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William Davis: Killer Nurse | Making A Serial Killer

November 22, 2024 / 43:32

This episode covers the case of William Davis, a nurse accused of murdering patients at Christus Mother Francis Hospital in Tyler, Texas. Key discussions include the unexplained deaths of patients, the investigation into Davis's actions, and the emotional impact on victims' families.

Martha K. Blanks shares her story about her husband, James, who died unexpectedly after heart surgery. She describes the shock of learning about the investigation into potential foul play at the hospital.

Detective Jeff Roberts and District Attorney Jacob Putman discuss the unusual pattern of deaths at the hospital and the concerns raised by the medical staff. They highlight the importance of the investigation and the role of the police.

The episode details Davis's background, including his struggles with mental health and financial issues. It also examines his behavior leading up to the murders, including his interactions with patients and colleagues.

As the investigation unfolds, the episode reveals how CCTV footage and patient records ultimately led to Davis's arrest and trial for multiple counts of murder, emphasizing the chilling nature of his actions.

TLDR

William Davis, a nurse, is accused of murdering patients at a Texas hospital, leading to a shocking investigation and trial.

Episode

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[Music] being honest with you it felt like it was a sudden impulse or a quick impulse
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it was it was work it was money it was it's this is all freaking evil even though the code blue had gone
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off he's watching him die we would show them that footage and many of them just
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broke down in tears I'm telling you I don't understand why I don't know why my
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Lord you you just don't think about going to the hospital and being killed one of the things that's so scary about
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healthc care serial killers is they know ways to kill people you know to do something like this one time is is
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Unthinkable but to do it multiple times times you'd have to enjoy it we are together and then he's gone
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it's horrible it's sad it makes me want to cry [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]
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I am Martha the K blanks I go by K I made him in a bar but he owned it he told me I just lit the room up
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when I walked in oh honey he was goodlooking he was dark brown eyes and dark hair he had a great head of hair
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always did in fact there were women that told him they'd like to run their hands
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through it he said I don't think my wife would like that but what got him was the heart we were
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on a trip to New Orleans when he had the first heart attack 8 months later we were in Las Vegas he had another heart
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attack he just I guess it just got worse and worse in early January 2017 James blinks
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has a successful operation and is sent to recover on an ICU ward in Christus Mother Francis Hospital in Tyler
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Texas he had a triple bypass I was there the day of surgery could not stay the night of surgery but I saw him the next
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day and he was doing well there was a lady who called me every 30 minutes in the waiting room she was the nurse and
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she would give me his progress and he was doing good doing good doing good all the way
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through my name is Jeff Roberts at the time that the Will Davis case was ongoing I was a detective at the Tyler
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Police Department the most distinctive thing about which at the time was Trinity
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Mother Francis they've since changed their name to Christus is that we have a
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very good and well respected Hospital District bad outcomes are very uncommon Jacob Putman I'm the Smith County
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criminal district attorney Chris's Mother Francis Hospital uh is a large hospital they care lots of patients they
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had reach recently built a new heart hospital as a part of that heart patients who've had heart surgery almost
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always recover uh and actually go home within just a few days so for any patients to have you know extraordinary
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bad outcomes is unusual and concerning to the staff it's not something that they're used to
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[Music] seeing I saw him the next day they'd had him up walking he was sitting in a chair and when I
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walked in he he did this to me calling me over and I walked over to him and I leaned down and I kissed him you know
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like that because that's what he wanted and I want to say this because it's really important to me the last
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time I kissed him it was to be a pack and when we connected we did not disconnect and he didn't you know how
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you'll pull away or nothing and later I thought about that God gave us that goodbye he gave us that
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goodbye he died that night when he passed away I was told that by myself at 2:00 in the
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morning oh my God God oh my God he was the love of my life and you know what I thought of I could never hear him walk
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in the door and say mama what are we going to eat or just whatever his habit was and I would never it was closure I
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would never see him again he was gone he was doing well I said what happened he was doing perfect
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he was doing great great what happened and she said we don't know got the surgeon got me on the phone and he said
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we don't know everybody was shocked it had been six months I had buried James thinking he died of
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complications with his heart and then I got a a text message one day and a very good friend
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call me and she said you need to watch this right now and it was on the tube I don't know what it was but I tuned it in
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at the beginning of the investigation Christus approached the Smith County District Attorney's office and the Tyler
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Police Department with concerns that a nurse may have been involved in intentionally harming causing harm to
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patients at one of their hospitals the news report over a year after James died is about an
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investigation into the Unexplained deaths of patients recovering from heart surgery when I saw that news and they
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said if you knew anybody that was in on the fifth floor Tyler Tex is you need to call us
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immediately and I did and I told him my husband had been there and he had died he said your story is just like every
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everybody else's of those people exactly my Lord you you just don't think
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about going to the hospital and being killed your spouse being killed you go there to
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heal William Davis is from Tyler Texas he grew up in a pretty close-knit family he's the oldest of four boys seems to
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have a very loving mother but nothing that was a really really stood out yeah he was a football star in
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a very small town meaning he would have been well liked and well known by both kids and parents uh he came in second in
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his class as far as grades so he was intelligent I think that will Davis was a big fish in a small pond and when
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you're talking about growing up if you are that big fish in a small pond it can
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feel very powerful people do look up to you and they do notice you and they know
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who you are as a Young Man everybody liked him and he seemed to be a standout that was
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going [Music] places we have Will Davis who's around 16 17 he's a normal Adolescent and he is
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attracted to this 12 or 13 year old girl and I think when you look at the age difference and the maturity level this
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is something that really would be shocking to most people a 16-year-old dating a 13-year-old is criminal in many
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jurisdictions that is certainly giving us an element of perhaps a starting of criminal delinquent Behavior giving us
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an indication that law may not be as important it is to other people I mean it's really not an equal relationship by
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any stretch of the imagination in terms of their age in terms of their maturity in terms of what they're allowed to do
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and all those things and I think one of the things we start seeing as will you know having a very strong need to
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control the people around him her parents did not approve of that cuz he was too old he continued to pursue that
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relationship even though he had been told to kind of move on became kind of obsessive about her and to the point of
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actually uh crashing his car into a tree in front of her house uh that's when the
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police got involved and he uh got some mental health attention at that point it did cause him some problems early
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on coping skills the ability to see problems and your ability to have resilience the question becomes our
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ability to deal with difficult situations does aggression come out does the ability to pick up yourself and move
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on from the problem does that occur he becomes depressed he seeks out some anti-depressants he goes to get some
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help he's told he's depressed then he's told he has bipolar disorder and he's
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prescribed a couple of different medications he doesn't really believe that fits him but I think the big
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picture is that this is somebody who is not just struggling from an adjustment standpoint but really struggling from a
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mental health standpoint and is trying to figure out a way to navigate that while he's in
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college got married uh ended up divorced but then he got remarried and went back
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to school and got a Nursing degree and was kind of headed on the right trajectory after a few years by 2013
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Davis is working at Christus Mother Francis Hospital Well everybody's very prideful in what they do uh nurses take
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an oath and they take their job very serious I have good friends that are nurses and will tell you how serious
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they take the ethics of their job and the responsibility of job is there a more vulnerable position than being
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medically sedated coming out of a surgery and counting on care which thank the Lord uh most of the time is exactly
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what we all receive Will Davis is somebody who is a smart guy he's made it through nursing
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school which is no easy feat he's now ambitious to go further than that he's
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getting his master's degree which many people acknowledge that's quite an
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accomplish M so as we progress in life we gain more stressors and the question becomes how
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do you deal with those stressors what is your response we later see what those responses are
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[Music] William Davis is a trusted nurse at a well-respected hospital he'd been working at that
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hospital for 3 or four years uh he was generally well-liked very friendly uh he worked primarily in the cardiac unit but
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he also would float and to other floors and help out mostly intensive care units
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caring for very sick patients Davis is studying for a master's degree and is
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house hunting with his wife while she's expecting their second child at the same
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time I think there are some indications that Everything Is Not What It Seems so for example he has a very very difficult
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time managing money and this seems to be a problem for him for many many years the way this couple seems to handle this
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initially is the wife kind of takes over the finances and when I talk about being
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in trouble financially I'm not talking about missing a few payments I'm talking
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about somebody who's in like $135,000 wor a debt and that's hard to climb out
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of one of the most telling things is at one point he texts a colleague to ask if
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they have any any anti- anxiety medication and what is that tells me two different things number one is he's
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struggling and things are getting harder for him but also what he says which is I
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need something before I get into trouble and I think that is you know is somebody who's worked with many patients
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with anxiety or depression or whatever I've never ever had anybody no matter
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how anxious they are or depressed they are say I'm about to get into [Music]
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trouble it's been 5 months since the surprise death of James blanks another patient is recovering from a successful
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operation 74 4-year-old John laferty he had woken up he was verbal he was alert he seemed to be doing very very well
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there were every indication every expectation that this was somebody who was going to have a smooth
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recovery he was retired had a loving family grown children grandchildren very well-loved he had had heart surgery and
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was on this road to recovery uh when he crashed it was an unusual bad outcome it
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was an unusual death not one that they predicted so when Mr lafy died it was puzzling to the doctors and they wanted
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to try to figure out what the cause was but at the time really they couldn't
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come up with any answers they they kind of had to shrug their shoulders and say it's
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[Music] undetermined 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 heart surgery he had uh
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vascular surgery which uh meaning not on the heart itself but on the aorta as it
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goes down towards the legs but similar in that he had successful surgery and he should have recovered very quickly the
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doctors were thrilled at the progress he was making and yet 24 hours after he has
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his surgery he's brain dead they did a review of the surgery and really at that point they were not able
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to come up with any plausible explanation as to why he would have uh had a stroke and
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died will also took some additional safeguards so for example he didn't kill
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people he was assigned to look after he would go and kill people who other people were assigned to look
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after so I think that was for two reasons one is he don't want his patients to be in danger look I'm a
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great nurse nobody's you know nobody's dying under my watch but I think it it
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it it was another way I think of evading attention or evading anybody questioning
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his ability to care for [Music] patients Christopher Greenway aged 47 becomes the third Unexpected
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death Christopher Greenway was really exceptional in a lot of ways as a patient he was much younger he had been
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a war veteran he was actually a paramedic but but in terms of heart patients who need heart surgery he was
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incredibly healthy and had almost no risk factors associated with his surgery so when he crashed and
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died it was very shocking for the nurses and doctors because he was in such good
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health the doctors actually were very frustrated because they didn't have an
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answer to give to the family the hospital was definitely trying to figure out what was going on certainly three
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deaths in this uh close proximity highly unusual they did the things hospitals usually do which is check their
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equipment to make sure there's no malfunctioning equipment either on the floor or in surgery uh checking the
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medications that they're being given but everything they would check was working
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properly one of the things that's so scary about healthc care serial killers
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is they know ways to kill people and they they know ways to kill people in in in ways that won't be spotted very
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easily but I think what kept Him murdering what turned him really into a serial killer was the thrill and the
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exhilaration and that sense of release and power and control that he got when he killed and killed again and I think
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that probably for will I think he was surprised that he felt a sense of power a sense of control and also a sense of
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relief from this stress a temporary kind of reprieve and I think that surprised him and it really set up a very
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dangerous situation for him down the road I think for will it was easy I think he also enjoyed watching uh
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everyone respond to these rooms and try to figure out what was going on I mean there's a a team of doctors
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nurse is trying to save these patients trying to determine what happened and he's the only one in the room that
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really knows what's going on I think will had had to have enjoyed it or he wouldn't have done it more than
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once so to do many in kind of quick sucession like this there has to be something driving him to make him keep
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doing it this is when you have to go to another level 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 the question becomes who was
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the last person to see that individual or interact with that individual before their death if the alarms go off that
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this person is is perhaps flatlining who was the last person to be in that room was that person doing something positive
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or negative to the individual was it done with malice Joseph Kina 58 is recovering from a
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successful operation so Joseph Kina was an American truck driver talking with his family uh he loved his job he loved
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his family came out of surgery neurologically intact had no issues or complications from the surgery and was
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put on the ICU Wing there at the Heart Hospital for more monitoring from there he was in the care
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of a nurse one of the things that happened in this case was that for lunch the nurse
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asked will to watch his patient for him as he went to grab a quick lunch and as he was coming back from
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lunch is when the monitor was going [Applause] off Joseph Kina was crashing with this
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unexplained event the nurse was actually in there uh responding as well while will Davis was watching outside the
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[Music] room the CCTV showed that in this particular case immediately within minutes after will leaving the room of
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Joseph Kina he crashes the devastating part was the video also showed Will Davis staging
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himself down the hall there was a TV that he had access to that would Monitor and show the
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vitals uh for the patients on that wing and he kept looking up at that and then he would look down the hall and then he
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would look up at the monitor uh and here he was just like an arsonist uh watching
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his victim suffer you know when you see he the way he acts in the body language on the video it's
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certainly hard to imagine somebody doing something like this on purpose to a patient but certainly to to commit a
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murder and to walk nonchalantly down the hall as if nothing had happened would take someone who was incredibly cold and
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unfeeling I think that it wasn't so much that will Davis didn't care but I think
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at this point in his life life that drive that compulsion that need to feel good took over everything
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else will was initially interviewed about his interactions with that patient by Hospital staff and gave a story that
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did not match the CCTV in the case that was obviously a huge red flag will basically said he he really
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didn't do anything he turned off an alarm on one of the IV pumps but they could tell from the instruments in the
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room that his arterial line had been accessed and touched the IV 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 uh when you really saying you're
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touching the other when will lies about being in the room that's not only unusual that doesn't happen so why would
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a nurse possibly lie about going into a patient's room when that Dawns on them
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you then have to reexamine every patient every bad outcome you've ever had nurse with malicious intent is never
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something that they check for when they do and they start connecting the dots really it just
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opened up of Pandora's box of patience and what had happened to him right after they caught him lying
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they sent him home and suspended him until they could figure it [Music] out any hospital is going to have deaths
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but you start to see perhaps a pattern of deaths occurring you have it investigated and then there's a question
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of Foul Play Through investigation through camera video and others that starts to
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point to one person we must call on the police will Davis has been suspended after CCTV captured him leaving the room
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of Joseph Kina a patient who crashed during recovery from successful surgery the hospital now suspects he may be
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involved in other unexplained deaths too and have called the police one of the really impressive things that this
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hospital did was number one I think they took the suspicions and concerns seriously from the very beginning and
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the other thing is that the doctors got involved in this the hospital went through all their
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patients for the last couple years before will was suspected and looked at those bad outcomes to see if they
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thought it fit the pattern of injury that Mr Kina had they also set up a hotline for people to call uh if they
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thought their loved one might have had been a victim of of will only at this point a year after her
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husband James's death does cinks learn there was a potential killer on his Ward so the police and the media got it
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what I think is he killed James and then H he got by with it and then he went and killed one just right
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real quick and so when James was killed there was no camera lawyer told me that my
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case or my story was exactly like everybody else is there's really no crime I've ever handled quite like this
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is unique in many aspects both in the number of victims the kind of perpetrator that was committing the
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crimes the motivation behind the crimes all of those were unique and and certainly a large case to kind of wrap
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your mind around the community was terrified so the idea that someone could intend harm to you in that setting uh
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was really terrifying and caused a lot of attention investigators know will lied
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about touching the arterial line of Joseph Kina so they investigate if the medical emergencies could have been
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caused by Will interfering with this equipment so early on the suspicion was that air was being injected into the
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arterial line of patients as they were uh post surgery so there's a lot of reasons why that was very hard to detect
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first is the arterial line is not a place where 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 point in the body which in a hospital bed is the brain so as air
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travels up the arterial line into the brain it then blocks blood from getting to the brain which causes a
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stroke and then after about 6 to 10 minutes maybe 30 minutes that air is then absorbed by the brain so it's uh
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the air is a murder weapon that disappears all on its own certainly you look at the way of placing air and
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someone's tubing that's for an IV there are no marks there are no bruises so
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this way leaves no clues you could get away with this will Davis had reached out to us
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early in the investigation to see ironically enough to see if we had talked with his attorney it was a phone
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conversation I thought it was interesting in some some of the early conversation that he
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would bring up things that we knew as investigators we were interested in the case but he would bring up things like
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the art line or bad surgery outcomes as soon as we would turn it to any of the patients in general uh you would hear
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his voice choke up as he would get nervous detective Weber at that time as we were finishing up that interview just
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flat out asked him uh about putting air and the arterior lines of patients and he would only say I won't answer that
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without my attorney which was good enough for me to understand we were clearly in the right
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direction with our [Music] investigation the police wanted to make sure they went through everything and
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see if there were more how many we could really only go back about a year cuz that's how long the hospital keeps the
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detailed records that we would need to prove it and as they went through the they found four that they were able to
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confirm cuz they had Imaging whe there' be CTS or MRIs that would confirm the
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kind of injury and then they found a list of others that they suspected as they found more and more cases that met
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that pattern it became more and more clear that will Davis was a murderer and he' murdered multiple
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people we need to prove uh this man's guilt or innocence but we're going to
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follow the facts we lived just outside of Tyler he was married they had two kids one had
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just been born was described as a hard worker you know on face value had everything going for him but we saw
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things in the investigation that kind of pointed to to some things that weren't
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necessarily forthcoming inappropriate relationship uh with a younger female uh as well as some some potential suicide
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attempts just things that were red flags for us as investigators as you start uncovering
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more evidence living outside of his means appeared to be a problem for sure it was new trucks new house new pool uh
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living the American dream uh albeit without maybe respect to how much money he had in the bank and anytime you add
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stress on top of any other mental incapacities or or deficiencies going on any kind of trigger uh can be an issue
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but he had a clear pattern of being impulsive with money decisions that to us didn't seem related but when we
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talked to psychologists they said there's a there's a pretty good connection there between sociopaths uh
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who know how to be controlled and deliberate in some areas of their life but are very impulsive and unorganized
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in other areas of their lives a lot of his behavior which to us seemed normal they said would be typical of a
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sociopath that being very friendly uh being having a short attention span and that's what really unraveled some of
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just the psychology of Will Davis uh maybe what was a motive uh but I think at this uh anyone on that investigative
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team would just remind you that sometimes there is just evil what we often find is I've done the
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first murder I've not been caught there was even a feeling of euphoria there's a
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feeling of success that wrestling now has perhaps made that anxiety disappear for just a a little
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bit of time maybe I liked the feeling of when that death occurred why not have the feeling
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again will was absolutely aware of what he was getting away with because no one in the hospital is
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suspecting it might have been intentional it was nearly impossible for them to connect the dots the security
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footage was really the most useful piece of evidence uh it's very cold it's very
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shocking Will Davis actually in a phone interview told us he grabbed syringes just prior to walking into that room uh
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he's in there for for just about a minute uh and then walked out him being in the room the video capturing that uh
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and even his own admissions placing himself in direct care with the patient at the time of the incident was very
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critical Air does not just happen in your brain uh and so the method he chose to maim and murder his victims is
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ultimately what got him caught on April 10th 2018 police will Davis are you here Will Davis is
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arrested for the murders of John laferty Ronald Clark and Christopher greenaway he's held in Smith County jail
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on an $8.75 million bond an $8.75 million bond is something it tells us how serious this case is it tells us
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how the criminal justice system believes that this individual is a threat to society when we look at this case it
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looks like a slam dunk for prosecution you have an individual with cameras showing that he is coming out of the
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room he's in the room just before death occurs however a defense attorney is
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going to go the route in this case to say people are in a hospital people are ill people are recovering from major
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operations they were probably going to die anyway and Davis may get away with this
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crime Will Davis is in custody in awaiting trial the co pandemic delays proceedings and during 2020 Joseph Kina
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passes away [Music] [Music] you know I know for everyone when it comes to trial no matter the case
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there's always going to be nerves uh you you never know what curve ball is going
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to be thrown by the defense or anything else it is the job of the defense to slap down the argument that's presented
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by the prosecution how are you able to link that to my client if you can't I must be
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found not guilty we prepared for this case for for 9 months just uh preparing Witnesses and
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going through evidence and then we spent several months picking the jury and trying the case the interesting part in
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our investigation even from early on was that over 6-month period uh from June until January of
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2028 uh Will Davis was the only nurse on duty at the time of each of the events evidence was very very clear the medical
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evidence backed up everything that the video backed up and when pieced together really painted the picture of the serial
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killer that was running the [Music] floors I expected them to deliberate a while is because they had a whole lot of
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information to go over but we went over it in great detail for several weeks with them uh and I I think at the end of
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listening to all of that uh testimony all of those doctors and nurses and experts there really wasn't another
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conclusion they could come to Davis is found guilty of 4 counts of capital [Music]
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murder you now have this this relief because you know justice has 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 the humanization it's
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the reality for people to hear precisely the effects of the devastation that will
00:36:38
Davis chose to bring upon his victims I'll never forget and I believe it was Miss blanks giving her uh
00:36:47
statement to the court so I stood there and looked right at him he has black eyes it seems like
00:36:58
held his face kind of like something weird with his hands but he is down and when I would
00:37:06
talk to him he would go and these tears would come down his face and I said I am K blanks James
00:37:16
blank's wife your first victim and I said my husband did not deserve to die like
00:37:26
that and and I said I forgive you because God tells us to forgive and I'm led by the Holy Spirit
00:37:36
to tell you because we won't be forgiven if we don't forgive and I do believe
00:37:41
that I said but I feel just like everybody else feels about you I told him straight to his face I said
00:37:49
something's wrong with you buddy and what was so impactful is so often you expect it to be Vengeance and
00:37:56
anger and all these things and here was a woman offering forgiveness uh and really pointing Will
00:38:06
Davis to the finality and the Eternal decision of his actions and I'll never
00:38:12
forget that because it did point to the truth the truth of the matter uh that there was a hir judge to answer
00:38:21
to uh and that he better be ready for that [Music] I want you to know that I am not a
00:38:40
malicious man I loved you I love the kids during the summertime of 17 that summer we had a lot of finances and of
00:38:49
course some of that's my fault I I'm blaming myself for that nice house I
00:38:52
want you to have a nice house I want you have a nice pool I want you have a nice
00:38:55
car I want I want to have a nice truck and a car car you know and I was trying to work every day I could I couldn't
00:39:03
afford to be off I couldn't afford to be called off and I made sure that people
00:39:07
stayed I see a little bit longer just a little bit longer so that our numbers would work out so that we could take in
00:39:14
so I could work I want you to know that Colina colen was an accident Clea was not on
00:39:23
purpose or nothing like that nothing at that greway what about the other people the other ones were accidents yes
00:39:34
they were they weren't I I after what you told me you purposely try to keep them out
00:39:40
longer this behavior of I've gone through the criminal justice system the criminal justice system has found me
00:39:48
guilty and now I must rationalize why I did what I did is often the case with serial killers those who are uh found
00:39:58
guilty of very violent crimes how do I find some sort of ability to find and let other people see
00:40:06
me as a human being that has feelings and this is often what occurs is this rationalization of the behavior
00:40:14
especially to that of family members and those close to the individual whenever you get back in that court room again I
00:40:22
want you to just see if you can at least take this stand and take the come to apologize to these victims and their
00:40:30
families they deserve more sympathy and in the end you will Rec to so and not tell
00:40:37
you unbelievable that guy's a nut I let me take what the da told the jury he said he did not kill those
00:40:49
people for money he said he didn't do it for that reason and he spoke like that
00:40:55
he said he did it because he liked watching them die I thought the go of that excuse me to have the gall to
00:41:06
saunter around like that looking at his damage taking people's lives it's almost
00:41:14
like I've done these horrible things that I know people would would hate me for and yet I need to somehow soften it
00:41:21
and justify it and rationalize it and it's just it it it always surprises me
00:41:26
because you think once you cost this line would you really care I mean you're
00:41:30
not caring about human life if you're murdering somebody how is that going to
00:41:34
result in more [Music] overtime when you look at this type of evil the death penalty exists for cases
00:41:49
like this I think there is certainly a great deal of narcissist ISM in Will Davis and
00:42:00
I think that narcissism and that justification for putting his own needs and actions above other people you know
00:42:08
is a seed that contributes later on to his lack of [Music] empathy I wake up many times and I will
00:42:20
feel that he was is in the bed or just got up went to the bathroom and that feeling of so
00:42:30
habitual and it's just like he's there but we're together we are together
00:42:40
and then he's gone it's horrible it's sad it makes me want to cry [Music]
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This episode stands out for the following:

  • 90
    Most shocking
  • 85
    Most heartbreaking
  • 85
    Best concept / idea
  • 85
    Biggest twist

Episode Highlights

  • Unexpected Deaths in Recovery
    Multiple patients die unexpectedly after heart surgery, raising alarm at the hospital.
    “Three deaths in close proximity highly unusual.”
    @ 17m 21s
    November 22, 2024
  • Suspicion Arises
    CCTV footage raises suspicions about a nurse's involvement in patient deaths.
    “The hospital now suspects he may be involved in other unexplained deaths too.”
    @ 24m 34s
    November 22, 2024
  • Will Davis Arrested
    On April 10th, 2018, Will Davis is arrested for multiple murders, held on an $8.75 million bond.
    @ 32m 59s
    November 22, 2024
  • Guilty Verdict
    Davis is found guilty of four counts of capital murder, bringing relief to the victims' families.
    “Justice has been served.”
    @ 36m 19s
    November 22, 2024
  • Victim Impact Statements
    Victims' families share their pain and forgiveness in court, highlighting the human cost of Davis's actions.
    @ 36m 32s
    November 22, 2024

Episode Quotes

  • He was the love of my life.
    William Davis: Killer Nurse | Making A Serial Killer
  • It’s really not an equal relationship.
    William Davis: Killer Nurse | Making A Serial Killer
  • Air is a murder weapon that disappears all on its own.
    William Davis: Killer Nurse | Making A Serial Killer
  • Sometimes there is just evil.
    William Davis: Killer Nurse | Making A Serial Killer
  • I forgive you because God tells us to forgive.
    William Davis: Killer Nurse | Making A Serial Killer
  • He did it because he liked watching them die.
    William Davis: Killer Nurse | Making A Serial Killer

Key Moments

  • Heart Attack02:38
  • Unexplained Deaths07:04
  • Suspicion24:20
  • Potential Killer25:22
  • Unique Case25:53
  • Community Terror26:13
  • Guilty Verdict36:19
  • Victim Forgiveness37:32

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