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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Crime Alert 04.26.24

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Doctor found guilty of tampering with IV bags. Meth user calls 911 because she was sold a bad batch.

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0:00.0

In the 90s, New York Detective Louis Scarcella locked up the worst criminals.

0:04.7

Putting bad guys away.

0:06.3

There's no feeling like it.

0:08.0

Then jailhouse lawyers took game led by Derek Hamilton.

0:11.5

Scracella took me to the precinct and alive.

0:14.3

20 men eventually walked free.

0:16.6

Now, in the Burden Podcast, after a decade of silence,

0:20.6

Louis Scarsella finally tells his his story and so does Derek Hamilton.

0:25.0

Listen to the burden on the I-Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now.

0:34.1

Anesthesiologist Dr. Rinaldo Ortiz accused of

0:37.4

mishandling a medical emergency.

0:40.0

So a disciplinary inquiry begun at Baylor, Scott, and White Surge Care Center.

0:46.2

Days later, several patients have unusual cardiac emergencies.

0:51.4

Fellow Dr. Melanie Casper dies after taking an IV bag to get her through a cold.

0:57.0

Surveillance video reveals Dr. Rinaldo Ortiz tampering with a cabinet full of IV bags. A nurse uses one of the bags for a patient

1:07.0

who has a heart attack.

1:08.4

Nancy, Ortiz used nerve blocking and bronco dilation drugs to poison the IV bags.

1:13.6

Dr. Melanie Kasbar's autopsy showed she was fatally poisoned with

1:16.9

bupivocane, a numbing agent usually used during surgery.

1:20.5

Kaspar's husband who also worked as an anesthesiologist testified at trial as he discovered that the

1:26.2

IV bags were tainted.

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