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Serial Killer Documentary - William Davis： Killer Nurse · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: Even though the code blue had gone off, he's watching
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Speaker 1: him die. We would show them that footage and many
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Speaker 1: of them just broke down in tears. I'm telling you,
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Speaker 1: I don't understand.
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Speaker 2: Why.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why.
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Speaker 3: My Lord, you just don't think about going to the
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Speaker 3: hospital and being killed.
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Speaker 4: One of the things that's so scary about health care
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Speaker 4: serial killers is they know ways to kill people.
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Speaker 5: You know, to do something like this one time is unthinkable,
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Speaker 5: but to do it multiple times, you'd have to enjoy it.
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Speaker 3: We are together, and then he's gone. It's horrible. It's sad.
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Speaker 3: It makes me want to cry. I am Martha K. Blanks.
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Speaker 3: I go by K. I met him in a bar,
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Speaker 3: but he owned it. He told me I just lit
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Speaker 3: the room up when I walked in. Oh, honey, he
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Speaker 3: was good looking. He was dark brown eyes and dark hair.
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Speaker 3: He had a great head of hair, always did. In fact,
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Speaker 3: there were women that told him, They'd like to run
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Speaker 3: their hands through it. He said, I don't think my
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Speaker 3: wife would like that. But what got him was the heart.
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Speaker 3: We were on a trip to New Orleans when he
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Speaker 3: had the first heart attack. Eight months later, we were
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Speaker 3: in Las Vegas. He had another heart attack. He just,
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Speaker 3: I guess it just got worse and worse.
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Speaker 6: In early January 2017, James Blinks has a successful operation
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Speaker 6: and is sent to recover on an ICU ward in
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Speaker 6: Christus Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, Texas.
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Speaker 3: He had a triple bypass. I was there the day
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Speaker 3: of surgery, could not stay the night of surgery. but
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Speaker 3: I saw him the next day, and he was doing well.
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Speaker 3: There was a lady who called me every 30 minutes
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Speaker 3: in the waiting room. She was a nurse, and she
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Speaker 3: would give me his progress, and he was doing good,
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Speaker 3: doing good, doing good, all the way through.
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Speaker 7: My name is Jeff Roberts.
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Speaker 8: At the time that the Will Davis case was ongoing,
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Speaker 8: I was a detective at the Tyler Police Department. The
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Speaker 8: most distinctive thing about, which at the time was Trinity
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Speaker 8: Mother Frances, they've since changed their name to Christus, is
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Speaker 8: that we have a very good and well-respected hospital district.
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Speaker 8: Bad outcomes are very uncommon.
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Speaker 5: Jacob Putman, I'm the Smith County Criminal District Attorney. Christus
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Speaker 5: Mother Frances Hospital is a large hospital. They care lots
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Speaker 5: of patients. They had recently built a new heart hospital
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Speaker 5: as a part of that. Heart patients who've had heart
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Speaker 5: surgery almost always recover quickly. and actually go home within
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Speaker 5: just a few days. So for any patients to have
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Speaker 5: extraordinary bad outcomes is unusual and concerning to the staff.
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Speaker 9: It's not something that they're used to seeing.
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Speaker 3: I saw him the next day. They'd had him up walking.
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Speaker 3: He was sitting in a chair. And when I walked in,
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Speaker 3: he did this. to me, calling me over. And I
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Speaker 3: walked over to him, and I leaned down, and I
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Speaker 3: kissed him, you know, like that, because that's what he wanted.
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Speaker 3: And I want to say this, because it's really important
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Speaker 3: to me. The last time I kissed him, it was
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Speaker 3: to be a peck. And when we connected, we did
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Speaker 3: not disconnect. And he didn't, you know how you'll pull
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Speaker 3: away or nothing. And later, I thought about it. God
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Speaker 3: gave us that goodbye. He gave us that goodbye. He
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Speaker 3: died that night. When he passed away, I was told
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Speaker 3: that by myself at 2 o'clock in the morning. Oh,
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Speaker 3: my God. Oh, my God. He was the love of
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Speaker 3: my life. And you know what I thought of? I
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Speaker 3: could never hear him walk in the door and say, Mama,
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Speaker 3: what are we going to eat? Or just whatever his
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Speaker 3: habit was. And I would never, it was closure. I
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Speaker 3: would never see him again. He was gone. He was
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Speaker 3: doing well. I said, what happened? He was doing perfect.
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Speaker 3: He was doing great. What happened? And she said, we
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Speaker 3: don't know. Got the surgeon, got me on the phone,
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Speaker 3: and he said, we don't know. Everybody was shocked. It
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Speaker 3: had been six months. I had buried James, thinking he
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Speaker 3: died of complications with his heart. And then I got
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Speaker 3: a text message one day, and a very good friend
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Speaker 3: called me, and she said, you need to watch this
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Speaker 3: right now. And it was on the tube. I don't
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Speaker 3: know what it was, but I tuned it in.
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Speaker 2: At the beginning of the investigation, Christos approached the Smith
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Speaker 2: County District Attorney's Office and the Tyler Police Department with
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Speaker 2: concerns that a nurse may have been involved in intentionally harming,
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Speaker 2: causing harm to patients at one of their hospitals.
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Speaker 6: The news report over a year after James died is
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Speaker 6: about an investigation into the unexplained deaths of patients recovering
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Speaker 6: from heart surgery.
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Speaker 3: When I saw that news and they said, if you
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Speaker 3: knew anybody that was in on the fifth floor, Tyler, Texas,
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Speaker 3: you need to call us immediately. And I did. I
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Speaker 3: told him my husband had been there and he had died.
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Speaker 3: He said, your story is just like everybody else's of
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Speaker 3: those people.
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Speaker 9: Exactly.
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Speaker 3: Exactly. My Lord, you just don't think about going to
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Speaker 3: the hospital and being killed, your spouse being killed. You
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Speaker 3: go there to heal.
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Speaker 4: William Davis is from Tyler, Texas. He grew up in
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Speaker 4: a pretty close-knit family. He's the oldest of four boys.
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Speaker 4: Seems to have a very loving mother. But nothing that
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Speaker 4: was really, really stood out.
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Speaker 5: He was a football star in a very small town,
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Speaker 5: meaning he would have been well-liked and well-known by both
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Speaker 5: kids and parents. He came in second in his class
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Speaker 5: as far as grades, so he was intelligent.
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Speaker 4: I think that Will Davis was a big fish in
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Speaker 4: a small pond. And when you're talking about growing up,
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Speaker 4: if you are that big fish in a small pond,
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Speaker 4: it can feel very powerful. People do look up to
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Speaker 4: you and they do notice you and they know who
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Speaker 4: you are.
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Speaker 5: As a young man, everybody liked him, and he seemed
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Speaker 5: to be a standout that was going places.
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Speaker 4: We have Will Davis, who's around 16, 17. He's a
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Speaker 4: normal adolescent. And he is attracted to this 12- or
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Speaker 4: 13-year-old girl. And I think when you look at the
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Speaker 4: age difference and the maturity level, this is something that
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Speaker 4: really would be shocking to most people.
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Speaker 10: A 16-year-old dating a 13-year-old is criminal in many jurisdictions.
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Speaker 10: That is certainly giving us an element of perhaps a
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Speaker 10: starting of criminal delinquent behavior, giving us an indication that
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Speaker 10: law may not be as important as it is to
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Speaker 10: other people.
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's really not an equal relationship by any
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Speaker 4: stretch of the imagination in terms of their age, in
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Speaker 4: terms of their maturity, in terms of what they're allowed
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Speaker 4: to do, and all those things. And I think one
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Speaker 4: of the things we start seeing is Will, you know,
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Speaker 4: having a very strong need to control the people around him.
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Speaker 5: Her parents did not approve of that because he was
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Speaker 5: too old. He continued to pursue that relationship even though
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Speaker 5: he had been told to kind of move on. Became
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Speaker 5: kind of obsessive about her and to the point of
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Speaker 5: actually crashing his car into a tree in front of
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Speaker 5: her house. That's when the police got involved, and he
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Speaker 5: got some mental health attention at that point.
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Speaker 9: It did cause him some problems early on.
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Speaker 10: Coping skills, the ability to see problems, and your ability
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Speaker 10: to have resilience. The question becomes our ability to deal
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Speaker 10: with difficult situations. Does aggression come out? Does the ability
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Speaker 10: to pick up yourself and move on from the problem,
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Speaker 10: does that occur?
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Speaker 4: He becomes depressed. He seeks out some antidepressants. He goes
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Speaker 4: to get some help. He's told he's depressed. Then he's
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Speaker 4: told he has bipolar disorder and he's prescribed a couple
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Speaker 4: of different medications. He doesn't really believe that fits him,
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Speaker 4: but I think The big picture is that this is
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Speaker 4: somebody who is not just struggling from an adjustment standpoint,
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Speaker 4: but really struggling from a mental health standpoint and is
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Speaker 4: trying to figure out a way to navigate that while
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Speaker 4: he's in college.
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Speaker 5: Got married, ended up divorced, but then he got remarried
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Speaker 5: and went back to school and got a nursing degree and.
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Speaker 9: Was kind of headed on the right trajectory after a
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Speaker 9: few years.
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Speaker 6: By 2013, Davis is working at Christus Mother Frances Hospital.
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Speaker 8: Well, everybody's very prideful in what they do. Nurses take
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Speaker 8: an oath, and they take their job very seriously. I
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Speaker 8: have good friends that are nurses and will tell you
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Speaker 8: how serious they take the ethics of their job and
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Speaker 8: the responsibility of that job. Is there a more vulnerable
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Speaker 8: position than being medically sedated, coming out of a surgery,
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Speaker 8: and counting on care, which, thank the Lord, most of
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Speaker 8: the time is exactly what we all receive.
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Speaker 4: Will Davis is somebody who is a smart guy. He's
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Speaker 4: made it through nursing school, which is no easy feat.
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Speaker 4: He's now ambitious to go further than that. He's getting
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Speaker 4: his master's degree, which many people acknowledge. That's quite an accomplishment.
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Speaker 10: So as we progress in life, we gain more stressors.
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Speaker 10: And the question becomes, how do you deal with those stressors?
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Speaker 10: What is your response? We later see what those responses are.
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Speaker 6: William Davis is a trusted nurse at a well-respected hospital.
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Speaker 5: He'd been working at that hospital for three or four years.
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Speaker 5: He was generally well-liked, very friendly. He worked primarily in
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Speaker 5: the cardiac unit, but he also would float to other
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Speaker 5: floors and help out, mostly intensive care units caring for
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Speaker 5: very sick patients.
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Speaker 6: Davis is studying for a master's degree and is house
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Speaker 6: hunting with his wife while she's expecting their second child.
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Speaker 4: At the same time, I think there are some indications
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Speaker 4: that everything is not what it seems. So for example,
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Speaker 4: he has a very, very difficult time managing money. And
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Speaker 4: this seems to be a problem for him for many,
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Speaker 4: many years. The way this couple seems to handle this
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Speaker 4: initially is the wife kind of takes over the finances.
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Speaker 4: And when I talk about being in trouble financially, I'm
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Speaker 4: not talking about missing a few payments. I'm talking about
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Speaker 4: somebody who's in like $ 135, 000 worth of debt.
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Speaker 3: And that's hard to climb out of.
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Speaker 4: One of the most telling things is at one point
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Speaker 4: he texts a colleague to ask if they have any
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Speaker 4: anti-anxiety medication. And that tells me two different things. Number
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Speaker 4: one is he's struggling and things are getting harder for him.
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Speaker 4: But also what he says, which is, I need something
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Speaker 4: before I get into trouble. And I think that is,
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Speaker 4: you know, as somebody who's worked with many patients with
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Speaker 4: anxiety or depression or whatever, I've never ever had anybody,
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Speaker 4: no matter how anxious they are or depressed they are, say,
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Speaker 4: I'm about to get into trouble.
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Speaker 6: It's been five months since the surprise death of James Blanks.
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Speaker 6: Another patient is recovering from a successful operation, 74-year-old John Lafferty.
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Speaker 9: He had woken up.
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Speaker 3: He was verbal.
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Speaker 9: He was alert.
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Speaker 4: He seemed to be doing very, very well. There were
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Speaker 4: every indication, every expectation that this was somebody who was
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Speaker 4: going to have a smooth recovery.
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Speaker 5: He was retired, had a loving family, grown children, grandchildren,
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Speaker 5: very well loved. He had had heart surgery and was
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Speaker 5: on his road to recovery when he died. It was
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Speaker 5: an unusual bad outcome. It was an unusual death, not
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Speaker 5: one that they predicted.
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Speaker 9: So when Mr.
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Speaker 5: Lafferty died, it was puzzling to the doctors, and they
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Speaker 5: wanted to try to figure out what the cause was.
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Speaker 5: But at the time, really, they couldn't come up with
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Speaker 5: any answers. They kind of had to shrug their shoulders
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Speaker 5: and say it's undetermined.
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Speaker 6: 68-year-old Ronald Clark is recovering from a successful operation.
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Speaker 5: Ronald Clark was a little bit different. He didn't have
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Speaker 5: heart surgery. He had vascular surgery, which meaning not on
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Speaker 5: the heart itself, but on the aorta as it goes
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Speaker 5: down towards the legs. But similar in that he had
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Speaker 5: successful surgery and he should have recovered very quickly.
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Speaker 4: The doctors were thrilled at the progress he was making.
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Speaker 4: And yet 24 hours after he has his surgery, he's
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Speaker 4: brain dead.
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Speaker 5: They did a review of the surgery and really at
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Speaker 5: that point, they were not able to come up with
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Speaker 5: any plausible explanation as to why he would have had
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Speaker 5: a stroke and died.
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Speaker 4: Will also took some additional safeguards. So for example, he
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Speaker 4: didn't kill people he was assigned.
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Speaker 11: To look after.
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Speaker 4: He would go and kill people who other people were
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Speaker 4: assigned to look after. So I think that was for
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Speaker 4: two reasons. One is he didn't want his patients to
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Speaker 4: be in danger. Look, I'm a great nurse. Nobody's dying
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Speaker 4: under my watch. But I think it was another way,
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Speaker 4: I think, of evading attention or evading anybody questioning his
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Speaker 4: ability to care for patients.
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Speaker 6: Christopher Greenaway, age 47, becomes the third unexpected death.
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Speaker 5: Christopher Greenaway was really exceptional in a lot of ways
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Speaker 5: as a patient.
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Speaker 9: He was much younger. He had been a war veteran.
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Speaker 9: He was actually a paramedic.
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Speaker 5: But in terms of heart patients who need heart surgery,
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Speaker 5: he was incredibly healthy and had almost no risk factors
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Speaker 5: associated with his surgery. So when he crashed and died,
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Speaker 5: It was very shocking for the nurses and doctors because
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Speaker 5: he was in such good health. The doctors actually were
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Speaker 5: very frustrated because they didn't have an answer to give
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Speaker 5: to the family. The hospital was definitely trying to figure
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Speaker 5: out what was going on. Certainly three deaths in this
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Speaker 5: close proximity, highly unusual. They did the things hospitals usually do,
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Speaker 5: which is check their equipment to make sure there's no
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Speaker 5: malfunctioning equipment either on the floor or in surgery, checking
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Speaker 5: the medications that they're being given. but everything they would
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Speaker 5: check was working properly.
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Speaker 4: One of the things that's so scary about healthcare serial
17:49
Speaker 4: killers is they know ways to kill people, and they
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Speaker 4: know ways to kill people in ways that won't be
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Speaker 4: spotted very easily. But I think what kept him murdering,
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Speaker 4: what turned him really into a serial killer was the
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Speaker 4: thrill and the exhilaration and that sense of release and
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Speaker 4: power and control that he got when he killed and
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Speaker 4: killed again. And I think that probably for Will, I
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Speaker 4: think he was surprised that he felt a sense of power,
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Speaker 4: a sense of control, and also a sense of relief
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Speaker 4: from this stress, a temporary kind of reprieve. And I
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Speaker 4: think that surprised him, and it really set up a
18:35
Speaker 4: very dangerous situation for him down the road.
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Speaker 9: I think for Will it was easy.
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Speaker 5: I think he also enjoyed watching everyone respond to these
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Speaker 5: rooms and try to figure out what was going on.
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Speaker 5: I mean, there's a team of doctors and nurses trying
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Speaker 5: to save these patients, trying to determine what happened, and
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Speaker 5: he's the only one in the room that really knows
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Speaker 5: what's going on. I think Will had to have enjoyed it,
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Speaker 5: or he wouldn't have done it more than once. So
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Speaker 5: to do many in kind of quick succession like this,
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Speaker 5: there has to be something driving him to make him
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Speaker 5: keep doing it.
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Speaker 10: This is when you have to go to another level.
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Speaker 10: This is when you have to question everything that you're doing.
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Speaker 10: For this hospital, for this facility, cameras are now installed.
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Speaker 10: The question becomes, who was the last person to see
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Speaker 10: that individual or interact with that individual before their death?
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Speaker 10: If the alarms go off that this person is perhaps flatlining,
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Speaker 10: who was the last person to be in that room?
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Speaker 10: Was that person doing something positive or negative to the individual?
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Speaker 10: Was it done with malice?
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Speaker 6: Joseph Kalina, 58, is recovering from a successful operation.
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Speaker 7: So Joseph Kalina was an American truck driver.
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Speaker 8: Talking with his family, he loved his job, he loved
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Speaker 8: his family, came out of surgery neurologically intact, had no
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Speaker 8: issues or complications from the surgery and was put on
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Speaker 8: the ICU wing there at the heart hospital for more monitoring.
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Speaker 7: From there, he was in the care of a nurse.
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Speaker 8: One of the things that happened in this case was
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Speaker 8: that for lunch, the nurse asked Will, to watch his
20:38
Speaker 8: patient for him as he went to grab a quick lunch.
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Speaker 8: And as he was coming back from lunch is when
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Speaker 8: the monitor was going off. Joseph Kalina was crashing with
20:55
Speaker 8: this unexplained event. The nurse was actually in there responding
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Speaker 8: as well while Will Davis was watching outside the room.
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Speaker 8: The CCTV showed that in this particular case, immediately within
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Speaker 8: minutes after Will Davis leaving the room of Joseph Kalina,
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Speaker 8: he crashes. The devastating part was the video also showed
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Speaker 8: Will Davis staging himself.
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Speaker 7: Down the hall. There was a TV that he had.
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Speaker 8: Access to that would monitor and show the vitals for
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Speaker 8: the patients on that wing, and he kept looking up
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Speaker 8: at that, and then he would look down the hall,
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Speaker 8: and then he would look up at the monitors, And
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Speaker 8: here he was, just like an arsonist, watching his victim suffer.
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Speaker 5: You know, when you see the way he acts and
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Speaker 5: the body language on the video, it's certainly hard to
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Speaker 5: imagine somebody doing something like this on purpose to a patient.
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Speaker 5: But certainly to commit a murder and to walk nonchalantly
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Speaker 5: down the hall as if nothing had happened would take
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Speaker 5: someone who is incredibly cold and unfeeling.
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Speaker 4: I think that it wasn't so much that Will Davis
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Speaker 4: didn't care. But I think at this point in his life,
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Speaker 4: that drive, that compulsion, that need to feel good took
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Speaker 4: over everything else.
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Speaker 8: Will was initially interviewed about his interactions with that patient
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Speaker 8: by hospital staff and gave a story that did not
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Speaker 8: match the CCTV in the case.
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Speaker 7: That was obviously a huge red flag.
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Speaker 5: Will basically said he really didn't do anything. He turned
22:53
Speaker 5: off an alarm on one of the IV pumps, but
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Speaker 5: they could tell from the instruments in the room that
22:59
Speaker 5: his arterial line had been accessed and touched. The IV
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Speaker 5: pump and the arterial line are on different sides of
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Speaker 5: the bed, so there'd be no reason to touch one
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Speaker 5: when you're really saying you're touching the others. When Will
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Speaker 5: lies about being in the room, that's not only unusual,
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Speaker 5: that doesn't happen. So why would a nurse possibly lie
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Speaker 5: about going into a patient's room? When that dawns on them,
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Speaker 5: you then have to re-examine every patient, every bad outcome
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Speaker 5: you've ever had. A nurse with malicious intent is never
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Speaker 5: something that they check for. When they do and they
23:33
Speaker 5: start connecting the dots, really it just opened up a
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Speaker 5: Pandora's box of patients and what had happened to them.
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Speaker 5: Right after they caught him lying, they sent him home
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Speaker 5: and suspended him until they could figure it out.
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Speaker 10: Any hospital is going to have deaths, but you start
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Speaker 10: to see perhaps a pattern of deaths occurring. You have
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Speaker 10: it investigated, and then there's a question of foul play.
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Speaker 10: Through investigation, through camera video, and others, that starts to
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Speaker 10: point to one person. We must call on the police.
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Speaker 6: Will Davis has been suspended after CCTV captured him leaving
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Speaker 6: the room of Joseph Kalina, a patient who crashed during
24:29
Speaker 6: recovery from successful surgery. The hospital now suspects he may
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Speaker 6: be involved in other unexplained deaths too and have called
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Speaker 6: the police.
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Speaker 4: One of the really impressive things that this hospital did
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Speaker 4: was number one, I think they took the suspicions and
24:45
Speaker 4: concerns seriously from the very beginning. And the other thing
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Speaker 4: is that the doctors got involved in this.
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Speaker 5: The hospital went through all their patients for the last
24:56
Speaker 5: couple years before Will was suspected and looked at those
25:00
Speaker 5: bad outcomes to see if they thought it fit the
25:02
Speaker 5: pattern of injury that Mr.
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Speaker 9: Kalina had.
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Speaker 5: They also set up a hotline for people to call
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Speaker 5: if they thought their loved one might have been a
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Speaker 5: victim of Will.
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Speaker 6: Only at this point, a year after her husband James' death,
25:21
Speaker 6: does K-Blinks learn there was a potential killer on his ward?
25:25
Speaker 3: So the police and the media got it. What I
25:28
Speaker 3: think is he killed James, and then he got by
25:33
Speaker 3: with it, and then he went and killed one just
25:37
Speaker 3: real quick. And so when James was killed, there was
25:45
Speaker 3: no camera. The lawyer told me that my case or
25:49
Speaker 3: my story was, was exactly.
25:52
Speaker 7: Like everybody else's.
25:54
Speaker 5: There's really no crime I've ever handled quite like this.
25:58
Speaker 5: It's unique in many aspects, both in the number of victims,
26:02
Speaker 5: the kind of perpetrator that was committing the crimes, the
26:06
Speaker 5: motivation behind the crimes. All of those were unique and
26:09
Speaker 5: certainly a large case to kind of wrap your mind around.
26:12
Speaker 9: The community was terrified.
26:17
Speaker 5: So the idea that someone could intend harm to you
26:20
Speaker 5: in that setting was really terrifying and caused a lot
26:23
Speaker 5: of attention.
26:26
Speaker 6: Investigators know Will lied about touching the arterial line of
26:29
Speaker 6: Joseph Kalina, so they investigate if the medical emergencies could
26:33
Speaker 6: have been caused by Will interfering with this equipment.
26:37
Speaker 8: So early on, the suspicion was that air was being
26:40
Speaker 8: injected into the arterial line of patients as they were post-surgery.
26:47
Speaker 9: So there's a.
26:47
Speaker 5: Lot of reasons why that was very hard to detect.
26:50
Speaker 5: First is the arterial line is not a place where
26:53
Speaker 5: you typically inject anything. But if you inject air into it,
26:57
Speaker 5: that air will travel up the artery to the highest
27:01
Speaker 5: point in the body, which in a hospital bed is
27:03
Speaker 5: the brain. So as air travels up the arterial line
27:07
Speaker 5: into the brain, it then blocks blood from getting to
27:10
Speaker 5: the brain, which causes a stroke. And then after about
27:15
Speaker 5: six to 10 minutes, maybe 30 minutes, that air is
27:19
Speaker 5: then absorbed by the brain. So the air is a
27:23
Speaker 5: murder weapon that disappears all on its own.
27:25
Speaker 10: Certainly, you look at the way of placing air in
27:28
Speaker 10: someone's tubing that's for an IV. There are no marks.
27:33
Speaker 10: There are no bruises. So this way leaves no clues.
27:37
Speaker 7: You could get away with this.
27:49
Speaker 8: Will Davis had reached out to us early in the
27:52
Speaker 8: investigation to see, ironically enough, to see if we had
27:55
Speaker 8: talked with his attorney.
27:56
Speaker 7: It was a phone conversation.
27:58
Speaker 8: I thought it was interesting in some of the early
28:01
Speaker 8: conversation that he would bring up things that we knew
28:04
Speaker 8: as investigators we were interested in the case, but he
28:07
Speaker 8: would bring up things like the art line or bad
28:10
Speaker 8: surgery outcomes. As soon as we would turn it to
28:13
Speaker 8: any of the patients in general, you would hear his
28:16
Speaker 8: voice choke up as he would get nervous. Detective Weaver
28:21
Speaker 8: at that time, as we were finishing up that interview,
28:24
Speaker 8: just flat out asked him about putting.
28:27
Speaker 7: Air in the arterial lines of patients.
28:30
Speaker 8: And he would only say, I won't answer that without
28:32
Speaker 8: my attorney, which was good enough for me to understand
28:36
Speaker 8: we were clearly in the right direction with our investigation.
28:42
Speaker 5: The police wanted to make sure they went through everything
28:45
Speaker 5: and see If there were more, how many? We could
28:48
Speaker 5: really only go back about a year because that's how
28:51
Speaker 5: long the hospital keeps the detailed records that we would
28:54
Speaker 5: need to prove it. And as they went through, they
28:58
Speaker 5: found four that they were able to confirm because they
29:04
Speaker 5: had imaging, whether it be CTs or MRIs.
29:08
Speaker 9: That would confirm the kind of injury.
29:10
Speaker 5: And then they found a list of others that they
29:12
Speaker 5: suspected As they found more and more cases that met
29:16
Speaker 5: that pattern, it became more and more clear that Will
29:20
Speaker 5: Davis was a murderer and he'd murdered multiple people.
29:25
Speaker 7: We need to prove this man's guilt or innocence, but
29:29
Speaker 7: we're going to follow the facts. He lived just outside
29:34
Speaker 7: of Tyler. He was married. They had two kids.
29:37
Speaker 8: One had just been born, was a as a hard worker,
29:41
Speaker 8: you know, on face value, had everything going for him.
29:45
Speaker 8: But we saw things in the investigation that kind of
29:48
Speaker 8: pointed to some things that weren't necessarily forthcoming, an inappropriate
29:51
Speaker 8: relationship with a younger female, as well as some potential
29:56
Speaker 8: suicide attempts. just things that were red flags for us
30:00
Speaker 8: as investigators. As you start uncovering more evidence, living outside
30:05
Speaker 8: of his means appeared to be a.
30:06
Speaker 7: Problem for sure.
30:08
Speaker 8: It was new trucks, new house, new pool, living the
30:13
Speaker 8: American dream, albeit without maybe respect to how much money
30:19
Speaker 8: he had in the bank. And any time you add
30:21
Speaker 8: stress on top of any other mental incapacities or deficiencies
30:25
Speaker 8: going on, any kind of trigger can be an issue.
30:29
Speaker 5: But he had a clear pattern of being impulsive with
30:32
Speaker 5: money decisions. That to us didn't seem related, but when
30:36
Speaker 5: we talked to psychologists, they said there's a pretty good
30:39
Speaker 5: connection there between sociopaths who know how to be controlled
30:44
Speaker 5: and deliberate in some areas of their life, but are
30:46
Speaker 5: very impulsive and unorganized in other areas of their lives.
30:49
Speaker 9: A lot of his behavior, which to.
30:51
Speaker 5: Us seemed normal, they said would be typical of a sociopath,
30:56
Speaker 5: that being very friendly, having a short attention span.
31:01
Speaker 8: And that's what really unraveled some of just the psychology
31:05
Speaker 8: of Will Davis, maybe what was a motive. But I
31:08
Speaker 8: think at this, anyone on that investigative team would just
31:12
Speaker 8: remind you that sometimes there is just evil.
31:17
Speaker 10: What we often find is I've done the first murder.
31:21
Speaker 10: I've not been caught. There was even a feeling of euphoria.
31:26
Speaker 10: There's a feeling of success that wrestling now has perhaps
31:30
Speaker 10: made that anxiety disappear for just a little bit of time.
31:35
Speaker 10: Maybe I liked the feeling of when that death occurred.
31:40
Speaker 10: Why not have the feeling again?
31:57
Speaker 5: Will was absolutely aware of what he was getting away
32:00
Speaker 5: with because no one in the hospital is suspecting it
32:05
Speaker 5: might have been intentional. It was nearly impossible for them
32:08
Speaker 5: to connect the dots. The security footage was really the
32:11
Speaker 5: most useful piece of evidence.
32:13
Speaker 9: It's very cold. It's very shocking.
32:20
Speaker 8: Will Davis, actually, in a phone interview, told us he
32:23
Speaker 8: grabbed syringes just prior to walking into that room. He's
32:27
Speaker 8: in there for just about a minute and then walked out.
32:31
Speaker 8: Him being in the room, the video capturing that, and
32:35
Speaker 8: even his own admissions, placing himself in direct care with
32:38
Speaker 8: the patient at the time of the incident was very critical.
32:42
Speaker 8: Error does not just happen in your brain. And so
32:47
Speaker 8: the method he chose to maim and murder his victims
32:50
Speaker 8: is ultimately what got him caught.
32:55
Speaker 6: On April 10th, 2018, Will Davis is arrested for the
33:02
Speaker 6: murders of John Lafferty, Ronald Clark, and Christopher Greenaway. He's
33:07
Speaker 6: held in Smith County Jail on an $ 8.
33:09
Speaker 9: 75 million bond.
33:14
Speaker 10: An $ 8. 75 million bond is something.
33:19
Speaker 7: It tells us.
33:20
Speaker 10: How serious this case is. It tells us how the
33:24
Speaker 10: criminal justice system believes that this individual is a threat
33:28
Speaker 10: to society. When we look at this case, it looks
33:31
Speaker 10: like a slam dunk for prosecution. You have an individual
33:35
Speaker 10: with cameras, showing that he is coming out of the room,
33:38
Speaker 10: he's in the room, just before death occurs. However, a
33:43
Speaker 10: defense attorney is going to go the route in this
33:45
Speaker 10: case to say, people are in a hospital, people are ill,
33:49
Speaker 10: people are recovering from major operations, they were probably going
33:54
Speaker 10: to die anyway, and Davis may get away with this crime.
34:09
Speaker 6: Will Davis is in custody and awaiting trial. The COVID
34:13
Speaker 6: pandemic delays proceedings, and during 2020, Joseph Kalina passes away.
34:19
Speaker 8: You know, I know for everyone when it comes to trial,
34:35
Speaker 8: No matter the case, there's always going to be nerves.
34:38
Speaker 7: You never know what curveball is going to be thrown
34:40
Speaker 7: by the defense or anything else.
34:42
Speaker 10: It is the job of the defense to slap down
34:45
Speaker 10: the argument that's presented by the prosecution. How are you
34:50
Speaker 10: able to link that to my client? If you can't,
34:53
Speaker 10: I must be found not guilty.
34:56
Speaker 5: We prepared for this case for nine months, just preparing
35:01
Speaker 5: witnesses and going through evidence. And then we spent several
35:04
Speaker 5: months picking the jury and trying the case.
35:08
Speaker 8: The interesting part in our investigation, even from early on,
35:12
Speaker 8: was that over a six-month period from June until January
35:16
Speaker 8: of 2018, Will Davis was the only nurse on duty
35:23
Speaker 8: at the time of each of the events.
35:25
Speaker 7: The evidence was very, very clear.
35:27
Speaker 8: The medical evidence backed up everything that the video backed up,
35:31
Speaker 8: and when pieced together, really painted the picture of the
35:34
Speaker 8: serial killer that was running the floors.
35:46
Speaker 5: I expected them to deliberate a while, just because they
35:49
Speaker 5: had a whole lot of information to go over. We
35:52
Speaker 5: went over it in great detail for several weeks with them.
35:57
Speaker 5: And I think at the end of listening to all
35:59
Speaker 5: of the testimony, all of those doctors and nurses and experts,
36:03
Speaker 5: there really wasn't another conclusion they could come to.
36:10
Speaker 10: Davis is found guilty of four counts of capital murder.
36:20
Speaker 8: You now have this relief because you know justice has
36:25
Speaker 8: been served, you know he's been found guilty, and then
36:28
Speaker 8: they go into victim impact statements and now it's the humanization,
36:32
Speaker 8: it's the reality for people to hear precisely the effects
36:36
Speaker 8: of the devastation that Will Davis chose to bring upon
36:40
Speaker 8: his victims. I'll never forget, and I believe it was Ms.
36:44
Speaker 8: Blanks giving her statement to the court.
36:53
Speaker 3: So I stood there and looked right at him. He
36:56
Speaker 3: has black eyes, it seems like. Held his face kind
36:59
Speaker 3: of like something weird with his hands. But he is down,
37:05
Speaker 3: and when I would talk to him, he would go,
37:10
Speaker 3: and these tears would come down his face. And I said,
37:13
Speaker 3: I am Kay Blanks, James Blanks' wife, your first victim.
37:21
Speaker 3: And I said, my husband did not deserve to die
37:25
Speaker 3: like that. And I said, I forgive you because God
37:31
Speaker 3: tells us to forgive. And I'm led by the Holy
37:34
Speaker 3: Spirit to tell you because we won't be forgiven if
37:39
Speaker 3: we don't forgive. And I do believe that. I said,
37:42
Speaker 3: but I feel just like everybody else feels about you.
37:46
Speaker 3: I told him straight to his face. I said, something's wrong.
37:50
Speaker 9: With you, buddy.
37:52
Speaker 8: And what was so impactful is so often you expect
37:55
Speaker 8: it to be vengeance and anger and all these things.
37:59
Speaker 8: And here was a woman offering forgiveness and really pointing
38:06
Speaker 8: Will Davis to the finality and the eternal decision of
38:10
Speaker 8: his actions. And I'll never forget that because it did
38:14
Speaker 8: point to the truth, the truth of the matter that
38:18
Speaker 8: there was a higher judge to answer to. and that
38:23
Speaker 8: he better be ready for that.
38:38
Speaker 1: I want you to know that I am not a
38:40
Speaker 1: malicious man. I loved you. I loved the kids. During
38:43
Speaker 1: the summertime, I'm 17. That summer, we had a lot
38:47
Speaker 1: of finances. And of course, some of that's my fault.
38:51
Speaker 1: I'm blaming myself for that. I want you to have
38:53
Speaker 1: a nice house. I want you to have a nice pool.
38:54
Speaker 1: I want you to have a nice car. I want
38:56
Speaker 1: to have a nice truck and a nice car. And
38:58
Speaker 1: I was trying to work every day I could. I
39:02
Speaker 1: couldn't afford to be off. I couldn't afford to be
39:04
Speaker 1: called off. And I made sure that people stayed at
39:07
Speaker 1: ICU a little bit longer, just a little bit longer,
39:10
Speaker 1: so that our numbers would work out, so that we
39:13
Speaker 1: could take and so I could work. I want you
39:19
Speaker 1: to know that Kalina was not, Kalina was an accident.
39:22
Speaker 1: Kalina was not on purpose or nothing like that. Nothing
39:24
Speaker 1: like that.
39:25
Speaker 3: Okay, well, what about Greenaway?
39:28
Speaker 11: What about the other two girls?
39:20
Speaker 1: This behavior of, I've gone through the criminal justice system.
39:46
Speaker 10: The criminal justice system has found me guilty and now
39:49
Speaker 10: I must rationalize why I did what I did is
39:54
Speaker 10: often the case with serial killers, those who are found
39:58
Speaker 10: guilty of very violent crimes. How do I find some
40:02
Speaker 10: sort of ability to find and let other people see
40:06
Speaker 10: me as a human being that has feelings? And this
40:09
Speaker 10: is often what occurs, is this rationalization of the behavior,
40:14
Speaker 10: especially to that of family members and those close to
40:18
Speaker 10: the individual.
40:19
Speaker 11: Whenever you get back to that courtroom again, I want
40:23
Speaker 11: you to just see if you can at least take
40:25
Speaker 11: a stand. And take the time to apologize to these
40:29
Speaker 11: victims and their families. They deserve more sympathy. And in
40:33
Speaker 11: the end, you will reap what you sow. And that's
40:36
Speaker 11: telling you.
40:38
Speaker 3: Unbelievable. That guy's a nut. Let me tell you what
40:43
Speaker 3: the DA told the jury. He said he did not
40:48
Speaker 3: kill those people for money. He said he didn't do
40:52
Speaker 3: it for that reason, and he spoke like that. He
40:55
Speaker 3: said he did it because he liked watching them die.
41:00
Speaker 3: I thought the gall of that, excuse me, to have
41:05
Speaker 3: the gall to saunter around like that, looking at his damage,
41:11
Speaker 3: taking people's lives.
41:13
Speaker 4: It's almost like I've done these horrible things that I
41:16
Speaker 4: know people would hate me for, and yet I need
41:19
Speaker 4: to somehow soften it and justify it and rationalize it.
41:24
Speaker 4: And it's just, it always surprises me because you think
41:26
Speaker 4: once you cross this line, would you really care? I mean,
41:30
Speaker 4: you're not caring about human life. If you're murdering somebody,
41:33
Speaker 4: how is that going to result in more overtime?
41:44
Speaker 8: When you look at this type of evil, the death
41:48
Speaker 8: penalty exists for cases like this.
41:54
Speaker 4: I think there is certainly a great deal of narcissism
41:58
Speaker 4: in Will Davis. And I think that narcissism and that
42:02
Speaker 4: justification for putting his own needs and actions above other
42:07
Speaker 4: people is a seed that contributes later on to his
42:10
Speaker 4: lack of empathy.
42:15
Speaker 3: I wake up many times and I will feel that
42:22
Speaker 3: he was, is in the bed or just got up,
42:25
Speaker 3: went to the bathroom and that feeling of so habitual
42:31
Speaker 3: and it's just like he's there. But we're together. We
42:39
Speaker 3: are together. And then he's gone. It's horrible. It's sad.
42:46
Speaker 3: It makes me want to cry.