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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Well it's Saturday night, and boy, do I have something
- 0:11Speaker 2: special for you. Convicted in seven murders of infants, one
- 0:17Speaker 2: of the most prolific infant killers in the world, now
- 0:23Speaker 2: has her own documentary. Now that's special, right, One of
- 0:30Speaker 2: the most prolific child killers that ever lived found guilty
- 0:37Speaker 2: of murdering seven infants as a neo natal nurse. So
- 0:44Speaker 2: why why does Lucy let Be get her own documentary?
- 0:53Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. I want to
- 0:56Speaker 2: thank you for being with us. Lucy let Be at
- 1:01Speaker 2: her crime so horrible it sparked insane media interest. All
- 1:10Speaker 2: the while she's stating, I feel like I have only
- 1:14Speaker 2: ever done my very best for those babies. She did
- 1:17Speaker 2: that while crying during a police interview. Seven infants, five boys,
- 1:25Speaker 2: two girls lost their lives to Lucy let Be and
- 1:30Speaker 2: those are the ones we know of. Yet there is
- 1:35Speaker 2: a documentary about Lucy let Be. This is what really happened.
- 1:41Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friend Rita Chabwickerbardi.
- 1:44Speaker 3: They thought their son was in safe hands with nurse
- 1:46Speaker 3: let Be, but a short time later they were told
- 1:49Speaker 3: he was dangerously ill and they rushed back to find
- 1:53Speaker 3: doctors trying to save him.
- 1:55Speaker 4: We were taken in and we were told to talk
- 1:58Speaker 4: to him and hold his hongue. And then the conversation
- 2:03Speaker 4: with the consultant and she said, you know, we're going
- 2:07Speaker 4: to stop.
- 2:08Speaker 5: It's not helping.
- 2:10Speaker 4: Were we wye in your arms?
- 2:14Speaker 1: And more from reader Chakrabardi.
- 2:17Speaker 3: Mum was taking milk to them when she heard one
- 2:19Speaker 3: of her sons crying loudly.
- 2:21Speaker 4: They had bloods around his mouth, and Lucy was there
- 2:25Speaker 4: but fashing about, not really not doing anything. Lucy said,
- 2:32Speaker 4: don't worry, the redistrub was coming. And when she told
- 2:34Speaker 4: me to.
- 2:35Speaker 3: Go back to the ward, the baby's mum left him
- 2:38Speaker 3: in this intensive care area and went to call her husband.
- 2:42Speaker 4: The crying, I've never heard anything like it since.
- 2:47Speaker 1: It was screaming.
- 2:49Speaker 4: It was screaming, and I was like, what what's the
- 2:52Speaker 4: matter with them?
- 2:54Speaker 3: Legally we can't identify the families in this case. The
- 2:58Speaker 3: stories are distressing.
- 3:00Speaker 2: And the babies don't have names. This is the mom
- 3:03Speaker 2: and dad of babies E and F from our friends
- 3:07Speaker 2: at BBC.
- 3:10Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get my head around what I'm hearing.
- 3:15Speaker 2: Hearing your child screaming and not understanding what was wrong.
- 3:21Speaker 2: You know, Alexis Tereschuk joining me investigative reporter with Crime
- 3:26Speaker 2: online dot Com. Alexis, you and I both went through
- 3:31Speaker 2: a lot to give birth, right, and.
- 3:34Speaker 6: You were by my side the whole time.
- 3:36Speaker 1: That's right.
- 3:37Speaker 2: Don't made me start crying because now I have this
- 3:40Speaker 2: beautiful boy.
- 3:42Speaker 1: That's amazing. I'm thinking back to these when we.
- 3:46Speaker 2: Were in neonatal nick cut neonatal intensive care, well, the
- 3:52Speaker 2: children were and I was in intensive care. But I
- 3:57Speaker 2: was just thinking about when I would sit with them
- 4:02Speaker 2: all day long until I was told I had to leave.
- 4:08Speaker 2: Leaving them there and hearing them cry, it was just
- 4:14Speaker 2: there's something about it. Never bothered me this way before
- 4:18Speaker 2: I had twin, had the children, But now, even now,
- 4:22Speaker 2: fifteen years later, when I hear a baby scream, it just, uh,
- 4:28Speaker 2: it just turns me inside out. Did that happen to you?
- 4:32Speaker 2: And I hear a baby scream? The impulse to run
- 4:36Speaker 2: to the baby. I never had that before. I mean,
- 4:39Speaker 2: I felt bad for the child. I was wondering what
- 4:42Speaker 2: was wrong. But once you have a child, is it
- 4:45Speaker 2: something instinctive? Is it physical? What is that?
- 4:50Speaker 6: And even it is, it's a difference when you hear
- 4:53Speaker 6: a cry of I'm hungry, I have a wet diaper,
- 4:55Speaker 6: but when a child is in pain, you feel it
- 4:58Speaker 6: so much more. Have some having my son and I
- 5:02Speaker 6: know with you and how much you spent all of
- 5:06Speaker 6: your time with them because they were so tiny and
- 5:08Speaker 6: so little when they were born.
- 5:10Speaker 1: You're right, Alexis Tereschuk.
- 5:12Speaker 2: Karen Stark joining us a renowned psychologist in Manhattan, TV
- 5:17Speaker 2: radio trauma expert consultant, and you can find her at
- 5:21Speaker 2: Karenstark dot com. That's Karen with a C if you're
- 5:24Speaker 2: trying to find her, Karen, is it physical? Because I
- 5:28Speaker 2: never had that reaction before. I mean there were times
- 5:31Speaker 2: in the district Attorney's office when a child was a victim.
- 5:35Speaker 2: I would cry secretly, not front of the jury, about
- 5:38Speaker 2: what happened to the child. But when you hear a
- 5:41Speaker 2: baby screaming now, and for me, it didn't matter if
- 5:45Speaker 2: it was a wet diepee or they were hungry. When
- 5:47Speaker 2: I heard that scream, it literally would send chills all
- 5:52Speaker 2: over me and I would have to just run to
- 5:55Speaker 2: find out what was wrong and try to fix it.
- 5:57Speaker 7: It's a hormone that is just between mothers and babies,
- 6:01Speaker 7: and there are stories that perhaps you can relate to
- 6:04Speaker 7: this where a mother gets up in the middle of
- 6:07Speaker 7: the night and as soon as she opens her eyes,
- 6:10Speaker 7: the baby starts to cry. And it says though the
- 6:13Speaker 7: baby had communicated that, and that's the hormone that you
- 6:17Speaker 7: have when you attached to a trial.
- 6:20Speaker 2: I cannot imagine why I still have it fifteen years on.
- 6:23Speaker 2: But that said, I'm just thinking about these parents that
- 6:26Speaker 2: are told there's something wrong with the baby, and the
- 6:29Speaker 2: baby is screaming, and they leave the baby. They're told
- 6:33Speaker 2: to leave the baby with the nurse, and the baby dies,
- 6:37Speaker 2: not just one, not just two, but then another and
- 6:41Speaker 2: another and another.
- 6:44Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friends at Channel four.
- 6:47Speaker 8: That's win boys known as babies L and M. We're
- 6:51Speaker 8: just a day old. They both survived, but it took
- 6:54Speaker 8: almost thirty minutes to restart Baby M's heart. Experts say
- 7:00Speaker 8: was likely caused by air being injected into his bloodstream.
- 7:04Speaker 8: His brother was poisoned with insulin. Their parents weren't told
- 7:08Speaker 8: that for two years.
- 7:11Speaker 6: We didn't know anything even afterwards, until the police came knocking.
- 7:14Speaker 1: Air being injected into the bloodstream.
- 7:18Speaker 2: Now I could understand one mistake but when one twin
- 7:24Speaker 2: has air being injected into their bloodstream and the other
- 7:28Speaker 2: twin is poisoned with insulin, that is no mistake for
- 7:35Speaker 2: two babies, twins to be injected with potentially lethal substances.
- 7:46Speaker 2: Joining me right now two renowned experts, Kat Thornton and
- 7:51Speaker 2: our friend, doctor Kendall Crowns Doctor Kendall Crown's Chief medical Examiner,
- 7:56Speaker 2: Terrant County. That's Fort Worth Lecturer, University Texas and Texas
- 8:01Speaker 2: Christian University Medical School.
- 8:03Speaker 1: Kat Thornton, She's.
- 8:04Speaker 2: Got so many initials by her name, BSN, R N,
- 8:08Speaker 2: I know what that one means, MT.
- 8:10Speaker 1: I know what that one means. Neo Natal Nursing.
- 8:13Speaker 2: Expert, Registered nurse, Forensic nurse expert with Goodoy Medical Forensics.
- 8:19Speaker 1: Kat. Thank you so much for being with us. Kat.
- 8:22Speaker 1: I'm just remembering all the weeks.
- 8:25Speaker 2: Actually months that John, David and Lucy Lucy the longest,
- 8:29Speaker 2: were in neonatal Intensive care unit and that was fifteen
- 8:34Speaker 2: years ago. And do you know, Kat, I am still
- 8:38Speaker 2: in touch with the nurses, some of them that took
- 8:42Speaker 2: care of the twins. They I remember one day I
- 8:47Speaker 2: was in ICU at the other end of the hospital.
- 8:49Speaker 2: They were in Nick You, and I pretty sure I
- 8:53Speaker 2: put on a pair of tights before I took off.
- 8:55Speaker 1: I still had on the gown that's opening the back.
- 8:58Speaker 2: Yes, I did definitely put on type before I made
- 9:01Speaker 2: my way all through the securitiest route of the hospital
- 9:03Speaker 2: to get to Nick you, and I was attached to
- 9:06Speaker 2: one of the what do you say, kat a drip
- 9:10Speaker 2: bag on a roller like a close hangars that really tall?
- 9:16Speaker 9: Yeah, and ivy pump.
- 9:18Speaker 1: That yes, listen.
- 9:20Speaker 2: They didn't each se any of that law school all
- 9:22Speaker 2: the way over there, and ultimately found out that I
- 9:24Speaker 2: had set off the alarms by going through the wrong
- 9:28Speaker 2: door leaving ICU. Okay, so I had ultimately had a
- 9:32Speaker 2: trail of hospital police trying to find out how the
- 9:37Speaker 2: alarm went off. But those neonatal nurses were amazing, incredible
- 9:44Speaker 2: and I really believe no offense. Doctor Kendle crowns that
- 9:48Speaker 2: I owe the twins lives to the neonatal nurses at
- 9:53Speaker 2: Northside Hospital in Atlanta. I had been going to sign
- 9:56Speaker 2: I in New York, but came home to visit my
- 9:59Speaker 2: panm parents on a weekend and wouldn't you know, emergency
- 10:03Speaker 2: see section and they I trusted them when I can't
- 10:09Speaker 2: be there. It's a huge burden for a neonidal nurse.
- 10:13Speaker 9: It is a burden and a huge responsibility and also
- 10:18Speaker 9: a privilege to be able to care for these children
- 10:21Speaker 9: at their most vulnerable states. And these families in their
- 10:25Speaker 9: most vulnerable states. Many many of them have gone through
- 10:29Speaker 9: all kinds of toil and trouble just trying to get
- 10:32Speaker 9: pregnant and then to deliver early or to have complications
- 10:36Speaker 9: during delivery. It's just heart wrenching for these families to
- 10:40Speaker 9: not be able to go through a natural birth process
- 10:43Speaker 9: and take your child home with you. But just as
- 10:46Speaker 9: you said, Nancy, to leave them in the care of
- 10:49Speaker 9: others who you really don't know, but you have to
- 10:52Speaker 9: trust them. And the nic nurses are a very special
- 10:57Speaker 9: special breed. The physicians, the nurses, all those care for
- 11:00Speaker 9: those babies. So you had obviously a very good experience
- 11:05Speaker 9: with the staff that cared for your twin.
- 11:07Speaker 2: I really did, and you know, doctor Kendall Crowns. I
- 11:11Speaker 2: do remember that these parents were told by a consultant
- 11:15Speaker 2: that they should leave, but I felt that I would be.
- 11:19Speaker 2: Lucy was in a lot worse shape than John David was,
- 11:22Speaker 2: although they were both in really bad shape.
- 11:24Speaker 1: Lucy only weighed.
- 11:25Speaker 2: Two pounds Doctor Kendall Crowns, and I remember they thought
- 11:30Speaker 2: she was going to be blind and there was a
- 11:33Speaker 2: procedure where they actually had to put a needle into
- 11:37Speaker 2: her eye, and the doctor and my husband said do
- 11:41Speaker 2: you want to leave?
- 11:41Speaker 1: Because they obviously thought I couldn't take it. I didn't
- 11:43Speaker 1: think I could take it either, but I.
- 11:45Speaker 2: Didn't think I could leave Lucy there to face that
- 11:49Speaker 2: without her mother, even though she really didn't know me yet.
- 11:53Speaker 1: It's so emotional.
- 11:56Speaker 2: Doctor, just have you had that experience during your rotation
- 12:02Speaker 2: or when you deal with child victims.
- 12:05Speaker 1: It's just gut wrenching for the parents. I think more
- 12:08Speaker 1: than anything, well.
- 12:10Speaker 10: I think it's unfortunate when a child dies, and I
- 12:12Speaker 10: think as a parent myself, it's hard to see when
- 12:17Speaker 10: a life that has potential and so much hope associated
- 12:21Speaker 10: with it is kind of tragically snuffed out at an
- 12:24Speaker 10: early age. To me, king cases are the worst cases,
- 12:27Speaker 10: especially in a child abuse where you know someone else
- 12:31Speaker 10: could have raised that child, loved that child, adopted them
- 12:35Speaker 10: and taking care of them, And in situations where any
- 12:39Speaker 10: child is murdered, it's just horrible.
- 12:41Speaker 2: The toll it takes on parents and they second guess
- 12:46Speaker 2: every single thing, every move they made.
- 12:50Speaker 1: Would it had changed the outcome?
- 12:52Speaker 2: Would my baby, my twins, my triplets be alive today?
- 12:56Speaker 1: Take a listener friends at.
- 12:58Speaker 3: BBC On the unit, there were typically up to three
- 13:01Speaker 3: deaths a year, but they have that number in the
- 13:04Speaker 3: month of June alone, and the pattern continued with babies
- 13:08Speaker 3: dying or coming close to death.
- 13:11Speaker 11: No one suspected any foul play. After several unexpected and
- 13:14Speaker 11: near deaths in just over half a year, a second
- 13:17Speaker 11: review was ordered, with inspectors issuing concerns about staffing levels
- 13:22Speaker 11: that summer hospital bosses described reaching a tipping point after
- 13:26Speaker 11: the deaths of siblings Baby O and.
- 13:28Speaker 2: P oh in p hold on A B C D
- 13:32Speaker 2: E F G h I J K L M N
- 13:36Speaker 2: O p Q. Seventeen Babies.
- 13:50Speaker 1: Crime stories with Metty Grace.
- 13:57Speaker 2: Lucy let Be found guilty of killing seven infants, five
- 14:02Speaker 2: boys two girls in her care in the neonatal unit
- 14:05Speaker 2: of Chester Hospital. During the trial, her coworkers testified they
- 14:11Speaker 2: witnessed unusual behavior from a former nurse. She got way
- 14:17Speaker 2: too interested in even planning the funerals of the babies.
- 14:23Speaker 2: As we go to air we learned that Lucy let
- 14:26Speaker 2: Be is on suicide watch right now, behind bars, after
- 14:30Speaker 2: she was mocked by her prisonmates over the Netflix documentary
- 14:36Speaker 2: about her case. Yes, jailed baby nurse Lucy let Be
- 14:41Speaker 2: is being monitored around the clock after she was mocked
- 14:45Speaker 2: made fun of over this documentary. And my only question
- 14:49Speaker 2: is that made her suicidal, that people were mocking her,
- 14:54Speaker 2: not the fact that she killed at least seven infants
- 14:57Speaker 2: in her care. This is what we know happened to
- 15:02Speaker 2: those babies. I guess in the NICKU Neonatal Intensive Care Unit,
- 15:09Speaker 2: the children are already at such a high risk. Like
- 15:12Speaker 2: I said, Lucy, My little Lucy was two pounds and
- 15:19Speaker 2: we knew it was.
- 15:21Speaker 1: A long shot.
- 15:23Speaker 2: But north Side and the nick you nurses and doctors
- 15:28Speaker 2: saved her and John David's lives. So when you have deaths,
- 15:34Speaker 2: I guess that's expected, not happy, but expected in the NICKU.
- 15:39Speaker 1: Would you agree with that, cat.
- 15:41Speaker 9: Well, we never like to say it's expected, but some
- 15:44Speaker 9: of these children are in such severe physiological Oh gosh,
- 15:53Speaker 9: that's not right. Some of these premature babies are so sick,
- 15:58Speaker 9: They're little organ are not developed enough to be functioning
- 16:02Speaker 9: outside the womb yet and we are basically assisting them
- 16:07Speaker 9: by artificial means. So we do see death in the NICU.
- 16:14Speaker 9: We see a lot of children who have who have
- 16:21Speaker 9: issues with their lungs, with their heart, with their vision.
- 16:25Speaker 6: Kind of what you said.
- 16:26Speaker 9: So, any any instance where something happens that is unexpected,
- 16:33Speaker 9: we're going to watch and try and see what happened,
- 16:36Speaker 9: what we can do to fix that situation, what medications
- 16:41Speaker 9: we can insist them with and try to help them
- 16:44Speaker 9: just to continue to grow as if they were inside
- 16:46Speaker 9: the mother's womb.
- 16:47Speaker 2: I've never heard it pil like that. That's fascinating to me.
- 16:52Speaker 2: So I guess to you.
- 16:54Speaker 1: Doctor Kimball.
- 16:55Speaker 2: Crown's in a hospital setting, you expect, you don't want it,
- 17:00Speaker 2: but you know a likely outcome with very ill children,
- 17:05Speaker 2: very premature children.
- 17:08Speaker 1: They could die.
- 17:10Speaker 2: And I doubt pretty seriously that anyone suspects foul play
- 17:15Speaker 2: under those conditions.
- 17:17Speaker 1: How would you find out, say a baby dies.
- 17:21Speaker 2: An infant, a kneborn, a twin, how would you find
- 17:25Speaker 2: out that someone had injected in air? And I wanted
- 17:29Speaker 2: to say an air bubble, But how do you find out?
- 17:31Speaker 2: How do you figure out that air has been injected
- 17:36Speaker 2: into a baby and killed it, and how does it
- 17:38Speaker 2: kill the baby?
- 17:39Speaker 10: So injection of air in the hospital setting, you have
- 17:43Speaker 10: to have a idea that someone maybe up to something
- 17:47Speaker 10: to catch it. Sometimes the physicians or the nurses are
- 17:52Speaker 10: suspicious when a child or even adult dies unexpectedly and
- 17:58Speaker 10: there's no reason. The problem is is you can get
- 18:02Speaker 10: away with it for a period of time because hospital
- 18:05Speaker 10: deaths aren't necessarily brought to a medical examiner's office and
- 18:08Speaker 10: they're not necessarily autopsy. So usually it's a pattern where
- 18:13Speaker 10: they see this a number of times and then they
- 18:15Speaker 10: start getting suspicious and then autopsies don't. So at autopsy,
- 18:20Speaker 10: how you spot an air EMBLSS is if there's a
- 18:24Speaker 10: suspicion of it. When you do the X ray, you
- 18:26Speaker 10: can spot.
- 18:27Speaker 2: Air an air EMBLSS. What is an endless First of all.
- 18:31Speaker 10: An emblass is a large clot basically, so an emblas
- 18:36Speaker 10: of air is a clock of air in the bass
- 18:39Speaker 10: cardiovascor system. An X ray, you can spot it. It's
- 18:43Speaker 10: kind of like a black area in the heart, usually
- 18:47Speaker 10: in the right ventricles will wear we'll see it. So
- 18:50Speaker 10: at autopsy. When you're doing the autopsy, you actually open
- 18:53Speaker 10: the pair of cardial sack, which is a sack around
- 18:56Speaker 10: the heart. You fill it with water and then you
- 18:59Speaker 10: coke the right ventricle and bubbles will come out, air bubbles,
- 19:04Speaker 10: and when you see those, you know you're dealing with
- 19:06Speaker 10: an air embolis Again, it's easily easily missed at autopsy
- 19:11Speaker 10: unless you have a suspicious suspicion for it, so you
- 19:15Speaker 10: have to have the X rays, and with the X rays,
- 19:18Speaker 10: then you do the proper autopsy techniques catch it. So
- 19:21Speaker 10: air embolism is one of those hard ones to spot
- 19:24Speaker 10: at autopsy.
- 19:25Speaker 2: Trying to take in everything you're saying, and I know
- 19:28Speaker 2: it's by wrote for you because you've done so many
- 19:31Speaker 2: autopsies thousands, But for me to think of a kneeborn
- 19:35Speaker 2: baby lying on one of those cold autopsy tables being
- 19:42Speaker 2: sliced open, and you're filling out the pair of cardium
- 19:46Speaker 2: sack which goes around the heart, and trying to figure
- 19:50Speaker 2: out was air injected into this baby, it's very upsetting
- 19:57Speaker 2: for us reg killer people, doctor Kendall Crowns, But I
- 20:04Speaker 2: thank God for you and other doctors across the country
- 20:09Speaker 2: like you, because from what I can tell, this may
- 20:14Speaker 2: be the single most prolific child killer in the world.
- 20:22Speaker 2: One baby after the next, after the next, after the
- 20:26Speaker 2: next dies. What is the common denominator? One thing Lucy
- 20:36Speaker 2: let Be. Take a listen to doctor John Gibbs, who
- 20:42Speaker 2: worked with Lucy let Be on ITV.
- 20:45Speaker 5: There was nothing about her behavior or her attitude that
- 20:48Speaker 5: worried me at all. The problem with Lucy let Be
- 20:53Speaker 5: was that she was consistently associated with an increasing number
- 20:57Speaker 5: of unusual collapses and deaths that happening on the Union.
- 21:00Speaker 5: That's where the worry was.
- 21:02Speaker 1: And more from doctor Stephen Breery. Lucy'd let you was there.
- 21:06Speaker 12: She was sitting next to me. I spoke to her
- 21:09Speaker 12: and said, how tired and upset she must be after
- 21:14Speaker 12: two days of this, and I hope that she was
- 21:16Speaker 12: going to have a rest for a weekend. And she
- 21:18Speaker 12: turned to me and said, no, I'm back on shift tomorrow.
- 21:21Speaker 12: The other staff were very traumatized by all of this,
- 21:25Speaker 12: but you were crumbling before your eyes almost and she
- 21:29Speaker 12: was quite happy and confident to come into work.
- 21:32Speaker 2: Okay, greg Algren is joining me. International lawyer with diz Ruis.
- 21:40Speaker 2: They practice all over the United States and beyond. Greg Algren, Yes,
- 21:48Speaker 2: she was there when all of these babies were found dead,
- 21:53Speaker 2: when they were dying, when they were screaming with blood
- 21:55Speaker 2: on their mouth, as you heard the one father describe.
- 21:58Speaker 2: But that is entirely and yes, I've proven a case
- 22:03Speaker 2: on circumstantial evidence alone, but you've.
- 22:05Speaker 1: Got to have more.
- 22:06Speaker 2: You've got to have more than just well, she was
- 22:09Speaker 2: there whenever the baby babies would die. She never seemed tired,
- 22:12Speaker 2: she couldn't wait to get back to the ward and
- 22:15Speaker 2: work around more babies.
- 22:17Speaker 1: That's not enough to prove a case, Greg, But I think.
- 22:20Speaker 13: There's a I think there's a certain pattern in practice
- 22:23Speaker 13: that starts to emerge. That is the question of lack
- 22:27Speaker 13: of supervision. Apart from the criminal liability, I mean, there's
- 22:33Speaker 13: there's a civil issue. There's the lack of supervision, and
- 22:38Speaker 13: I mean perhaps even the concept of corporate manslaughter, the
- 22:43Speaker 13: failure to adequately participate in the controls that are necessary
- 22:49Speaker 13: to ensure that things are being done the right way.
- 22:54Speaker 2: You know, all that is absolutely correct. I don't think
- 22:57Speaker 2: that's any consolation to the parents, one after the next
- 23:02Speaker 2: after the next, who.
- 23:03Speaker 1: Suffered the loss of their child.
- 23:05Speaker 2: But Greg Agrin, of course, is completely correct. Robert Crispin
- 23:10Speaker 2: joining me, high profile private investigator former Federal Task Force
- 23:15Speaker 2: officer for the US Department of Justice with the DEEA
- 23:19Speaker 2: in the Miami Field Division. Former homicide and Crimes on
- 23:22Speaker 2: Children investigator, and you can find him at Crispininvestigations dot com.
- 23:27Speaker 1: Robert, thank you for being with us. If you were
- 23:30Speaker 1: handed this.
- 23:32Speaker 2: Let me just say Rubik's Cube, one baby after the
- 23:36Speaker 2: next is dying on this ward. Lucy let be is
- 23:41Speaker 2: there every time one of these babies dies and you
- 23:46Speaker 2: hear about the baby screaming They didn't just fall off
- 23:49Speaker 2: to sleep with too much benagdrill, which is bad enough
- 23:51Speaker 2: in itself.
- 23:52Speaker 1: They were screaming, What would you do? You got to
- 23:56Speaker 1: have more than that.
- 23:58Speaker 2: Now I find air injected into a baby to be damning, but.
- 24:03Speaker 1: I know I need more. What would you do to
- 24:07Speaker 1: prove this case? Robert Well sadly.
- 24:09Speaker 14: This case because of who we are dealing with, because
- 24:13Speaker 14: the access to the kids, and because we spoke about unfortunately,
- 24:18Speaker 14: death very final. You're expected that it's okay if someone
- 24:22Speaker 14: dies in hostile that's where they're supposed to die.
- 24:24Speaker 1: Oh, you just gave me a thought. It reminds me of.
- 24:26Speaker 2: Arson cases, which it took me years to develop an
- 24:29Speaker 2: expertise improving arson because first you have to prove a
- 24:33Speaker 2: crime even happened. And then once you prove a crime happened,
- 24:37Speaker 2: you got to figure out who did it and really
- 24:39Speaker 2: why Like this, you expect babies in a high risk
- 24:44Speaker 2: neonatal unit, some of them, God help them, are going
- 24:49Speaker 2: to die. So a lot of people don't think it's
- 24:54Speaker 2: anything unusual when a baby dies in the neonatal unit.
- 24:57Speaker 14: That's why she got away with it for so long.
- 24:59Speaker 14: So long she got away with it. By the time
- 25:01Speaker 14: it got to law enforcement is when this thing accelerated,
- 25:05Speaker 14: until the administrators got together and they started to compare
- 25:09Speaker 14: the facts and compare the charts and compare the employee
- 25:12Speaker 14: and the behavior, and then it went to law enforcement
- 25:15Speaker 14: after it was first denied to go to law enforcement,
- 25:18Speaker 14: and the employees were told, if you do anything about it,
- 25:21Speaker 14: there will be reach percussion.
- 25:22Speaker 1: You're making my stomach hurt right now? Is this true?
- 25:26Speaker 2: Alexis to rest Chut with us Crime online dot Com
- 25:29Speaker 2: investigative reporter that all these disks were flagged and employees
- 25:35Speaker 2: were begging for help and they were told, don't you
- 25:38Speaker 2: dare say a word.
- 25:39Speaker 1: Did that happen?
- 25:40Speaker 9: It?
- 25:40Speaker 1: Did it?
- 25:41Speaker 6: Was not only it was the nurses and the doctors
- 25:43Speaker 6: who worked with her. They all first time it was
- 25:46Speaker 6: a tragedy, but immediately the way that she reacted was
- 25:51Speaker 6: a red flag.
- 25:52Speaker 1: She how does she react?
- 25:54Speaker 6: Well, she wanted to come back to work immediately. She said, well,
- 25:57Speaker 6: you know, I just have to be there immediately. I
- 26:00Speaker 6: need any time to grieve. It's the best thing to do.
- 26:02Speaker 14: Well.
- 26:02Speaker 6: While everybody else was devastated and crushed by this and
- 26:05Speaker 6: thought she was. But each time a child died, each
- 26:09Speaker 6: time a baby died, and she was there, she wanted
- 26:12Speaker 6: to come back to work and insisted on And as
- 26:14Speaker 6: you said, remember many of them were twins or triplets.
- 26:17Speaker 6: She wanted to work with the other sibling immediately and
- 26:20Speaker 6: people and that really raised the red lights. So the
- 26:22Speaker 6: doctors and the nurses really started a file and tried
- 26:26Speaker 6: and complained about her and said this is really very
- 26:30Speaker 6: very suspicious.
- 26:31Speaker 1: Okay, somebody's going to have their pants suit off.
- 26:34Speaker 14: Well, to add insult to injury, they had to write
- 26:37Speaker 14: her an apology.
- 26:38Speaker 1: Whoa okay, what who's this is this? Crispin?
- 26:41Speaker 14: Or all great, that's Krispin.
- 26:43Speaker 1: What did you just say?
- 26:44Speaker 14: It had gotten to administration administration shut down the people
- 26:48Speaker 14: that were bringing this forward and we're not going to
- 26:51Speaker 14: do anything further and there'll be consequences. And then Lucy
- 26:55Speaker 14: filed a complaint and the doctors had to do a
- 26:59Speaker 14: risk apology to Lucy. I'm sorry, we're all stressed out, we're.
- 27:05Speaker 10: All under a lot of pressure.
- 27:07Speaker 14: That's how this all started. And then another death, that's
- 27:11Speaker 14: when administrators caught on. That's when they decided to call
- 27:14Speaker 14: law enforcement. And then that's when this case got some
- 27:17Speaker 14: traction and it took off, and it's where it is today.
- 27:21Speaker 6: And Nancy, I think, and this is kat I think.
- 27:23Speaker 9: Another most interesting fact about.
- 27:26Speaker 1: Her behavior was.
- 27:29Speaker 9: She reached out to these parents, multiple different parents of
- 27:34Speaker 9: the deceased children, and searched for them on social media
- 27:38Speaker 9: and watched their response to their grief and was almost relishing.
- 27:44Speaker 1: Their grief, and she.
- 27:47Speaker 9: Sent them notes. She said she was apologetic that she
- 27:50Speaker 9: couldn't make it to the funerals. It's really very distressing
- 27:53Speaker 9: to look at someone with such narcissistic behavior and attention
- 27:59Speaker 9: seeking behavior. It's just horrifying.
- 28:01Speaker 2: Oh man, oh man, she is going straight to hell.
- 28:06Speaker 1: Did you know that?
- 28:07Speaker 2: Also after the deaths of these tiny babies, she would
- 28:13Speaker 2: help the parents prepare the baby for the funeral.
- 28:16Speaker 9: Yes, it did mention in the evidence that she helped
- 28:20Speaker 9: to prepare memento boxes and gather footprints and handprints and
- 28:25Speaker 9: locks of hair, which is a very common practice. And
- 28:29Speaker 9: I see you after a child passes away because maybe
- 28:33Speaker 9: a photograph prior to the death, and these mementos are
- 28:37Speaker 9: the only thing that these parents have to remember the
- 28:40Speaker 9: short life that they had with their child.
- 28:42Speaker 1: Who was jumping in was that you, Karen start, Yes.
- 28:45Speaker 7: It was. I wanted to say that in addition to
- 28:48Speaker 7: her own cases, they would also find her involved in
- 28:52Speaker 7: cases that were not hers, where she was told not
- 28:56Speaker 7: to be there, and she would get involved with these
- 29:00Speaker 7: supposedly babies that were so sick and dying, which of
- 29:04Speaker 7: course she was causing.
- 29:05Speaker 2: So she wasn't just her patience. She would seek out
- 29:08Speaker 2: other babies.
- 29:09Speaker 7: And she relished taking care of the babies once they died.
- 29:14Speaker 7: She baved them and found clothes for them. She became
- 29:18Speaker 7: very very involved in the aftercare as well.
- 29:21Speaker 2: Okay, I'm sure you've got a diagnostic name for that.
- 29:25Speaker 2: Jackie is waiving a note to me that one of
- 29:28Speaker 2: the babies was actually buried and a gown provided by
- 29:33Speaker 2: Lucy let Be.
- 29:36Speaker 1: Guys take a listener our friends at BBC.
- 29:38Speaker 3: Lucy let Be was eventually moved to a clerical role.
- 29:41Speaker 3: The doctors kept trying to get managers to investigate the
- 29:44Speaker 3: suspicious deaths and her connection to them, even though consultants
- 29:49Speaker 3: here repeatedly made loud warnings to senior management. They say
- 29:54Speaker 3: they were ignored. Even after Lucy let Be came off
- 29:57Speaker 3: duty on the neonatal unit, executives to draw a line
- 30:01Speaker 3: under the case. Dr Stephen Breery led the team of
- 30:04Speaker 3: seven consultants on the unit who shared joint concerns.
- 30:08Speaker 12: It's something that nobody really wants to consider that a
- 30:13Speaker 12: member of staff might be harming the babies and your care.
- 30:17Speaker 3: Things came to a head when two out of three
- 30:20Speaker 3: healthy triplets died within twenty four hours of each other.
- 30:24Speaker 2: Oh got two out of three triplets. Karen Stark, you're
- 30:29Speaker 2: the shrink. We're just a mere mortals. What is There's
- 30:34Speaker 2: got to be a name for the hatred of babies,
- 30:38Speaker 2: the desire to kill infants.
- 30:41Speaker 7: Well, usually when that happens, it's still side. It's a
- 30:44Speaker 7: parent who's killing the baby. Unfortunately, in this case, you're
- 30:50Speaker 7: talking about a cold and I mean cold bloody killer,
- 30:53Speaker 7: the definition of a psychopath. She was sadistic. She enjoyed
- 31:00Speaker 7: and I know this is hard for people to take in,
- 31:02Speaker 7: but she actually enjoyed watching not just the baby suffer,
- 31:07Speaker 7: but the parents suffer.
- 31:09Speaker 2: Now there's pedophobia, which is a fear of babies, but
- 31:15Speaker 2: the hatred of babies. They desire to kill babies, not
- 31:23Speaker 2: anybody else, just helpless infants.
- 31:27Speaker 7: But that's part of it, Nancy, is that they're helpless
- 31:30Speaker 7: and they're innocent, and that's extremely appealing to killers, as
- 31:34Speaker 7: we know, and all the natural instincts that you would
- 31:39Speaker 7: assume somebody would have when it comes to babies. A killer,
- 31:43Speaker 7: a cold blooded killer like this just the opposite. She's
- 31:48Speaker 7: in her environment. She relishes the fact that this is happening.
- 31:52Speaker 1: Guys, take a lists to our friends over at ap.
- 31:55Speaker 15: Lucie let Be was entrusted to protect some of the
- 31:58Speaker 15: most vulnerable. Little did those working alongside her know that
- 32:04Speaker 15: there was a murderer in their midst. She did her
- 32:07Speaker 15: utmost to conceal her crimes by varying the ways in
- 32:11Speaker 15: which she repeatedly harmed babies in her care. In her hands,
- 32:16Speaker 15: innocuous substances like air milk or medication like insulin would
- 32:22Speaker 15: become lethal. She perverted her learning and weaponized her craft
- 32:28Speaker 15: to inflict harm, grief, and death.
- 32:37Speaker 1: Crime stories with nitty grace.
- 32:44Speaker 2: Fallout continues over the ninety minute documentary on Netflix about
- 32:51Speaker 2: Lucy let Be. She's being checked on an hourly basis.
- 32:56Speaker 2: Even more, Steph has been told to engage her in
- 32:59Speaker 2: quote meaning full conversation and talked to her for at
- 33:02Speaker 2: least ten minutes at a time throughout the day to
- 33:06Speaker 2: gauge her mood and state of mind. Why because all
- 33:10Speaker 2: the inmates are buzzing about a Netflix show and mocking
- 33:15Speaker 2: Lucy let Be about the show. In the documentary, Lucy
- 33:20Speaker 2: let Bey's never before seen letters sent from prison boasting
- 33:25Speaker 2: about her posh on sweet sale to a quote special friend.
- 33:32Speaker 2: Now she is the butt of ridicule behind bars. In
- 33:37Speaker 2: these previously unseen letters, Lucy let Be, convict to kill
- 33:41Speaker 2: her whines about her own heartbreaking situation. Her word, not
- 33:46Speaker 2: mind heartbreaking. What about the moms and dads whose infants
- 33:51Speaker 2: were murdered by you, Lucy let Be, And you're whining
- 33:55Speaker 2: about the fact that you don't like being behind bars,
- 33:59Speaker 2: also whined about quote missing her pets behind bars. She brags,
- 34:06Speaker 2: I have my own room and toilet, I shower each
- 34:10Speaker 2: day and go outside for a walk. Really, and you're
- 34:14Speaker 2: still whining. We also learned let Me has a new
- 34:19Speaker 2: job behind bars, bragging about that too, that she got
- 34:23Speaker 2: a quote top new job behind bars, leaving the other
- 34:27Speaker 2: inmates jealous. Yes, she has been promoted from cleaner to
- 34:32Speaker 2: dishing out books and DVDs to the other inmates in
- 34:36Speaker 2: the jail library. Being the jail librarian is a very
- 34:41Speaker 2: sought after role and it gives her influence among the
- 34:44Speaker 2: other inmates, but that has not stopped them from mocking
- 34:47Speaker 2: her about the Netflix documentary about her. What does being
- 34:53Speaker 2: the jail librarian intel? Going around on a trolley delivering
- 34:58Speaker 2: box sets and books to yoursels. She may be bragging
- 35:02Speaker 2: about her cushy jailshill and enjoying her new role as
- 35:08Speaker 2: prison librarian, But I know who you really are, Lucy
- 35:13Speaker 2: let Be.
- 35:14Speaker 1: You're a baby killer.
- 35:15Speaker 2: In her hands, innocuous substances like air, milk or medication
- 35:20Speaker 2: would become lethal.
- 35:22Speaker 1: Then there's baby e.
- 35:24Speaker 2: The mom arrived to give the baby breast milk, and
- 35:28Speaker 2: she found the baby with blood around his mouth before
- 35:32Speaker 2: he died from a fatal bleed, which we now believed
- 35:35Speaker 2: to be caused by let Be interfering with a naso
- 35:39Speaker 2: gastric tube.
- 35:43Speaker 1: The mom actually walked in on her with the baby. Guys,
- 35:48Speaker 1: take a listen to this.
- 35:49Speaker 11: It was in June and when Lucy let Be murdered
- 35:51Speaker 11: the first newborn, who we can only call Baby A,
- 35:55Speaker 11: by injecting air into his bloodstream. The following month, after
- 35:59Speaker 11: the deaths of Baby and Baby D, the head of
- 36:02Speaker 11: the Neonotal Award ordered an internal review and found that
- 36:06Speaker 11: let Be had been the only nurse on shift for
- 36:09Speaker 11: each death. By October, baby and Baby I had also died,
- 36:13Speaker 11: and consultants warned senior management that let Be was present
- 36:16Speaker 11: each time.
- 36:17Speaker 2: That was Sean Fletcher at Good Morning Britain. BABYE Baby
- 36:23Speaker 2: I also died and senior management was warned Lucy let
- 36:29Speaker 2: Be was present each time. Greg Algrin, Why in the
- 36:34Speaker 2: world would a hospital tried to suppress the knowledge that
- 36:39Speaker 2: babies were dying on Lucy Letb's watch, not by accident,
- 36:42Speaker 2: not by normal or natural causes, but by injections of
- 36:47Speaker 2: air or insulin or interference with a NASO gastrel tube.
- 36:52Speaker 2: Why would they suppress that and actually warn the doctors
- 36:56Speaker 2: and nurses of repercussions if they continued to investigate and
- 37:01Speaker 2: force the Dodgers is Robert Crispin pointed out to apologize
- 37:04Speaker 2: to Lucy.
- 37:05Speaker 1: Let me the killer right.
- 37:07Speaker 13: It's disgusting, It's inconceivable. Yeah, I think we and I
- 37:11Speaker 13: conclude that this institution was trying to protect itself. There's
- 37:16Speaker 13: no excuse for it, and there have to be other
- 37:22Speaker 13: investigations and hopefully prosecutions that come out of this because
- 37:27Speaker 13: the organizational manager there is exhibited here is completely unexcusable, inexcusable,
- 37:33Speaker 13: I mean, it can be allowed to repeat itself in
- 37:36Speaker 13: the future.
- 37:37Speaker 1: Take us now to Janet More.
- 37:39Speaker 16: To lose a baby. There's a heartbreaking experience that no
- 37:43Speaker 16: pair intodup how to go through, or to lose a baby,
- 37:46Speaker 16: or to have a baby harmed and these particular circumstances
- 37:49Speaker 16: is unimaginable. Over the past seven to eight years, we've
- 37:53Speaker 16: had to go through a long, torturous and emotional journey
- 37:56Speaker 16: from losing our precious newborns and grieving their loss see
- 38:00Speaker 16: God children who survived, some of whom were still suffering
- 38:03Speaker 16: today to being told years later the death all collapse
- 38:07Speaker 16: might be suspicious. You'll think to prepare you for that news.
- 38:10Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get my head around it.
- 38:12Speaker 13: To you.
- 38:12Speaker 2: Alexis Tereschak joining us from crime Online. The murderers of
- 38:17Speaker 2: all these babies occurred over the space of one year.
- 38:21Speaker 2: Why did it take eight years to bring her to justice?
- 38:25Speaker 6: Concern raised by doctors and nurses, and they had the
- 38:29Speaker 6: hospital started an investigation into it, and.
- 38:32Speaker 1: Because she was so.
- 38:36Speaker 6: Forthcoming, she was a nurse, they just never suspected that
- 38:39Speaker 6: this would happen. Did nothing was found. However, when they
- 38:43Speaker 6: decided that they did, they did a survey. They did
- 38:45Speaker 6: and they saw that she was the only nurse on
- 38:49Speaker 6: duty in the room with these children for every single
- 38:52Speaker 6: death and every single attempted you know where there were
- 38:56Speaker 6: children that were assaulted by her that did not die,
- 38:59Speaker 6: but that were treated in the same way. And then
- 39:01Speaker 6: they realized that something happened. She then filed a complaint
- 39:06Speaker 6: against the hospital and said, you are targeting me. I
- 39:10Speaker 6: am not doing anything wrong. And because it appears that
- 39:13Speaker 6: they were afraid to be they were afraid that she
- 39:15Speaker 6: would sue them more than just file a complaint. They
- 39:18Speaker 6: backed down on this, and it took years for them
- 39:21Speaker 6: to finally contact the police, and many of the doctors
- 39:24Speaker 6: there have said that the hospital dragged their feet on
- 39:28Speaker 6: this and that they should have contacted the police immediately.
- 39:30Speaker 2: I guess I didn't want the bad public relations that
- 39:34Speaker 2: so many babies were dying number one and potentially the
- 39:38Speaker 2: hands of a nurse.
- 39:39Speaker 1: Listen to justice, James Goss.
- 39:42Speaker 17: This was a cruel, calculated, and cynical campaign of child murder,
- 39:49Speaker 17: involving the smallest and most vulnerable of children. Knowing that
- 39:54Speaker 17: your actions were causing significant physical suffering cause untold mental suffering,
- 40:05Speaker 17: you created situations so that collapses or causes of collapses
- 40:10Speaker 17: would not be obvious or associated with you. You removed
- 40:15Speaker 17: and retained confidential records of events relating to your crimes,
- 40:20Speaker 17: and checked up on bereaved parents. There was a deep
- 40:25Speaker 17: malevolence bordering on sadism in your actions.
- 40:29Speaker 2: Karen Starger, I can't figure out if she delighted more
- 40:31Speaker 2: in actually killing the babies or watching them die the
- 40:36Speaker 2: act of killing them, standing by watching them die, or
- 40:41Speaker 2: watching the parents grieve and actually enjoying the funeral preparations.
- 40:48Speaker 1: It's I can't figure out what her motivation is.
- 40:53Speaker 7: There doesn't need to be that everyone's trying to understand
- 40:56Speaker 7: her motivation. And when we're talking about a psychopath, this
- 41:00Speaker 7: is a person who has no feelings and the only
- 41:04Speaker 7: motivation is for her to be able to see they
- 41:08Speaker 7: are distressed. That really turns her on. It's hard to
- 41:13Speaker 7: conceive it, but it's true.
- 41:15Speaker 1: And she had no.
- 41:17Speaker 7: Look how manipulative she was, which really goes along with
- 41:21Speaker 7: being a psychopath. And she turned the tables and she said,
- 41:25Speaker 7: you're harassing me, so that she could take the attention
- 41:30Speaker 7: away from she's doing something wrong and put the attention
- 41:33Speaker 7: on the fact that she's a victive.
- 41:35Speaker 2: Kat Thornton joining US Neo Natal Nursing expert, what precautions
- 41:39Speaker 2: are in place in hospitals to make sure nurses are
- 41:44Speaker 2: not killingants, infants that of course have no voice for themselves.
- 41:49Speaker 9: Well, Nancy, I think this is an excellent example of
- 41:53Speaker 9: a situation where the surrounding support staff did not feel comfortable.
- 42:00Speaker 9: They were also chastised about bringing forth concerns. And I
- 42:04Speaker 9: will say that I think most institutions do an excellent
- 42:08Speaker 9: job of providing ongoing annual training. The compliance departments and
- 42:14Speaker 9: regulatory departments develop really good education and affirmation to each
- 42:21Speaker 9: employee at annual training.
- 42:24Speaker 2: That is their responsibility, So continue training, Alexis Tereschuk joining us.
- 42:30Speaker 2: So many of these parents probably thought that the potential
- 42:37Speaker 2: deaths of their children were to be expected, and when
- 42:40Speaker 2: a child passed away in the neonatal unit, they thought, well,
- 42:45Speaker 2: he just didn't make it. What happened at sentencing? Is
- 42:50Speaker 2: it true Lucy Letby would not even come to sentencing
- 42:53Speaker 2: where the parents were all there.
- 42:55Speaker 6: That's one hundred percent truth. She did not show up
- 42:59Speaker 6: for her sentencing. She was not there when these parents
- 43:02Speaker 6: gave their victim impact statements where they talked about how
- 43:06Speaker 6: they completely trusted her and that they knew something was
- 43:10Speaker 6: wrong because their child was screaming in the unit and
- 43:14Speaker 6: they went in and the parents and it was there,
- 43:16Speaker 6: and she was the only one there. She was too
- 43:20Speaker 6: much of a coward. She did not show up in
- 43:21Speaker 6: her parents. She is an only child who was doated
- 43:25Speaker 6: on her whole life. She was everything to her parents.
- 43:28Speaker 6: When she graduated from college, they sent a picture of
- 43:31Speaker 6: it to the local newspaper. They adored her, They gave
- 43:34Speaker 6: her everything. They were so proud of her. They had
- 43:36Speaker 6: been there every single day at the trial. But they
- 43:39Speaker 6: also did not show up for this sentence thing, so
- 43:42Speaker 6: nobody was there to hear what these parents had to
- 43:45Speaker 6: say after she had murdered their babies.
- 43:48Speaker 2: So chilling that after one baby died, photos have emerged
- 43:53Speaker 2: of Lucy let Be with this huge smile on her
- 43:57Speaker 2: face at a fundraiser. The baby had just died and
- 44:02Speaker 2: she went to a fundraiser for neonatal patients and had
- 44:06Speaker 2: this huge smile. She really had a great time at
- 44:09Speaker 2: the party after just killing one of the babies. Seven
- 44:13Speaker 2: babies dead at her hands that we know of, attempts
- 44:18Speaker 2: on the life of six other tiny infants. Lucy let
- 44:25Speaker 2: Me continues to devise methods scheming to get out of
- 44:31Speaker 2: that conviction. We wait as justice unfolds. Nancy Graf signing
- 44:37Speaker 2: off goodbye friend.