•    A lot of nurses who have done this tend to make excuses and claim that they're taking someone's life to end their suffering or on the opposite end of the spectrum, they want to get rid of difficult patients. They might be tired of taking care of someone, and they don't want to do it anymore, and they figure that the best way to do it is just to over-medicate them or give them a medication that can cause them to go into cardiac arrest. Some also might have hero syndrome, which is where they may give them a medication or too much of a medication to cause them to go into cardiac arrest so that they impress others by trying to revive them being the hero. And a lot of nurses may do this for attention, a lot of nurses may do this because they are depressed, they may want to do this to relieve frustration due to a heavy workload. You also have heard stories of doctors who might kill patients just because of experimental curiosity, wonder what this would do, or they may have a god-like power over patients and it makes them feel special or important. These are reasons in looking into it, why some nurses and doctors have chosen to kill their patients. (05:29)

•    This is not to say that every nurse who prefers the night shift is a murderer or should cause concern, but a lot of nurses or people who think that they can get away with murder in a hospital setting might prefer the night shift when no one that works administration is there. It's quiet, family members are usually not present, may be a little bit easier for them to get away with something. Association with incidents at multiple hospitals can cause issues because those jurisdictions don't communicate, so if it's someone who's had problems at several different hospitals, again and have bounced around from facility to facility, those facilities may not communicate what the problems have been, and so they get completely overlooked and the person may go to work at a hospital with a completely clean slate, even though they've caused problems at multiple different institutions. If a nurse or a doctor tries to predict when someone will die, that's a little suspicious because you really don't know... Healthy people can have cardiac arrest suddenly and be dead the next day, it can happen very suddenly. You could have a lethal arrhythmia and be gone when you are otherwise healthy or had a great day and were mobile and didn't have any problems or complaints. (08:22)

•   The police also found the recording where he had called his wife from jail and said that he wanted to lengthen the patients stay in the ICU so he could actually get over time. Now, the nurses in that facility said that that wasn't true, because they were very short-staffed, and he very well could have gotten over time even without injecting these patients with air, causing them to have to stay longer in the ICU after heart surgery. But to me, this is absolutely ridiculous. So, they had found air embolus in all these patients, he had injected it into their IVs to try and say, I did this because I knew that they would become ill or have complications and need to actually stay in the ICU longer, and I could get over time caring for them... No, I don't think so. So this guy is behind bars as well, will hopefully not see the light of day. (15:43)

•   A lot of these people were never in trouble before they committed these crimes, but... I don't know, something clicked. That's what we were talking about earlier. I guess, something just clicks. They get this crazy idea that, Hey, if I injure this patient, they're going to have to stay here longer, and I can get some over time, or if I do something to this patient and that causes them to code, I'm going to look like the good guy. When I start CPR a

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