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Forensic Files

Nursery Crimes

Forensic Files

HLN

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Children at a Texas hospital seem to be dying at a higher rate than at any other US hospital. Investigators look to a suspicious nurse.

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0:00.0

Within weeks of opening her medical clinic, Dr. Kathleen Holland had seven infants who stopped

0:07.0

breathing and had seizures severe enough to require emergency resuscitation in her office,

0:14.0

considerably more than what most pediatricians see in an entire year. When one of the children died,

0:22.6

local health officials demanded answers.

0:25.6

Kerville, Texas is a quiet little community,

0:40.3

just an hour's drive from San Antonio.

0:43.3

Although Curville is primarily a retirement community,

0:47.3

Dr. Kathleen Holland saw a business opportunity.

0:51.3

She opened what was only the second pediatric clinic in Curville. Reed and Patty

0:57.5

McClellan were excited by the prospect of a female pediatrician coming to town. A lot of mothers

1:03.4

do want to take their kids, particularly if it's a girl, to a female doctor. And this was a young

1:09.0

doctor, a progressive doctor, somebody that seemed to kind

1:11.9

to breathe a fresh, a little bit of fresh air into the medical community there and had training

1:17.0

in the latest techniques.

1:18.5

The McClellan's daughter, Chelsea, was one of Dr. Holland's first patients when she opened

1:23.5

her practice in 1982. Chelsea was 15 months old.

1:28.3

Chelsea arrived on the very first day of practice.

1:32.3

Mom called reporting that she was breathing funny

1:35.3

and had done so again previously two months ago.

1:40.3

Just moments after Dr. Holland finished the evaluation,

1:43.3

Chelsea stopped breathing

1:46.0

and had to be rushed by ambulance

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