Nurse tricks woman into thinking shes terminal then kills her over possible $1.5M insurance policy: cops
A nurse tricked a woman into thinking she had terminal cancer and injected her with a fatal dose of insulin — so that she could try to claim a possible $1.5 million life-insurance policy, Utah cops say.Registered nurse Meggan Randall Sundwall, 47, injected pal Kacee Lyn Terry, 38, with the lethal dose over the summer, according to newly surfaced police documents.Investigating cops found more than 28,000 texts between the women that showed Sundwall had a fixation with helping her friend commit suicide.The text exchanges — which dated back to December 2019 — included messages “detailing different ways Meggan would kill herself if she was Terry, and of Meggan offering to ‘help’ [her friend] die,” police said.The messages also allegedly included discussions about Sundwall’s apparent financial woes and how being the beneficiary of Terry’s life-insurance policy would fix everything.It was not immediately clear if Terry even had a policy, although Sundwall apparently believed she did and that the nurse was set to score a $1.5 million payout from it.Terry’s family expressed relief after learning of Sundwall’s arrest, saying they believed she was trying to kill her for years.The morning of Aug.
12, Sundwall sent her a text asking, “Do you want to take some promethazine when I get there so that you are asleep when this is happening?” according to KUTV.Police were called to Terry’s home after her uncle said he found her unresponsive and gasping for air as if she were drowning.Sundwall told investigators she had been alone with Terry all morning and that she had been suffering for “several hours” that day.Paramedics reportedly discovered a diabetic needle at the scene.When Terry — who was not a diabetic — arrived at the hospital, her blood sugar level had plunged to 14.
Blood sugar levels can become lethal at 40 or less.Sundwall also claimed that Terry had signed a do-not-resuscitate order and said she didn’t want to go to the hospital.
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