A nurse tricked a girl into considering she had terminal most cancers and injected her with a deadly dose of insulin — in order that she might attempt to declare a attainable $1.5 million life-insurance coverage, Utah cops say.
Registered nurse Meggan Randall Sundwall, 47, injected pal Kacee Lyn Terry, 38, with the deadly dose over the summer time, in accordance with newly surfaced police paperwork.
Investigating cops discovered greater than 28,000 texts between the ladies that confirmed Sundwall had a fixation with serving to her good friend commit suicide.
The textual content exchanges — which dated again to December 2019 — included messages “detailing alternative ways Meggan would kill herself if she was Terry, and of Meggan providing to ‘assist’ [her friend] die,” police mentioned.
The messages additionally allegedly included discussions about Sundwall’s obvious monetary woes and the way being the beneficiary of Terry’s life-insurance coverage would repair every part.
It was not instantly clear if Terry even had a coverage, though Sundwall apparently believed she did and that the nurse was set to attain a $1.5 million payout from it.
Terry’s household expressed aid after studying of Sundwall’s arrest, saying they believed she was making an attempt to kill her for years.
The morning of Terry’s loss of life Aug. 15, Sundwall despatched her a textual content asking, “Do you need to take some promethazine once I get there so that you’re asleep when that is occurring?” in accordance with KUTV.
Police had been referred to as to Terry’s residence after her uncle mentioned he discovered her unresponsive and gasping for air as if she had been drowning. Sundwall advised investigators she had been alone with Terry all morning and that she had been struggling for “a number of hours” that day.
Paramedics reportedly found a diabetic needle on the scene.
When Terry — who was not a diabetic — arrived on the hospital, her blood sugar stage had plunged to 14. Blood sugar ranges can grow to be deadly at 40 or much less.
Sundwall additionally claimed that Terry had signed a do-not-resuscitate order and mentioned she didn’t need to go to the hospital.
A search warrant revealed that Terry’s sister had advised hospital employees she had been struggling with leukemia for years. It’s unclear whether or not Sundwall advised Terry’s household she had most cancers.
Her sister mentioned “she moved Kacee out of the shared residence and into her grandfather’s home the place she lives now because of Kacee complaining about Meggan bringing insulin residence and making an attempt to speak Kacee into therapies to assist finish her struggling,” the warrant said.
However after her post-mortem, Terry’s household acquired the surprising information that she didn’t have most cancers — or some other underlying well being points — and no DNR order was ever discovered. The identical physician additionally mentioned Sundwall was not her energy of legal professional, in accordance with KSL.
The Workplace of the Medical Examiner confirmed Terry’s reason for loss of life was an overdose of possible exogenous insulin, promethazine and different medicine, in accordance with the outlet.
After Terry’s loss of life, Sundwall allegedly deleted greater than 900 texts from her telephone and performed a seek for her life-insurance coverage.
Sundwall was arrested and booked into Utah County Jail on prices together with first-degree aggravated homicide and third-degree obstruction of justice.
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