Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / SERIAL KILLER DOCTOR? Dr. William Husel prescribes lethal doses of fentanyl, killing over 25 patients. Are there more?
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- 0:05Speaker 1: A doctor allegedly kills twenty five patients by deliberately prescribing
- 0:13Speaker 1: lethal doses of opioids. It's just too much for me
- 0:18Speaker 1: to take in. I've never in all my years of
- 0:22Speaker 1: me going back and forth to doctors and taking the
- 0:24Speaker 1: twins and my mom and my dad seeing a nurse
- 0:26Speaker 1: challenge the doctor's decision. Wow. What about the twenty five
- 0:31Speaker 1: dead people crime stories with Nancy Grace. Doctor William Husel
- 0:48Speaker 1: is accused in three separate lawsuits of ordering lethal doses
- 0:51Speaker 1: of fentanyl for twenty seven patients who were in intensive
- 0:54Speaker 1: care or near death. Husel and his attorneys have declined
- 0:58Speaker 1: to comment, and no one answered the door at Hustl's
- 1:03Speaker 1: home after we stopped by for a second time this week.
- 1:06Speaker 1: The hospital fired him. In his place, twenty caregivers, including
- 1:09Speaker 1: nurses and pharmacists on leave. Supporters of the nurses have
- 1:13Speaker 1: said some were following doctor's orders, but that's not good enough,
- 1:17Speaker 1: according to Lisa Emrick, with the steelenge a doctor's order
- 1:19Speaker 1: if they think it's wrong, we will use the word
- 1:21Speaker 1: clarify when if wrong, I don't know what wrong means.
- 1:25Speaker 1: The nurse is required to give critical analysis to the
- 1:31Speaker 1: order Okay, so now are we actually blaming the nurse? Wow?
- 1:37Speaker 1: Talk about using a nurse's escape, but you forget about that.
- 1:40Speaker 1: What about the twenty five dead people? I'm Nancy Grace.
- 1:43Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.
- 1:46Speaker 1: A medical doctor is responsible for twenty five deaths. All
- 1:51Speaker 1: Star panel with me right now, Savannah lawyer Mark Tate.
- 1:56Speaker 1: You can find him at Tate Lawgroup dot com. Bruce
- 1:59Speaker 1: Jo's an owner ESP Investigations Master Sergeant, Region one Crime
- 2:05Speaker 1: sing Commander Chicago Metro. That's not a walk in the park.
- 2:10Speaker 1: New York psychologists joining me from Manhattan, Karen Stark, Special
- 2:14Speaker 1: guest Hilly Nelson from ABC six Fox twenty eight Columbus.
- 2:19Speaker 1: But to you, renowned chief medical Examiner, doctor William Moroney,
- 2:25Speaker 1: Bay County, Michigan, who actually created a new portable treatment center.
- 2:31Speaker 1: It's like a giant RV. He created to travel to
- 2:36Speaker 1: combat fentnel and opioid overdose. How can you know after
- 2:40Speaker 1: the first patient kills over dead? Why do they have
- 2:44Speaker 1: to be twenty four more? Doctor Moroney? Don't you people
- 2:47Speaker 1: take it the hippocratic oath we do when some of
- 2:50Speaker 1: us take it very serious. The problem is that there's
- 2:53Speaker 1: a failure in the system that did not identify this
- 2:58Speaker 1: physician with a rogue attitude. The failure in the system
- 3:04Speaker 1: is he should have been checked by nurses and farm
- 3:06Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, wait, wait, doctor Maroney. Doctor Maroney, you
- 3:10Speaker 1: know what you know how I feel about you and
- 3:11Speaker 1: your whole family. I usually respect every single thing you say.
- 3:15Speaker 1: But I got twenty five dead bodies, twenty five funerals
- 3:19Speaker 1: with families standing around a coffin being lowered into the dirt.
- 3:24Speaker 1: And did you actually just say there was a failure
- 3:27Speaker 1: in the system. Did you actually describe this doctor as
- 3:30Speaker 1: a rogue That is a murderer, not a rogue. He's
- 3:36Speaker 1: a murderer because they redefined the amount of sentinel anything
- 3:41Speaker 1: over fifty milligrams up to like two thousand, and this
- 3:47Speaker 1: should have been checked by the medical Examiner's office. You
- 3:50Speaker 1: have fifty If you have twenty five deaths, you have
- 3:53Speaker 1: twenty five death certificates. And I'll bet that when these
- 3:56Speaker 1: people died in Columbus, originally they were all marked as
- 4:01Speaker 1: natural and in order to come back and prosecute this doctor,
- 4:07Speaker 1: those death certificates have to absolutely have been gone backed
- 4:12Speaker 1: and changed to homicide. Okay, you know what doctor Moroney.
- 4:16Speaker 1: I know you're the MD and I'm just a JD.
- 4:19Speaker 1: But when twenty five people die of opioid overdose, how
- 4:24Speaker 1: can an overdose be natural cause of death? Because they
- 4:28Speaker 1: list the disease to prosecute him, they have to go
- 4:32Speaker 1: back and change these death certificates. Why would anybody even
- 4:36Speaker 1: say it wasn't natural death? Somebody dive an overdose, heart
- 4:39Speaker 1: attack or stroke COPD. That was what they said originally,
- 4:44Speaker 1: and all this fentinel was hidden. It was hidden. Well,
- 4:48Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but doesn't fentel show up in the in
- 4:51Speaker 1: your blood workups and the medical you know, you know
- 4:55Speaker 1: what I need? I need Haley Nelson with me ABC six,
- 4:58Speaker 1: Fox twenty eight Columbus. But Helly, take a listen to
- 5:01Speaker 1: this our friends at NBC four is Dan Pearlman even
- 5:04Speaker 1: three weeks and they were treating him with kid gloves. Listen.
- 5:08Speaker 1: It was January fourteenth the accusations came to light. Mount
- 5:11Speaker 1: Carmel telling us doctor Husel ordered excessive doses of pain
- 5:15Speaker 1: medicine for at least twenty seven patients, a number later
- 5:18Speaker 1: adjusted to at least thirty four patients, many of whom
- 5:21Speaker 1: the hospital says died As a result, Mount Carmel is investigating,
- 5:26Speaker 1: Law enforcement is investigating, but still not a word publicly
- 5:31Speaker 1: from the doctor at the center of this scandal. We've
- 5:34Speaker 1: stopped by his Dublin home several times, including today. No
- 5:39Speaker 1: one answers the door. So I turned to David Stroyer,
- 5:42Speaker 1: an attorney, Where is doctor hughesl Do you know? Well,
- 5:45Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, okay, nobody knows, but we know
- 5:48Speaker 1: where all his patients are dead. That was our friend
- 5:51Speaker 1: at NBC four earlier, w b NS ten TV Columbus
- 5:55Speaker 1: been at her barrel, you know, to Haley Nelson, thank
- 5:59Speaker 1: you for taking time to be with us thirty four patients.
- 6:04Speaker 1: I thought they were just the twenty five dead. Where
- 6:06Speaker 1: did the thirty four number figure come from? Elliot? So,
- 6:10Speaker 1: the hospital started identifying patients in twenty nineteen, and they've
- 6:14Speaker 1: also identified up to five patients that they actually think
- 6:16Speaker 1: could have survived. But we found out when the county prosecutor,
- 6:20Speaker 1: when investigators were looking into this case, they decided to
- 6:24Speaker 1: go forward with twenty five of these mortal chargers based
- 6:28Speaker 1: on the dosages, based on the information that they could find,
- 6:31Speaker 1: you know, to Mark Tay, lawyer joining me out of Savannah,
- 6:35Speaker 1: high profile lawyer at Tate Lawgroup dot com Mark Tay.
- 6:38Speaker 1: Very often. I don't think I ever did this, but
- 6:42Speaker 1: very often prosecutors, in order to make a successful case,
- 6:46Speaker 1: will throw out charges they think are too weak to prove.
- 6:50Speaker 1: I prefer to give everything to a jury. If they
- 6:54Speaker 1: want to throw out some, that's their decision. Or maybe
- 6:57Speaker 1: they held out some cases because they thought over time
- 7:00Speaker 1: they could develop them into better prosecutions, so they went
- 7:03Speaker 1: with twenty five. Have you ever seen prosecutors, or even
- 7:08Speaker 1: in civil law, where you paired down your charges to
- 7:11Speaker 1: make a more successful case at trial. Well, that's true, Nancy.
- 7:15Speaker 1: I agree. However, I think it is if a prosecutor
- 7:19Speaker 1: brings a case for which there is insufficient evidence to
- 7:22Speaker 1: get a conviction, and they have other cases against the
- 7:26Speaker 1: same defendant where there is fantastic evidence where clearly you
- 7:29Speaker 1: will get a conviction. I think it's completely acceptable, as
- 7:33Speaker 1: it is in civil cases, and I would love to
- 7:35Speaker 1: have a civil case for all of these poor families
- 7:38Speaker 1: who lost their loved ones. In a civil case, you
- 7:41Speaker 1: want to be as specific as possible because juries, as
- 7:45Speaker 1: you well know, are extremely rigorously testing the value of
- 7:50Speaker 1: your evidence. And if it's not clear to them even
- 7:53Speaker 1: in a civil case. But you know in a criminal case,
- 7:56Speaker 1: it's got to be beyond a reasonable doubt in double cases,
- 7:59Speaker 1: but I promise you the juries don't really know the difference,
- 8:02Speaker 1: and they hold civil cases to a very nearly same standard.
- 8:06Speaker 1: And so we on the civil side prefer to have
- 8:09Speaker 1: a case that is extremely specific, that is well put
- 8:14Speaker 1: together and can absolutely pierce the heart of your pleading. Well,
- 8:18Speaker 1: you know, when you've got thirty four alleged victims and
- 8:21Speaker 1: only twenty five are named in a criminal indictment, I
- 8:24Speaker 1: wonder how that makes the other nine alleged victims feel.
- 8:28Speaker 1: Take a lesson to Franklin County Prosecutor. Ron I was
- 8:30Speaker 1: contacted by a lawyer representing Mount Carmel Hospital at that time.
- 8:36Speaker 1: He indicated a need to meet that same day, a
- 8:40Speaker 1: need to disclose troubling information they had discovered regarding a
- 8:45Speaker 1: doctor who later was identified as William Hussell, who had
- 8:49Speaker 1: been administering doses of Fenton all at a level that
- 8:53Speaker 1: they internally believed were inappropriate and not for a legitimate
- 8:59Speaker 1: medical purpose, and which they also believed were designed to
- 9:04Speaker 1: hasten the death of the patients that were being treated
- 9:21Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. On December seventh, eighteen, the
- 9:29Speaker 1: homicide cold case received information indicating numerous patients had died
- 9:33Speaker 1: while being treated by doctor William Scott Huesel during the
- 9:37Speaker 1: course of his employment at Mount Carmel Health. Detectives began
- 9:41Speaker 1: investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of at least thirty
- 9:45Speaker 1: five patients, and this has been the primary driver of
- 9:49Speaker 1: the cold case homicide unit for the past seven months.
- 9:53Speaker 1: Detectives reviewed approximately thirty thousand pages of documents, consulted with
- 9:58Speaker 1: medical professionals, and conducted numerous interviews with witnesses and family
- 10:03Speaker 1: members of the deceased. A significant challenge unique to this
- 10:07Speaker 1: investigation is that detectives needed to familiarize themselves with medical records, terminologies, practices,
- 10:13Speaker 1: and procedures in order to understand the difference between treatment
- 10:17Speaker 1: and criminal activity. What you were just hearing the Columbus,
- 10:21Speaker 1: Ohio Chief of Police, That was Thomas Quinlan. He said,
- 10:25Speaker 1: thirty five patient death. So it's not twenty four, it's
- 10:28Speaker 1: not thirty four, it's thirty five. That's that we know of.
- 10:33Speaker 1: I wonder where this guy practice medicine before he was here.
- 10:38Speaker 1: Whoe thirty five patient deaths. Maybe I don't understand how
- 10:45Speaker 1: things work at a medical office. To doctor William Moroney,
- 10:49Speaker 1: chief Medical Examiner, Bay County, Michigan. And he even created
- 10:52Speaker 1: a new portable RV opioid treatment center on his own.
- 10:59Speaker 1: You can read his book America Narcan on Amazon. You know,
- 11:04Speaker 1: doctor William Moroney, not one nurse, not one physician assistant.
- 11:10Speaker 1: Nobody noticed what about all those people? Shouldn't they be
- 11:16Speaker 1: underscrutiny as well? There's a tremendous amount of humorous and
- 11:20Speaker 1: arrogance that comes with this kind of activity from a physician,
- 11:25Speaker 1: and it intimidates other people. He comes in from Cleveland Clinic,
- 11:30Speaker 1: which is probably one of the five top treatment centers
- 11:34Speaker 1: in America. But his fundamental flaw in his thinking is
- 11:39Speaker 1: in intensive care. Everybody usually has trained in internal medicine,
- 11:43Speaker 1: and his background was in anesthesia, so he did not
- 11:48Speaker 1: understand the chronic disease and that some of these people
- 11:51Speaker 1: may have recovered. Plus, the doses he was using were insane,
- 11:58Speaker 1: five hundred to two thousand micrograms of fentanyl. Nobody uses
- 12:07Speaker 1: those kind of doses. And then to make the decision
- 12:10Speaker 1: that he was doing comfort care, it says comfort care.
- 12:13Speaker 1: Comfort care is what's acknowledged for hospice patients when they
- 12:18Speaker 1: have no alternative and they're suffering in pain, and you
- 12:22Speaker 1: give them a dose that the primary disease may be
- 12:27Speaker 1: the cause of their demise, and that's comfort care. Fentanyl
- 12:32Speaker 1: was the cause of their demise. The inappropriate use, the
- 12:36Speaker 1: inappropriate dosage, and his training. You cannot excuse the hospital
- 12:42Speaker 1: for not checking out his background. And this is just
- 12:46Speaker 1: such a failure, a major failure. And I love Columbus.
- 12:50Speaker 1: I'm in Columbus every year. I go down there and
- 12:52Speaker 1: teach at the medical college. I eat at the restaurants.
- 12:55Speaker 1: It's a wonderful place. But this person came in like
- 13:00Speaker 1: the devil. You know what, doctor Moroney. Again, don't you
- 13:02Speaker 1: know how much I respect you and I'm happy to
- 13:04Speaker 1: hear about your eating habits when you are in Columbus
- 13:07Speaker 1: and the restaurants you go to. But this guy gave
- 13:11Speaker 1: fednel in crazy amounts without any consent. The people probably
- 13:17Speaker 1: didn't even know that they were getting it. I mean,
- 13:20Speaker 1: the reality is the lawyer who represented top Mom Casey Anthony, said,
- 13:27Speaker 1: the charges are baffling, and what do you make of
- 13:30Speaker 1: the claim that this was comfort care for dying patients,
- 13:34Speaker 1: doctor Moroney. None of these patients were acknowledged or represented
- 13:38Speaker 1: as hospice patients. He crossed interdisciplinary boundaries by using hospice
- 13:45Speaker 1: rules for comfort care in normal ICEU conditions. That's unforgivable.
- 13:52Speaker 1: Thirty five patient deaths related to this doctor, this evil doctor,
- 13:57Speaker 1: doctor William Hughesel, just forty four years old, but somehow
- 14:01Speaker 1: in the indictment only twenty five deaths were represented. Listen
- 14:05Speaker 1: to the Chief of Police, Thomas Quinlan. The investigators appreciate
- 14:09Speaker 1: the cooperation of the family members and credit their assistance
- 14:12Speaker 1: with leading to today's indictment. The investigation revealed probable cause
- 14:18Speaker 1: linking twenty five deaths that were a direct result of
- 14:21Speaker 1: a noun therapeutic dosis of drugs, including fetanol, that doctor
- 14:25Speaker 1: William Scott Usel ordered to be administered in excess of
- 14:29Speaker 1: medical standards. I want to also credit the cooperation received
- 14:35Speaker 1: by the medical pharmacy and nursing boards that without their
- 14:38Speaker 1: key guidance to investigators, the outcome would be extremely difficult.
- 14:44Speaker 1: It is our sincere hope the families of these victims
- 14:47Speaker 1: will find solace by the State of Ohio holding doctor
- 14:50Speaker 1: Eusel accountable for his devious conduct to Hanley Nelson, joining
- 14:54Speaker 1: US ABC six, Fox twenty eight Columbus investigative reporter, Hanley,
- 14:57Speaker 1: I do get it. One death, yes, I can understand
- 15:02Speaker 1: the nurses did not realize what Husel was doing. But
- 15:07Speaker 1: after that, we have thirty four more deaths related to
- 15:11Speaker 1: his prescribing finnel until the people were dead, Hally, how
- 15:16Speaker 1: come nobody, no nursing staff, no overseer, no, no, anybody
- 15:21Speaker 1: did anything, Hally. And that's the big question. Why didn't
- 15:25Speaker 1: that happen? And since we've seen massive fallout at the hospital,
- 15:28Speaker 1: Nancy the CEO have stepped down. Pharmacists and nurses are
- 15:32Speaker 1: facing possible discipline. They said, there just really weren't any
- 15:36Speaker 1: safeguards in place. There weren't reviews in place after the
- 15:39Speaker 1: deaths of these people. But again, Haley, I get it.
- 15:42Speaker 1: After the first death and maybe that's when it came
- 15:47Speaker 1: to light, But then there were two, then three, then
- 15:51Speaker 1: thirty five. What were they doing with their thumbs up
- 15:54Speaker 1: their rear ends for thirty four deaths? And that's been
- 15:57Speaker 1: what the community has been reacting to in a lot
- 16:00Speaker 1: of ways. Folks are upset, Folks are angry, and they're
- 16:03Speaker 1: asking the same questions you are, how could this happen?
- 16:06Speaker 1: And the hospital haven't really had an answer for that,
- 16:09Speaker 1: and they claim now that they've changed policies, but that
- 16:11Speaker 1: exact question you're asking, that's their answer. Oh please, Helen Nelson,
- 16:18Speaker 1: you know that stinks to high Heaven or Brucey Johnson
- 16:21Speaker 1: owner ESP Investigations, no stranger to a crime. Seeing Bruce Johnson,
- 16:26Speaker 1: twenty people were suspended. Suspension, that's nothing. They can now
- 16:34Speaker 1: go out and get another job, or they even go
- 16:36Speaker 1: back to their old job. Suspended doesn't mean fired, and
- 16:39Speaker 1: to hey, we're getting fired. If they had anything to
- 16:42Speaker 1: do with this, if they knew about it, they had
- 16:45Speaker 1: a duty to act, they should be prosecuted. To Bruce Johnson,
- 16:49Speaker 1: they can't hide behind their nurses uniforms, and the CEO
- 16:53Speaker 1: can't hide behind a fancy suit. Oh no, I don't
- 16:56Speaker 1: care if he's stepped down. They all need to face
- 16:59Speaker 1: criminal Prosecu's correct, and the good news is in this
- 17:02Speaker 1: case there's gonna be plenty of evidence to go through
- 17:06Speaker 1: and and track this h if you obviously the doctor
- 17:10Speaker 1: prescribes it, but each nurse has that responsibility to question
- 17:14Speaker 1: the prescription. So I mean, you look through the cases.
- 17:18Speaker 1: One that popped up was a sixty three year old
- 17:20Speaker 1: woman that was just not feeling well and he ends
- 17:24Speaker 1: up prescribing a thousand micrograms. Why wouldn't the nurse question,
- 17:29Speaker 1: you know, an easy case like that, that's just a
- 17:34Speaker 1: slam duncan. But all these nurses, when the doctor prescribes
- 17:40Speaker 1: the descript the nurse has to go and get it.
- 17:43Speaker 1: So where they're going, each each floor for the intensive
- 17:47Speaker 1: care and the emergency has a pharmasell, and the pharmasell
- 17:51Speaker 1: has control access and sometimes it even has a password.
- 17:55Speaker 1: So the question of who went in and out to
- 17:58Speaker 1: get to prescribe medication isn't going to be an issue.
- 18:01Speaker 1: They should have that. Plus there there possibly could be
- 18:03Speaker 1: cameras um in or near that cell. So and from
- 18:08Speaker 1: what I'm understanding, the nurses aren't denying it, So none
- 18:11Speaker 1: of that is really going to be um question. They're
- 18:14Speaker 1: they're admitting there that they're getting this this doc. The
- 18:17Speaker 1: question is why are they agreeing to this and why
- 18:20Speaker 1: aren't they questioning him? And this goes all the way
- 18:24Speaker 1: up to the top, Like your one guest said, all
- 18:26Speaker 1: the way to the CEO that that resign there has
- 18:31Speaker 1: to be some underlying issues. You're not kidding, Bruce Johnson.
- 18:36Speaker 1: The fish steaks at the head, and the head would
- 18:40Speaker 1: be the CEO time stories with Nancy Grace. We currently
- 19:00Speaker 1: don't have a motive other than but the facts would
- 19:04Speaker 1: indicate that fentanyl and the amounts shown on the chart
- 19:09Speaker 1: that exceed five hundred micrograms hold a medical personnel we
- 19:14Speaker 1: have talked to at Mount Carmel, as you might suspect,
- 19:18Speaker 1: we've talked to some expert medical witnesses we would propose
- 19:22Speaker 1: to utilize at a subsequent trial. We have been advised
- 19:26Speaker 1: that amounts in excess of five hundred micrograms will cause
- 19:33Speaker 1: any person who's not on a breathing ventilator to see
- 19:37Speaker 1: breathing and to cause their death. You just heard the
- 19:39Speaker 1: Franklin County Prosecutor n O'Brien, doctor William Moroney. You know,
- 19:43Speaker 1: sometimes I guess you confused with lawyers because it's really
- 19:47Speaker 1: hard for some people to answer in a yes no.
- 19:51Speaker 1: But you just heard the prosecutor O'Brien state that yeah,
- 19:55Speaker 1: and yet anything over five hundred micrograms would cause any
- 20:00Speaker 1: one not already on a ventilator to cease breathing. Is
- 20:05Speaker 1: that true? Absolutely, it's one hundred percent true. Kenny prescribed
- 20:11Speaker 1: over two thousand. He prescribed over two thousand and five
- 20:15Speaker 1: hundred makes you stop breathing? Karen start joining me and
- 20:19Speaker 1: New York psychologists joining us at Karen Stark dot com. Karen,
- 20:25Speaker 1: this isn't making the families feel any better that you've
- 20:29Speaker 1: got the CEO and all the nurses hiding behind their uniforms,
- 20:33Speaker 1: and the CEO behind his Brooks Brothers suit. Only the
- 20:38Speaker 1: doctor has been charging. Yes he should be charged, but
- 20:41Speaker 1: how do you believe nurses, physicians, assistance, even the pharmacist
- 20:45Speaker 1: stood by and saw, you know, basically homicide level prescriptions
- 20:51Speaker 1: going through their hospital pharmacy. They're not going to code well, obviously, Nancy,
- 20:57Speaker 1: it's horrific. And you're talking about someone who was a
- 21:00Speaker 1: serial killer, an undetected serial killer, somebody who was playing god.
- 21:06Speaker 1: And what's interesting, because you hear so often how doctors
- 21:10Speaker 1: feel like they're God, is that these people that worked
- 21:13Speaker 1: underneath them, the nurse's assistance, they were also acting as though, well,
- 21:19Speaker 1: the doctor said so, and he knows better than I do.
- 21:23Speaker 1: So it's this whole myth that you have to give
- 21:27Speaker 1: the doctor's power and that they know what they're doing,
- 21:30Speaker 1: and people comply, and it's gone on before. This isn't
- 21:34Speaker 1: the first time that a doctor or a nurse has
- 21:37Speaker 1: been a serial killer and able to get away with
- 21:40Speaker 1: it because they're doing something a subterfuge and they're doing
- 21:44Speaker 1: it non violently. In the classic sent Okay, guys, I
- 21:49Speaker 1: want you. I hope you're all sitting down, because this
- 21:52Speaker 1: is actually not doctor William Haesel's first brush with the law.
- 21:57Speaker 1: Take a listen our pens at NBC for Columbus. Records
- 22:00Speaker 1: from the State Medical Board show that Husel fully disclosed
- 22:04Speaker 1: his criminal history and promised to do better. I learned
- 22:07Speaker 1: my lesson and will never make those types of mistakes again,
- 22:10Speaker 1: he wrote to the board in twenty thirteen. Husel, who
- 22:14Speaker 1: was a basketball star in high school, describes that time
- 22:18Speaker 1: as being a big fish in a small pond, but
- 22:21Speaker 1: when he got to college at Wheeling, Jesuit in nineteen
- 22:23Speaker 1: ninety four, that all changed. Husel and another student reportedly
- 22:28Speaker 1: committed a series of car break ins stealing stereo equipment,
- 22:32Speaker 1: according to a presentence investigation report, After one of the
- 22:36Speaker 1: victims reported their names to campus security, Husel and another
- 22:40Speaker 1: student built a pipe bomb. The report says they initially
- 22:44Speaker 1: intended to detonate the pipe bomb under the vehicle of
- 22:47Speaker 1: one of the students. Instead, they put the bomb in
- 22:50Speaker 1: a trash can on campus, where it detonated just outside
- 22:54Speaker 1: a campus building. Usel was sentenced to six months in
- 22:57Speaker 1: a halfway house and a year of probation. What, Haley Nelson,
- 23:01Speaker 1: ABC six, Fox twenty eight Columbus, What did I just
- 23:07Speaker 1: hear he did time behind bars for detonating a pipe bob? What? Yes, absolutely,
- 23:13Speaker 1: federal churches. This all came to light after we had
- 23:15Speaker 1: found out about multiple of these patients in this entire situation.
- 23:20Speaker 1: So in nineteen ninety six June of nineteen ninety six,
- 23:23Speaker 1: he was indicted by a federal grand jury in West Virginia.
- 23:26Speaker 1: But after this he did go on, obviously to get
- 23:29Speaker 1: into medical school, continue on to the Cleveland clinic and
- 23:32Speaker 1: then to Mount Carlo. Okay, I'm having a hard time
- 23:34Speaker 1: taking this in, doctor William Moroney. Now you know how
- 23:37Speaker 1: lawyers can be. There's a reason lawyers have a bad
- 23:41Speaker 1: reputation if you're caught doing anything. At least where I
- 23:46Speaker 1: went to law school at Mercer University and NYU you
- 23:49Speaker 1: were out on your fanny, out out with prejudice. How
- 23:55Speaker 1: in the hey can a doctor get in to medical school,
- 23:59Speaker 1: get into the Cleveland clinic and end up at this hospital?
- 24:02Speaker 1: Thirty five people dad connected to him, and he detonated
- 24:07Speaker 1: a pipe bomb back in ninety six. And let me
- 24:09Speaker 1: tell you something, Maroni, I benefit. It takes a lot
- 24:13Speaker 1: to get the fans off their rear ends and bring
- 24:15Speaker 1: a charge. They want an air tight case and they
- 24:18Speaker 1: can take them years to put it together, but they
- 24:20Speaker 1: got it on this guy. He did jail time. Help me, MARONEI, Well,
- 24:24Speaker 1: I gotta tell you is the foundation of medical education
- 24:27Speaker 1: can be just as incorrupt and competent as organized crime.
- 24:32Speaker 1: If he's a really good looking guy and he interviews
- 24:35Speaker 1: for medical school, they're gonna let him in. If he's
- 24:38Speaker 1: a salesman, he is a good handshake and a couple
- 24:40Speaker 1: of good grades, they're gonna let him in. Nobody looks
- 24:44Speaker 1: in the past, nobody digs this stuff up. And there's
- 24:50Speaker 1: tons of doctors like this all over and in every state.
- 24:54Speaker 1: There are doctors that are incompetent that should not be
- 24:57Speaker 1: delivering fentanyl. We just it's a sad day for Columbus
- 25:02Speaker 1: that it was brought here. Let me understand something thing. Okay,
- 25:06Speaker 1: doctor William Ronney, I want you to hear this. Haley
- 25:09Speaker 1: Nelson with me ABC six Fox twenty eight Columbus, Haley.
- 25:13Speaker 1: Where did he go to medical school? And where did
- 25:16Speaker 1: he practice? Who did the medical board know about them
- 25:20Speaker 1: this charge, this conviction when they allowed him to practice medicine, Nancy,
- 25:25Speaker 1: they did. And in a lot of cases, when he
- 25:27Speaker 1: was getting into medical school, as you heard in that
- 25:29Speaker 1: clip earlier, he wrote a letter apologizing, explaining, and that's
- 25:33Speaker 1: how he got into that medical school, of course, which
- 25:37Speaker 1: was here in Ohio, Ohio University. And after getting in there,
- 25:41Speaker 1: he was able, of course to climb the ladder continue
- 25:44Speaker 1: on with his career. Let me understand something. So Ohio
- 25:46Speaker 1: University Medical School let him in with a felony conviction.
- 25:51Speaker 1: Is that right? That's our understanding? Yeah? Yeah, okay? And
- 25:56Speaker 1: where did he first practice? So it was his first hospital?
- 25:59Speaker 1: Do we know? After going to medical school, he then
- 26:01Speaker 1: went up to the Cleveland Clinic for a number of
- 26:03Speaker 1: years trained up there, and then he started working at
- 26:06Speaker 1: Mount Carmel in twenty thirteen. And you're saying Mount Carmel
- 26:10Speaker 1: Hospital and is that located in Mount Carmel. So it's
- 26:12Speaker 1: in West Columbus at least the branch he was at.
- 26:15Speaker 1: Primarily all of these patients other than one were in
- 26:18Speaker 1: this West Columbus as the neighborhood called Franklinton. So the
- 26:20Speaker 1: majority of this all playing out there from twenty fourteen
- 26:24Speaker 1: to just twenty eighteen, So all very very recent. Mark Tate,
- 26:27Speaker 1: lawyer joining me out of Savannah at Tait Lawgroup dot com.
- 26:31Speaker 1: Mark Tate, I can't look my doctor's in the face now.
- 26:35Speaker 1: I'm going to go run a rap sheet on every
- 26:37Speaker 1: single one of them. The last thing I want to
- 26:39Speaker 1: see is some doctor who detonated a pipe bob hovering
- 26:43Speaker 1: over me or somebody in my family. How the hey
- 26:45Speaker 1: does that happen? I mean, Mark, where did you go
- 26:47Speaker 1: to law schools? I went to the University of Georgia
- 26:49Speaker 1: School of Law. And I assume that they check out
- 26:54Speaker 1: whether you have a felony conviction, and if they don't,
- 26:58Speaker 1: then certainly Georgia barr does. I mean that. I thought
- 27:02Speaker 1: when everybody with a fine tooth comb, they do. And
- 27:07Speaker 1: you know in this instance in state barbs, the myra
- 27:10Speaker 1: are in every time I made an objection in court.
- 27:12Speaker 1: So how does this problem? He? Yes, it certainly is, Mark,
- 27:17Speaker 1: How did this happen? I think that well, first of all,
- 27:21Speaker 1: you know, detonating pipe bombs, getting that mental picture out
- 27:25Speaker 1: of your mind. Detonating pipe bombs, uh, really doesn't indicate
- 27:31Speaker 1: any lack of lack of medical judgment. But they should
- 27:36Speaker 1: have absolutely investigated that and taken into account. And we, frankly,
- 27:40Speaker 1: at this point, do not know whether that happened. He
- 27:44Speaker 1: blamed it on you. We don't know whether what don't
- 27:47Speaker 1: know whether they investigated him in passing. We don't know
- 27:49Speaker 1: if they need should they run rap she should have?
- 27:52Speaker 1: Absolutely they run it on lawyers. And what are we well,
- 27:57Speaker 1: I mean we're not. We have life in death in
- 28:00Speaker 1: her hands. But we clearly have a higher ethical standard
- 28:03Speaker 1: of practice law than to practice medicine, and I think
- 28:05Speaker 1: this case bears that out. Okay, you know, I'm sorry
- 28:09Speaker 1: that I'd hurt my throat when I screamed time stories
- 28:27Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace. But they finally got her to where
- 28:32Speaker 1: she could be on her own, but with help of
- 28:34Speaker 1: the machine. But she could be on her own, I
- 28:39Speaker 1: mean on her own, but with help of the machine.
- 28:44Speaker 1: So everything seemed to be okay, you know, but they
- 28:47Speaker 1: want to take her up to ICEE. You what, she've
- 28:50Speaker 1: been there before, so I thought, everything, it's gonna be okay.
- 28:55Speaker 1: They took her upstairs, and then I'll come this joker
- 28:59Speaker 1: saying that she had a joker you're talking about doctor Hunsel. Yeah,
- 29:05Speaker 1: he said that she's brain dead and the machine is
- 29:10Speaker 1: she had no machine wouldn't bring her back, and uh,
- 29:19Speaker 1: her lungs wouldn't wouldn't bring her back in and then
- 29:26Speaker 1: I lost her. Oh, dear Lord in heaven you are
- 29:31Speaker 1: hearing Columbus Dispatch reporter Jim Woods. That was David Austin
- 29:36Speaker 1: describing his wife Bonnie. She was stabilized in the ear.
- 29:40Speaker 1: Everything was fine. They took her up to ICU and
- 29:46Speaker 1: suddenly out cubs doctor Husel saying that Bonnie is brain dead.
- 29:55Speaker 1: Oh my stars, oh gosh. I don't even want my
- 30:00Speaker 1: mind to go where it is going. Karen Starr, of course,
- 30:05Speaker 1: you know what I'm imagining that happening to somebody I love.
- 30:09Speaker 1: Everything's fine, and then all of a sudden, their brain dad,
- 30:12Speaker 1: and if you unplaying the machine, they die. But everything
- 30:16Speaker 1: was fine. How can the mind, a human mind even
- 30:19Speaker 1: comprehend that well, Nancy, I mean, that's so hard to
- 30:22Speaker 1: take in, just like you're saying, that's heartbreaking, and it's
- 30:26Speaker 1: very hard to make sense of something like that. And
- 30:29Speaker 1: it's another reason why you could see that this person
- 30:33Speaker 1: that committed this crime is a killer, not someone who's
- 30:37Speaker 1: performing mercy, because here's somebody who was fine and then
- 30:42Speaker 1: all of a sudden gets killed for no reason other
- 30:46Speaker 1: than someone had the power to be able to do that.
- 30:50Speaker 1: And they've got to come to terms with the fact
- 30:52Speaker 1: that there a person to die for absolutely no reason
- 30:57Speaker 1: other than someone was a psycho path You know, um,
- 31:02Speaker 1: I may not be a medical doctor William Maroney, doctor Maroney,
- 31:05Speaker 1: but I can add although it's not my forte, I
- 31:09Speaker 1: know it too. And two equals. Listen to this, you know,
- 31:13Speaker 1: you always think because if something else happened, because I
- 31:16Speaker 1: couldn't figure the doctor down stairs in the yard said
- 31:21Speaker 1: she was fine, just her heart was working fine, and
- 31:27Speaker 1: he just a very short time and she goes up
- 31:31Speaker 1: to me, I see you and nothing just not that
- 31:36Speaker 1: don't make sense. When he said she was branded, what
- 31:42Speaker 1: did he did? He ask you something specifically? Then then
- 31:45Speaker 1: he said he pull the plug. He the doctor says, quote,
- 31:50Speaker 1: can we pull the plug? Now? Take a listen to
- 31:53Speaker 1: the lawyer. They get hurt of the hospital around seven
- 31:56Speaker 1: thirty seven pm. Then they go through the emergency room
- 32:02Speaker 1: called the surgeon down. You know, take here the numa
- 32:04Speaker 1: thax with a chess tube had. She goes up to
- 32:08Speaker 1: ICU at eleven fifteen. The pharmacist signs off on the
- 32:13Speaker 1: fentanyl dosage. At eleven twenty three, six hundred micrograms the
- 32:19Speaker 1: fentanyl were given along with first said. Then the notes
- 32:23Speaker 1: show at eleven twenty eight. Was then at eleven twenty
- 32:26Speaker 1: eight that the family decided to make a withdrawal of care.
- 32:31Speaker 1: So apparently it was five minutes after the six hundred
- 32:36Speaker 1: he was actually the fentanyl was given to her before well,
- 32:41Speaker 1: I'm just telling you about the record show at eleven
- 32:44Speaker 1: twenty three eight the fentanyl was given at eleven twenty eight.
- 32:47Speaker 1: It's noted that the family made a decision to withdrawal care.
- 32:50Speaker 1: WHOA okay, doctor Moroni, everything's fine or hard is working?
- 32:54Speaker 1: Quote fine? According to the doctors she sent to I
- 32:58Speaker 1: see you in tens of care. Fifteen pharmacists signed the
- 33:02Speaker 1: fentnyl dosage eleven twenty three, six hundred micrograms. The fentnyl
- 33:07Speaker 1: pumped in to this lady, even though you and I know,
- 33:11Speaker 1: over five hundred micrograms makes you stop breathing. And then
- 33:16Speaker 1: just eight minutes later, less than eight minutes later, she's
- 33:20Speaker 1: brain dead. I mean she's brain dead almost immediately at
- 33:24Speaker 1: eleven twenty three when they pump her full of fentyl. Well,
- 33:29Speaker 1: it works that quickly, doctor Moroni. Yeah. And if you
- 33:32Speaker 1: listen real close to what he said, they gave fentanyl
- 33:35Speaker 1: with versid. Versaid is a benzodiazepine, and together they're used
- 33:41Speaker 1: in anesthesio put people asleep for surgery and to intubate them.
- 33:46Speaker 1: That's what was given. A deadly combination, not just fentanyl.
- 33:51Speaker 1: This is a godless, soul sucking system that has lost
- 33:55Speaker 1: all of its checks and balances, from the top through
- 33:59Speaker 1: the pharmacists, through the computer, all the way down to
- 34:01Speaker 1: when the medications given there's not enough balance. We forget
- 34:06Speaker 1: that our power comes from God, not from a doctor's
- 34:09Speaker 1: scrooping and yelling in pointing orders such to Maroney, I'm
- 34:15Speaker 1: just so distraught to Healing Nelson, ABC six, Fox twenty eight, Columbus.
- 34:20Speaker 1: When I hear the voice of David Austin, who can't
- 34:25Speaker 1: understand what went wrong, and now we know that his
- 34:29Speaker 1: wife was pumped so full of fentnel she died in minutes.
- 34:34Speaker 1: I think the whole hospital needs to answer whether it
- 34:40Speaker 1: brings down the walls around us. The truth must be obtained.
- 34:45Speaker 1: Another thing I don't understand is why they are refusing
- 34:50Speaker 1: to call him a serial killer. We have thirty five
- 34:55Speaker 1: dead people, twenty five have resulted in murdered charges. Why
- 35:01Speaker 1: are they not calling him a serial killer? Well, we
- 35:03Speaker 1: have heard our State of Ohio Attorney General actually call
- 35:06Speaker 1: him a serial killer publicly, but they believe because they
- 35:10Speaker 1: don't have the conviction yet, they're not comfortable doing that.
- 35:14Speaker 1: And Nancy, it's interesting just recently we've gotten a glimpse
- 35:16Speaker 1: into perhaps what they could argue, or at least what
- 35:19Speaker 1: his attorneys are saying right now in a different lawsuit.
- 35:22Speaker 1: So the doctor Husel, he just filed a lawsuit recently
- 35:25Speaker 1: against the hospital and other groups, and they're claiming that
- 35:28Speaker 1: he's being defamed, perhaps the largest defamation case in recent
- 35:32Speaker 1: Ohio history. They say because he was trained at the
- 35:35Speaker 1: Cleveland Clinic and has this background in anesthesiology and critical care.
- 35:40Speaker 1: They say he was actually determining the right dosages for
- 35:44Speaker 1: each of these patients. They're claiming that these patients had
- 35:47Speaker 1: a high tolerance for these drugs and that he was
- 35:50Speaker 1: doing what was right. Well, if it was the right dosage,
- 35:53Speaker 1: why did they all die of overdose? Here? Only that
- 35:55Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense to me, So you think they're
- 35:58Speaker 1: they so far, the prosecutors not called serial killer because
- 36:01Speaker 1: there are no convictions, when obviously he is a serial killer.
- 36:06Speaker 1: And to you, Karen Stark, do you think if it's
- 36:09Speaker 1: the profile of a serial killer without a doubt? Nancy,
- 36:12Speaker 1: I mean the power, it's sadistic. There is really no
- 36:17Speaker 1: reason for why he was doing it that has to
- 36:21Speaker 1: do with anything that's medical. And what a convenient way
- 36:25Speaker 1: to be serial killer because he doesn't have to do
- 36:28Speaker 1: anything that's violent. All he has to do is administer
- 36:32Speaker 1: the drug and get away with it. We also know
- 36:34Speaker 1: that he was freed on one million dollar bond, but
- 36:38Speaker 1: of course Heley and Elsie you only have to put
- 36:40Speaker 1: up a hundred thousand dollars for that with twenty five
- 36:43Speaker 1: counts of murder. I don't understand why he even got bond.
- 36:47Speaker 1: Why did the judge given bond That's what a lot
- 36:49Speaker 1: of our viewers were shocked about and asking. But they
- 36:52Speaker 1: said they were following their procedures, and a lot of
- 36:56Speaker 1: the families, of course very upset and devastated by by
- 37:00Speaker 1: all of this, but they said they were following the
- 37:03Speaker 1: procedures laid out ahead of that. So let me understand
- 37:06Speaker 1: in that jurisdiction, you get bond for murder, you can't
- 37:09Speaker 1: get a no bond for twenty five dead bodies. It
- 37:12Speaker 1: depends on the situation. I think two. With the timing
- 37:14Speaker 1: of a lot of this, we know because they're requesting
- 37:17Speaker 1: medical records and going over so many of these documents,
- 37:19Speaker 1: it's certainly a long time process, and I think perhaps
- 37:24Speaker 1: that may have played into all of this. You know,
- 37:26Speaker 1: to me, it makes it worse Mark Tay because they've
- 37:28Speaker 1: had time to realize the extent of his activity, his murders.
- 37:34Speaker 1: Now he's filed a defamation a lawsuit I guess against
- 37:37Speaker 1: the hospital, Is that right, Hallie Nelson? Recently, yes, he
- 37:41Speaker 1: has filed a lot is it against the hospital, the hospital,
- 37:44Speaker 1: their parent company, former CEO, among others. The hospital is
- 37:48Speaker 1: Mount Carmel Hospital, the CEO, and who's the parent company's
- 37:54Speaker 1: Trinity Health out of Michigan. So do you think Mark
- 37:57Speaker 1: Tay that he doctor huselis file the civil lawsuit as
- 38:01Speaker 1: part of his defense strategy. You know, it's a ridiculous thing.
- 38:06Speaker 1: The hospital has said nothing but the truth about him.
- 38:10Speaker 1: I think it's a tragic failure of legal strategy to
- 38:16Speaker 1: let this man facing these charges swipe back at this
- 38:21Speaker 1: hospital nothing they've said against him. It is true. They've
- 38:24Speaker 1: never said that he's guilty of a crime, which is
- 38:26Speaker 1: libel and slander per se. They are simply stating that
- 38:30Speaker 1: we have confirmed if these are the levels of drugs
- 38:33Speaker 1: that he dosed, and the individuals who he dosed with
- 38:35Speaker 1: those drugs have died, and that's the truth. So it's
- 38:39Speaker 1: a stupid lawsuit. Whatever lawyer filed it, I guess was
- 38:43Speaker 1: just taking Husel's money or was trying to grab some headlines,
- 38:46Speaker 1: maybe to boost his or her practice down the line.
- 38:49Speaker 1: But I can't imagine any lawyer I know, and I
- 38:54Speaker 1: know some good lawyers, I cannot imagine anyone advising miss
- 38:58Speaker 1: Fellow that it's a good idea to file a slander
- 39:01Speaker 1: liable deformation lawsuit against the place that may be able
- 39:07Speaker 1: to actually help you in defending yourself, because remember he
- 39:11Speaker 1: is the guy who prescribed the drugs. Their nurses are
- 39:14Speaker 1: the ones who filled the prescriptions. He had to bypass
- 39:18Speaker 1: a drug dispensing system in order to be able to
- 39:21Speaker 1: get these drugs. There's so many other people to blame
- 39:24Speaker 1: here for what happened, and all he's done is sparked
- 39:28Speaker 1: their ire to come out against him, you know, with
- 39:32Speaker 1: all talents bared. And so if he came to me
- 39:35Speaker 1: and asked me to file this lawsuit, I would tell
- 39:37Speaker 1: him your stupid, your hubrists is causing you to think unclearly.
- 39:43Speaker 1: And just because you got your medical degree and your
- 39:46Speaker 1: board certified and anesthesiology which is which is a legitimate
- 39:49Speaker 1: pain management degree and certification, that doesn't mean you need
- 39:54Speaker 1: to come out swinging at them. You need to be timid,
- 39:56Speaker 1: you need to be calm. You need to be saying,
- 39:58Speaker 1: I exercise what was my best medical judgment, and I
- 40:02Speaker 1: should have had more backups if I was making the
- 40:04Speaker 1: wrong judgment. Hospitals have a policy that says nurses are
- 40:08Speaker 1: in fact required to go up the chain of command
- 40:12Speaker 1: if they question the constructions are given. And the truth
- 40:16Speaker 1: is that a nurse has the same exact duty to
- 40:19Speaker 1: you and that is to act with reasonable care towards
- 40:23Speaker 1: the patient. And if the doctor's doing something that you
- 40:26Speaker 1: knew or should have known is incorrect, to go to
- 40:29Speaker 1: the charge nurse and to go up the chain to
- 40:31Speaker 1: the chief position. But do you think there's any way,
- 40:34Speaker 1: doctor Moroney, he can blame the nurses and get off. Well,
- 40:36Speaker 1: he can say, hey, I gave the order. If she
- 40:38Speaker 1: didn't want to give it, she didn't have to give it.
- 40:40Speaker 1: She could have said something, you know, but the nurse
- 40:43Speaker 1: has a procedure and if she clarifies that is his order.
- 40:48Speaker 1: She has a director of nursing, she has a manager nursing. Somewhere.
- 40:52Speaker 1: Somebody called somebody and said, hey, there's something going on here,
- 40:56Speaker 1: But it didn't happen until all these people died, and
- 40:59Speaker 1: it was outside of the hospital. This kind of investigation
- 41:03Speaker 1: could have happened inside of the hospital because a nurse
- 41:08Speaker 1: with some gravitas would have said, I'm not giving that order.
- 41:13Speaker 1: And at once they say that somebody has to look
- 41:18Speaker 1: in and see the past, and they would have seen
- 41:20Speaker 1: how many people are dying at the hands of a
- 41:23Speaker 1: fentil injection and it's going to be multiple nurses. But
- 41:27Speaker 1: they were working in silos and they were isolated, so
- 41:31Speaker 1: it's a failure of communication in this whole system. He's
- 41:36Speaker 1: at the top and that hubris is the perfect word.
- 41:39Speaker 1: And earlier on their pipe bomb indictment and conviction, Hailey
- 41:44Speaker 1: Nelson told us about remember this, the twice divorced doctor
- 41:49Speaker 1: Husel admitted that after he detonated device on campus, he
- 41:55Speaker 1: tried to frame another person by putting a pipe in
- 41:59Speaker 1: their car. So not only did he detonate a pipe bomb,
- 42:04Speaker 1: he tried to blame somebody else, and that is who
- 42:08Speaker 1: the hospital had working on their patients. We wait as
- 42:12Speaker 1: justice unfolds Nancy Gray's crime story, signing off Goodbye friend,