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True to their word, ten days after the first death Seaton-Windham CEO Lane Farrell outlined details of a compensation plan. The company was praised in many quarters for assuming responsibility so swiftly.
On June 11, the FBI arrested Gregory Pelak, aided in large part by letters he had written boasting of his deeds. Intensive searches of Pelak's apartment turned up no evidence of any equipment. Rumors soon surfaced that Pelak had kept all his notes in a black notebook, but this book has never turned up.
To this day, scientists have not been able to break down the compound. The mystery remains how someone with only a high school education could have created something so diabolically ingenious. Was it a fluke? Was Pelak a lackey for someone else?
In the weeks leading to his trial, Pelak refused to say anything other than to admit his guilt. He teased reporters by announcing he would tell everything at the trial.
While being led to the courtroom on the morning of August 6, 1991, Pelak was shot dead by a man who had somehow been able to get through the wall of security and reporters. The killer was a man who had lost his wife and both sons to the tainted toothpaste. The assumption was that Pelak had taken all his secrets to the grave with him.
After Seaton-Windham had paid out massive amounts of money in settlement claims, the furor died down. However, slowly but surely, many of those seemingly unaffected began experiencing strange and different alterations. The idea of a connection existing between the Shine Scandal and this new breed of people with strange powers and abilities was initially dismissed as a rumor.
Eventually, the truth came out.
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