on december 19th, 2011, benjamin gupta, a law university student died. he is no relationship to me, but when his family got word they spent hours trading phone calls. they were in stunned disbelief. >> i received a call from my m mom, i didn't answer, i got a text message from her which was very unusual. and i said what happened. she said it is ben. he died. i just -- i didn't have any information. >> i finally said how did this happen? and she said he went to sleep the night before, and he just never woke up. >> he was always smiling, you know, in every picture. >> for days, ben gupta's family was desperate for answers, what killed him? he was only 28 years old and had recently been given a clean bill of health. how could he just not wake up? >> and then the thought went through my mind that maybe it was a sort of brain aneurism, or something must have happened. >> reporter: but the family was in for a shock after the doctor called who performed the autopsy. >> and he said they found drugs in his system. >> they say he died from an overdose of narcotics