Number 7 Jennifer Hall In the spring of 2022,
a former hospital worker was arrested roughly 20 years after allegedly administering a fatal dose
of medication to a patient at Hedrick Medical Centre in Livingston, Missouri. While Jennifer
Hall worked as a respiratory therapist at the rural healthcare facility, from December of 2001
to May of 2002, there was an alarming increase of code blue patients, who’d gone into cardiac arrest
under suspicious circumstances. Of the 18 to have suffered sudden complications, nine passed away,
including 75-year-old Fern Franco. A wrongful death suit was subsequently filed by the families
of five victims against the hospital, but the Missouri Supreme Court ultimately dismissed it,
arguing that the statute of limitations had run out. The hospital, which was accused of covering
up the incidents, fired Hall in 2002, a few days after the death of Fern Franco. Her termination
was officially motivated by a past arson conviction, as she’d been accused of starting a
fire at a previous hospital where she’d worked and was out on appeal at the time of her employment at
Hedrick. Hall was eventually acquitted of arson at a retrial, after spending a year in prison.
In the aftermath of Hall’s termination, the code blue patients at Hedrick “returned to historical
frequency”. An investigation was reopened into the suspicious deaths after it emerged
that Franco had substances in her system that hadn’t been prescribed by her doctor. The woman,
who’d been hospitalized for pneumonia, had been injected with lethal doses of succinylcholine,
a relaxant that paralyzes the respiratory muscles, and morphine. She fatally suffocated while still
conscious. Nearly two decades later, Hall was charged with first-degree murder for the incident
but the authorities didn’t disclose a potential motive or whether she’d face further charges,
as of the latest updates. Number 6 Ayesha Basharat
On January the 24th of 2021, a hospital worker was caught on CCTV purchasing various items from
a vending machine while using the bank card of an elderly patient, minutes after she’d passed
away. 23-year-old Ayesha Basharat was, at the time, working in the Covid ward at Birmingham's
Heartlands Hospital, in England. An unnamed 83-year-old succumbed to her condition at 1:56 pm.
Within 17 minutes, Basharat was recorded making several contactless purchases from a vending
machine. Upon returning to work, on January the 28th, Basharat tried using the card once more but,
by then, it had been cancelled. The worker was arrested during her shift and initially claimed
to have found the dead woman’s card on the floor and that it had somehow gotten mixed up with her
own possessions. It was revealed, however, that the cards were of different color and
that Basharat had blatantly ignored the protocols regarding lost patient property. She went on to
admit theft and fraud by false representation for which she was given five months in prison,
suspended for 18 months. Number 5 Wareewan Lee
A 44-year-old hospital theatre support worker was jailed for two years and three months in 2022,
after being found guilty of gradually stealing the savings of a disabled pensioner. Wareewan Lee
befriended Gerald Beach in 2006, while delivering his meals at his retirement housing complex in
Aylesford, England. She went on to unofficially care for him for roughly 12 years, a time period
during which the man’s family claimed she took over one of his bank accounts and made withdrawals
without his permission. As 83-year-old Beach, who suffered serious mobility problems, later
told the authorities, he’d allowed Lee to use his Nationwide account, for various expenses. She was
not, however, given permission to use his Lloyds account, which the pensioner kept “for rainy
days”. The woman somehow managed to obtain the PIN and made withdrawals at will, reportedly using
the money during various trips abroad and to buy gifts for her family. A fellow retiree noted that
Lee had a hold on Beach and she informed social services that the caregiver was locking him in his
home. As an official inquest commenced, the man discovered his Lloyds account was virtually empty,
holding less than $10. Between August of 2016 and June of 2018, Lee was accused of taking roughly
$15,000 from him. She denied theft in court but was ultimately found guilty in April of 2022.
Number 4 Stacey Hayes Just before midnight,
on October the 4th of 2021, a nurse at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, in Philadelphia,
gunned down a co-worker. 55-year-old Stacey Hayes emerged from an eight-floor elevator,
carrying a handgun, and ambushed Anrae James from behind, as he sat at his workstation. 43-year-old
James succumbed to multiple gunshot injuries in a local hospital. While wearing body armor over
his scrubs, Hayes drove several miles in a U-Haul before he got out of his vehicle and discharged
an AR-15 into the air. Law enforcement responded to reports of gunfire and that an armed man in
scrubs was in the area. They found Hayes at the School of the Future, at 40th and Parkside, where
the hospital worker engaged them in a shootout, letting off at least 69 shots from his assault
rifle. Arcenio Perez, one of the two officers injured in the fire exchange, was subsequently
told he might never fully regain the use of his right forearm. Hayes was critically shot in the
neck and upper body during the shootout but he eventually recovered to face justice for his
crimes. He pleaded guilty to charges including third-degree murder and, in August of 2022,
was sentenced to at least 35 years in prison which, given his age, was likely a life sentence.
Even though law enforcement believed James’ killing had been targeted, no concrete motive was
provided for Hayes’ actions. During sentencing, he only spoke to express remorse for his crimes.
There was speculation that the man’s actions had been somehow linked to an earlier confiscation of
the small arsenal he owned. Prior to the rampage, the Philadelphia police had confiscated a 12-gauge
shotgun with 12 rounds, a Panther AR-15 rifle and a Smith & Wesson pistol with three magazines
and 39 rounds from Hayes, under unspecified circumstances. He petitioned a judge for the
return of his firearms, arguing that they’d been purchased legally and that he wasn’t a threat. The
guns were handed back to him in June and, within months, Hayes went on the shooting spree.
Number 3 Nicole Lorraine Linton While working as a travelling registered nurse,
37-year-old Texas woman Nicole Lorraine Linton caused a horrific traffic accident, on August
the 4th of 2022, as she sped through a Los Angeles intersection. Even though a light had turned red
for an estimated nine seconds, Linton barreled through passing traffic in Windsor Hills. She
smashed her Mercedes into several cars, at up to 90 mph. A harrowing video of the crash was picked
up by multiple media outlets and showed Linton essentially cutting through other motorists.
Five people died in the fiery wreck, including a woman who was eight months pregnant. Linton,
who was living and working in LA at the time, survived and was subsequently charged with
six counts of murder and five of vehicular manslaughter. Court documents obtained by
the Los Angeles Times detailed that the woman suffered from severe mental health issues which
had begun to manifest in May of 2018, while she was studying nursing at the University of Houston,
Texas. That month, in the midst of a panic attack, she began running through her neighborhood before
eventually slamming herself against the hood of a police cruiser. She was arrested for disorderly
conduct and, in the days that followed, told her family she was possessed by her dead grandmother.
Linton was checked into a psychiatric hospital and diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. Further
incidents, in the years that followed, came to include self-harming behavior, a naked
rampage through her neighborhood and leaping from windows. In the hours leading up to the crash,
she’d called her sister displaying similarly erratic behavior. After going home from work
to have lunch, Linton FaceTimed the woman while fully nude and told her that hospital co-workers
were “acting weird”. She returned to work and, minutes before the crash, called her sister to
say that she was going back to Houston to get married and that she should meet her at
the altar. As of early September 2022, Linton was held without bail while her mental health
was further examined. Her defense argued that she should be placed in a mental health institution,
claiming that a psychotic break had rendered her in an unconscious state at the time of the crash.
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Number 2 William George Davis In 2017 and 2018, multiple patients
at the Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, Texas, started experiencing unexplained
complications while they were recovering from heart surgery. As they examined their CT scans,
doctors found that the patients had air in their brains. An investigation subsequently
connected the suspicious deaths to former nurse William George Davis. In April of 2018,
about a month after he’d been fired from the medical facility, the 34-year-old was arrested.
He was the only employee consistently around each of the patients and surveillance video showed him
entering and leaving their rooms moments before they experienced stroke-like symptoms. Davis was
accused of injecting air into the catheters of roughly 11 recovering patients, 6 of which passed
away. While some of the deaths were harder to prove, he was ultimately convicted of four; John
Lafferty, Ronald Clark, Christopher Greenaway, and Joseph Kalina. During his trial, Davis’ defense
tried to argue that the hospital was making him a scapegoat simply because he’d been around each
person at the time of their death. However, the prosecution maintained that the incidents weren’t
accidental. As evidence, they presented the recording of a jailhouse call between Davis and
his ex-wife, in which he’d claimed that he wanted to lengthen the time that patients spent in the
ICU so that he could earn more overtime. The jury only deliberated for two hours before sentencing
the former nurse to death on October the 27th of 2021. The decision was automatically appealed.
Number 1 David Fuller In 1987, two women were murdered several
months apart in Royal Tunbridge Wells, England, in a case that subsequently went cold for roughly 33
years. Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce, aged 25 and 20, respectively, met their end in similarly
gruesome fashion, as both had been beaten, abused and strangled to death. Knell was killed on June
the 23rd and her body was found by her boyfriend, inside her bedsit, after she’d failed to turn up
for work. Evidence indicated that she’d been assaulted either as she was dying or after her
death. Pierce was abducted from outside her Grosvenor Park bedsit, on November the 24th,
and her lifeless body was found in a remote location 40 miles away, three weeks later.
The investigation into the incidents, which would come to be known as the Bedsit Murders,
saw little progress until 2007. That’s when a review of DNA evidence collected from both crime
scenes revealed that they'd been carried out by the same unidentified perpetrator. Then, in 2020,
a DNA match linked the Knell and Pierce murders to David Fuller, a local electrician in his late 60s.
He was arrested and a search of his home revealed further disturbing crimes. Law enforcement found
several hard drives containing numerous photos and videos that showed Fuller abusing over a
hundred female corpses in hospital mortuaries. The desecrations were carried out while he’d
worked as a hospital electrician, from 2008 to 2020, at the Kent and Sussex Hospital and the
Tunbridge Wells Hospital. He pleaded guilty to the charges stemming from the corpse abuse, prior to
the trial for the murders of Knell and Pierce. While initially chasing a plea of manslaughter
on the grounds of diminished responsibility, he eventually pleaded guilty to the double murder on
November the 4th of 2021. Fuller was given a whole life sentence with a concurrent 12-year term for
his desecration crimes, upon which the sentencing judge commented, telling him “you became a vulture
picking your victims from among the dead”. Thanks for watching! Would you rather be treated
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