Salt

A tale of Texas justice and mysterious salt poisoning, from Pamela Colloff:

WHAT LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT ANDREW Burd's early life is contained in a slim Child Protective Services case file that chronicles the boy's descent into the child welfare system. His mother was just sixteen, the file shows, when she gave birth to him in Corpus Christi on July 28, 2002. She would later admit, according to one report, "to using alcohol, methamphetamines, cocaine and crack cocaine, LSD, marijuana, cigarettes, and taking prescription Xanax." His father was seventeen and worked for a traveling carnival. CPS launched its initial investigation into Andrew's well-being shortly after his first birthday, when his…