I don't have a strong opinion one way or another, but just thought it would be informative to post some information about a recent case in the US with an angel of mercy who killed a number of veterans who had dementia in a VA hospital. There's some good information about the investigation although little about the motive, at least in this article, but I assume that it is an angel of mercy case where she felt sorry for them to an extent but, you never know what evil lurks in someone's heart.
'I know that judgment will come one day': Veterans Affairs hospital serial killer gets life in prison | WV News | wvnews.com
Replying to my own post here for those that can't read the article with some quotes from it (keeping in mind the 10% rule). Although she definitely did it and did plea guilty in the end, there were a lot of glaring errors and oversight and mismanagement at the hospital was a contributing factor to why she was able to get away with it and repeat it. The article doesn't mention that the US Office of Inspector General issued a pretty scathing report as to the failures. Also below are some details on what was investigated, etc.
"Mays is serving seven consecutive life sentences for murdering elderly patients at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center by giving them lethal injections of insulin. She is serving another 20-year sentence, also consecutive, for trying to kill an eighth elderly patient. Seven of the patients had some form of dementia."
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"Families have been asking questions since they realized the scope of Mays’ crimes. Mainly, they want to know why Mays wasn’t caught after the first murder, or even the second. And especially how five more homicides and the attempt at a sixth weren’t prevented."
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"Video surveillance in the hospital didn’t reach the rooms where Mays injected the victims. Mays was careful to avoid someone seeing her commit the crimes. The hospital’s shortcomings played a role, too, due to the lack of security for insulin and tracking of its use. Finally, even after investigators identified Mays as a person of interest, she didn’t confess despite hours of questioning over three interviews."
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"A pathologist autopsied the exhumed bodies. The military pathologist ruled out other possible causes of death, concluding insulin was involved. An endocrinologist ran cutting-edge testing on the bodies that had been buried for months to find out where the injections had occurred. A pharmacokineticist also identified a time range when the patients were injected, Douglas said.
Human resources records for 1,200 employees were reviewed. This pointed to four people working at all the times the crimes were committed. That was narrowed further to Mays. She was the only one of the four who worked on Ward 3A, where all the homicides occurred, according to Douglas."
