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Corpus Delicti

241: Do No Harm: Kristen Gilbert

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Kristen Gilbert was a high performing, popular nurse at the VA hospital. This is why it took months for people to notice or admit that the number of deaths on her ward during her shifts was unusually high. Was Kristen suffering from a mental illness? Was she just seeking attention?


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Music by:

Kai Engel

"Daemones"

Blooper music by:

Art of Escapism

"Coal Miners"

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Sources:

Killer Nurse Gets Life - CBS News

Boston Globe Online / Metro | Region

Nurse Killed 4 Patients for Thrill, Prosecutor Says - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)4

Murderous Nurse Escapes Death Penalty - ABC News (go.com)

Kristen Gilbert | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

Kristen Gilbert: Soccer Mom, Registered Nurse, And Serial Killer (allthatsinteresting.com)

Nurse On Trial For Patient Deaths - ABC News (go.com)

Kristen Gilbert Trial: 2000-01 | Encyclopedia.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone, it's Jen, and this is Lindsay.

0:26.6

And welcome back to Corpus Delecti, the podcast.

0:30.0

Yeah, we are still in our do no harm series.

0:33.0

We will probably be wrapping it up maybe one, two more of these.

0:38.6

So if you guys have any ideas of things you want to hear,

0:41.4

we are preparing for our next series.

0:44.3

So that is always exciting.

0:46.5

With that said, we are going to go ahead and jump right into tonight's story.

0:52.1

Kristen Heather Strickland, Gilbert is her married last night, but we'll get into that

0:55.7

in a little bit, was born November 13, 1967 to Richard and Claudia Gilbert, and they are going

1:02.7

to be from Massachusetts.

1:04.7

She was the first of two girls, born to the couple.

1:07.1

They lived in a pretty nice area, and they did well for themselves.

1:10.5

They weren't rich, but they they did well for themselves. They weren't

1:10.8

rich, but they did do well. For the most part, everything's normal until Kristen became a dreaded

1:19.3

teenager. We all know teens can sometimes be a challenge. So is that all this is? Who knows? She started out as a neighbor said, decent and normal, pretty

1:33.0

intelligent and sharp, to the point that she did very well in school and she's in the math club.

1:38.6

She even babysat neighborhood children and she did extraordinarily well in honors classes. But here's where the

1:47.4

problem starts to show itself again in her teen years. She picked up a bit of a lying habit. Now,

1:54.1

we're not really sure where this came from, what caused it. The history here, if there is any,

2:04.5

is very scarce. It just, from all accounts,

2:12.9

it just started. She would also fake suicide attempts, and it said that she did this to either gain attention or to manipulate people. Now, for these same reasons, it said that she also made a lot of

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