Was a registered nurse Arrested and accused of worse murder After she reportedly convinced her patient that she had terminal cancer and injected her with a fatal dose of insulin in an attempt to collect $ 1.5 million of the victim’s life insurance policy.
Meggan Randall Sundwall, 47, was arrested on Thursday in connection with the death of Kacee Lyn Terry, 38, after she died of injected with a non -described dose of insulin in the summer, according to judicial documents obtained by FOX 13 news.
The arrest stems from an investigation of 12 August 2024 when the police were called A house in Highland, UT And Terry did not find responding.
A registered nurse was arrested for worse murder after she reportedly convinced a woman from Utah that she had terminal cancer and injected her with non -described insulin in an attempt to collect the victim’s life insurance claim. (Reuters/Emily Elconin)
The caller, Terry’s Uncle Mark Farnsworth, reported that he had found his niece unconscious and struggled to breathe as if she drowned, adding that she had ‘great, great health problems’.
The police found Sundwall only in the bedroom only with Terry who claimed that she had been ‘a few hours’ in that state.
Sundwall then told the officers that the victim would claim that have had terminal cancer The last four to five years, a non-resuscitated order had signed and did not want to go to the hospital.
Sundwall then told the officers that the victim, who had had terminal cancer for the past four to five years, had signed a non-resuscitation warrant and did not want to go to the hospital. (Istock)
The report stated that paramedics found a diabetic needle, but researchers learned that Terry was not diabetes. When she was transported to the Mountain Point Hospital in Lehi, paramedics discovered that Terry’s blood sugar was 14, considerably less than 40, which, according to detectives, are considered life threatening.
While Terry was treated on the IC, the outlet reported that her sister inquired doctors that Terry had terminal cancer for the past 4 to 5 years. The Terry doctor, however, told the family that she had never had cancer. An autopsy would also confirm the findings of the doctor, which reveal Terry that never had cancer or other major health problems.
Terry was explained by doctors of the brain and died on 15 August 2024, almost three days after the first call of 911, the outlet reported.
A diabetic test her blood sugar. Close-up of the fingers of a senior woman with a drop of blood. (Istock)
The investigation also established that there was never a non-resuscitated order in the name of Terry and that there was no paperwork that Sundwall indicates as the victim’s power of attorney.
Terry’s family told the researchers that they had suspected that Sundwall had been planning to kill Terry for years. Detectives even found evidence on the victim’s phone who showed a thread of texts that started in December 2019 that corresponded to the suspicions of the families.
Detectives said that more than 28,000 texts between the two women showed that Sundwall would kill various ways in which she would kill Terry over the course of four years, even offered to “help” and discuss how Terry’s death would solve all her money problems.
After Terry’s death, Sundwall reportedly removed more than 900 texts from her phone and carried out a search for her life insurance policy.
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According to researchers, Sundwall believed that she was the beneficiary of a rumors of $ 1.5 million Terry life insurance.
Sundwall was arrested and booked in the prison of Utah County for accusation Including first degree worse murder and third -degree obstruction of justice and is held without bail.
Fox News Digital reached contact with the Lone Peak Police Department, but did not immediately receive a response.
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