In 2007, 30-year-old mother of five Hannah Overton, a devout Christian, was convicted of murdering her four-year-old adopted son Andrew. The cause of death was salt poisoning, a rare but fatal condition caused by ingestion of more sodium that the body can process. Prosecutors in the case, which was covered breathlessly by local and national media, said that Overton had force-fed her son dried soup in a deliberate effort to kill her.