In May 1983, the "Chicago Tribune" ran a story on David Gilmore whose 15-month-old son, Dustin Graham, had died five years previously from an easily treatable form of meningitis. Following church teaching, Gilmore and his wife had relied solely on prayer for their son's healing. Gilmore said he knew of twelve other children who had died under similar circumstances. "The Tribune" further identified fifty-two deaths from Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky which, they asserted, were attributable to church teaching. A few months later, ABC television's "Nightline" reported that pregnant women following church teaching died at a rate eight times the national average and their children at three times. "Nightline" further identified nineteen states and five countries where deaths had occurred which, they asserted, were attributable to church teaching.