His Keyless Car Killed Him While He Slept. New Legislation Could Save Others

Pennsylvanian Russell Fish was "paranoid about everything," so much so, he even locked his bedroom door each night, his daughter said. But no lock would keep his killer out the night of Feb. 15 this year.

With his wife out of town, Fish, 68, returned home from a Subway restaurant, parked his keyless Toyota 4Runner SUV in his attached garage, ate and went to bed with his dog, Angel, by his side. Neither ever woke up.

"My dad was dead in his bed," said Tabitha Etlinger, Fish’s 35-year-old daughter. "His dog was seizing on the floor when the rescuers broke down the door the next morning. They tried to resuscitate the dog, but they could not save him either."

The killer was carbon monoxide poisoning from the SUV that Fish accidentally left running in his garage for nearly ten hours.