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(Court TV) — During a night out at a local bar near her Hutchinson, Kan., home, Juanita Goodpasture took the "Stoplight Challenge." Like the colors of its traffic-signal namesake, the drink contained red, yellow and green alcoholic beverages. According to patrons, if the drinker remained standing and did not vomit within 30 minutes, he or she won a prize. But Goodpasture, 31, did not feel so well after the drinking game, and headed home from The Point bar. The 5'7", 273-pound Goodpasture passed out in the car on the way home. Her mother got her inside the house, but the next morning found her dead. An autopsy showed Goodpasture's blood alcohol was .39, nearly five times the legal limit. Bartender Billy Scott, who mixed the concoction and also owns the bar, was charged with involuntary manslaughter in Goodpasture's death. The Investigation
Backtracking through Goodpasture's last hours on July 24, 2004, detectives focused on witnesses at The Point who remembered a drinking contest. While the details remained hazy, police learned some type of contest or challenge took place that encouraged Goodpasture to drink the potent combination and cause her death. On July 25, 2004, after hearing about Goodpasture's death, the owner-bartender of The Point, Billy Scott, went to the Hutchinson Police Department without an attorney. According to detectives, Scott portrayed Goodpasture as an alcoholic who took diet supplements. During subsequent interviews, he gave conflicting stories about the drink and the challenge. On January 19, 2005, police arrested Billy Scott and charged him with involuntary manslaughter relating to the death of Juanita Goodpasture. The Recipe | 
