

Federal investigators exhumed several of the bodies of those who died during Gilbert's shift ,and a toxicology analysis found epinephrine in their tissues, and since that drug had not been prescribed to any of the victims, there was no reason for it to be in their bodies.

Gilbert was sent on leave during the investigation,and it was noticed that while Gilbert was not working, the death rate on Ward C ( the ward under her care ) dropped to normal.

Their concerns inspired an investigation. In 1996, three nurses went to their superiors and expressed their suspicions. One such drug, epinephrine, kept coming up missing. They began to monitor drugs that could cause cardiac arrest. Some of Gilbert's colleagues became suspicious of her ,due to the unusually high death rates during her shift. Although these patients were sick, they had no history of heart problems, yet were dying of cardiac arrest. Under Gilbert's care, 4 patients died and 3 others had succumbed mysteriously to near-fatal heart failure. Between January 1995 and February 1996, a disturbing pattern of deaths began to emerge on ward C. Kristen Gilbert was an accomplished RN,working at Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Northampton, Massachusetts. The following evil women prove once and for all that men don’t have the exclusive on serial violence. Although men make up the majority of serial killers, there have been many evil female serial killers. When people think of serial killers, they typically think of men ,because female serial killers are rare compared to their male counterparts. A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people.They exhibit varying degrees of mental illness and psychopathy, which contributes to their homicidal behavior.
