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She was the monster that no one saw coming. That is how federal Judge Thomas Kleeh described Reta Mays as he sentenced her to life in prison in May 2021.
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She was the monster that no one saw coming. That is how federal Judge Thomas Kleeh described Reta Mays as he sentenced her to life in prison in May 2021.
Reta Mays Former nursing assistant Reta Mays, now sentenced to spend the rest of her life in prison for killing at least eight patients at a VA hospital, may serve that time at the only comprehensive medical facility for female federal prisoners. Mays, 46, has a request to be assigned to the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, which is a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, for female inmates with special medical and mental health needs. “That means that women from all security and custody levels with different medical and psychiatric conditions can be and are housed there.” said Gordon Zil...
‘Monster’ nursing assistant gets seven life sentences for murdering elderly veterans with insulin Gustaf Kilander © Provided by The Independent A nursing assistant in West Virginia was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences plus 20 years for killing seven elderly veterans and trying to kill an eighth. Reta Mays, 46, was sentenced on Tuesday for the murders at Clarksburg Veterans Affairs hospital. The sentencing means she will spend the rest of her life behind bars as there’s no parole in the federal prison system. US District Judge Thomas Kleeh said: “Severa...
Woman Who Murdered 7 Veterans In VA Hospital Gets Multiple Life Sentences A former nursing assistant has been given multiple life sentences for the murder of seven elderly veterans after she admitted last year to intentionally using fatal injections of insulin to kill the men at a medical center for veterans in West Virginia. Reta Mays, 46, received seven consecutive life sentences plus 20 years on Tuesday after she pleaded guilty in federal court in July to seven counts of second-degree murder and one count of assault with intent to commit murder. U.S. District Judge Thomas Kleeh said that e...
Uncredited/AP Reta Mays, a former US nursing assistant pleaded guilty to intentionally killing seven patients with fatal doses of insulin. A former US nursing assistant who killed seven elderly veterans with fatal injections of insulin at a West Virginia hospital was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday by a US judge who called her "the monster that no one sees coming.” Reta Mays has a history of mental health issues, and offered no explanation for why she killed the men. But US District Judge Thomas Kleeh told her “you knew what you were doing” before sentencing her to seven consecu...