Ep.6: The Trial
Mind of a Monster: The Killer Nurse
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Kristen Gilbert’s reign of terror has ended but the trials have just begun. She is tried for the bomb threats, tried for the murder of multiple patients and in a unique and shocking turn of events, faces the death penalty – a capital punishment that had not been administered in Massachusetts for 50 years. Damning testimonies are heard and the eyes of the victim’s families watch on hoping that they receive justice for their deceased loved ones.
Speaking with the prosecutor, journalists, detectives, experts, witnesses and the victims' families, Dr. Michelle Ward uncovers Kristen Gilbert’s fate.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast explores themes of violence, self-harm, and murder. |
| 0:04.4 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:06.7 | Please note that some of the voices you hear in this series have been performed by actors. |
| 0:13.2 | Previously, on Mind of a Monster, the Killer Nurse. |
| 0:17.7 | There are three explosive devices in building one. |
| 0:22.1 | You have two hours. |
| 0:24.9 | Nothing will compare as to what is going to happen tonight. |
| 0:29.5 | So we had an expert statistician take a look, |
| 0:32.8 | and he said that the probability of this occurring by chance |
| 0:36.3 | was one in a hundred million. |
| 0:38.3 | I said we think that Kristen Gilbert is the most prolific mass murder on the East Coast. |
| 0:45.3 | From ID and Arrow Media, I'm criminal psychologist Dr. Michelle Ward, and this is Mind of a monster, the killer nurse. |
| 0:55.9 | Chapter 6, The Trial It's October 8, 1996, and Kristen Gilbert has finally been arrested. |
| 1:05.4 | But it's not for murder, it's for making bomb threats against a federal hospital, |
| 1:09.9 | which had seen dozens of vulnerable |
| 1:11.9 | and sick patients evacuated from wards. |
| 1:14.8 | Kristen is sent to Hampton County Jail while authorities decide what to do with her. |
| 1:20.7 | A week goes by, she's given an ankle monitor, and the 28-year-old mom and nurse is released |
| 1:26.2 | into the custody of her parents who now live in Long |
| 1:28.6 | Island. She's forbidden for making contact with anyone in the state of Massachusetts, including her |
| 1:34.4 | boyfriend James Peralt and Glenn Gilbert, who she's still in the process of divorcing. |
| 1:40.8 | Crucially, the restriction also means that she's not allowed to see her two young sons. |
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