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Serial Killers

“Killer Nurse” Kristen Gilbert

Serial Killers

Spotify Studios

True Crime, History, Education

4.630.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In 1989, Kristen Gilbert started her nursing career at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts. She impressed medical staff for her quick and skilled reactions to emergencies on her ward and in the ICU. But over the following seven years, so much death occurred during her shifts that she gained the moniker “The Angel of Death.” Was it a coincidence, or was Kristen Gilbert killing her patients? Keep up with us on Instagram @serialkillerspodcast! Have a story to share? Email us at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Due to the nature of this killer's crimes, listener discretion is advised.

0:06.2

This episode includes discussions of substance, misuse, murder, and suicide.

0:11.7

Consider this when deciding how and when you'll listen. To get help

0:15.0

on mental health and suicide visit Spotify.com slash resources. Kristin Gilbert spent her entire life telling lies. As a child she spread horrendous

0:32.1

stories about her parents. As a child, she spread horrendous stories about her parents.

0:33.7

As a teenager, she claimed she was related to an infamous alleged murderer.

0:38.8

But there was one lie that held far more weight.

0:42.4

Kristen insisted that she had no hand in her

0:45.5

patients' deaths. Over the years that she worked as a nurse at the Veterans Affairs

0:51.1

Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts.

0:54.0

Dozens of Kristen's patients died unexpectedly.

0:58.4

But she only ever claimed that the deaths occurred naturally. Of course like many things Kristen said this was

1:05.5

categorically untrue. Her patients were not dying from natural causes. She was murdering them.

1:14.3

I'm Vanessa Richardson and this is serial killers, a Spotify podcast.

1:21.1

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1:23.0

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1:27.0

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1:47.0

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