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Even though the code blue had gone off, he's watching
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him die. We would show them that footage and many
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of them just broke down in tears. I'm telling you,
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I don't understand.
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Why.
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I don't know why.
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My Lord, you just don't think about going to the
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hospital and being killed.
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One of the things that's so scary about health care
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serial killers is they know ways to kill people.
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You know, to do something like this one time is unthinkable,
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but to do it multiple times, you'd have to enjoy it.
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We are together, and then he's gone. It's horrible. It's sad.
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It makes me want to cry. I am Martha K. Blanks.
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I go by K. I met him in a bar,
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but he owned it. He told me I just lit
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the room up when I walked in. Oh, honey, he
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was good looking. He was dark brown eyes and dark hair.
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He had a great head of hair, always did. In fact,
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there were women that told him, They'd like to run
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their hands through it. He said, I don't think my
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wife would like that. But what got him was the heart.
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We were on a trip to New Orleans when he
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had the first heart attack. Eight months later, we were
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in Las Vegas. He had another heart attack. He just,
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I guess it just got worse and worse.
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In early January 2017, James Blinks has a successful operation
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and is sent to recover on an ICU ward in
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Christus Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, Texas.
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He had a triple bypass. I was there the day
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of surgery, could not stay the night of surgery. but
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I saw him the next day, and he was doing well.
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There was a lady who called me every 30 minutes
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in the waiting room. She was a nurse, and she
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would give me his progress, and he was doing good,
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doing good, doing good, all the way through.
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My name is Jeff Roberts.
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At the time that the Will Davis case was ongoing,
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I was a detective at the Tyler Police Department. The
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most distinctive thing about, which at the time was Trinity
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Mother Frances, they've since changed their name to Christus, is
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that we have a very good and well-respected hospital district.
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Bad outcomes are very uncommon.
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Jacob Putman, I'm the Smith County Criminal District Attorney. Christus
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Mother Frances Hospital is a large hospital. They care lots
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of patients. They had recently built a new heart hospital
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as a part of that. Heart patients who've had heart
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surgery almost always recover quickly. and actually go home within
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just a few days. So for any patients to have
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extraordinary bad outcomes is unusual and concerning to the staff.
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It's not something that they're used to seeing.
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I saw him the next day. They'd had him up walking.
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He was sitting in a chair. And when I walked in,
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he did this. to me, calling me over. And I
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walked over to him, and I leaned down, and I
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kissed him, you know, like that, because that's what he wanted.
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And I want to say this, because it's really important
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to me. The last time I kissed him, it was
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to be a peck. And when we connected, we did
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not disconnect. And he didn't, you know how you'll pull
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away or nothing. And later, I thought about it. God
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gave us that goodbye. He gave us that goodbye. He
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died that night. When he passed away, I was told
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that by myself at 2 o'clock in the morning. Oh,
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my God. Oh, my God. He was the love of
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my life. And you know what I thought of? I
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could never hear him walk in the door and say, Mama,
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what are we going to eat? Or just whatever his
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habit was. And I would never, it was closure. I
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would never see him again. He was gone. He was
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doing well. I said, what happened? He was doing perfect.
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He was doing great. What happened? And she said, we
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don't know. Got the surgeon, got me on the phone,
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and he said, we don't know. Everybody was shocked. It
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had been six months. I had buried James, thinking he
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died of complications with his heart. And then I got
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a text message one day, and a very good friend
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called me, and she said, you need to watch this
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right now. And it was on the tube. I don't
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know what it was, but I tuned it in.
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At the beginning of the investigation, Christos approached the Smith
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County District Attorney's Office and the Tyler Police Department with
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concerns that a nurse may have been involved in intentionally harming,
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causing harm to patients at one of their hospitals.
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The news report over a year after James died is
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about an investigation into the unexplained deaths of patients recovering
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from heart surgery.
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When I saw that news and they said, if you
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knew anybody that was in on the fifth floor, Tyler, Texas,
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you need to call us immediately. And I did. I
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told him my husband had been there and he had died.
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He said, your story is just like everybody else's of
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those people.
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Exactly.
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Exactly. My Lord, you just don't think about going to
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the hospital and being killed, your spouse being killed. You
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go there to heal.
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William Davis is from Tyler, Texas. He grew up in
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a pretty close-knit family. He's the oldest of four boys.
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Seems to have a very loving mother. But nothing that
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was really, really stood out.
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He was a football star in a very small town,
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meaning he would have been well-liked and well-known by both
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kids and parents. He came in second in his class
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as far as grades, so he was intelligent.
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I think that Will Davis was a big fish in
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a small pond. And when you're talking about growing up,
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if you are that big fish in a small pond,
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it can feel very powerful. People do look up to
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you and they do notice you and they know who
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you are.
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As a young man, everybody liked him, and he seemed
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to be a standout that was going places.
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We have Will Davis, who's around 16, 17. He's a
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normal adolescent. And he is attracted to this 12- or
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13-year-old girl. And I think when you look at the
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age difference and the maturity level, this is something that
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really would be shocking to most people.
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A 16-year-old dating a 13-year-old is criminal in many jurisdictions.
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That is certainly giving us an element of perhaps a
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starting of criminal delinquent behavior, giving us an indication that
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law may not be as important as it is to
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other people.
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I mean, it's really not an equal relationship by any
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stretch of the imagination in terms of their age, in
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terms of their maturity, in terms of what they're allowed
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to do, and all those things. And I think one
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of the things we start seeing is Will, you know,
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having a very strong need to control the people around him.
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Her parents did not approve of that because he was
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too old. He continued to pursue that relationship even though
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he had been told to kind of move on. Became
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kind of obsessive about her and to the point of
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actually crashing his car into a tree in front of
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her house. That's when the police got involved, and he
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got some mental health attention at that point.
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It did cause him some problems early on.
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Coping skills, the ability to see problems, and your ability
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to have resilience. The question becomes our ability to deal
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with difficult situations. Does aggression come out? Does the ability
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to pick up yourself and move on from the problem,
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does that occur?
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He becomes depressed. He seeks out some antidepressants. He goes
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to get some help. He's told he's depressed. Then he's
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told he has bipolar disorder and he's prescribed a couple
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of different medications. He doesn't really believe that fits him,
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but I think The big picture is that this is
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somebody who is not just struggling from an adjustment standpoint,
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but really struggling from a mental health standpoint and is
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trying to figure out a way to navigate that while
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he's in college.
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Got married, ended up divorced, but then he got remarried
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and went back to school and got a nursing degree and.
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Was kind of headed on the right trajectory after a
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few years.
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By 2013, Davis is working at Christus Mother Frances Hospital.
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Well, everybody's very prideful in what they do. Nurses take
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an oath, and they take their job very seriously. I
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have good friends that are nurses and will tell you
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how serious they take the ethics of their job and
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the responsibility of that job. Is there a more vulnerable
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position than being medically sedated, coming out of a surgery,
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and counting on care, which, thank the Lord, most of
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the time is exactly what we all receive.
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Will Davis is somebody who is a smart guy. He's
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made it through nursing school, which is no easy feat.
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He's now ambitious to go further than that. He's getting
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his master's degree, which many people acknowledge. That's quite an accomplishment.
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So as we progress in life, we gain more stressors.
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And the question becomes, how do you deal with those stressors?
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What is your response? We later see what those responses are.
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William Davis is a trusted nurse at a well-respected hospital.
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He'd been working at that hospital for three or four years.
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He was generally well-liked, very friendly. He worked primarily in
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the cardiac unit, but he also would float to other
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floors and help out, mostly intensive care units caring for
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very sick patients.
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Davis is studying for a master's degree and is house
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hunting with his wife while she's expecting their second child.
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At the same time, I think there are some indications
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that everything is not what it seems. So for example,
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he has a very, very difficult time managing money. And
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this seems to be a problem for him for many,
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many years. The way this couple seems to handle this
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initially is the wife kind of takes over the finances.
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And when I talk about being in trouble financially, I'm
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not talking about missing a few payments. I'm talking about
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somebody who's in like $ 135, 000 worth of debt.
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And that's hard to climb out of.
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One of the most telling things is at one point
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he texts a colleague to ask if they have any
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anti-anxiety medication. And that tells me two different things. Number
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one is he's struggling and things are getting harder for him.
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But also what he says, which is, I need something
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before I get into trouble. And I think that is,
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you know, as somebody who's worked with many patients with
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anxiety or depression or whatever, I've never ever had anybody,
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no matter how anxious they are or depressed they are, say,
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I'm about to get into trouble.
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It's been five months since the surprise death of James Blanks.
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Another patient is recovering from a successful operation, 74-year-old John Lafferty.
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He had woken up.
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He was verbal.
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He was alert.
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He seemed to be doing very, very well. There were
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every indication, every expectation that this was somebody who was
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going to have a smooth recovery.
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He was retired, had a loving family, grown children, grandchildren,
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very well loved. He had had heart surgery and was
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on his road to recovery when he died. It was
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an unusual bad outcome. It was an unusual death, not
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one that they predicted.
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So when Mr.
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Lafferty died, it was puzzling to the doctors, and they
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wanted to try to figure out what the cause was.
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But at the time, really, they couldn't come up with
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any answers. They kind of had to shrug their shoulders
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and say it's undetermined.
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68-year-old Ronald Clark is recovering from a successful operation.
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Ronald Clark was a little bit different. He didn't have
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heart surgery. He had vascular surgery, which meaning not on
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the heart itself, but on the aorta as it goes
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down towards the legs. But similar in that he had
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successful surgery and he should have recovered very quickly.
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The doctors were thrilled at the progress he was making.
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And yet 24 hours after he has his surgery, he's
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brain dead.
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They did a review of the surgery and really at
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that point, they were not able to come up with
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any plausible explanation as to why he would have had
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a stroke and died.
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Will also took some additional safeguards. So for example, he
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didn't kill people he was assigned.
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To look after.
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He would go and kill people who other people were
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assigned to look after. So I think that was for
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two reasons. One is he didn't want his patients to
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be in danger. Look, I'm a great nurse. Nobody's dying
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under my watch. But I think it was another way,
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I think, of evading attention or evading anybody questioning his
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ability to care for patients.
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Christopher Greenaway, age 47, becomes the third unexpected death.
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Christopher Greenaway was really exceptional in a lot of ways
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as a patient.
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He was much younger. He had been a war veteran.
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He was actually a paramedic.
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But in terms of heart patients who need heart surgery,
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he was incredibly healthy and had almost no risk factors
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associated with his surgery. So when he crashed and died,
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he was in such good health. The doctors actually were
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very frustrated because they didn't have an answer to give
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to the family. The hospital was definitely trying to figure
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out what was going on. Certainly three deaths in this
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close proximity, highly unusual. They did the things hospitals usually do,
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which is check their equipment to make sure there's no
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malfunctioning equipment either on the floor or in surgery, checking
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the medications that they're being given. but everything they would
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check was working properly.
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One of the things that's so scary about healthcare serial
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killers is they know ways to kill people, and they
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know ways to kill people in ways that won't be
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spotted very easily. But I think what kept him murdering,
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what turned him really into a serial killer was the
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thrill and the exhilaration and that sense of release and
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power and control that he got when he killed and
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killed again. And I think that probably for Will, I
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think he was surprised that he felt a sense of power,
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a sense of control, and also a sense of relief
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from this stress, a temporary kind of reprieve. And I
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think that surprised him, and it really set up a
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very dangerous situation for him down the road.
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I think for Will it was easy.
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I think he also enjoyed watching everyone respond to these
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rooms and try to figure out what was going on.
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I mean, there's a team of doctors and nurses trying
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to save these patients, trying to determine what happened, and
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he's the only one in the room that really knows
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what's going on. I think Will had to have enjoyed it,
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or he wouldn't have done it more than once. So
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to do many in kind of quick succession like this,
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there has to be something driving him to make him
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keep doing it.
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This is when you have to go to another level.
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This is when you have to question everything that you're doing.
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For this hospital, for this facility, cameras are now installed.
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The question becomes, who was the last person to see
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that individual or interact with that individual before their death?
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If the alarms go off that this person is perhaps flatlining,
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who was the last person to be in that room?
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Was that person doing something positive or negative to the individual?
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Was it done with malice?
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Joseph Kalina, 58, is recovering from a successful operation.
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So Joseph Kalina was an American truck driver.
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Talking with his family, he loved his job, he loved
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his family, came out of surgery neurologically intact, had no
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issues or complications from the surgery and was put on
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the ICU wing there at the heart hospital for more monitoring.
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From there, he was in the care of a nurse.
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One of the things that happened in this case was
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that for lunch, the nurse asked Will, to watch his
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patient for him as he went to grab a quick lunch.
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And as he was coming back from lunch is when
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the monitor was going off. Joseph Kalina was crashing with
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this unexplained event. The nurse was actually in there responding
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as well while Will Davis was watching outside the room.
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The CCTV showed that in this particular case, immediately within
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minutes after Will Davis leaving the room of Joseph Kalina,
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he crashes. The devastating part was the video also showed
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Will Davis staging himself.
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Down the hall. There was a TV that he had.
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Access to that would monitor and show the vitals for
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the patients on that wing, and he kept looking up
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at that, and then he would look down the hall,
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and then he would look up at the monitors, And
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here he was, just like an arsonist, watching his victim suffer.
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You know, when you see the way he acts and
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the body language on the video, it's certainly hard to
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imagine somebody doing something like this on purpose to a patient.
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But certainly to commit a murder and to walk nonchalantly
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down the hall as if nothing had happened would take
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someone who is incredibly cold and unfeeling.
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I think that it wasn't so much that Will Davis
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didn't care. But I think at this point in his life,
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that drive, that compulsion, that need to feel good took
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over everything else.
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Will was initially interviewed about his interactions with that patient
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by hospital staff and gave a story that did not
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match the CCTV in the case.
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That was obviously a huge red flag.
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Will basically said he really didn't do anything. He turned
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off an alarm on one of the IV pumps, but
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they could tell from the instruments in the room that
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his arterial line had been accessed and touched. The IV
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pump and the arterial line are on different sides of
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the bed, so there'd be no reason to touch one
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when you're really saying you're touching the others. When Will
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lies about being in the room, that's not only unusual,
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that doesn't happen. So why would a nurse possibly lie
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about going into a patient's room? When that dawns on them,
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you then have to re-examine every patient, every bad outcome
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you've ever had. A nurse with malicious intent is never
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something that they check for. When they do and they
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start connecting the dots, really it just opened up a
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Pandora's box of patients and what had happened to them.
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Right after they caught him lying, they sent him home
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and suspended him until they could figure it out.
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Any hospital is going to have deaths, but you start
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to see perhaps a pattern of deaths occurring. You have
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it investigated, and then there's a question of foul play.
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Through investigation, through camera video, and others, that starts to
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point to one person. We must call on the police.
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Will Davis has been suspended after CCTV captured him leaving
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the room of Joseph Kalina, a patient who crashed during
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recovery from successful surgery. The hospital now suspects he may
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be involved in other unexplained deaths too and have called
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the police.
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One of the really impressive things that this hospital did
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was number one, I think they took the suspicions and
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concerns seriously from the very beginning. And the other thing
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is that the doctors got involved in this.
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The hospital went through all their patients for the last
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couple years before Will was suspected and looked at those
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bad outcomes to see if they thought it fit the
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pattern of injury that Mr.
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Kalina had.
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They also set up a hotline for people to call
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if they thought their loved one might have been a
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victim of Will.
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Only at this point, a year after her husband James' death,
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does K-Blinks learn there was a potential killer on his ward?
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So the police and the media got it. What I
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think is he killed James, and then he got by
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with it, and then he went and killed one just
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real quick. And so when James was killed, there was
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no camera. The lawyer told me that my case or
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my story was, was exactly.
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Like everybody else's.
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There's really no crime I've ever handled quite like this.
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It's unique in many aspects, both in the number of victims,
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the kind of perpetrator that was committing the crimes, the
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motivation behind the crimes. All of those were unique and
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certainly a large case to kind of wrap your mind around.
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The community was terrified.
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So the idea that someone could intend harm to you
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in that setting was really terrifying and caused a lot
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of attention.
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Investigators know Will lied about touching the arterial line of
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Joseph Kalina, so they investigate if the medical emergencies could
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have been caused by Will interfering with this equipment.
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So early on, the suspicion was that air was being
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injected into the arterial line of patients as they were post-surgery.
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So there's a.
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Lot of reasons why that was very hard to detect.
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First is the arterial line is not a place where
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you typically inject anything. But if you inject air into it,
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that air will travel up the artery to the highest
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point in the body, which in a hospital bed is
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the brain. So as air travels up the arterial line
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into the brain, it then blocks blood from getting to
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the brain, which causes a stroke. And then after about
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six to 10 minutes, maybe 30 minutes, that air is
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then absorbed by the brain. So the air is a
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murder weapon that disappears all on its own.
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Certainly, you look at the way of placing air in
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someone's tubing that's for an IV. There are no marks.
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There are no bruises. So this way leaves no clues.
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You could get away with this.
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Will Davis had reached out to us early in the
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investigation to see, ironically enough, to see if we had
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talked with his attorney.
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It was a phone conversation.
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I thought it was interesting in some of the early
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conversation that he would bring up things that we knew
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as investigators we were interested in the case, but he
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would bring up things like the art line or bad
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surgery outcomes. As soon as we would turn it to
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any of the patients in general, you would hear his
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voice choke up as he would get nervous. Detective Weaver
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at that time, as we were finishing up that interview,
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just flat out asked him about putting.
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Air in the arterial lines of patients.
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And he would only say, I won't answer that without
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my attorney, which was good enough for me to understand
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we were clearly in the right direction with our investigation.
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The police wanted to make sure they went through everything
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and see If there were more, how many? We could
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really only go back about a year because that's how
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long the hospital keeps the detailed records that we would
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need to prove it. And as they went through, they
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found four that they were able to confirm because they
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had imaging, whether it be CTs or MRIs.
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That would confirm the kind of injury.
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And then they found a list of others that they
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suspected As they found more and more cases that met
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that pattern, it became more and more clear that Will
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Davis was a murderer and he'd murdered multiple people.
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We need to prove this man's guilt or innocence, but
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we're going to follow the facts. He lived just outside
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of Tyler. He was married. They had two kids.
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One had just been born, was a as a hard worker,
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you know, on face value, had everything going for him.
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But we saw things in the investigation that kind of
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pointed to some things that weren't necessarily forthcoming, an inappropriate
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relationship with a younger female, as well as some potential
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suicide attempts. just things that were red flags for us
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as investigators. As you start uncovering more evidence, living outside
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of his means appeared to be a.
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Problem for sure.
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It was new trucks, new house, new pool, living the
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American dream, albeit without maybe respect to how much money
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he had in the bank. And any time you add
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stress on top of any other mental incapacities or deficiencies
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going on, any kind of trigger can be an issue.
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But he had a clear pattern of being impulsive with
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money decisions. That to us didn't seem related, but when
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we talked to psychologists, they said there's a pretty good
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connection there between sociopaths who know how to be controlled
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and deliberate in some areas of their life, but are
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very impulsive and unorganized in other areas of their lives.
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A lot of his behavior, which to.
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Us seemed normal, they said would be typical of a sociopath,
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that being very friendly, having a short attention span.
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And that's what really unraveled some of just the psychology
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of Will Davis, maybe what was a motive. But I
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think at this, anyone on that investigative team would just
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remind you that sometimes there is just evil.
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What we often find is I've done the first murder.
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I've not been caught. There was even a feeling of euphoria.
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There's a feeling of success that wrestling now has perhaps
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made that anxiety disappear for just a little bit of time.
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Maybe I liked the feeling of when that death occurred.
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Why not have the feeling again?
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Will was absolutely aware of what he was getting away
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with because no one in the hospital is suspecting it
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might have been intentional. It was nearly impossible for them
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to connect the dots. The security footage was really the
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most useful piece of evidence.
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It's very cold. It's very shocking.
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Will Davis, actually, in a phone interview, told us he
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grabbed syringes just prior to walking into that room. He's
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in there for just about a minute and then walked out.
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Him being in the room, the video capturing that, and
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even his own admissions, placing himself in direct care with
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the patient at the time of the incident was very critical.
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Error does not just happen in your brain. And so
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the method he chose to maim and murder his victims
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is ultimately what got him caught.
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On April 10th, 2018, Will Davis is arrested for the
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murders of John Lafferty, Ronald Clark, and Christopher Greenaway. He's
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held in Smith County Jail on an $ 8.
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75 million bond.
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An $ 8. 75 million bond is something.
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It tells us.
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How serious this case is. It tells us how the
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criminal justice system believes that this individual is a threat
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to society. When we look at this case, it looks
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like a slam dunk for prosecution. You have an individual
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with cameras, showing that he is coming out of the room,
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he's in the room, just before death occurs. However, a
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defense attorney is going to go the route in this
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case to say, people are in a hospital, people are ill,
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people are recovering from major operations, they were probably going
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to die anyway, and Davis may get away with this crime.
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Will Davis is in custody and awaiting trial. The COVID
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pandemic delays proceedings, and during 2020, Joseph Kalina passes away.
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You know, I know for everyone when it comes to trial,
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No matter the case, there's always going to be nerves.
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You never know what curveball is going to be thrown
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by the defense or anything else.
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It is the job of the defense to slap down
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the argument that's presented by the prosecution. How are you
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able to link that to my client? If you can't,
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I must be found not guilty.
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We prepared for this case for nine months, just preparing
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witnesses and going through evidence. And then we spent several
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months picking the jury and trying the case.
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The interesting part in our investigation, even from early on,
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was that over a six-month period from June until January
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of 2018, Will Davis was the only nurse on duty
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at the time of each of the events.
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The evidence was very, very clear.
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00:35:27.539 --> 00:35:31.059
The medical evidence backed up everything that the video backed up,
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and when pieced together, really painted the picture of the
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serial killer that was running the floors.
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I expected them to deliberate a while, just because they
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had a whole lot of information to go over. We
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went over it in great detail for several weeks with them.
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And I think at the end of listening to all
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of the testimony, all of those doctors and nurses and experts,
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there really wasn't another conclusion they could come to.
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Davis is found guilty of four counts of capital murder.
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You now have this relief because you know justice has
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been served, you know he's been found guilty, and then
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they go into victim impact statements and now it's the humanization,
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it's the reality for people to hear precisely the effects
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of the devastation that Will Davis chose to bring upon
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his victims. I'll never forget, and I believe it was Ms.
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Blanks giving her statement to the court.
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So I stood there and looked right at him. He
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has black eyes, it seems like. Held his face kind
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of like something weird with his hands. But he is down,
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and when I would talk to him, he would go,
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and these tears would come down his face. And I said,
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I am Kay Blanks, James Blanks' wife, your first victim.
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And I said, my husband did not deserve to die
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like that. And I said, I forgive you because God
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tells us to forgive. And I'm led by the Holy
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Spirit to tell you because we won't be forgiven if
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we don't forgive. And I do believe that. I said,
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but I feel just like everybody else feels about you.
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I told him straight to his face. I said, something's wrong.
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With you, buddy.
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And what was so impactful is so often you expect
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00:37:55.030 --> 00:37:58.550
it to be vengeance and anger and all these things.
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And here was a woman offering forgiveness and really pointing
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Will Davis to the finality and the eternal decision of
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his actions. And I'll never forget that because it did
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point to the truth, the truth of the matter that
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there was a higher judge to answer to. and that
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he better be ready for that.
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I want you to know that I am not a
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malicious man. I loved you. I loved the kids. During
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the summertime, I'm 17. That summer, we had a lot
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of finances. And of course, some of that's my fault.
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I'm blaming myself for that. I want you to have
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a nice house. I want you to have a nice pool.
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I want you to have a nice car. I want
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to have a nice truck and a nice car. And
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I was trying to work every day I could. I
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couldn't afford to be off. I couldn't afford to be
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called off. And I made sure that people stayed at
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ICU a little bit longer, just a little bit longer,
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so that our numbers would work out, so that we
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could take and so I could work. I want you
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to know that Kalina was not, Kalina was an accident.
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Kalina was not on purpose or nothing like that. Nothing
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like that.
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Okay, well, what about Greenaway?
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What about the other two girls?
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This behavior of, I've gone through the criminal justice system.
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The criminal justice system has found me guilty and now
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I must rationalize why I did what I did is
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often the case with serial killers, those who are found
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guilty of very violent crimes. How do I find some
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sort of ability to find and let other people see
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me as a human being that has feelings? And this
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is often what occurs, is this rationalization of the behavior,
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especially to that of family members and those close to
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the individual.
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Whenever you get back to that courtroom again, I want
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you to just see if you can at least take
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a stand. And take the time to apologize to these
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victims and their families. They deserve more sympathy. And in
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the end, you will reap what you sow. And that's
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telling you.
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Unbelievable. That guy's a nut. Let me tell you what
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the DA told the jury. He said he did not
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kill those people for money. He said he didn't do
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it for that reason, and he spoke like that. He
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said he did it because he liked watching them die.
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I thought the gall of that, excuse me, to have
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the gall to saunter around like that, looking at his damage,
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taking people's lives.
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It's almost like I've done these horrible things that I
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know people would hate me for, and yet I need
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to somehow soften it and justify it and rationalize it.
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And it's just, it always surprises me because you think
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once you cross this line, would you really care? I mean,
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you're not caring about human life. If you're murdering somebody,
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how is that going to result in more overtime?
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When you look at this type of evil, the death
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penalty exists for cases like this.
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I think there is certainly a great deal of narcissism
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in Will Davis. And I think that narcissism and that
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justification for putting his own needs and actions above other
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people is a seed that contributes later on to his
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lack of empathy.
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I wake up many times and I will feel that
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he was, is in the bed or just got up,
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went to the bathroom and that feeling of so habitual
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and it's just like he's there. But we're together. We
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are together. And then he's gone. It's horrible. It's sad.
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It makes me want to cry.
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Even though the code blue had gone off, he's watching
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him die. We would show them that footage and many
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of them just broke down in tears. I'm telling you,
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I don't understand.
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Why.
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I don't know why.
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My Lord, you just don't think about going to the
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hospital and being killed.
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One of the things that's so scary about health care
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serial killers is they know ways to kill people.
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You know, to do something like this one time is unthinkable,
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but to do it multiple times, you'd have to enjoy it.
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We are together, and then he's gone. It's horrible. It's sad.
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It makes me want to cry. I am Martha K. Blanks.
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I go by K. I met him in a bar,
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but he owned it. He told me I just lit
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the room up when I walked in. Oh, honey, he
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was good looking. He was dark brown eyes and dark hair.
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He had a great head of hair, always did. In fact,
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there were women that told him, They'd like to run
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their hands through it. He said, I don't think my
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wife would like that. But what got him was the heart.
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We were on a trip to New Orleans when he
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had the first heart attack. Eight months later, we were
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in Las Vegas. He had another heart attack. He just,
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I guess it just got worse and worse.
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In early January 2017, James Blinks has a successful operation
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and is sent to recover on an ICU ward in
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Christus Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler, Texas.
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He had a triple bypass. I was there the day
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of surgery, could not stay the night of surgery. but
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I saw him the next day, and he was doing well.
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There was a lady who called me every 30 minutes
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in the waiting room. She was a nurse, and she
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would give me his progress, and he was doing good,
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doing good, doing good, all the way through.
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My name is Jeff Roberts.
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At the time that the Will Davis case was ongoing,
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I was a detective at the Tyler Police Department. The
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most distinctive thing about, which at the time was Trinity
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Mother Frances, they've since changed their name to Christus, is
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that we have a very good and well-respected hospital district.
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Bad outcomes are very uncommon.
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Jacob Putman, I'm the Smith County Criminal District Attorney. Christus
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Mother Frances Hospital is a large hospital. They care lots
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of patients. They had recently built a new heart hospital
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as a part of that. Heart patients who've had heart
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surgery almost always recover quickly. and actually go home within
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just a few days. So for any patients to have
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extraordinary bad outcomes is unusual and concerning to the staff.
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It's not something that they're used to seeing.
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I saw him the next day. They'd had him up walking.
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He was sitting in a chair. And when I walked in,
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he did this. to me, calling me over. And I
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walked over to him, and I leaned down, and I
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kissed him, you know, like that, because that's what he wanted.
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And I want to say this, because it's really important
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to me. The last time I kissed him, it was
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to be a peck. And when we connected, we did
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not disconnect. And he didn't, you know how you'll pull
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away or nothing. And later, I thought about it. God
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gave us that goodbye. He gave us that goodbye. He
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died that night. When he passed away, I was told
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that by myself at 2 o'clock in the morning. Oh,
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my God. Oh, my God. He was the love of
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my life. And you know what I thought of? I
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could never hear him walk in the door and say, Mama,
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what are we going to eat? Or just whatever his
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habit was. And I would never, it was closure. I
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would never see him again. He was gone. He was
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doing well. I said, what happened? He was doing perfect.
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He was doing great. What happened? And she said, we
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don't know. Got the surgeon, got me on the phone,
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and he said, we don't know. Everybody was shocked. It
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had been six months. I had buried James, thinking he
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died of complications with his heart. And then I got
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a text message one day, and a very good friend
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called me, and she said, you need to watch this
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right now. And it was on the tube. I don't
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know what it was, but I tuned it in.
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At the beginning of the investigation, Christos approached the Smith
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County District Attorney's Office and the Tyler Police Department with
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concerns that a nurse may have been involved in intentionally harming,
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causing harm to patients at one of their hospitals.
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The news report over a year after James died is
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about an investigation into the unexplained deaths of patients recovering
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from heart surgery.
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When I saw that news and they said, if you
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knew anybody that was in on the fifth floor, Tyler, Texas,
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you need to call us immediately. And I did. I
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told him my husband had been there and he had died.
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He said, your story is just like everybody else's of
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those people.
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Exactly.
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Exactly. My Lord, you just don't think about going to
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the hospital and being killed, your spouse being killed. You
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go there to heal.
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William Davis is from Tyler, Texas. He grew up in
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a pretty close-knit family. He's the oldest of four boys.
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Seems to have a very loving mother. But nothing that
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was really, really stood out.
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He was a football star in a very small town,
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meaning he would have been well-liked and well-known by both
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kids and parents. He came in second in his class
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as far as grades, so he was intelligent.
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I think that Will Davis was a big fish in
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a small pond. And when you're talking about growing up,
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if you are that big fish in a small pond,
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it can feel very powerful. People do look up to
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you and they do notice you and they know who
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you are.
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As a young man, everybody liked him, and he seemed
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to be a standout that was going places.
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normal adolescent. And he is attracted to this 12- or
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13-year-old girl. And I think when you look at the
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age difference and the maturity level, this is something that
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really would be shocking to most people.
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A 16-year-old dating a 13-year-old is criminal in many jurisdictions.
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That is certainly giving us an element of perhaps a
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starting of criminal delinquent behavior, giving us an indication that
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law may not be as important as it is to
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other people.
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I mean, it's really not an equal relationship by any
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stretch of the imagination in terms of their age, in
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terms of their maturity, in terms of what they're allowed
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to do, and all those things. And I think one
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of the things we start seeing is Will, you know,
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having a very strong need to control the people around him.
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Her parents did not approve of that because he was
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too old. He continued to pursue that relationship even though
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he had been told to kind of move on. Became
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kind of obsessive about her and to the point of
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actually crashing his car into a tree in front of
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her house. That's when the police got involved, and he
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got some mental health attention at that point.
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It did cause him some problems early on.
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to have resilience. The question becomes our ability to deal
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with difficult situations. Does aggression come out? Does the ability
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to pick up yourself and move on from the problem,
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does that occur?
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He becomes depressed. He seeks out some antidepressants. He goes
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to get some help. He's told he's depressed. Then he's
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told he has bipolar disorder and he's prescribed a couple
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of different medications. He doesn't really believe that fits him,
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but I think The big picture is that this is
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somebody who is not just struggling from an adjustment standpoint,
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but really struggling from a mental health standpoint and is
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trying to figure out a way to navigate that while
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he's in college.
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Got married, ended up divorced, but then he got remarried
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and went back to school and got a nursing degree and.
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Was kind of headed on the right trajectory after a
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few years.
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By 2013, Davis is working at Christus Mother Frances Hospital.
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Well, everybody's very prideful in what they do. Nurses take
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an oath, and they take their job very seriously. I
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have good friends that are nurses and will tell you
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how serious they take the ethics of their job and
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the responsibility of that job. Is there a more vulnerable
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position than being medically sedated, coming out of a surgery,
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and counting on care, which, thank the Lord, most of
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the time is exactly what we all receive.
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Will Davis is somebody who is a smart guy. He's
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made it through nursing school, which is no easy feat.
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He's now ambitious to go further than that. He's getting
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his master's degree, which many people acknowledge. That's quite an accomplishment.
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So as we progress in life, we gain more stressors.
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And the question becomes, how do you deal with those stressors?
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What is your response? We later see what those responses are.
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William Davis is a trusted nurse at a well-respected hospital.
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He'd been working at that hospital for three or four years.
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He was generally well-liked, very friendly. He worked primarily in
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the cardiac unit, but he also would float to other
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floors and help out, mostly intensive care units caring for
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very sick patients.
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Davis is studying for a master's degree and is house
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hunting with his wife while she's expecting their second child.
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At the same time, I think there are some indications
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that everything is not what it seems. So for example,
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he has a very, very difficult time managing money. And
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this seems to be a problem for him for many,
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many years. The way this couple seems to handle this
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initially is the wife kind of takes over the finances.
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And when I talk about being in trouble financially, I'm
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not talking about missing a few payments. I'm talking about
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somebody who's in like $ 135, 000 worth of debt.
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And that's hard to climb out of.
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One of the most telling things is at one point
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he texts a colleague to ask if they have any
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anti-anxiety medication. And that tells me two different things. Number
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one is he's struggling and things are getting harder for him.
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But also what he says, which is, I need something
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before I get into trouble. And I think that is,
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you know, as somebody who's worked with many patients with
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anxiety or depression or whatever, I've never ever had anybody,
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no matter how anxious they are or depressed they are, say,
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I'm about to get into trouble.
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It's been five months since the surprise death of James Blanks.
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Another patient is recovering from a successful operation, 74-year-old John Lafferty.
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He had woken up.
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He was verbal.
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He was alert.
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He seemed to be doing very, very well. There were
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every indication, every expectation that this was somebody who was
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going to have a smooth recovery.
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He was retired, had a loving family, grown children, grandchildren,
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very well loved. He had had heart surgery and was
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on his road to recovery when he died. It was
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an unusual bad outcome. It was an unusual death, not
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one that they predicted.
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So when Mr.
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Lafferty died, it was puzzling to the doctors, and they
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wanted to try to figure out what the cause was.
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But at the time, really, they couldn't come up with
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any answers. They kind of had to shrug their shoulders
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and say it's undetermined.
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68-year-old Ronald Clark is recovering from a successful operation.
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Ronald Clark was a little bit different. He didn't have
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heart surgery. He had vascular surgery, which meaning not on
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the heart itself, but on the aorta as it goes
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down towards the legs. But similar in that he had
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successful surgery and he should have recovered very quickly.
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The doctors were thrilled at the progress he was making.
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And yet 24 hours after he has his surgery, he's
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brain dead.
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They did a review of the surgery and really at
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that point, they were not able to come up with
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any plausible explanation as to why he would have had
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a stroke and died.
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Will also took some additional safeguards. So for example, he
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didn't kill people he was assigned.
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To look after.
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He would go and kill people who other people were
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assigned to look after. So I think that was for
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two reasons. One is he didn't want his patients to
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be in danger. Look, I'm a great nurse. Nobody's dying
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under my watch. But I think it was another way,
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I think, of evading attention or evading anybody questioning his
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ability to care for patients.
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Christopher Greenaway, age 47, becomes the third unexpected death.
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Christopher Greenaway was really exceptional in a lot of ways
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as a patient.
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He was much younger. He had been a war veteran.
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He was actually a paramedic.
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But in terms of heart patients who need heart surgery,
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he was incredibly healthy and had almost no risk factors
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associated with his surgery. So when he crashed and died,
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It was very shocking for the nurses and doctors because
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he was in such good health. The doctors actually were
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very frustrated because they didn't have an answer to give
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to the family. The hospital was definitely trying to figure
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out what was going on. Certainly three deaths in this
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close proximity, highly unusual. They did the things hospitals usually do,
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which is check their equipment to make sure there's no
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malfunctioning equipment either on the floor or in surgery, checking
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the medications that they're being given. but everything they would
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check was working properly.
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One of the things that's so scary about healthcare serial
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killers is they know ways to kill people, and they
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know ways to kill people in ways that won't be
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spotted very easily. But I think what kept him murdering,
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what turned him really into a serial killer was the
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thrill and the exhilaration and that sense of release and
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power and control that he got when he killed and
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killed again. And I think that probably for Will, I
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think he was surprised that he felt a sense of power,
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a sense of control, and also a sense of relief
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from this stress, a temporary kind of reprieve. And I
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think that surprised him, and it really set up a
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very dangerous situation for him down the road.
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I think for Will it was easy.
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I think he also enjoyed watching everyone respond to these
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rooms and try to figure out what was going on.
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I mean, there's a team of doctors and nurses trying
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to save these patients, trying to determine what happened, and
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he's the only one in the room that really knows
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what's going on. I think Will had to have enjoyed it,
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or he wouldn't have done it more than once. So
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to do many in kind of quick succession like this,
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there has to be something driving him to make him
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keep doing it.
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This is when you have to go to another level.
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This is when you have to question everything that you're doing.
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For this hospital, for this facility, cameras are now installed.
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The question becomes, who was the last person to see
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that individual or interact with that individual before their death?
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If the alarms go off that this person is perhaps flatlining,
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who was the last person to be in that room?
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Was that person doing something positive or negative to the individual?
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Was it done with malice?
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Joseph Kalina, 58, is recovering from a successful operation.
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So Joseph Kalina was an American truck driver.
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Talking with his family, he loved his job, he loved
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his family, came out of surgery neurologically intact, had no
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issues or complications from the surgery and was put on
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the ICU wing there at the heart hospital for more monitoring.
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From there, he was in the care of a nurse.
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One of the things that happened in this case was
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that for lunch, the nurse asked Will, to watch his
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patient for him as he went to grab a quick lunch.
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And as he was coming back from lunch is when
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the monitor was going off. Joseph Kalina was crashing with
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this unexplained event. The nurse was actually in there responding
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as well while Will Davis was watching outside the room.
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The CCTV showed that in this particular case, immediately within
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minutes after Will Davis leaving the room of Joseph Kalina,
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he crashes. The devastating part was the video also showed
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Will Davis staging himself.
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Down the hall. There was a TV that he had.
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Access to that would monitor and show the vitals for
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the patients on that wing, and he kept looking up
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at that, and then he would look down the hall,
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and then he would look up at the monitors, And
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here he was, just like an arsonist, watching his victim suffer.
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You know, when you see the way he acts and
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the body language on the video, it's certainly hard to
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imagine somebody doing something like this on purpose to a patient.
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But certainly to commit a murder and to walk nonchalantly
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down the hall as if nothing had happened would take
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someone who is incredibly cold and unfeeling.
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I think that it wasn't so much that Will Davis
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didn't care. But I think at this point in his life,
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that drive, that compulsion, that need to feel good took
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over everything else.
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Will was initially interviewed about his interactions with that patient
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by hospital staff and gave a story that did not
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match the CCTV in the case.
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That was obviously a huge red flag.
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Will basically said he really didn't do anything. He turned
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off an alarm on one of the IV pumps, but
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they could tell from the instruments in the room that
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his arterial line had been accessed and touched. The IV
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pump and the arterial line are on different sides of
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the bed, so there'd be no reason to touch one
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when you're really saying you're touching the others. When Will
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lies about being in the room, that's not only unusual,
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that doesn't happen. So why would a nurse possibly lie
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about going into a patient's room? When that dawns on them,
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you then have to re-examine every patient, every bad outcome
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you've ever had. A nurse with malicious intent is never
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something that they check for. When they do and they
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start connecting the dots, really it just opened up a
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Pandora's box of patients and what had happened to them.
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Right after they caught him lying, they sent him home
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and suspended him until they could figure it out.
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Any hospital is going to have deaths, but you start
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to see perhaps a pattern of deaths occurring. You have
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it investigated, and then there's a question of foul play.
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Through investigation, through camera video, and others, that starts to
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point to one person. We must call on the police.
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Will Davis has been suspended after CCTV captured him leaving
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the room of Joseph Kalina, a patient who crashed during
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recovery from successful surgery. The hospital now suspects he may
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be involved in other unexplained deaths too and have called
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the police.
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One of the really impressive things that this hospital did
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was number one, I think they took the suspicions and
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concerns seriously from the very beginning. And the other thing
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is that the doctors got involved in this.
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The hospital went through all their patients for the last
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couple years before Will was suspected and looked at those
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bad outcomes to see if they thought it fit the
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pattern of injury that Mr.
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Kalina had.
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They also set up a hotline for people to call
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if they thought their loved one might have been a
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victim of Will.
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Only at this point, a year after her husband James' death,
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does K-Blinks learn there was a potential killer on his ward?
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So the police and the media got it. What I
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think is he killed James, and then he got by
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with it, and then he went and killed one just
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real quick. And so when James was killed, there was
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no camera. The lawyer told me that my case or
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my story was, was exactly.
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Like everybody else's.
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There's really no crime I've ever handled quite like this.
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It's unique in many aspects, both in the number of victims,
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the kind of perpetrator that was committing the crimes, the
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motivation behind the crimes. All of those were unique and
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certainly a large case to kind of wrap your mind around.
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The community was terrified.
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So the idea that someone could intend harm to you
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in that setting was really terrifying and caused a lot
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of attention.
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Investigators know Will lied about touching the arterial line of
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Joseph Kalina, so they investigate if the medical emergencies could
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have been caused by Will interfering with this equipment.
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So early on, the suspicion was that air was being
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injected into the arterial line of patients as they were post-surgery.
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So there's a.
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Lot of reasons why that was very hard to detect.
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First is the arterial line is not a place where
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you typically inject anything. But if you inject air into it,
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that air will travel up the artery to the highest
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point in the body, which in a hospital bed is
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the brain. So as air travels up the arterial line
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into the brain, it then blocks blood from getting to
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the brain, which causes a stroke. And then after about
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six to 10 minutes, maybe 30 minutes, that air is
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then absorbed by the brain. So the air is a
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murder weapon that disappears all on its own.
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Certainly, you look at the way of placing air in
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someone's tubing that's for an IV. There are no marks.
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There are no bruises. So this way leaves no clues.
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You could get away with this.
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Will Davis had reached out to us early in the
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investigation to see, ironically enough, to see if we had
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talked with his attorney.
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It was a phone conversation.
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I thought it was interesting in some of the early
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conversation that he would bring up things that we knew
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as investigators we were interested in the case, but he
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would bring up things like the art line or bad
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surgery outcomes. As soon as we would turn it to
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any of the patients in general, you would hear his
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voice choke up as he would get nervous. Detective Weaver
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at that time, as we were finishing up that interview,
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just flat out asked him about putting.
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Air in the arterial lines of patients.
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And he would only say, I won't answer that without
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my attorney, which was good enough for me to understand
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we were clearly in the right direction with our investigation.
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The police wanted to make sure they went through everything
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and see If there were more, how many? We could
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really only go back about a year because that's how
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long the hospital keeps the detailed records that we would
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need to prove it. And as they went through, they
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found four that they were able to confirm because they
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had imaging, whether it be CTs or MRIs.
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That would confirm the kind of injury.
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And then they found a list of others that they
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suspected As they found more and more cases that met
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that pattern, it became more and more clear that Will
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Davis was a murderer and he'd murdered multiple people.
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We need to prove this man's guilt or innocence, but
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we're going to follow the facts. He lived just outside
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of Tyler. He was married. They had two kids.
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One had just been born, was a as a hard worker,
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you know, on face value, had everything going for him.
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But we saw things in the investigation that kind of
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pointed to some things that weren't necessarily forthcoming, an inappropriate
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relationship with a younger female, as well as some potential
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suicide attempts. just things that were red flags for us
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as investigators. As you start uncovering more evidence, living outside
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of his means appeared to be a.
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Problem for sure.
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It was new trucks, new house, new pool, living the
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American dream, albeit without maybe respect to how much money
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he had in the bank. And any time you add
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stress on top of any other mental incapacities or deficiencies
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going on, any kind of trigger can be an issue.
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But he had a clear pattern of being impulsive with
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money decisions. That to us didn't seem related, but when
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we talked to psychologists, they said there's a pretty good
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connection there between sociopaths who know how to be controlled
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and deliberate in some areas of their life, but are
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very impulsive and unorganized in other areas of their lives.
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A lot of his behavior, which to.
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Us seemed normal, they said would be typical of a sociopath,
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that being very friendly, having a short attention span.
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And that's what really unraveled some of just the psychology
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of Will Davis, maybe what was a motive. But I
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think at this, anyone on that investigative team would just
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remind you that sometimes there is just evil.
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What we often find is I've done the first murder.
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I've not been caught. There was even a feeling of euphoria.
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There's a feeling of success that wrestling now has perhaps
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made that anxiety disappear for just a little bit of time.
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Maybe I liked the feeling of when that death occurred.
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Why not have the feeling again?
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Will was absolutely aware of what he was getting away
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with because no one in the hospital is suspecting it
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might have been intentional. It was nearly impossible for them
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to connect the dots. The security footage was really the
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most useful piece of evidence.
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It's very cold. It's very shocking.
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Will Davis, actually, in a phone interview, told us he
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grabbed syringes just prior to walking into that room. He's
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in there for just about a minute and then walked out.
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Him being in the room, the video capturing that, and
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even his own admissions, placing himself in direct care with
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the patient at the time of the incident was very critical.
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Error does not just happen in your brain. And so
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the method he chose to maim and murder his victims
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is ultimately what got him caught.
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On April 10th, 2018, Will Davis is arrested for the
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murders of John Lafferty, Ronald Clark, and Christopher Greenaway. He's
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held in Smith County Jail on an $ 8.
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75 million bond.
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An $ 8. 75 million bond is something.
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It tells us.
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How serious this case is. It tells us how the
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criminal justice system believes that this individual is a threat
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to society. When we look at this case, it looks
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like a slam dunk for prosecution. You have an individual
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with cameras, showing that he is coming out of the room,
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he's in the room, just before death occurs. However, a
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defense attorney is going to go the route in this
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case to say, people are in a hospital, people are ill,
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people are recovering from major operations, they were probably going
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to die anyway, and Davis may get away with this crime.
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Will Davis is in custody and awaiting trial. The COVID
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pandemic delays proceedings, and during 2020, Joseph Kalina passes away.
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You know, I know for everyone when it comes to trial,
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No matter the case, there's always going to be nerves.
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You never know what curveball is going to be thrown
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by the defense or anything else.
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It is the job of the defense to slap down
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the argument that's presented by the prosecution. How are you
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able to link that to my client? If you can't,
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I must be found not guilty.
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We prepared for this case for nine months, just preparing
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witnesses and going through evidence. And then we spent several
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months picking the jury and trying the case.
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The interesting part in our investigation, even from early on,
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was that over a six-month period from June until January
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00:35:16.949 --> 00:35:22.760
of 2018, Will Davis was the only nurse on duty
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at the time of each of the events.
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The evidence was very, very clear.
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The medical evidence backed up everything that the video backed up,
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and when pieced together, really painted the picture of the
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serial killer that was running the floors.
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I expected them to deliberate a while, just because they
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had a whole lot of information to go over. We
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went over it in great detail for several weeks with them.
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And I think at the end of listening to all
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of the testimony, all of those doctors and nurses and experts,
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there really wasn't another conclusion they could come to.
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Davis is found guilty of four counts of capital murder.
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You now have this relief because you know justice has
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been served, you know he's been found guilty, and then
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00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:32.570
they go into victim impact statements and now it's the humanization,
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it's the reality for people to hear precisely the effects
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00:36:36.849 --> 00:36:39.849
of the devastation that Will Davis chose to bring upon
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his victims. I'll never forget, and I believe it was Ms.
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Blanks giving her statement to the court.
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So I stood there and looked right at him. He
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has black eyes, it seems like. Held his face kind
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of like something weird with his hands. But he is down,
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00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:08.030
and when I would talk to him, he would go,
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and these tears would come down his face. And I said,
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I am Kay Blanks, James Blanks' wife, your first victim.
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And I said, my husband did not deserve to die
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like that. And I said, I forgive you because God
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tells us to forgive. And I'm led by the Holy
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Spirit to tell you because we won't be forgiven if
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we don't forgive. And I do believe that. I said,
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but I feel just like everybody else feels about you.
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I told him straight to his face. I said, something's wrong.
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With you, buddy.
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And what was so impactful is so often you expect
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it to be vengeance and anger and all these things.
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And here was a woman offering forgiveness and really pointing
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00:38:06.190 --> 00:38:10.250
Will Davis to the finality and the eternal decision of
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his actions. And I'll never forget that because it did
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00:38:14.030 --> 00:38:18.510
point to the truth, the truth of the matter that
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there was a higher judge to answer to. and that
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he better be ready for that.
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I want you to know that I am not a
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malicious man. I loved you. I loved the kids. During
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the summertime, I'm 17. That summer, we had a lot
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of finances. And of course, some of that's my fault.
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I'm blaming myself for that. I want you to have
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a nice house. I want you to have a nice pool.
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I want you to have a nice car. I want
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to have a nice truck and a nice car. And
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I was trying to work every day I could. I
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couldn't afford to be off. I couldn't afford to be
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called off. And I made sure that people stayed at
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ICU a little bit longer, just a little bit longer,
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so that our numbers would work out, so that we
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could take and so I could work. I want you
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to know that Kalina was not, Kalina was an accident.
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Kalina was not on purpose or nothing like that. Nothing
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like that.
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Okay, well, what about Greenaway?
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What about the other two girls?
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This behavior of, I've gone through the criminal justice system.
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The criminal justice system has found me guilty and now
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I must rationalize why I did what I did is
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often the case with serial killers, those who are found
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guilty of very violent crimes. How do I find some
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sort of ability to find and let other people see
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me as a human being that has feelings? And this
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is often what occurs, is this rationalization of the behavior,
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especially to that of family members and those close to
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the individual.
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Whenever you get back to that courtroom again, I want
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you to just see if you can at least take
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a stand. And take the time to apologize to these
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victims and their families. They deserve more sympathy. And in
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the end, you will reap what you sow. And that's
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telling you.
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Unbelievable. That guy's a nut. Let me tell you what
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the DA told the jury. He said he did not
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kill those people for money. He said he didn't do
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it for that reason, and he spoke like that. He
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said he did it because he liked watching them die.
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I thought the gall of that, excuse me, to have
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the gall to saunter around like that, looking at his damage,
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taking people's lives.
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It's almost like I've done these horrible things that I
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know people would hate me for, and yet I need
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to somehow soften it and justify it and rationalize it.
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And it's just, it always surprises me because you think
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once you cross this line, would you really care? I mean,
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you're not caring about human life. If you're murdering somebody,
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how is that going to result in more overtime?
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When you look at this type of evil, the death
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penalty exists for cases like this.
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I think there is certainly a great deal of narcissism
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in Will Davis. And I think that narcissism and that
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justification for putting his own needs and actions above other
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people is a seed that contributes later on to his
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lack of empathy.
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I wake up many times and I will feel that
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he was, is in the bed or just got up,
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went to the bathroom and that feeling of so habitual
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and it's just like he's there. But we're together. We
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are together. And then he's gone. It's horrible. It's sad.
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It makes me want to cry.
