Murder Rounds: True Crime from Inside Medicine

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very hospital runs on trust. These are the cases where that trust was the weapon. Murder Rounds is a true crime podcast about healthcare's most disturbing killers — the nurses and doctors who murdered the patients they were meant to protect — told by the people who actually work in those buildings. Each episode goes past the headlines to the part nobody covers: how they got away with it for so long. The neutral reference. The report filed into a channel designed to keep it invisible. The records destroyed under subpoena. In case after case, the institution's first instinct was to protect itself. Every episode ends with The Chart Review — a segment where we set the story aside and ask what actually changed. What safeguards exist now. What a clinician should do today if they see something. What the system learned, and what it didn't. Researched, written, and reviewed by real nurses. Every claim sourced to court records, inquiry reports, and contemporaneous journalism — not true-crime folklore. Where the evidence is disputed, we say so. From NURSING.com, trusted by more than a million nursing students and clinicians. New episodes weekly.

Episodes

  1. Aug 17 ·  Video

    The Second Signature: Harold Shipman

    In Britain, burial takes one doctor's signature. Cremation takes two — because cremation destroys the evidence, so the law asks a second, independent doctor to look first. In March 1998, a GP in Hyde noticed her practice was being asked to countersign an unusual number of those forms for one particular doctor down the road. Elderly women, living alone, found dead at home. Cause of death: old age. Linda Reynolds had no bodies and no toxicology. She went to the coroner anyway. The police closed the investigation on 17 April 1998. A High Court judge later found, in a report laid before Parliament, that three patients would probably have lived if it had been done properly. In this episode: the 1975 drug conviction that didn't end his career · why a family doctor needs none of the things a hospital killer needs · the medical records that defeated the first investigation, because he had written them · the computer audit trail that convicted him · and the £21 million public inquiry that counted the dead and published its own country's failure The Chart Review: the cosign, the double-check, the witness signature. Every safety system has one — and every one decays into a formality the moment people stop actually looking. Sources: The Shipman Inquiry, chaired by Dame Janet Smith — First Report (Death Disguised, 2002), Second Report (Command Paper, 2003), Third Report (2003), Final Report (2005); BMJ; BBC News; Gosport Independent Panel Report; contemporaneous trial reporting. Murder Rounds is written and reviewed by the nurses at NURSING.com. If someone in your life is in nursing school, send them to NURSING.com.     harold shipman, harold shipman documentary, dr death shipman, shipman inquiry, uk serial killer doctor, medical serial killer, healthcare serial killer, murder rounds, true crime podcast, nursing true crime, linda reynolds shipman, kathleen grundy, diamorphine murders, true crime documentary

  2. Aug 14 ·  Video

    The Death Shift: Genene Jones

    ⚠️ WARNING: This episode concerns the deaths of infants and small children. In March 1984, a San Antonio hospital destroyed years of pharmacy records that were under grand jury subpoena. Reporting puts the figure at nine thousand pounds — four and a half tons of paper. That is not a filing cabinet somebody emptied. That is a project. Genene Jones worked the three-to-eleven shift in the pediatric intensive care unit at Bexar County Hospital. Children died on that shift often enough that her colleagues had a name for it. They called it the death shift. Naming it was where it stopped. When she was asked to resign in 1982, the hospital gave her a letter describing her as loyal, dependable, and trustworthy. A pediatrician sixty miles away hired her on that basis. In this episode: why a sudden arrest in a pediatric ICU isn't automatically suspicious · the January 1983 meeting where physicians decided not to come forward · thirty-one days and eight emergencies at a small-town clinic · the 1977 Texas law that had her walking out of prison in 2018 · and the mother who spent three decades making sure she didn't The Chart Review: the audit trail that protects your patients — and protects you. Why a reference that omits is a reference that lies. Sources: Peter Elkind, Texas Monthly and ProPublica; The Death Shift; Texas Public Radio; Bexar County District Attorney statements and 2017 indictments; KSAT; ABC News; Associated Press; CNN. Murder Rounds is written and reviewed by the nurses at NURSING.com. If someone in your life is in nursing school, send them to NURSING.com. genene jones, genene jones nurse, death shift, bexar county hospital, chelsea mcclellan, texas baby killer nurse, medical serial killer, healthcare serial killer, murder rounds, true crime podcast, nursing true crime, hospital cover up, true crime documentary, peter elkind death shift

  3. Aug 12 ·  Video

    Three Ampules: Kristen Gilbert

    At four in the afternoon, there were three ampules of epinephrine in the cabinet. An hour later, after a code, there were none — and three broken ones in the sharps container. Kathy Rix counted them herself, on Ward C of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Leeds, Massachusetts, in February 1996. She and two colleagues took what they had to a formal inquiry. The VA's own investigators concluded there was no evidence any employee had intentionally harmed anyone. Five years later, a federal judge ruled that what the nurses on that ward noticed could not be presented to a jury as evidence that anything had happened at all — it was impressionistic, he wrote, and lacked an objective basis. And then, mid-trial, the government's toxicology evidence collapsed. In this episode: why a code is the only moment a nurse's work is ever public · the four veterans who died on Ward C · the three blocks of evidence excluded before a single witness testified · the drug that was supposed to prove the murders and was also used to try to reverse them · and a jury that convicted her anyway The Chart Review: pattern evidence catches killers — and could end the career of a nurse who simply takes the hardest assignments. What to do when you're the one who notices. Sources: United States v. Gilbert, 229 F.3d 15 (1st Cir. 2000); United States v. Gilbert, 120 F. Supp. 2d 147 (D. Mass. 2000); Cutting v. United States, 204 F. Supp. 2d 216 (D. Mass. 2002); UPI; CBS News; Boston Globe; New York Times trial coverage. Murder Rounds is written and reviewed by the nurses at NURSING.com. If someone in your life is in nursing school, send them to NURSING.com. TAGS: kristen gilbert, kristen gilbert nurse, angel of death nurse, va hospital murders, northampton va, medical serial killer, healthcare serial killer, murder rounds, true crime podcast, nursing true crime, epinephrine murders, federal death penalty case, true crime documentary, hospital true crime

  4. Aug 10 ·  Video

    The Neutral Reference: Charles Cullen, Part 2

    ⚠️ "Murder Rounds" is a true crime podcast about healthcare's deadliest killers written and reviewed by the nurses at NURSING.com. Listener discretion advised. Charles Cullen pled guilty to twenty-nine murders. Nobody — not the prosecutors, not the detectives, not the judge — could tell the families whether twenty-nine was the number. He traded his life for a list. No death penalty, in exchange for helping identify every victim going back to 1984. Which meant the state of New Jersey had made the only man who knew the answer into its only source for it. His memory was the ledger, and there was no way to audit it. Then he stopped cooperating — over a kidney. The count stopped at twenty-nine not because they'd found everyone, but because the only instrument they had switched itself off. In this episode: the plea that took four months and seven counties · what a 1993 medical record can and can't prove thirty years later · the families who got a trial date and lost anyway · a hospital that sued the estates of dead patients · and Amy Loughren's pacemaker The Chart Review: why the chart is the only witness that outlives everyone — and what the record of this case says about how to raise a concern so it survives. Sources: Krapf v. St. Luke Hospital (Pa. Super. 2010); Vivian v. Blank Rome, 2024 PA Super 118; St. Luke Hospital of Bethlehem v. Vivian (Pa. Super. 2014); CBS News; NBC News; Associated Press; Philadelphia Inquirer; contemporaneous reporting 2004–2020. Murder Rounds is written and reviewed by the nurses at NURSING.com. If someone in your life is in nursing school, send them to NURSING.com.

  5. Aug 10 ·  Video

    The Sixteen-Year Shift: Charles Cullen, Part 1

    ⚠️ "Murder Rounds" is a true crime podcast about healthcare's deadliest killers written and reviewed by the nurses at NURSING.com. Listener discretion advised. Charles Cullen worked at nine hospitals in sixteen years. He was never hidden. He was passed along. In June 2003, a Catholic priest recovering from pneumonia died at a New Jersey hospital with a lethal level of a cardiac drug in his blood. He wasn't the first. Administrators there were already quietly reviewing a cluster of deaths on that unit — and had been for weeks. By then Cullen had been investigated at multiple hospitals, fired outright from several, named by a victim's family, named by his own colleagues, reported to a state nursing board, and investigated by a county prosecutor. Every institutional exit had the same design: remove the problem from this building, keep the reference neutral, file the report into the channel where it will sit. Nobody lied, exactly. Everybody stopped at the edge of their own liability. In this episode: the resignation letter that closed a contaminated-IV investigation · Helen Dean's son, who stood in a hallway and spent eight years telling people what he knew · what a nurse found inside a sharps container at Saint Luke's · the thirty-one days between a prosecutor closing his file and a priest dying · and the reference call that, it turns out, nobody ever made The Chart Review: the neutral reference, the law New Jersey named after him — including the criticisms nurses still have of it twenty years on — and why the dispensing cabinet caught what nine hospitals didn't. Sources: St. Luke Hospital of Bethlehem v. Vivian (Pa. Super. 2014); NJ Health Care Professional Responsibility and Reporting Enhancement Act (L.2005 c.83); CBS News/60 Minutes; Associated Press; NPR Fresh Air; contemporaneous reporting from 2003–2006. Murder Rounds is written and reviewed by the nurses at NURSING.com. If someone in your life is in nursing school, send them to NURSING.com.

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very hospital runs on trust. These are the cases where that trust was the weapon. Murder Rounds is a true crime podcast about healthcare's most disturbing killers — the nurses and doctors who murdered the patients they were meant to protect — told by the people who actually work in those buildings. Each episode goes past the headlines to the part nobody covers: how they got away with it for so long. The neutral reference. The report filed into a channel designed to keep it invisible. The records destroyed under subpoena. In case after case, the institution's first instinct was to protect itself. Every episode ends with The Chart Review — a segment where we set the story aside and ask what actually changed. What safeguards exist now. What a clinician should do today if they see something. What the system learned, and what it didn't. Researched, written, and reviewed by real nurses. Every claim sourced to court records, inquiry reports, and contemporaneous journalism — not true-crime folklore. Where the evidence is disputed, we say so. From NURSING.com, trusted by more than a million nursing students and clinicians. New episodes weekly.

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