Twelve deaths in 13 days

When mental illness distorts human values and makes it impossible to follow conventional thinking standards, the results can be disastrous. Other victims were defenceless and innocent people who were housed on a little nursing home floor. In St. Petersburg, this is 3:00 a.m., or what nurses refer to as the "graveyard shift." However, in the winter of 84, this is the hour when patients will be buried. Twelve fatalities in 13 days at a 50-bed institution. The first victim is an old citizen who will not live to see his twilight years.The same person in charge of his care is also his killer. Nurse Bobby sued Dudley because she might have gotten away with this kind of crime for months or even years if she hadn't been so prolific in such a short period of time. Investigator Candice DeLong has investigated a number of murderers, including Bobby Sue; we refer to her kind of serial killer as "angels of death," or "angels of mercy."

Few angels are as deadly as Bobby Sue in terms of speed, although they typically work as nurses and murder their patients. It is appalling that a single person murdered 12 people in 13 days in the same institution. It illustrates her strong compulsion and the benefits each murder provided for her. Bobby Sue, in my opinion, very likely qualified as having underlying psychological problems that became apparent once the investigation got underway. Bruce Bartlett, the chief assistant state attorney for Florida, would embark on an unusual voyage into the odd world of the serial murderer as a result of this case. She was a social butterfly who would do anything, even bodily self-mutilation, to get the attention she craved. According to investigations, Bobby Sue was attacking herself prior to attacking patients. Munchausen's syndrome is a disorder in which an individual harms or injurers themself to gain attention.

A lengthy history of self-harm would be discovered by investigators. It's probably safe to conclude that she suffered from Munchhausen's syndrome. Bobby Sue experienced a hysterectomy, stomach tumours, pneumonia, ulcers, gall bladder issues, broken arm that wouldn't heal, and ovaries removed. All of these ailments gave her the attention she so desperately needed. There were episodes of fainting in between procedures. One term for Munchhausen's syndrome is factious disorder. Certain life situations can steer a youngster or an adult in the general direction of wanting attention to the point that they will harm themselves in order to acquire it. It's possible that Bobby Sue's mind was twisted from a young age. Due to their muscular dystrophy, four of her siblings required ongoing medical care and parental supervision. If a youngster grows up in a family where a lot of her siblings are sick and they're getting all the attention from mum and dad.

The child who is well will be excluded. They're going to fall behind. She may have discovered by mistake that being ill is a good way to attract love and attention at a very young age. It was becoming evident that Bobby Sue's whole existence had been centred around illness; it had shaped her upbringing, captured her interest, and inspired her to pursue a career in nursing.She wanted to be loved, needed, and admired, and she saw as a child the type of power her mother had when caring for her sick siblings. She wondered if becoming a nurse might help her achieve this. She used to hurt herself to get attention, but eventually she started wanting to hurt other people. A horrifying image is beginning to take shape in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1984 as authorities look into a nursing home death pandemic at the North Horizon Health Centre.

All of these deaths were happening, which was really unusual for that specific facility. Soon, after 13 days, detectives Tom and Robert would discover a shared connection between 12 mysterious fatalities. A significant number of the deaths happened when Bobby Sue was performing her shift. Bobby Sue Dudley, their suspect nurse, has a lengthy history of injuring herself to attract attention. Beyond what the surface is revealing, there must be more going on.What worried the investigators even more was Bobby Sue's ability to obtain a nursing licence in spite of a severe mental illness. She has a nursing degree and has spent the last ten years in and out of Illinois institutions. Bobby Sue is implicated by circumstantial evidence before she ever travels to Florida, but the victims don't exhibit any obvious signs of injury—only suspicions.

In an attempt to get the victims of Bobby Sue to speak from the grave, investigators begin to exhume them. One of the bodies that surfaced had multiple injection sites, and there appeared to be traces of something, possibly zinc or another substance, suggesting that insulin may have been used. Insulin is used to prevent hypoglycemia in diabetic patients and is secured in a locked room at the nursing home. Only Bobby Sue had the key when she worked her graveyard shifts.Insulin shock, another name for an excess of insulin, is characterised by a number of symptoms, all of which can be fatal. An insulin overdose would cause a person's blood sugar to drop sharply, and if they did not get any sugar soon after, they would quickly lose consciousness. If this continues, it might result in permanent brain damage and even death.

Numerous bodies belonging to Bobby Sue's victims provide proof, but the most compelling one comes from the lone survivor, 94-year-old Anna Larsen, whose blood test indicates insulin even though she is in a coma. They diagnosed her with insulin shock and took her to the hospital. It became clear that someone had injected the insulin, proving she is not diabetic. If you began examining the personnel files to see who was present and employed on that particular evening.After looking through thousands of pages of paperwork from nursing homes and exhuming nine bodies, she sort of stuck out. Bobbie Sue Dudley was finally going to face charges from the prosecution. Over a year and a half passed. Bobbie Sue Dudley was unlucky that investigators Tom and Robert were tasked with looking into the case. They're quite persistent. Some people claimed that even if we were able to establish they were murders, it would never result in a conviction.

We obtained a conviction after proving our point. As part of a plea agreement, Bobby Sue was sentenced to 65 years in prison for second-degree murder. Investigators valued the fact that Bobby Sue was permanently incarcerated even though it was not the first-degree murder that the prosecutors had intended. According to their evidence, Bobby Sue's background may have included many more victims. Everyone, I believe, believed that there was more than what was on the northern horizon. This is an ongoing behaviour that dates back several years. She would have raised suspicions if we could prove she was involved in more than what she had the opportunity to at other facilities.Bobby Sue had been sick and injured her entire life, trying to get the attention she never got as a child. Then, eventually, she started hurting other people because of a change in behaviour. In my opinion, Bobby Sue's actions of killing everyone she cared for have the finest explanation. Is Munchausen by proxy harming someone else in this instance in order to attract attention to yourself? Bobby Sue would never serve her full sentence in prison. In her last flirtation illness, Bobby Sue passed away in prison from an infection. She most likely received fair justice in her jail death.