Episode 324 - A Million Reasons To Lie - The Strange Death of Kacee Terry
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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4.5 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
On a quiet summer day in Highland, Utah, 38 year old Kacee Terry was found unconscious in the basement of her grandparents' home. For years, everyone around her believed she was dying of terminal cancer. But after her death, investigators uncovered a web of deception so tangled that even they struggled to separate truth from fiction.
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Research & Writing:
Ryan Deininger
Editing:
Aiden Wolf
Sources:
Utah Nurse Found Guilty of Killing Friend After Bizarre Fake Cancer Claims and $1.5M Plot
Utah Nurse Accused of Killing Friend, Who She Allegedly Convinced Had Cancer
Utah nurse accused of killing friend for $1.5 million life insurance policy
Utah nurse accused of murder, faking patient's cancer diagnosis to claim life insurance
Utah nurse arrested and accused of killing friend for life insurance payout
Utah nurse accused of killing former roommate for life insurance in yearslong plot
Kacee Lyn Terry Obituary
Santaquin woman charged with aggravated murder in insulin death of her friend
State v. Sundwall
Nurse Found Not Guilty of Murder in Friend’s Insulin Death, Convicted of Manslaughter
Nurse arrested, accused of killing Highland woman
Utah nurse arrested after allegedly killing woman for life insurance money
Nurse suspected of murder reportedly married with young children
Law & Crime Network Trial Playlist
Trial underway for Utah nurse accused of killing friend she believed had cancer
Justiceisaprocess.com
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| 1:16.4 | Thank you. The Minds of Madness podcast. Listener discretion is advised. In 1951, a British physician coined the term Munchausen syndrome, named after the 18th century aristocrat, known for telling elaborate lies. |
| 1:20.3 | He used it to describe a troubling pattern he was seen in some of his patients, people who |
| 1:25.8 | deliberately fabricated illnesses, not because they believed |
| 1:29.5 | they were sick, but because they needed others to believe they were. |
| 1:33.7 | The reasons behind the lies varied. |
| 1:36.8 | Sometimes it was for attention, sympathy, care, and sometimes control. |
| 1:43.7 | And in some cases, the deception lasted for years, |
| 1:47.0 | convincing family, friends, and even medical professionals. |
| 1:52.0 | Which brings us to the summer of 2024, |
| 1:56.0 | when 38-year-old Casey Terry was found unresponsive in the basement of her grandparents' home in Highland, Utah. |
| 2:03.6 | For nearly a decade, people around her believed she'd been battling a terminal illness. |
| 2:09.2 | But what investigators uncovered in the days that followed suggested almost nothing about that |
| 2:14.5 | story was true. |
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