Night Shift I 5. Trials and Tribulations

The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer

Sony Music

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.1 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The investigation into a murder suspect stalls, but one veteran’s family finds another way to pursue justice: by suing the VA hospital. The family of Elzie Havrum goes head to head with the US government in a civil trial, and the testimony of a star witness might be the deciding factor. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Witnessed show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices A Campside Media & Sony Music Entertainment production. To connect with Night Shift's creative team, plus access behind the scenes content, join the community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, Kush Jumbo here. The next guest on my podcast origins is David Swimmer, probably one of the most recognizable men in the world.
0:09.0	Cush, I show up one day and the whole place is bordered up it was raided.
0:16.0	I shut you down. It was a total illegal operation.
0:22.0	Listen to origins. Total illegal operation. Oh!
0:24.0	Listen to Origins with Cush Jumbo, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:28.0	The Bench.
0:33.0	The Bench.
0:34.0	Campside Media.
0:40.0	In December of 1993.
0:42.0	In December of 1993,
0:44.4	Richard Williams resigned from his job as a nurse at the VA hospital in Columbia,
0:48.8	Missouri.
0:49.8	About a year and a half had passed since allegations broke that he was an angel of death.
0:55.7	And then, within a few months, despite the pending FBI investigation,
1:00.8	he was hired on full-time at a different job and not just another job. It was a job with even more power than he had previously.
1:10.0	He was now working with arguably an even more vulnerable population of patients.
1:14.4	Williams was named Director of Nursing at a nursing home in Ashland, Missouri,
1:19.1	a town just south of Columbia.
1:20.8	And here's the thing I find most of of Columbia.
1:23.2	And here's the thing I find most unbelievable.
1:27.2	According to the St. Luce newspaper, Riverfront Times, the VA had even written Williams a letter of recommendation for his new gig.
1:37.7	My father Eddie Adelstein couldn't believe it either.
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