Gilbert killed her patients using epinephrine to induce a heart attack.
Although she was only indicted for murdering four and attempting to murder three patients, 350 deaths occurred over her shifts at the VA hospital. Her victims were all veterans at the veteran hospital. Epinephrine at the hospital kept going missing and the number of patients dying from heart attacks was increasing astronomically. It was surmised that Kristen did this to her patients so that her lover, James Perrault would be summoned to the ICU and she could impress him with her nursing skills. |
In addition to her murders, Kristen disguised her voice with a toy and reported to the police that there were three bombs in the facility in which she worked that were going off in the next two hours. The entire facility had to be evacuated. Kristen was arrested, prosecuted, and convicted for the bomb threat. She served 15 months in a federal prison.