months odigging, they final found t mn pplier. 19-year-old alander clauss. he was caught th moran 300 doses 2-i. >> alex you have a right to main silent. anything you say can and will be usgainst youn a urt of law. >>eporr: trugs were seiz and the entire distribution chain involved in tara was flyt wn. st one finuestion loomed. what would happen to tara's classmates? the kids whoxpected to be going off to collen, not prison >>eligious wt give erybody. t as a part,ete ll u, it's hard. it's very hard. >> reporter: coming up.

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15 years probati. yet, when it came to prosecuting the three students, there were more difficult decisions to be made. these teenagers had ner en in trouble befe and seem to have promising futures. bulike the adults, ty too we fac we facing murd c counttney peterputt. i don't want to scaids. bulliesce ople i just let them kn if you do thisyocan expect justice. and we'rprty firm abouit. >>o when investigators said theyere gointo throw the book at these kids? >> yh, i was f it. >> you we for it >> i was f it. s, absel , they me miakes. so from tht, i canuntaotdes. but the ovweng parof that am tardad, a made a miakilled daughter. they have to take responsibility for that. >> reporter: b, itevame that. inside the couy toey's office, netiatns got

reacd pleagreemes. they pleed guilty to drug sa geuvencot wenced to a coio ofole, fnd o weend a month in a dettiity. ou endnegotiating pretty creativorhe three high school students. >> i think so. why you do thatecauseto bfa. they wer't ones mang y dibung i thmed ane-tim de i don't wantto suffer. t they need toave someuilt abouathey did. itan't bfree. >> rorter:ai a we nted with thre lenient pl dealsheee gotied is ti no,ot by longhofor me. no, it's n. ara's s wouly it wasn enough. >> we we not flip abit. we put a good deal of time into going, "arwe bng too tough? are we being tou enoug" bui'nvced there fairresotiinnd >> report to all fi senteg arings and

eye. >> i wanteto rd a statement to them and -- and shothem what thiss has meant to the family. this is who ta w and what she meant to us. she meant erhing, everhing to ualong with her younger sistthout her, a pceour h so is go. >> it was heart wrenching to hearimalk about his daughter thate doesn't get to see any more. it waseay difficult to watch hid see l the emotion. >> reporter: since tara's death wi tublicity surrounding her case, woodry police have not seen anhehetidrugvee. >>hi it'finily caused a deterrent. we're t seeing it in t high hool like we were with this case. >> reporter: oe national level, the d-e increased effortto shut wn synthetic drug rings. in just the la three years,

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