•  I've found a New Year's Eve murder story that I thought that you all would be super interested in. I was thinking about it as I was going through all of the history of this particular story. I can remember growing up how mad I used to get. Did you all have chores? I had so many chores and I did not get allowance. A lot of my friends would have certain chores that they'd have to do certain days of the week. I was always jealous because at the age of 10, 11, 12, they always had money in their pocket. I didn't understand. My parents felt like chores were something that had to be done and that were not optional. You did not get rewarded for finishing them, for finishing them early or overachieving. There was no reward. We hated it. It was not fun. I can remember even as I got older, I would be forced to finish chores before dates. I used to get so mad because my poor dates would sit on the couch waiting for me to finish laundry before my mom would let me leave. It does make you angry when someone pesters you to do something. This story is real similar to what some of us have experienced growing up, but we didn't quite push it to this extreme, obviously. (02:14)

•  So it was December 31st of 2014. Maria, the mom, dropped the daughter, Maria, off at work. When she came back, Mario, the brother, heard a thump in the garage and he knew that his mom and Christian had gone in there to get the boxes down from the attic. Finally, Christian decided he was going to do what his mom wanted him to do. Now Mario heard this thump and he didn't hear any yelling or screaming, which you would expect to hear if there was an altercation going on in the next room. So he figured that the boxes had fallen from the attic or someone had dropped one and so the thump didn't really startle him at all. One of mom's friends had arrived shortly after this and saw Christian in the garage with a mop, a broom, and a bucket. He looked to be mopping up what she thought was red paint. Often, blood is mistaken for red paint. Not really expecting there to be blood in the garage, she just assumed that it was paint that had spilled and that Christian was in there trying to clean it up. So the friend called Maria, the mom, to tell her that Christian was acting strangely, and got her voicemail obviously. She left a voicemail whenever Maria didn't answer. Mario eventually got up. He was on the couch in the living room and noticed that his mom hadn't returned to her room and that Christian had not come back into the house. So he kind of was wondering, hey, what's going on out there? He opened the garage door from the house and saw a puddle of blood, which the friend had mistaken for paint, and saw an axe leaning against the wall. (06:07)

•  There were a lot of problems with Christian. He thought that his mother favored his older brother over him. One of the main reasons for that is because the older brother Mario did not live at home and he only came home during the holidays. And so, during that time of year, she did spend maybe a little more time with him just because that was their only chance to visit. Christian lived at home. Maria, the daughter, also lived at home. So the mom, Maria, really enjoyed the time that she got to spend with Mario during the holidays when he was visiting. Now Christian, he liked to be alone. He liked to play video games and he would sit outside for hours and stare at the sky. He also, in looking at his past, had been arrested for loitering, for prowling, and also for resisting an officer. He had been previously diagnosed with schizophrenia and he would occasionally, in the middle of the night while he was sleeping, hear voices from under his bed. (08:33)

•  And Christian's condition seemed to worsen just days before New Year's Eve. Again, when Mario would come to visit around the holidays, the two would argue often. And the main reason was because Christian was jealous of Mario. He would stay in his room most of the time when Mario would visit. I found it interesting that when the police did arrive on scene, they actually found Maria's head in the trash can. After, they found her body lying next to it. Of course, they questioned Christian, who said that he did spend two days plotting his mother's murder. He did confess and told police that he finished her off and swung the ax at her like a baseball bat. This was well planned out with no previous discussion with his therapist and no indication that he was going to do this to his mother. And keep in mind, and we see this a lot with mental illness, where the parents really go above and beyond to try to do everything that they can for the child. Somehow it just doesn't work out. Maybe they can't afford to put them in an inpatient facility where they really need to be. There's not a lot of assistance. We all know that mental health is a huge problem, not just in Florida where this occurred, but all over the world. There was no indication that he had planned on doing this. Although mom, well, everyone in the home I guess you could say, was a little bit scared of him, because he heard voices. Who knew what the voices were telling him? Who knew in the middle of the night while he was in his bed and heard voices under it, what were the voices telling him to do? (11:14)

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•  There was an 18 year old named Alex Valdez. I don't know the background, I couldn't find very much information on his parents, but he had been staying with his aunt and her boyfriend for about six months. The boyfriend was Sylvester Diaz Hernandez and he was 41 years old. Evidently the aunt and boyfriend told Alexis that he could live with them as long as he worked and continued to go to school, as well as help paying the bills. But as time went by, he decided he was going to quit school, he got a little more lax, he quit his job, he wasn't really holding up his end of the bargain. So on Christmas Eve of 2013, they asked him to leave. I don't know where he would have gone. I don't know where his parents were or if he had siblings. Like I said, I could not find that information. But on that evening, his aunt was attending a party. Alexis started drinking. You know what happens when you drink a lot. You kind of get, or some people get angry. Some people get really happy, but he evidently got angry. The two, Diaz and Alexis went to the store to buy beer, after Diaz returned home from visiting his family. Diaz's girlfriend, the aunt, was attending a party, so she wasn't there. Alexis had hid a hammer behind the door. (02:04)

•   Great Vaughn, Texas is known as the Christmas capital of Texas, it's a beautiful city. There's all sorts of events. It's very family friendly, but bad things happen everywhere, it doesn't matter. So Aziz Yazdanpanah, and we're going to call him Aziz from here on out, was a 56 year old. And he and his wife had apparently been having some marital issues and had separated. So they had a 3,100 ish square foot home in Collyville, which is kind of a well-to-do neighborhood here around where we're at. They lived there together with their two daughters and their family seemed relatively normal. Not a lot going on, nothing that really drew attention to themselves. They dressed well and everyone thought they were just a happy family, which is very common. We see that many times we don't know what goes on behind closed doors. This was actually the case in this particular incident, but the wife had left him and she'd moved literally two miles down the road into an apartment in Great Vaughn. So she wasn't living far from him. I believe that she was trying to be amicable. She wanted her ex-husband to see her daughters. Although the problem was he had not worked in quite some time. He was in the mortgage business and had not worked in I think four years. (06:44)

•   Now, when she moved out of the house in Colleyville and into the apartment in Great Vine, they actually had no water or electricity, because she was paying the bills, and then she stopped paying the bills. He had no income because he hadn't worked in four years. And she took a big part of the furniture. So, she left him with a 3,100 square foot home with no water, no electricity, and very little furniture. So that, probably on top of everything else, did not make him too terribly happy. Now, after he shot everybody, he put one of the guns in his brother-in-law's hand before he killed himself. So he was trying to make it look like the brother-in-law had something to do with the murders, or was a part of it. They determined that the brother-in-law had not shot either one of the weapons and determined that that weapon was actually placed in his hand by Aziz after he shot everyone, just before he shot himself. (10:08)

•   Years ago, when I worked in Harris County, there was a homeless gentleman who would sell newspapers in a median in front of a gas station, and no one knew who he was. I think they called him Bubba, but no one knew his legal name. And he would go into the gas station and get a drink and people would address him as Bubba, although that wasn't actually what his name was. He had no family, he had no home. He would sell these newspapers for the Houston Record Chronicle and then use what little bit of change he made off of those to feed himself. And so, I just remember he was a very thin older man and he had a very bushy gray beard and a lot of gray hair. And one morning he was struck by a car. We were never able to find out who he was. I just remember that he was in our unidentified remains cooler for quite some time. And I think they eventually just removed a phalanges or a finger and kept that for DNA purposes in case family ever came forward. But, he may not have had any family. Like I said, we didn't even know who he was to actually use his name to search for relatives, which I always thought was super sad. And then again, I thought, man, this guy's actually trying to work and trying to make a little bit of money and support himself. (13:09)

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•   Christmas and New Year are risk factors for cardiac and non-cardiac deaths. A couple of reasons for that are that people delay actually going to the ER. They don't want to rush up there if there's nothing truly wrong. They don't want to leave their families. They're in the middle of the holiday festivities. They're spending time with the people that they love and they don't want to leave. They don't want to go to the emergency room. So they delay seeking treatment and they consume a large amount of foods. We all know we all overeat during the holidays. I hate to admit it, but I am very guilty of that. Just the stress of the holidays in general, people are having to work extra hours to be able to afford Christmas gifts for the people that they buy presents for. A lot of people don't have a choice., they are new to their jobs and they are forced to work during the holiday hours. Also, just the general excitement of the holidays can build up the catecholamines that actually can cause fatal heart arrhythmias. And we don't really think about it that much, but education can help. Moderate consumption of food, not smoking, different things like that can actually improve our risk. But nonetheless, the risk is still there. (02:10)

•   So I looked over at my dad and he was clenching his chest. I could see sweat coming through his shirt and he looked like he was in pain. So I asked him, dad, are you okay? What's going on? How are you feeling? And he said, oh, my hernia is acting up. And we all know men sometimes are a little bit in denial when they have issues coming up. They don't want to go to the doctor, but he blamed it on his hernia. So my mom was in the bathroom at the time and my mom was also an RN. And so I went in there and I said, hey, mom, I'm pretty sure dad's having a heart attack. I'm going to call 911. And so her response was kind of funny. I think she was a little bit in denial. She's like, let me put my makeup on and I'll drive him up there. And I basically said, no, you can't drive and do CPR at the same time. I'm calling 911 right now. Long story short, EMS came and picked up my dad. And when they put him on the EKG, I could actually see him having a heart attack. (07:40)

•   I was looking also into deaths that occurred on Christmas day and I found one that happened back, this was way back in 1929. There was this family in North Carolina that was murdered. There was a gentleman by the name of Charlie Lawson and he was a sharecropper and he murdered his wife and six of his seven children. And this actually happened on Christmas day in 1929. The odd thing is, and this was very strange for a sharecropper because they didn't make a lot of money. But days before Christmas he took his wife and all seven of his children and they ranged in age from four months to 17 years. His wife, bless her heart, was pregnant her entire life. He took them into town to buy new clothes and his plan was to have a family portrait. This was a big family. Again, very strange for a sharecropper to do this. So on the 25th Christmas morning he shot his 7 and 12 year old daughters with a 12 gauge shotgun. They were leaving to go to their aunt and uncle's house and he went into the barn and shot them on their way to the aunt and uncle's house. Now after he did that, he went home and shot his wife, she was on the porch. Then he went into the house and shot all of his children and he bludgeoned his four month old. Then he disappeared for several hours at which time he was in the woods and he eventually shot himself in the head. Now if you can imagine being the only survivor, if you have six siblings and your parents, so a total of eight people that die on the same day and you're the only surviving family member. Can you imagine how devastating that would be? (11:57)

•  There were a lot of rumors after the event that Charlie, the dad who committed the murders, was sexually abusing his 17-year-old daughter, Marie. She had actually told a friend that she had become pregnant by her father. Now there was a rumor that Charlie had told Marie that if she ever told her mother, and this is a quote, some killing would be done. So it is believed that there's a possibility that Marie told her mom that she had been impregnated by her father, at which point he found out and carried out what he promised and killed the entire family. If y'all are like me, I would love to go to this location. But shortly after the murders, Charlie's brother opened the home as a tourist attraction. Now this is a place that I would want to go. This to me would be a vacation. It probably would be for most of you as well. So apparently when Charlie murdered Marie, the daughter that he supposedly was sleeping with, she was in the middle of baking a cake. The cake that Marie baked that day was actually on display in the home when the tourists would come in. Well guess what? People are weird and the visitors, the tourists that were coming into the house, started taking raisins off the cake for souvenirs. So people, come on. Like eventually it had to be covered with glass so that no one could touch it because everyone thought it would be cool to have a raisin off this cake that Marie baked that night. So all of the Lawsons, the entire family, were laid to rest in this family graveyard. And Arthur, who was 17 at the time, of course he was the only survivor, he's the one that came home and found his entire family had been shot. So he of course survived and went on to get married and have some children, actually four children. And then later in 1945 he was killed in a motor vehicle crash. (15:49)
 

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•  I started working as an LVN before I graduated from RN school. And so after graduation, I was able to pretty much continue my job there. But of course, my pay went up because at that point, I was actually a nurse and not a patient care tech. So I began working there and that required a lot of additional training. I got my NRP, which is going through the neonatal resuscitation program. And at that point, I was able to attend deliveries in the operating room for C-sections or vacuum extractions, which I'm not quite sure they do anymore. And they tried to do it to me when I was having my oldest daughter and I insisted that they take it off because I did not want any assistance getting her out. But there was a time too when they did a lot of forceps deliveries and those types of deliveries all put the babies in a little bit more danger than a normal vaginal delivery. And so they were done in the OR and we always had a resuscitation team on standby to actually assist in case there were any complications. And that team would consist of usually a couple of NRP trained nurses, which I was one of, and then also maybe one or two respiratory therapists. And our job was to, as soon as the baby came out, the doctor handed the nurse the baby, we would take it straight to the warmer, dry it off, keep it warm, suction the lungs or perform CPR, whatever was necessary. (03:43)

•  So mom was coming in trying to drop off her breast milk and this nurse was basically attacking her baby who was only five days old. So mom noticed all this bleeding from the mouth. Now he was one of seven that she allegedly murdered when she was working there at that hospital between June of 2015 and June of 2016. So when mom saw her, she told the mom that the blood was due to the tube that was going down his nose into his stomach, irritating his throat, and that it was causing the bleeding. But apparently it was quite a large amount of blood and this little boy only weighed, well he weighed less than three pounds when he was born. He was actually pronounced dead less than five hours after mom saw Lucy attacking him. The doctors who actually examined him said that he lost more than a quarter of his total blood volume. So initially the death was ruled a natural death and the cause was ruled a GI disorder. So they did that before ever doing an exam of any kind. They just assumed that because the baby was premature and had some stomach problems going on that they were just going to rule it natural. (08:14)

•  So again, from some of the other cases that we had talked about with nurses killing their patients, insulin was used and she'd also injected air into a four-day old's stomach through the NG tube. And then she did the same thing with that little one, searching for his parents on Facebook soon after his death, just having a strange interest in what they were doing and how the death affected their family. She also had left a three-month-old with irreversible brain damage after she tried three times to kill her by putting air into her NG tube. Now she was arrested several times and then released on bail, and the reason for that is she would bail out and then they would claim that they were going to use that time to do more of an investigation. And so arrested in 2018, released on bail, arrested for a second time in 2019, and then posted bail again. And then her final arrest was in November of 2020. And at that time, she was charged with seven counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder. The infants that she murdered, five of them were boys and two of them were girls.(11:23)

•  Great parents take great care of their children. Absolutely no known reason why the child would not survive, but for some reason they just don't. Now at the same time, we have what's called an overlay. And I think we're all guilty of this at some point when our kids are young, where they sleep in the bed with us. Many moms will go to sleep holding the baby and breastfeeding the baby and the baby will end up being smothered by mom's breasts or parents sleeping in the bed with a baby and the baby ending up face down in a pillow or up against mom's back or dad's stomach or falling between the bed and the wall and getting lodged there and causing the baby to asphyxiate or not being able to breathe. And of course, when those babies are transported to the hospital as death investigators, we still go to the home and we document many things, including where the baby was found. We have dolls that we use to actually have the parents show us where the child was found face down, face up, face against an item or a person. And so we ask a lot of questions of the parents. (15:13)
 

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• I was driving home from work earlier and I started thinking about sometimes how paranoid my job has made me over the years. And as I was driving down the road and it was very dark and the road was very curvy, I got to thinking, you know, I'm trusting that person that's coming towards me around that curve from the opposite direction not to hit me. And I don't know them from Adam and I don't know if they're paying attention. I don't know if it's somebody with a good career or if it's a kid who just got his driver's license, but I'm driving on a curvy road in the middle of the night and it's dark and I'm trusting them without knowing them at all. (00:30)

• Now this happened, I think, between May and September of this year. So it's very, very new, but he was actually arrested for putting nerve blocking agents and other drugs into IV bags at a surgery center. And so this resulted in the death of one of his coworkers and then also resulted in many of his patients having cardiac emergencies for what's considered to be a pretty simple surgery. So his name is Ronaldo Rivera Ortiz. He's a 59 year old. He was recently arrested in Plano, Texas by the police in Dallas, Texas. He faces the maximum of life in prison. But again, another example of somebody whose life is basically in our hands. I think about it frequently when you're in the hospital and I don't know how many of you have ever had surgery, but I had a kidney removed back in 2018. And I just remember when the doctor came in and he was talking to me and making small talk, trying to make me comfortable. And he got out his little Sharpie and started making X's on the left side of my abdomen and my flank. And I thought to myself, wow, I mean, we've all heard it happen. How easy would it be for them to be distracted, not be paying attention, be in a bad mood, be upset with someone and mark the wrong area and do surgery on the wrong body part or remove the wrong body part. It's kind of frightening when you think about it. (04:34)

• They've never been written up because that hospital didn't want any legal consequences. So this looks very much like probably what happened in this case. They wrote him up, but there was never anything major done about it. And he was never fired because he was friends with the CEO. He also reportedly had about $4 million in unpaid taxes. So who knows, maybe he was just trying to take other people down with him because of that. But 10 to 20 patients were transported, incubated, and had to be put on a ventilator because he was tampering with these bags. And so I know I mentioned in an earlier episode, and if you didn't hear it, I'll say it again. When I was working in a hospital setting and I would medicate my patients, I always took the blister pack of the medication and all the syringes or whatever I was going to give them into their room unopened. And as I opened them, I would explain what they were, why we were giving them and just try to educate them a little bit and also let them see, I'm opening this, I'm giving you what I'm supposed to, this is not being tampered with, those types of things. (16:43)

• But it does happen. My doctor actually left a sponge inside of me after he delivered my daughter. I'm 21 at the time, had absolutely no knowledge of what it was like to have a baby. And I was trying not to be that complaining patient who whined and something was always wrong, and this hurt and that hurt. I was trying to be tough, right? Because I'm old enough to have a baby, I should be able to handle it. And so he did my episiotomy, left the gauze in there, sewed it up. I go home and this may be TMI, but I go home and I feel this heavy, like pushing feeling on my stitches. And I'm like, what is going on? Again, I'm 21, never had a baby before. And I didn't want to complain or be that person who calls the doctor over and over and over asking, what's wrong? Something's not right. But I did, I had to. I knew something was wrong. It literally felt like another kid was trying to push their way out. And so it was so, so heavy and I couldn't figure it out. I called him, I swear y'all, I called him three times a week for two solid weeks. (19:33)
 

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•  We're back on the subject today of nurses or healthcare workers who have killed patients. And some of them are actually serial killers. So they've killed multiple patients. Nurses who kill are actually called angels of mercy or angels of death and that's a type of criminal offender who can be a serial killer, who is employed as a caregiver and will intentionally harm someone or kill someone who is under their care. The sad part about it is these people actually use their knowledge to kill their victims. So, if they're a nurse or an orderly or a tech at a hospital, or even a doctor, they're going to know what it takes, maybe even how much of a medication to use to actually kill one of their patients. And eventually, they're going to probably kill someone who is close to death or someone who is maybe on hospice or that kind of a patient. But as time goes on, it's going to escalate to encompass healthy people and people who aren't in the hospital close to death's door. Now, the typical medical professional who murders, kills about two patients a month. (00:31)

•   She was actually putting this in people's IVs who were in the hospital. And then as their IV dripped in, they just continuously got higher and higher doses of potassium. So they say she may have murdered up to three people in a single day. And like we said earlier, a lot of health care workers who murder average about probably two each month. So she was sentenced to life in prison back in 2016 and then she was cleared on appeal and then freed in 2017. She spent just a little time in jail. In 2019, she was retried and acquitted and then later in late 2020, she was re-arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Now, she was retried again that year in 2020 and acquitted again. This could be challenged again. So apparently, Italy is very well known for a slow justice system. Their cases seem to drag out for years due to appeals. There could be another challenge or appeal to her acquittal. But as far as I could see, she's actually out at this time. And surprisingly, I was reading that she wants to go back into the nursing field. So there's that. I can't imagine, I mean, I would not want someone taking care of me who had murdered over 90 people. It's hard for me to believe that she wouldn't do it again. And it's really strange that she had been a health care worker for 17 years with no real history of doing anything like this, and then all of a sudden, she just decides she's going to put potassium in IVs and start taking selfies with deceased people. (07:31)

•   So his lover slash roommate was a gentleman named Carl Hullweller, and he actually suspected infidelity and he poisoned his food with arsenic. And his reason for that was he wanted him to become so ill that he was unable to leave the house and unable to go see anyone, much less the person that he was sleeping with. But that also resulted in him killing Hullweller's father with arsenic. He poisoned his neighbor. He had a neighbor by the name of Diane Alexander. He put a serum that was infected with hepatitis in her drink, and that made her very ill. He killed another neighbor by the name of Helen Metzger by putting arsenic in her pie. So his lover was his roommate, and then he injured the one neighbor, killed his roommate's dad, and then also killed Helen by putting this arsenic in her pie. He was caught in March of 1987, and this was after an autopsy was done on one of his patients by the name of John Powell. Now, Powell had been at the hospital on life support following a motorcycle accident. So whenever they did an autopsy on Powell, and probably one reason they did that is because they suspected he had done something because they knew that he had been a patient of this guy. So they did the autopsy and there were large amounts of cyanide in his system. And this is when they really realized this guy was up to no good. Of course, he was forced to resign. He was actually, when he worked as an autopsy tech, caught stealing body parts for occult rituals. He later confessed to the poisoning. He never pretended that he didn't do it. But he did stay under the radar pretty much because he worked in an area where patients were not expected to survive. (14:32)

•   There's another nurse and this was really interesting to me because this actually did result in 35 states actually enacting laws for ensuring the safety of patients that are in the hospital, which I found interesting. But Charles Cullen was also a nurse. Now this guy when he was younger, and we also see, as I noticed, a lot of these people were not treated right. They had a really bad background. They may have been molested by a family member or a neighbor, but it seems like it all starts at a very, very young age. Now when he was nine years old, he attempted suicide and he had, you know, those chemistry sets that you can get for your kids. He actually chugged some of the chemicals that were in there. Now I don't know exactly what it was. I can't imagine those chemicals being put in the chemistry sets that we can buy for our kids now and I hope to God they're not. But he tried to kill himself at a very young age by doing that. Now his background also included his father dying when he was only seven months old. And then in 1977, his mother was killed in a car accident. So it sounds like things did not start out well for him. He attempted suicide in 84. He joined the army and was actually discharged from the army. Now in 2000, he attempted suicide by lighting a charcoal grill and then sitting in the bathtub. So he was basically waiting to be poisoned by the carbon monoxide, but it didn't work. So he worked at St. Barnabas Medical Center and that's in Livingston. He murdered several patients while he was there. He gave an insulin overdose to a patient with AIDS. Contaminated IVs were also found at the facility. They weren't really sure if he did it or not. There wasn't really enough evidence to try him for that, but they believe there was a very good chance that he did have something to do with it. But after he resigned from St. Barnabas, he went to Warren Hospital and there he murdered three elderly women by overdosing them with Dijoxin. So this guy was a nurse and he actually had access to the medications. Now some of you may know, some may not, but Dijoxin is actually an anti-arrhythmic and it's actually used for blood pressure as well. So it can be used for several different things. It's given commonly for patients that are in heart failure, who have a high heart rate or situations where their heart beats irregularly, either too fast or too slow. So it's a medication that can affect the heart muscle and he murdered three elderly women by actually giving them overdoses of the Dijoxin. (20:21)

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•    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 and we can actually bring them back, I'm going to look like a hero. So we're always loving to all people of all ethnicities and all backgrounds, and part of our job is to be non-judgmental, to remain unbiased and to take care of everybody. So I just find it interesting that there are people that abuse their power in all professions, but I find it particularly interesting in my profession, just because I could never ever, ever imagine doing that. Like I said, staying late and caring for patients and going above and beyond and making sure that they eat dinner before giving them their meds and maybe not even go into the bathroom during a 12-hour shift and not eating lunch, just going home knowing that I cared for my patients to the best of my ability was what helped me sleep at night. And again, it's not just nurses and doctors, it's every profession, but I thought that it would be interesting to focus on medical homicides and serial killers that are nurses and doctors because there are many of them. (21:55)

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•   It was so strange because this dentist, y'all was actually old as the hills, he was my mom's dentist when she was a kid. He pulled all of her teeth when she was 16 years old and gave her dentures because she had really bad teeth. I remember her telling me how bad it hurt. I thought to myself, why is she taking me to him if he caused her so much pain as a child? But nonetheless, she did... I just remember he had the most awful furniture in his waiting room, it was covered in plastic, the really thick plastic that you stick to. And then the music that he played was literally what you hear in a funeral home, it was horrifying. I can remember him filling several of my teeth without using anesthesia, so I felt every bit of it, and I guess I could thank him for my high pain tolerance, because that very well could be the reason why I can literally pass a kidney stone with a smile on my face. But this guy was evil. And it was the weirdest thing I know that many times, if you're a good kid, when you leave the dentist's office, you get some sort of gift... I found it really strange that my dentist had a ceramic workshop of some sort in his office, and he would make a plaster of Paris gifts to take home and paint. So we only had two molds, they were a rattle snake and an owl, and the owl was a bookend. (01:10)

•   I ran across the story of a little girl named Lisa and French, and looking back at her pictures that I was able to find, it reminded me very much of the pictures that they took of us when we were in kindergarten, in first grade. So she was only about four years older than me, so I was five when this happened, and of course, I never saw it on the news. It may not have ever made the news, but then again, I'm sure that my parents probably protected me somewhat from stories like this... Because I had no idea when I was younger that all these things go on in the world. Which was crazy, and I think to some extent, it's great that our parents protect us from some stuff, my kids probably wish I had, they're probably grown up paranoid because they've heard all my death stories and the worst stories ever, but somehow they survived. Lisa French was a little nine-year-old and she lived in Wisconsin, she was murdered and sexually assaulted by one of her neighbors. His name was Gerald Turner, and he lived about half a block from her and her family. On Halloween of 1973, she was trick or treating by herself, she was supposed to have a friend with her. She had left her house at about 5:45, she had a hobo costume on, so I can imagine that she looked adorable,. She had little dotted freckles on her cheeks, and her friend Ann Parker was supposed to go with her but and got grounded, so... Ann wasn't able to go with her. Lisa went alone and on her way to this party, she actually stopped at the classmates house and trick-or-treated, and then she stopped at a teacher's house and did the same... Before she went to Turner's house. (07:38)

•   Of course, a lot of those forensic mental institutions, their goal is to release those people eventually back to prison and not to home, they just can't live in the general population with everyone. So, they would not go from a forensic mental institution directly home or out in the public, they would go from there to a prison... I mean, if you could only imagine this poor little nine-year-old trick or treating on her own, it sounds like she was very trusting. I know that bad things happened back then, but I just think that they were less likely to happen then than they are now. I know that I had discussed before, but back when I was a kid, we waited till dark and we trick or treated by ourselves, our parents stayed home and handed out candy, and we went trick or treating. Now, rarely were we alone. We were usually with a friend or with several friends or even a sibling, but the plan was for her to have a friend with her, and I'm not even sure if her mother knew that the friend ended up not being able to go. But I found this a very interesting story, he basically just discarded her and he only lived half a block, so he could have been watching her for quite sometime. (15:38)

•   So the fatality rate, in reality for child pedestrians, is two to four times higher on Halloween. Of course, not just children are at risk, Halloween is the third deadliest day of the year for pedestrians, and we always have a lot of auto-pedestrian accidents. A lot of people any time of year trying to cross the road where there's not a cross walk or trying to beat traffic running across the road, and especially at night wearing dark clothes and trying to beat a car is not a good idea. So, it's always good to give your kids a small flash light or a glow stick, put some sort of reflective tape on their costumes or their shoes or even their bags of candy. And then before you go out, of course, remind the children to across the street only at intersections and always look both ways. So if you're going out or driving anywhere, always be particularly careful of intersections, especially before you turn, not everybody waits for the red walk sign before they try to cross the street at a crosswalk. And stay off of the side streets or even neighborhood streets,. Your phone is going to cause major distractions, and all it takes is not paying attention for a split second and something really bad could happen. (27:11)
 

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