Mysterious Rise in Deaths at a Small Town Hospital | The Prosecutors | Real Crime
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- "The Prosecutors" double episode:
Ep 1 - An evening of pick-up basketball in Houston turns tragic when prosecutor Gil Epstein is murdered in a community center parking lot. Investigators depend on anonymous tips and hazy eyewitness accounts to track down a killer. District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal leads a prosecution team whose chances for a conviction are put in jeopardy by a single holdout juror.
Ep 2 - When the death rate at a rural Indiana hospital skyrockets, an investigation implicates a nurse, Orville Lynn Majors. State Police are left with a daunting task. In order to conclude that Majors is a serial killer, police first have to first figure out if the deaths were murders and then determine how he killed the patients.
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I know it's just me....a Retired Registered Nurse after 47 years in my profession. But - right from the start they were "concerned about ruining that Nurse's life/reputation" by investigating him? What about all the people he was killing right under their noses? And because of that "concern"....many many more patients died as a result. I find that very disturbing.
I find it disturbing too.
They weren’t afraid of ruining his reputation 👉they were afraid of lawsuits
It's not just you. You are correct. 💯 %
They should have w called the police instantly, so investigators could have figured it out right away. The hospital is at fault from the moment they did not call. For all after. They should have paid attention to the death rate. As soon as it began rising. Early 2020 maybe?
@@kimlarsoexactly 💯 % and should be held responsible.
It ain't just you.
It’s inexcusable that no one at the hospital investigated this for three years.
The same with Lucy Letby.
My exact thought! No excuse whatsoever!
Someone probably questioned it and got fired!
They protect their own even though there's concern and need for investigation. The amount of people who've lost their lives because of this ....well I'd hate to know the actual figure
they act like it never happened (hospital nurse)
This happens more than you think . My daughter has Addison disease and routinely has hospital stays for adjustments in her meds. My son -in-law took her to hospital got her comfortable and went home as this is almost routine. The hospitle called him and said she had fell in her toilet area, in her hospital room. He got up to her room and they had moved her and had her neck bandaged and head immobilized. She wanted to see the “cut” so her husband took off the bandage and to their horror, her throat had been slit open, they had to take her to major trauma unit in Dallas Presbyterian hospital. Her so called accident happened in the Allen Texas Presbyterian Hospital. It took over 26 stitches to close the so called cut. The hospital had to report it to the police, but since the hospital said it was an accident they did NOT interview my daughter nor examined the wound! It was a perfect slit throat. The hospital said the camera’s only showed hospital staff interning her room. They will not let us see the film without a subpoena! I even went to police station and they said if the hospital said it was an accident, there was nothing they could do. This happened November 2nd 2022. No attorney will look at this. I tell her story whenever a subject like this comes up. Some day this will happen again, if it hasen’t already! The next victim may not survive!! My daughter is Debbie Morgan-Lord Ketring.
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I'm so sorry. I hope something can be done for your daughter before it's too late!
I'm so sorry this happened to your daughter 😢 I can't see how's it's possible to cut your neck by falling. Please continue to look for a lawyer. Someone is bound to take this case. Or hire a private investigator to look into this. I don't believe for a minute that this is the first time someone was injured there. I will pray for your daughter and your family. Blessings. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Incredible, how in the world do they call that an accident? I will bet my life you can not find one sharp corner, I sharp object attached in a hospital..any hospital, unless it being handel by a professional health care personal.
I would be calling every lawyer in the books, I was cutting kindling, cut my hand with a hatchet, and it took 6 stitches, darn near cut off on index finger off. And the police won't get involved? You better double up on those lawyers... their something very fishie here.!
Maybe there's a UA-camr or two that would be interested in sharing this story to a big audience? I think that would be worth a shot & it may help u find the lawyer u need.
I hope u are successful.
My daughter would just have peace of mind if this person would be found and held accountable!
Wikipedia has an interesting page on Orville Lyn Majors. The irony is that he died at 56 yo of HEART FAILURE while arguing with a corrections officer. #Karma
His karma
I just read it! Ironic..., I'm surprised and a little disgusted that he didn't get the death penalty.
@@Alicia-if6hm Me, too!
I live in Indianapolis, Indiana and followed this case closely. Those poor souls he murdered!!! Why that mfer decided to play G-d.is beyond me.
Whoops! God's sense of humor is like that, sometimes...
Dying While Arguing??? 😮
I have to give the hospital credit for going to authorities, instead of trying to cover it up.
Yes, very much different than itber cases
Yup---- they will usually always cover for each other.
Why give them credit.? They did NOTHING ABOUT IT! Before the hospitle quieted him a representative talked to my son=in-law and TOLD him this has happened before! But this is considered “hearsay”! If you notice in the story of the male nurse the police and the hospital did nothing, the police even told the her their hands were tied! SHE had to get the proof herself!
Very true. Normally they would just throw a nurse they wanted to get rid of, a higher paid nurse or one that was chosen to be thrown under the bus. A scapegoat. I've been in that position at no fault of my own. I was not the cause, but I will not name the team that was here on the public forum. It was very traumatic for me as I was very close to this particular patient and her family. It still sickens me how it all went down.
Indeed. Bravos!!!!
Lynn Majors murdered that man right in front of his daughter 😠
Second story: Mail order bride sadly f*cked around and found out.
Can't say I feel too bad, they both ended up where they deserve to be.
_STAY IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY_
we already have enough scammers here
Because his name was Lynn
Majors first name lyn means LION. Think it is a Jewish or Scots name.
His first name was Orville, he went by his middle name
First grief -o-phile
I've ever heard of.
What kind of creature gets his jollies off grieving
offspring.
Exactly WHY could they not talk about the reason why they suspected the nurse! Unbelievable!
Because it is statistical and not tied directly to verifiable actions, which is prejudicial. More crime happens at nighttime. I could use this fact to sue lightbulb manufacturers under the premise that lightbulb exposure causes crime, but those two things are entirely unrelated even though what I am proposing is highly supported by statistics of when crime occurs.
It's purely BS. A grevious and prejudicial mistake on the part of that idiot judge.
I'm a retired mental health social worker and I've seen it all.
I was also my father-in-law's advocate. I took him to all his appointments and sat in those appointments with him.
Here's the thing - never, ever be afraid to advocate for your loved ones nor yourself. It is your right and duty to do so.
If you don't understand something, have it explained.
Have a question, get an answer.
Educate yourself on any medical procedures, medications, diagnosis.
And while we are taught to trust what doctors, nurses and anyone in the human services field says or does, remember that they are busy taking care of not only you or a loved one, but many other patients.
I agree that you should protect yourself any way possible for these people hold your life in their hands and they are strangers.🙏💕🙏💕
That's what I always have done for both of my parents but with covid we were not allowed anything not even to see them my mother died hungry cold and alone , every time I think of it my heart breaks . It sickens me to my stomach to no end .
The whole dilemma surrounding the whole outbreak has lessened my trust in the medical field .
You’re an angel on earth for your kindness and care for your father in law. Not easy to do. God bless you.
Thank You
This is sad, but very true!! Advocate and be the voice for those whose voice may not be as strong as yours!!
Its dangerous going into hospital. Your life is in their hands ✋🏻
Yep
Yep ! Yep ! I'm going to say the "medical profession." You have no idea. 😢
@@4newnewsiversen770 LOL, nah, the medical profession is fine. Some of y'all are just super paranoid.
It's not for most people.
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I had a really scary incident at a local hospital in October with a nurse. She was a young Asian woman in maybe her early 30s. She kept changing out my IV and really seemed to enjoy inflicting pain as she did it. She even looked right in my face and said,"Does that hurt?", with a look of glee on her face. The look on her face was just spine chilling, because she looked like she was literally enjoying inflicting pain. After the last time she changed the IV she turned up the drip so fast that my arm swole to twice the size and it was burning and feeling very painful. I kept calling for the nurse and finally a nurse supervisor came in with the nurse and after seeing my arm told her to remove the IV immediately. As soon as the supervisor left, she refused to take it out and said just to leave it for awhile and walked out of my room. Finally, my mom got to the hospital and by that time I couldn't even move my arm or hand because it was so full of fluids. She was able to get another nurse to finally come in and remove it. I checked myself out of the hospital before they could send in that nurse to do another IV.
She could have at least turned it off, takes half a minute to pull it out
Nursissist
Probably a nurse from the Philippines
That should have been reported to much higher authority, if the nurse didn't do what she was ordered to do, then that's scary.
They are usually very caring I hope she was reported.@@rnempson1
This is so heartbreaking. I remember how compassionate care was so emphasized in nursing school.
Lynn Majors served his sentence at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, where he died of heart failure on September 24, 2017, while he was arguing with correctional staff, Officer R. Houston.
I'm glad he died! Good justice!
@@orionxtc1119what a monster.
It still is. I’m going to nursing school right now and this is something all my professors talk about. Unfortunately, bad people will always be bad:(
He probably believed that killing old people serves some type of “greater good”. It’s scary how many people hold similar beliefs that the welfare of a “collective” is more important than individual members. We observe this mentality in both authoritarian and democratic countries, particularly on the rise during pandemics and wars.
In my 86 years of living I’ve had a few rotten doctors but I have never had anything but wonderful nurses in every hospital In which I have ever been a patient. God bless the nursing profession❤
I've had 5 major surgeries and 3 vicious nurses. They are the worst because they are all so under-appreciated. Sad, but true.
U are 86 ?
Nurses are the most undervalued people in society. They often have more knowledge than most doctors.
And doctors routinely kill patients through mis-diagnosis and incorrect prescription. Their mistakes literally get buried.
@@paintedpony2935 i've gone through my fair share of surgery and also been at the mercy of some vicious nurses.
God be with you at all times 🙏
My father died because a pharmacist gave him potassium instead of keolectite syrup. This hits home.
☹️🥺😢
Deepest condolences for your loss.
Very Sad, My Condolences 🙏🏽
Wow. Bless him and bless you sweetheart
Oh wow that's terrible. I'm so sorry. That sounds like a very large, inexcusable human error. A pharmacist, back when prescriptions were on paper, mistakenly read Coumadin 2.5mg as 7.5 and the man bled to death. This nurse blatantly murdered these pts though. So sorry for your loss. These are people we are supposed to trust. Everyone should have someone checking behind them
Why in the world doesn't every hospital have a camera in every room, hallway, elevator, etc. It shouldn't take so long to find out who's killing people. Patients could be informed when they were admitted if patient privacy or right to know is an issue.
2 reasons 1) privacy 2) HIPPA regulations.
Patient privacy? I don't want my bare ass all over CCT, thanks.
@@bluedragonfly8139 And nobody wants to see it. But the fact is that it won't be shown anyway.
Unfathomable. I have worked si hard for over 40 years to provide comfort and give the best care i can possibly give, even when i have to put on a fake smile. I cannot imagine someone in the medical field with these dark thoughts. Truly horrible
Pray for DIVINE DISCERNMENT to recognize the wolves in sheep's clothing, the secret servants of Satan who have evil honed to an art and a science.
Ah. Because you can't think that way you can't imagine that others do. I can't believe people are shocked to learn that paedophiles take jobs to be around children, for example.
Staff took too long to investigate the ICU deaths
Absolutely
It’s amazing how many people don’t understand due process of law and that everybody deserves a defense so that you cannot be accused and convicted by public opinion . Be thankful for this
There was more than public opinion available here.
Now do Trumps trials?
The defense lawyer in the first case made me sick to my stomach.
I know but that is their job. Defending evil sometimes.
It is one thing defending him in court, that is their job. However, he knew about the statistics and all the bottles of potassium in his car and garage, it was patently obvious he was guilty and yet he comes on a documentary to claim his innocence.
I feel the same way. It's one thing to defend and another to prosecute the victims!
@@georgettebowers5918 I completely agree, and I commented about how sickening it is to protect murderers who obviously so guilty!
Major's lawyer sounded reeeeal upset about all that pesky worldwide media coverage 🙄
This hospital should have been shut sooner and investigated
The Judge really tied the hands of the Prosecution. He bent over backwards for the defendant.
Prevented a potentially valid appeal/new trial though that could’ve seen him walk.
It took me 10 seconds to know it was potassium chloride being used. Hard to believe it took years for anyone to figure it out.
Hi. In pill form isn't this what they give someone exposed to radiation or to protect a body from exposure to radiation?
Oh, that's potassium iodide. Ok, I answered my own question.
Probably because we’ve heard of these stories before and we know the context. They don’t expect it or don’t want to believe that someone is actually doing that. My only guess.
Same-the second they said “felt a burning sensation” I knew.
Please note that these deaths occurred 30 years ago! The knowledge we have now wasn't available then. Besides in a court of law "knowing" something is just suspicion and is simply useless without hard-core evidence.
There was a miscommunication between my moms doctor and the pharmacy and my mom had a stroke because of their mistake 🤬
I hope you sued for negligence
Our justice system is so messed up it's like criminals have more justice than the victim. It's a shame
Agenda 2030
Conspiracy theories help provide cover for actual criminals like this one and I wish ya’ll could find a way to control your paranoia.
@@benallmark9671you can tell people over and over they don’t believe it.
Then going be to late, I am feel so bad for the younger generation what is coming to this world.
Sadly it is so worldwide. Same here in South Africa
WISH AWAY 😊@@sweetsugarjones
How did family doctor know anyone was not killed at hospital. That’s insane.
13:00 I don't blame them for suspending Majors right away. They didn't want to risk more patients being murdered.
*Update:* Majors passed away in prison in 2017.
I wonder if they had evidence of less deaths during his suspension. They didn't mention it unless I missed it.
Think he died of heart failure from another comment here.
@@bonniebloom4953 a heartless man died of a heart attack? How does that happen? Lol Just kidding. 😀
I was an R.N. In ICU CCU ER/trauma when giving IV drugs we always had to check with 2 RN,s and even if that wasn’t the Policy Thinking back I would do it anyway. I was a patient in a hospital here in a smaller town and and I was very aware and always asked the nurses what they were pushing in my IV except when I was asleep.
As an RN in the hospital we were required to double check with another RN when giving IV meds, while drawing up and pushing said med. The RN followed from drawing to giving. It’s not easy beacause we’re pushed for time but it’s safe medicine.
Absolutely true, as an older nurse, you need a 2 nurse verification when administering insulin.
We are in such a position of trust. I'm a community IV nurse, nobody to double check my medication or doses. Being a nurse is a privilege, I can't imagine how people like this man can do these things
Aside from the horror of people being murdered in a place where you are supposed to be helped, where you should be safe,
does anyone else get severe anxiety seeing a "nurse" sneaking around with a HUGE uncapped needle?
😂
I have never seen that .
ABSOLUTELY 💯 PERCENT
I'm a nurse and have attended a few WTF deaths. The strangest was a woman who'd had elective surgery and was scheduled to be discharged at 8AM. I checked on her at 6AM. She asked for a couple of Tylenol for a headache. I brought them to her, she put them in her mouth and tossed her head back to swallow and choked on them. She just died! It's as unbelievable now as it was then.
heimlich maneuver?
How can you give anything without the doctor say so this story has got to be fake
@@glendafultonObviously the woman had an order for Tylenol.
No way, crazy AF, that’s as bad as a veteran that lived through the was, came home and got killed by a car the same week
Tylenol can kill you.
7:57 LOL, here you make it painfully obvious to anyone who hadn't already noticed the chubby guy was in every death scene so far!
But there is NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT IT!!!!!
@@patriciamiller4412LOL
@@patriciamiller4412calm down it’s just an actor. Clearly nepotism at hand since he is in every sene. Those aren’t the actual people that died
This is Debbie responding to Ninamorgan6460's comment: Thank you so much for all the encouraging comments. This experience has definitely traumatized me. Unfortunately Texas laws protect hospitals. Basically I have to prove exactly what happened to me and name who did this to me. I was found unconscious on the floor in a pool of blood. The Chief Medical Officer told us there were no signs in my patient room of what my throat was cut on. No blood on anything in the room. He also told us that there was a unknown cloudy substance in my IV Bag. He said they sent it to be analyzed. The hospital told the police that the incident was from a slip and fall so they did not need to come to the hospital to conduct an investigation. At the time of incident the CMO was very apologetic & said they would investigate further. Once i left hospital, they wouldn't talk to us anymore. They will not tell us the result of the IV Bag analysis without a subpoena. Due to Texas laws, finding an attorney has been challenging. I know God is in control of this entire situation. I have faith that I will receive justice and hopefully prevent anyone else from having to go thru this horror.
The biggest question in my mind would be - after the killer nurse was suspended, how many deaths occurred between then and when he was brought to trial in comparison to when he was working in the ICU? Probably wouldn’t have been admissible in court but it would add to the certainty.
That question came to my mind.
Also, when he went on vacation were there fewer deaths and did the number of deaths increased after he was hired?
If he had worked at a previous hospital, was there an increase in deaths there?
I hope hospital administrators and medical staff, knowing that there are nurses like these, are vigilant in ensuring that a sudden increase in deaths is promptly looked into.
Seems like male nurse did it lol with in 4 minutes watch it
Exactly, that's what I thought
Thank you, I was afraid to mention the pronouns!
19:06 Death rate increase follows this nurse from shift to shift & they let him keep practicing?
Reminds of that nurse in UK, Lucy Letby, who was murdering helpless innocent babies. Everyone thought she was wonderful too.
As was Harold Shipman...wonderful doctor ,they said, but also a serial killer
How do judges + lawyers who defend murderers live with themselves? How low can you get? It's just inhuman!
Im shocked that he got away with 2 prior murders.WTF !!! This beautiful lady would still be alive had he been put away before.
Just think how undetectable this would be in our present day “died suddenly” reality.
Dude seriously
Yeah after Covid and the shots, millions of "unexplained deaths" are baffling sold out terrified scientists and medical personel.
Just using remdiservere
Exactly, because the treatments given after the covid diagnosis were damaging and mostly caused the deaths in that government sanctioned, citizen abusive, time period.
There was another male that acted so weird when he was tending too my sister in law witch had a hole in her heart and was having trouble breathing so I told my brother not too leave her alone cause that nurse was acting odd. And it wasn't Lyn mangers either. We took turns too let each other too have a rest. I would never leave any family members alone in the hospital after that.
Too means also. Why do you call your sister-in-law a witch?
Auto spell will do that too if you don't proof read before hitting post.
How can his lawyer not convince himself that his client was guilty? Let alone that these deaths were not natural? The numbers are clear and anyone with common sense would agree that there was foul play.
Money. It's why people hate lawyers. They say whatever as long as the pay is good. And the checks don't bounce.
I did 2 years of Legal Sudies at High School. When I found out that lawyers defend murderers, rapists and pedophiles, I changed my mind about becoming a lawyer. I did not realise you can be just a prosecutor if you want. No way would I defend any of them but especially a pedophile-I'm a victim myself. How can a lawyer make out he's innocent when he knows he's not. I lost respect for the profession...
@@joeythebushkangaroo1 You don't have to be a Barrister. You could stick with solicitor work. Defense Lawyers examine evidence. Cops lie, victims exaggerate, witnesses give conflicting accounts, Prosecutors over-charge, mobs over react. It's the Defense attorney's job to ensure every client gets a fair trial, guilty or not. They do the checks and balances in the system and minimize the damage to their client. The US Justice System is ridiculous, giving 3 Life Sentences when you have only 1 Life, for example. Look at the crazy indictments and fines given to Trump by his political opponents. Still no evidence of a crime, just accusations and allegations, lies and nonsense. Without good Defense Lawyers the system would run amok.
Innocent until proven guilty. The lawyer isn't required to convince himself. He's required to require police and prosecutors to prove it beyond doubt. If proven guilty, he'll argue for a reasonable sentence.
@@joeythebushkangaroo1 unfortunately some people are just not virtuous. Congratulations to you for not playing the game
Beverley Hallet, Lucy Letby & Harold Shipman, those nurse serial killers are everywhere.
Then you hav the slackers who withhold giving the scheduled antibiotics, OR the nurses who steal DILAUDID & inject the patient with water. Ive had everyone of these things happen with different hospital stays at 1 hosp. Redlands Community Hosp in Redlands Calif.
Harold Shipman was a doctor.
@@Ozziecatsmom yes a doctor not a nurse, I did a bit of typing error but it's a similar thing.
Sadly it gives the nurses and doctors that really care and do their best for their patients a bad name. Evil is everywhere and in every profession. Not everyone is who they claim to be.
*Beverley Allett*
(like Lucy Letby, another baby killer)😡😡
World's worst criminal : leaving viles of the murder weapon behind in your garage when you move
Also weird because he was apparently frugal with the potassium since the one legal use bottles had up to eight needle marks.
Donald Trump and Vladimyr Putin are the 2 world's worst criminals.
They talk about the nurse's career/reputation
But what's really at stake is the continued existence of the hospital. Tort claims will sink it forever. So, they're listening to their lawyers first and foremost.
Which tells you where their priorities are. If they'd immediately made the investigation public, the killings would stop. They should install security cameras.
And the one word I haven't yet heard in this story: AUTOPSY.
I had six hospital stays and one rehab stay --- with the exception of one staff employee, I was treated as if I was in a high-end hotel. Even the food was great. A wonderful and professional group to help when I needed extra good care.
I bet you have good health insurance if you live in the US
One of my worst nursing experiences was with a detox nurse.
It only takes one.
you have. been fortunate.
I've had one hospital stay and everyone was awesome, and yes the food was great too. (The one meal I got, lolz, because most of the time I was in I was awaiting surgery or recovering but asleep because I hadn't slept for three days before entering the hospital and only got a few hours of sleep the night before the surgery so my body was exhausted.) But maybe that was partially because my Mom worked for the same hospital business, although not at that hospital.
I hate that the "justice" system focuses on getting defendants off with their crimes rather then insuring a fair trial.
I could never be a defense lawyer, because I couldn't live with myself knowing I helped a criminal get away with it.
Why would they rule accidental death if there were bruises on neck and face?
I'm on a lot of blood thinners normally only the elderly have this problem. When you're on blood thinners even the smallest bump to your skin causes blue and black bruises. Sometimes I look as if Im a victim of dv I'm seriously bruised on my upper arms my neck people are always worried but I'm alone and have been for more the quarter of a centure😂
@@Ainaes-Felinethe same with me. All I have to do is bump something and I am bruised.
It took how many dead elderly people? Elderly people need heavy laws to protect them. They are not well accepted in society. Elderly who are ill, and are handicapped, and are an easy target anywhere need housing, care and an end to purging. In some countries it is taboo, it is deep mental illness, and even the highest malice to harm elderly who are ill, or handicapped, or who are very aged and in care with anyone. Does no one care that elderly have so many historical events of ill treatment, death and non care? How much worse is society going?
If the heart monitor readouts from these patients were so rare, why wasn't this picked ùp by the resident doctors?😊
That is an excellent question to ask! The answer is that this is a teeny tiny community hospital. I am an RN at a tiny community hospital with 70 beds and a 6 bed ICU (so one and half times bigger than this one, and also 20+ years in the future from when this happened, when regulations and oversight have only gotten more strict, precisely because of cases like this one.) At small hospitals like these, the ICU isn’t really a true ICU like you are imagining. It is where the patients who are *slightly* sicker than average (but still within the capabilities of the staff and facility to manage) go for closer monitoring and care. Patients that are *much* sicker are transferred to a larger hospital. Until a few years ago, when our hospital was bought by a bigger health system, our ICU also did not function like the ICU of a large hospital- I worked there and 90% of our patients were simply detoxing from alcohol. We had no resident intesivist (ICU specialty doctor), the hospital could not afford to pay one, nor would a doctor so qualified ever be happy overseeing such boring patients so far beneath his/her skill level. The ICU patients were treated by the same doctors who treated the less sick patients in the rest of the hospital, who would consult with more specialized doctors via telehealth as needed. (And if a patient became sick enough to need guidance from a more skilled doctor, they were quickly transferred to a facility with that capability.) In small hospitals, the community makes do with what it has, and as long as no malevolent force is at work, it works very well. There have been cases of killer nurses at larger hospitals and typically they killed a similar number of patients before being caught. Remember that in a large hospital, the caseload is overseen by numerous doctors, so each one would only see a fraction of the actual suspicious deaths, delaying the amount of time before alarms were sounded. The truth is that evil people are GOOD at what they do, and motivated not to get caught. They adapt their behavior to their circumstances to avoid the likely ways they would be caught. Remember also that the cardiologist said he went months in his regular practice without seeing the particular pattern these patients displayed in their rhythm strips. So you can deduce (and I can assure you) it is something very rare, that most non-cardiologists never see, and might not recognize the importance of if they did. He was able to recognize it when he saw it because it was his specialty. Anyone who is not a cardiologist has only a fraction of the knowledge and ability to recognize and interpret rhythm strips. So even if they were carefully examined by someone other than a cardiologist, they would most likely not be able to identify the pattern; the changes are relatively subtle compared to the vast range of variation that can occur in normal (or at least non-fatal!) rhythms. (Edited for a typo.)
You cant trust anyone.
Got so sick of my questions going unanswered by anyone in the medical profession, now say up-front, this is a yes or no question. If they can't or won't answer, I disengage.
So when this nurse was suspended, did the death rates go back to previous numbers??
yes.......was thinking that too
My thoughts EXACTLY !!!
Yes they did! I live near there and actually worked with Majors at a nursing home!
@@phyllistaylor5634Did deaths go up at the Nursing home when he was working there?😢
@alicemorton9145 he worked there through an agency, so only filled in mostly on the weekends. We all talked about it at the time and we never felt like there was a difference.
majors died of heart failure in prison 24/9/17 while arguing with correctional staff
That's September 24th of 2017 for those of us in the u.s😊
I read that as 1917 for some reason.
Potassium is actually one of the ingredients used in lethal injections... Very powerful and needed in daily intake.
I don’t believe in concurrent…separate crimes separate times!!!
This is horrible!!!😢
When people die in the manner they fear or in a place they fear- as at the campsite in the final case- there's something especially sad about that. Like Natalie Wood's lifelong fear of drowning. That idea of dread compounded with death seems overwhelming.
I've never trusted hospitals nor their staff. We're living in wicked times and everything is a business for them. Sad.
The greatest physical harm brought on me was hospital negligence and error. I have been in hospitals a lot after a severe car accident. In 1989 when I was young. Hospitals are waaaaaay different now and way worse with medical negligence than any other time. I am not afraid to die at home alone and not in a hospital. I avoid them like aplague.
Yeah I worry about my husband he's in a nursing home and I'm scared that they're going to take his pills got bipolar right and he saw a lot of medication and there's so many people on drugs right now that I worry about that
LOL, there's nothing more 'wicked' about the times we're living in than any other time in human history, and no, everything isn't 'a business for them'.
@@rosemarythyme8595 LOL, nah, hospitals are better than they've been in any other time period.
@@judypurcell6571 LOL, no one's gonna take your husband's bipolar meds, calm down.
Wish they would have said the number of deaths that decreased after the nurse, Lynn, no longer worked at that hospital, in ICU. Guarantee the deaths decreased.
In most states LVN/LPN are not allowed to give IV push medications. It may be different in Ohio as it was not mentioned in the trial beyond saying he was allowed to give shots. Shots and IV meds sre not the same thing. I am glad he was found guilty.
This was in Indiana, not Ohio.
why the h@ll is a LPN in the ICU and isn’t it illegal for an LPN to do IV pushes. it isn’t allowed in most states
@@paulamartin4523 In an ICU setting LP/LV n's mostly serve as functionary assists, meaning no meds, no IV's, not even tube feedings. They are there to serve as assists to RN's. Giving any meds in an ICU setting is not within the licensing scope of the LP/V N in any state. In a general setting, LP'LV N's do administer oral and topical meds, perform dressing and wound care and tube feedings. They can routinely insert urinary catheters. The one area they are not licensed to administer are intravenous lines, IV push meds, and of course, most are not allowed per license to actually insert an IV line. In CA, to the best of my knowledge, LP/LV N's are allowed to start IV's only after being certified in specially conducted course work, clinical supervision, written and practical examination and certification by State Boards of Nursing.
Also, from a constitutional point of view, it is not a constitutional "RIGHT' to practice nursing. You have to graduate from an accredited school of nursing and/or a Vocational School of Nursing, which usually takes 14-18 months of classroom and clinical training, and passing state boards. But shame to all hell and back on that attorney who argued the dude wasn't even in the room....gutless coward whose only concern appeared to be not losing the case. Rot.
@@paulamartin4523LPN’s & MA’s are often found in the hospital these days & most have IV training & certification
This was in 1995 so maybe they could give IV meds back then...I can't remember but I don't think so... I'm an RN graduate from 1987. I'm pretty sure that they couldn't give IV meds even back then.
"The polygraph has no evidantiary value, but it tells me if someone is lying or not." No, it doesn't show anything of the sort. That's why it's not applicable as evidence. They could just as well be dowsing or burning herbs to ask the spirits for answers.
They have books out that tell people how to beat it. But sometimes it scares people into confessing ( who are actually guilty). I honestly think it's why they still do it.
Sorry my dear but you are wrong. Plus views like yours hurt justice in Britain certainly. U.S uses pgraphs w police & they free so many innocents.
@@chrispict42 Uh, no.
@@chrispict42US uses polygraphs to try to put pressure on people to tell the truth. But the results of a polygraph are not admissable in court because they're not reliable.
Sounds like you got something to hide...
Just look at the "time of death" If Lynn was there giving the injection into the I.V. with family member present then there is your answer. It was him. Also, did the patient's chart reflect that an injection was to be given at all?
how long did it take them to realise that guy's first wifes died early/accidentally? The spouse is the first one they always look to. He was missing also. and they didn't look into him until this far into the interrogation?
Lawyers are vile pieces of garbage. How that lawyer could sit there and defend that first guy is beyond me. There’s a special place in hell for them.
Yikes! Not ALL of any one profession is vile or garbage! Some may be...
Ultimately, it is the responsibility of the individual who chooses to intentionally harm another who must be held to account for such harmful acts!
concur.
Lawyers HAVE to defend their clients. But they're not allowed to lie
@@kelliepatrick519that’s in the by laws for just about all lawyers, that they lie well, some lawyers defend people and the lawyers know themselves that there clients are guilty… but they want the win as well as the money.
Arkansas public defender back in the day gleefully laughed as she "won" freedom for a serial rapist who destroyed a young girl's life.
I want to know what happened to Emilita's young son. I hope that his maternal grandparents were able to raise him, or if not them, someone in his mother's family.
Edit: in looking for what happened to the boy, I found out that Emilita was his 4th wife, and that he served time while in the military for killing a man (manslaughter) while he was stationed in Italy.
There was no information regarding his son with Emilita. 😥
I also lived in Arlington but a different abusive husband. I moved out of State and took my children as far away as possible. Triggers my PTSD. I feel lucky to be alive.
I just don't understand why the prosecutors couldn't submit the evidence they found on the defendant
I find it so disturbing that a Judge can rule information inadmissible simply because the 1 discovering it isn't a statistician ( according to them)! Can she accurately count, was the data she presented accurate? Was the information in that data relevant? It was evidence of a possible crime involving murder, & evidence presented by 1 of the few in a position to see & find, much less showcase, highlight, or reveal such! The audacity to not allow her "full" testimony of events is a serious problem in our legal system in my opinion! And where human heads that believe they are wise can actually hamper wisdom!
Cough-cough _vaccine_ cough-cough.
Why in the world didn't the police search Lynn's residence as soon as they connected him to the deaths? If it hadn't been for his roommate reporting those empty vials, they probably wouldn't have ever done the search! Also, since they waited MONTHS after he had moved out of the house, they were lucky he hadn't cleaned out those potassium vials (That was stupid of him, really).
They didn't have a legal reason to until the roommate mentioned the vials.
@@sharoncole4868 My understanding is a nurse at the hospital discovered this particular nurse was on duty for the majority of the deaths, and brought it to the attention of the hospital administrator. That should certainly have been enough for police to get a warrant from a judge considering the number of deaths.
its going on alot so sad
When I heard of the cardiac events, I straight away thought of Potassium chloride. Being a registered male nurse since 1974. There's NO WAY I could ever consider doing this to ANY of MY patients.
what a jerk that guy was. he died in jail.....rest in peace, all his victims. poor excuse for a man, let alone a nurse. now lpns CAN NOT GIVE IV PUSH MEDS. don't know at the time , if this rule was in effect in Indiana......but no lpn should have been messing with a heparin lock.
He wasn’t playing doctor, he was playing God.
Yep, me to0 and God bless those nurses!
I will never understand how a lawyer can defend someone they know is guilty. They have no moral values.
Providing competent representation and a fair trial to everyone accused is in fact a moral value. I couldn’t do it but it’s a core component of the quest for justice as we know it.
Everybody is entitled to legal procedure.
Davisinperu~ It will all be ok. God sees the truth🙏
Everyone is entitled to a proper defense in a trial. That is a constitutional right afforded to everyone in this country. If the defense fails to do their job by providing the best representation for their client, there could be a mistrial. You wouldn't think so negatively about it if you ever found yourself in the position of needing a strong defense in a trial where your life is on the line. There have been countless times when a defendant was innocent of charges, despite overwhelming evidence being put forth against them. A lawyer's personal opinion of the guilt/innocence of their client is not what is important at trial, but the competency of being able to provide the best representation you can in order to ensure that the accused's constitutional rights are being upheld. Without that assurance, you can never be sure that justice is truly being served. In any case, if a defense's morality or personal opinion of their client clashes with their ability to provide the best possible defense, they can request to be removed or released from the case. That is at the discretion of the judge over the proceedings.
Why did he have potassium vials in the garage floor and
Found in his van?
No meds are allowed to leave
The hospital!
To my knowledge a Nurse can only administer medications that are ordered by a Doctor. The families that saw him 'injecting' some UNKNOWN substance into their loved one's IV especially those whose loved ones immediately reacted to it, should have questioned it... YELLING IT, "WHAT DID YOU JUST PUT IN THE IV?!" At the very least they should have alerted the Doctor or another Nurse. We can't be so 'intimidated' by PROFESSIONALS that we don't believe we have a right to question them.
Imlove your channel but is there any chance of putting a longer ause between cases please?
When I was a psych tech, our esteemed congressmen closed a nearby special needs facility and a number of the staff joined us. In a couple of months, we who were on first and second shift noticed that some of our most vulnerable patients, those who could not vocalize issues, were developing bruises and contusions. It didn't take a genius to figure out who was likely responsible; a woman who had transferred to the Unit 2 night shift was our most likely suspect, because it only started after she did. It stopped when she was suspended. She never came back, although I didn't keep up with what happened. I think we all were just glad those patients were no longer bruised and dirty at shift change.
In 1982 July I went to the hospital to give birth. They forced me to sign up for C/section. I tried to tell them that I will give birth naturally and they treated me bad. I ended up signing because I was scared that they may let my child die as something that I once witnessed. When I went to have the other child the doctor who was taking care of me checked my file to told me that I was not supposed to be operated. To make matters worse there was no signature of the nurses and doctors who were involved. I pointed them as I remembered them and they refused the involvement. Something else is that my uncle died a mysterious death at the hospital. He was not physically sick but mentally sick. He went to the hospital to be stabilised and those who went to see him first found him fine and he even walked them out when they left. But when my mom and my daughter went to see him they received bad news
3:03 - 3:30 I love the camera work. Goes from calm to panicked.
Winnemucca Nevada hospital nicknamed killamucca
Wow, this case really shows how tough it can be for a prosecutor to get a conviction when the jury has only limited information to work with. From their perspective only 7 patients died and they all were chronically ill to start with. Plus, the "murder" weapon was potassium which occurs naturally in the body and can't be detected in abnormal levels after death. Knowing that a murderer may get off because so much of the evidence is circumstantial and can not be mentioned in court must be a gut twisting feeling for everyone investigating.
These are excellent! Thank you!
As a nurse, this blows my mind completely. What causes someone to want to enter this profession and kill people?!!
It is the Old Old story, hospital management are more concerned sbout the'reputation' of their hospital !!!
I had hospital staff try to give me someone's else's medication. If I'd of taken it there's a good chance I'd of overdosed and died (it was 60ml of methadone) it's a good job I had the presence of mind to ask "whats that?" I had to argue with the staff member that it's not mine, I'm not on that. When she realised she had the wrong bed she scurried off with no apology
Our hospital uses a scanner to scan meds and scan the patient's wrist band. If they don't match the drawer holding the medication won't open!!
Riiiiiiiight.
That nurse was a serial killer. I imagine there will be cameras recording audio/video.
What gets me is I’ve read of several nurse killers. The most recent was a young nurse in the UK killed babies.
This kind of situation is very rare. I have been an RN for over 40 years and am from Indiana, near Clinton. I know people who worked there then. The guy was clever and did what he did because he got a sexual-like thrill from murdering people, especially old people, that he hated. He also moved around a lot and also focused on small hospitals which were desperate to hire nurses, any warm body with a Nursing License. The only other case I knew of was at a nursing home in St. Petersburg, Florida.
I remember a video of a Blake male nurse beating the shot out of frail, weak, bedridden man. It was so sad. In a nursing home. It was shocking
There are alot of nurse serial killers out there. look overseas, those are insane.
Not a medical professional here but is that first case with the hospital and nurse a textbook definition of "Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy" ???
Yes... as a survivor of MBP (mom), I hate that they call these killings "Angel of Mercy" killings.... This is Cluster B psychology and munchausen by proxy. Power is the motivation. Hero syndrome too.
LPN’s, never belonged in an ICU. As a charge nurse in the late 80’s and 90’s, I was always shocked at the amount of medical errors that I was forced to write up in incident reports. I was never so happy as when the hospital decided that only RN’s were allowed to work in our ICU. The med errors went way down, and when LPN’s were completely banned from the hospital altogether, quality of care went up, since LPN’s are trained to be more task oriented and not trained in patient assessment and procedures. IV meds should have never been administered by the LPN.
I am an LPN. I never wanted to work an icu but I can tell you I have seen as many RNS make critical errors. Don't judge by the ABC'S behind someone's name.
Been a lifelong patient. I can tell you RNs can be just as terrible. Show some humility. You aren't that great.
I have seen RNs make mistakes on simple medication instructions ?! Scary!!!! 🥵
As a registered nurse, I noted the show called Majors an LPN. Here in California we call them LVNs for licensed vocational nurse. They are not ever staffed in the ICU due to them not being able to directly inject IV meds. They can run fluid IV lines, oral meds, insulin injection, but K+ would be a no go. At least not in this state.
As a Theatre Anaesthetic Nurse in South Africa I can assure you that I would immediately be suspicious in ONE month... NO EXCUSE ACTUALLY FOR THE HEAD NURSE NOT TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON UNDER HER NOSE... 😮😮HELL NO!!! My condolences to ALL Family ❤❤❤❤
Moving the trial 30 miles away in small town America is equivalent to moving it across the street…news travels fast in such places
I like whatever you put out nick. Your videos r excellent. Another sub mentioned u and Madeline case. She is enthralled just like me. Now we need an ending.
If I were a Lawyer, I would not represent someone so despicable unless he confessed. The Judge was wrong. Any layman could lay the foundation for the stats!
To the man's attorney, why would he have the pottasium chloride in the garage if he didn't do it? I'm amazed at you.
Vials with multi punctures indicating use inconsistent with the one-time policy
Shouldn't it be in the charts what the shots were? Why couldn't that attorney say 'the shot was this, not potassium'?
I doubt it was was put in the chart
@@TheShegur63 I guess different hospitals do things differently - everything that went into my mother's iv was immediately logged on her chart last time she was hospitalized. Maybe it's just different decades, too. That sadly, they're stricter now just because of cases like this.
It was not put in the chart.
he snuck it in...
Absolutely. Even medicine given, every check done, every dressing changed, it all goes on charts even in the most basic of hospitals. I mean in major disasters if they give someone a morphine shot they write it on their head!
So, the fact that the injection wasn't on the chart proved it was something dodgy.
This judge was a mess! The defense lawyers need to be fired! And could you put a message between episodes?
I could have never been a defense attorney. How do they live with themselves?
I feel with the evidence he was guilty. My sympathy goes out to his victims.
Took them a while to realise Na/K electrolyte imbalance. It should have screamed at them. Been well known for over a century, potassium poisoning.
Why would the judge not allow the statistics. They speak for themselves.
Because they related to large number of deaths he wasn't charged with. Yet, if they'd have charged him with them all his defence would have spent so much time on the ones with less evidence it would cloud the evidence for the others. A difficult situation for the prosecution but I suspect the jury knew there were lots more deaths that they couldn't prove.
Denied because the judge had lots of difficulties with Statistics in college. He was saving the courtroom from having to think.
The defence seemed to be managing a cover up with the courts assistance while the prosecution was retricted from making their case and offering real and clear evidence meticulously gathered
No somebody like that does not die like that that quick something was it's very wrong with that