Healthcare serial killers (now referred to as HCSKs or SHCKs) have become prominent in the media over the past decade, and yet around the world nurses are still killing patients: Vickie Dawn Jackson chapter continues advertisement * In July 2002, Vickie Dawn Jackson, 36, was indicted in Texas for four counts of murder at Nocona General Hospital. Prosecutors believe that she injected lethal doses of mivacurium chloride, a muscle relaxant that temporarily stops a person from breathing, into elderly patients to end their lives. Several vials of that drug turned up missing. Ten bodies were exhumed to run tests and early in 2004, Jackson was indicted on three more counts of capital murder, one count of attempted murder, and one count of injury to a disabled person. She is suspected in as many as twenty-five deaths, according to Associated Press reports. Her trial is scheduled for October 2004.
Healthcare serial killers (now referred to as HCSKs or SHCKs) have become prominent in the media over the past decade, and yet around the world nurses are still killing patients: Vickie Dawn Jackson chapter continues advertisement * In July 2002, Vickie Dawn Jackson, 36, was indicted in Texas for four counts of murder at Nocona General Hospital. Prosecutors believe that she injected lethal doses of mivacurium chloride, a muscle relaxant that temporarily stops a person from breathing, into elderly patients to end their lives. Several vials of that drug turned up missing. Ten bodies were exhumed to run tests and early in 2004, Jackson was indicted on three more counts of capital murder, one count of attempted murder, and one count of injury to a disabled person. She is suspected in as many as twenty-five deaths, according to Associated Press reports. Her trial is scheduled for October 2004.