Perfect Poison: A Female Serial Killer's Deadly Medicine - Softcover

Phelps, M. William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786015500 ISBN 13: 9780786015504

Publisher: Pinnacle, 2003

Synopsis

'Perfect Poison' tells the shocking true story of a female serial killer who abused her respected position as a nurse to administer death to her trusting patients.

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From the Inside Flap:

LETHAL INJECTION

At five p.m. on February 4, 1996, a Northampton, Massachusetts, Veterans Affairs Medical Center nursing assistant looked up and saw nurse Kristen Gilbert standing by the entrance to patient Angelo Vella's room.

Gilbert was drawing a syringe, but it was unclear what she was filling the syringe with, because it appeared as though she was trying to hide what she was doing.

After the syringe was full, Gilbert entered Vella's room.

Seconds later, Vella's heart monitor alarm went off.

"Ow, it hurts . . . it burns!" Vella yelled.

When the other nurses heard Vella scream, one raced into the veteran's room and rushed to his bedside, while the others in the vicinity looked on. Gilbert, frozen in her tracks, just stood there in some sort of daze.

Vella's heart rate began to race uncontrollably--as much as 300 beats per minute. But he remained conscious.

"Mr. Vella?" a nurse asked. "Mr. Vella?"

"She did it!" Vella lashed out, pointing at Gilbert. "It started when she flushed my line . . ."

A moment later there was a flatline . . . and then . . . Vella's pulse stopped.

About the Author:

Investigative journalist M. William Phelps is the author of I'll Be Watching You, If Looks Could Kill, Because You Loved Me, Murder in the Heartland, Perfect Poison,Lethal Guardian, Every Move You Make, and Sleep in Heavenly Peace. He has appeared on dozens of national radio and television programs, including Good Morning America, Court TV, The Discovery Channel, Geraldo at Large, and Montel Williams, and has consulted for the Showtime cable television series Dexter. He lives in a small Connecticut farming community with his wife and children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pinnacle
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0786015500
• ISBN 13: 9780786015504
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 477