License to Kill (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - Lethal Injections - full transcript

- Panic fills the halls

of a small
Indiana hospital.

- My dad was in code blue.

He felt like he was burning
on the inside.

- During that year,

101 people died
in a four-bed ICU.

- We didn't even know
what the cause of death was.

It could have been a toxin,
a poison.

- Investigators went
to extreme lengths

to stop a deranged killer.

- To rule out death
from "natural causes,"



I requested to exhume bodies.

- The grave
becomes a crime scene.

The casket would be brought up,
opened.

- What happened

was the epitome of evil.

- The nurse was killing
patients.

And the son of a bitch
could get away with it.

- As a doctor
and certified expert

for the California
Medical Board,

I know firsthand that most
medical professionals

will go to any length
to help their patients,

but in some cases there are
those with a deranged mind

and a license to kill.

- Little Clinton, Indiana.



It's just a kind of
a small country town;

one of those small towns

where virtually
everyone knows each other.

- People are very nice there.

It's very quiet,

close-knit.

You know everybody.

You know everything
that's going on.

And everybody gets along.

It's just a nice place
to live.

My grandmother
was Dorothea Hixon.

She was a very loving,
very caring person.

When I was growing up,

I enjoyed being at her house
a lot.

It was warm and inviting.

- Any time you dropped in,

that was one of the first
things she'd usually say.

"You eat anything today?

You want something to eat?
You hungry?"

It was just a good feeling
just to go in there,

just to walk in the door.

She always made you feel
very welcome and loved.

- She was a nurse at
Vermillion County Hospital

for many, many years.

I can remember her saying
that she enjoyed it.

When she came home,
she felt like she had

accomplished something,
because

she had helped
so many people that day.

- And then when Nana
advanced in years,

she started
having some problems

with congestive heart failure.

- Congestive heart failure
occurs

when the heart's ability

to pump blood to the body
is reduced.

The resulting backup of fluid
into the lungs

makes it extremely difficult
to breathe.

Dorothea often had to be
admitted to the ICU

for treatment that would remove
the excess fluid.

And when it was time for her
to receive that care,

Dorothea chose to go
to the same hospital

where she worked
for so many years,

Vermillion County Hospital.

- They would just give her
a little bit of medicine

in order to get the excess
fluids draining off her body.

We always said
we were gonna take her in

and dry her out
and bring her back home.

She'd be fine for a while.

My grandmother would almost
tell 'em how to do it.

Because of her being a nurse,

she knew a lot of the nurses
that were there.

They would traipse in and,
"Dorothea, how are you doing?"

She was always loved.

- I remember getting the call
from mom letting me know

that Nana was going
to the hospital again.

And I remember in my mind,
it was like,

"Okay, gonna go in
and get her dried out again.

Um, normal practice."

And in a day or two,
she'd come home.

So it wasn't
an emergency anymore.

I remember going into the ICU
to see her.

I talked to her briefly.

I remember her telling me
specifically

when I asked her
"How you feeling, Nana?"

"Pretty good;
just having

a little bit of
difficulty breathing again."

And I was there
a very short time and left.

- My Nana, you know,
just nestled into her bed.

She was alert.

She was talking.

And she was, you know,
"Well, I'm back home

"and I'll get dried out
and be back

to my other home
before too long."

Just happy and she knew
what the routine was.

But it was just a matter
of a few minutes.

That she had passed.

She was gone.

We didn't know if
she'd had a heart attack;

if she'd had a stroke, if--

we didn't know
what happened to her.

We just knew that
she just was gasping

and then was gone.

I just didn't
want to believe it.

'Cause when my mother
took her in, she was talking

and she was happy and she knew
what the routine was,

and the routine didn't go
the same way.

- It was a shock.

Everything had been
so routine,

so repetitive

that you couldn't believe
that it happened.

Um...

Very big loss

to the whole family.

And...
I gotta take a second, guys.

Sorry.

- Dorothea's family
came to terms with her death

because she was elderly.

But what they didn't know

was that she was part
of an alarming trend.

- The first few months
at the hospital,

I start noticing that
there are quite a few codes

being called,

and they're all coming from
the intensive care unit.

- If somebody became
unresponsive,

there would be a code blue.

So everyone in the hospital
hears this code going off.

And in the backs of their
mind, they were saying,

"I thought I was
hearing that code a lot."

But nobody went beyond that.

- So at this point,
people are talking about

this high number of codes
and the high number of deaths

in our facility.

Or I could see people talking
and whispering,

I thought things were odd.

Something was happening;
we didn't know what.

- The pressure was on to
figure out what was causing

the rapid increase
in patient deaths

before another life was lost.

- The nurses and doctors
who worked at that hospital

began thinking there
could be some kind of

an epidemic
happening in Clinton,

something that was attributable
to a virus,

you know, or some
kind of a germ

or a bug that would
cause old people to die

at this kind of rate.

During the entire year,

101 people died

in a four-bed ICU.

- But the dots
didn't get connected

until there were an awful lot
of people who had died.

- Something was killing
these people.

So we had to find out what's
going on at that hospital.

- Coming up...

the clock was ticking

and lives were on the line.

- The hospital couldn't
figure out why people

were dying at that
increased rate.

- Medical experts investigated

whatever would naturally cause
a person's death,

and they're finding nothing.

- The head of nursing
started to look

at shifts and deaths.

The numbers just leapt out.

- There seemed to be
one nurse there

when they're dying.

- In 1994

at Vermillion County
Hospital in Indiana,

the number of patient deaths
was at an all-time high,

five times greater
than in any other year.

So the nursing staff
took it upon themselves

to dig in to patient records

where they discovered
a terrifying trend.

- The nursing staff
in the IC unit

knew that the number of deaths
were increasing.

They'd gone from
about 2 to 21/2 a month

up to 7 to 8, 9;

one month, 12.

And they couldn't figure out
why people

were dying
at that increased rate.

- The head of nursing
thought that maybe

there was a problem
in the reporting process

as shifts changed.

- She thought perhaps

the nurses that were
coming onto a shift

were not getting
adequate information

about the state
of the patients

from the nurses
that were leaving the shift.

So she thought it was perhaps
a communication problem.

- Once she started to look

at shifts and deaths,

the numbers just leapt out,

and they could not be ignored.

One particular nurse

was present
for most of these deaths.

So she went to her
administrator.

And the hospital's attorney

called the Indiana state
police.

- When we met with
the hospital attorney

and the hospital CEO,
they started talking about

a supervising nurse
over the intensive care unit

who had done this study,

and they laid
the statistics on us.

There seemed to be one nurse
there when they're dying.

- These deaths were correlated
to the shift

of Orville Lynn Majors.

- There was usually one nurse

that would take
especially good care of Nana.

- I met Lynn Majors

when Nana was in the hospital
down there.

He was a very genuine,
heartfelt individual.

- He was very caring.

Kissed her on the forehead.

- Lynn was a good nurse,

I think because he was
so knowledgeable.

And he clearly
knew more than I did

about working in the ICU.

I remember Lynn would talk
very sweetly with patients.

And he was excellent
at teaching the patients

about
what was happening to them.

And the other nurses
thought so highly of him.

- Mr. Majors was popular
among the staff.

And many people
thought that he was a doctor

because he conducted himself

as if he had
a lot of authority.

- Looking back on it,

I wish I had noticed
these codes were happening

when he was at work.

We all had a sense of guilt

and sadness

'cause we didn't know.

- The numbers were stunning.

Mr. Majors was present

90% to 95% of the time

when someone was dying.

He was there.

When he worked on weekends,
people died on weekends.

When he worked
during the week,

they died during the week.

Usually they didn't die
if he wasn't there.

So the hospital suspended him
with pay.

The nursing board
took his license.

And once
his license was taken,

then they terminated him.

- Based on the study done
by hospital employees,

police suspected that
Lynn Majors had a connection

to the increased number
of deaths.

But to prove it, they first
had to consider motive

and then identify
which patients' deaths

were actually murder.

- It's horrifying,
the idea that

someone who's supposed to
take care of you

would kill you.

So we tried to get inside
the mind of someone like this.

- We brought in
a psychologist.

And we said, "Describe

a hospital setting
serial killer."

They are a control freak.

They're the one in charge.

They're egotistical.

- We know how he acted
at the hospital environment.

He would grieve demonstrably
with the families

when a death took place.

He became immersed in that
process with the family.

- Which made him
feel powerful.

There are simply people
who enjoy

watching other people grieve.

- Clearly that need

for the power and control
and attention

existed at a pathological
level with him.

But that doesn't prove
that he committed

the offense of murder
beyond a reasonable doubt.

- It was challenging,
'cause you really didn't know

who died suspiciously
in this hospital.

So we knew that "We gotta find
out who the victims are."

It could have been an excess
of 100 people that he killed.

- Up until this stage
in the investigation,

doctors believed these people
died of natural causes.

These bodies were found
in a hospital

where you expect to find
people who have expired.

There wasn't anything unusual
about that.

- We knew it's very unusual
that this nurse

was present
with these patients on

the majority of the deaths.

So we investigated
every patient that died

like it was a murder case.

But if it was actually
murder at all,

we didn't even know
what the cause of death was.

It could have been a toxin,
a poison.

We just didn't have any idea
what we were looking at.

So it was kind of
groundbreaking

for the Indiana
state police department.

No one had done a case
of this magnitude.

- And the pressure of the case
was enormous.

We didn't have an answer
to what happened.

We're all thinking
he killed people,

but, one,
we couldn't prove it.

And, two,
we had no way of really

knowing for sure how he did it.

- The head of nursing's

- The head of nursing's
internal study revealed

that nurse Lynn Majors
was present

for nearly every unexplained
fatality in the ICU.

So he was fired
from the hospital.

Law enforcement
did not believe

the connection
was a coincidence.

They suspected Majors
murdered his patients.

But police needed to gather
more concrete evidence

before they could
charge him with a crime.

- I went to him.

And he had already hired
an attorney.

And he said,
"If you want to talk to me,

you have to talk to
my attorney."

So I knew then,

once he had
an attorney involved,

your chances of getting him
to say anything are...

slim.

At that point in time,

the hospital CEO
gave me permission

to go up and photograph
the ICU unit.

And it gave the layout
of everything,

showed where
the heart monitors

were positioned
above the bed.

But when I started talking
about some medical files,

they wouldn't
give us anything.

So we go to the court,

and we start
subpoenaing medical files.

- For the first time,
we had hard evidence.

We had actual medical records

up until the moment
these people died;

at the instant of their death,
in many cases.

But it was far beyond
my capacity to understand it.

- So we divvied up
the medical files

to our medical experts.

And so the medical team,
one by one,

went through each file
and talked about

what they saw
that was unusual.

Then kind of
the wheels came off

of the confidentiality
part of this investigation.

An anonymous letter
went to the news media

talking about a serial killer

by the name of Lynn Majors

walking the halls of
the Vermillion County Hospital.

And we know
it's clearly somebody

that works at that hospital
that authored it,

because the information
they had was pretty accurate.

- The news media coined the
phrase the "angel of death."

And they used that
in their headlines

when they spoke of Mr. Majors.

- To that point,
the people in the community

hadn't known that Lynn Majors
was our suspect.

When that happened,

then the lid
blew off of everything.

- This news spread very
quickly in the community.

There were people
who were very sympathetic

and did not think he had

any involvement at all
in these deaths.

There were people
who maintained simply

these were old people,

they were ill, and they died.

And it is not Mr. Majors fault
that he happened to be present.

And those who knew him
were adamant about that.

- I heard scuttle
that he thought

he was helping
these elderly people

who didn't have
a quality of life.

And that he was just helping
them go on.

I just-- I couldn't believe it.

So I had told my mom,
"Until we find out anything,

"we've gotta give him
the benefit of the doubt.

"And if there is anything
to this story,

"we'll handle it then.

"But until then,
we just need to sit back

and see what's going on."

- Do you think that people
here have made up their minds

whether he's guilty
or innocent?

- Some have.

- It divided the community.

- I really think he's guilty.

- Sometime
I don't think he's guilty;

sometime I think he is.

- There's no way
he could have done it.

No way he could have done it,

and they're gonna
find the poor boy guilty.

- But nobody really knew
at that point

if it was true

that he had done it.

Because the times when

I saw Lynn care for people,

he was doing a good job.

- And it divided
the local medical community.

It forced everybody
to take a position.

- Still didn't
want to believe that

Lynn Majors possibly
murdered my grandmother.

Seemed like a very caring,
heartfelt individual;

talked to the family like
he was part of the family.

It was just
hard to believe that

he could have possibly
been involved

in something
that was like that.

- Debate raged on in Indiana,

so six months later,
Majors went on a PR offensive

to tell his side of the story.

- Well, in Clinton, Indiana,
they are accusing this man

of killing people
in intensive care.

- Through the investigation,

we saw where Lynn Majors
and his attorney

were on various
national TV shows

and portraying his innocence.

- I still like nursing,
and I want my license back,

'cause I think that
it was suspended unjustly.

I mean, it just physically
makes me sick.

- As investigators, we're
saying, "Hey, you know what?

"Let's just take a look
and see what he's got to say.

Maybe he's gonna say something
that we need to hear."

- They said I was present,
I think,

at 130 out of 147 deaths.

Well, I may have been present,

but I wasn't
the only one present.

There was many other people
there when those people died.

The state board of health
made it sound like

I was alone with
those people when they died,

and that's not the case
whatsoever.

- The defense
was that he was being

railroaded in some manner;

that he was a scapegoat

for poor hospital procedures

or poor local doctors

and that people
were out to get him.

- Your lawyer would like me
to make it very clear

that you have been charged
with nothing.

- I've done absolutely
nothing wrong.

- And that's when people

started calling us
saying, "Hey, listen.

"I saw something.

"I saw Majors
injecting something

into these patients."

They said, "He injected my mom,

and she died
within two or three minutes."

I'm thinking,
"That's not normal."

So now we were convinced that
he had killed these patients.

But we're scratching
our heads thinking,

"Okay, how is he doing it?"

- There was a theory
that he killed these people

by injecting them
with substances

which would
cause them great trauma,

would cause their hearts
to stop beating.

But the goal's still
ten feet high.

We still needed to drill down
on evidence to prove it.

- After Lynn Majors

- After Lynn Majors
proclaimed his innocence

in several
national television interviews,

police were inundated
with calls

from people
who were concerned

he may have killed
their family members.

One of them was Rodney Smith,

whose father recently died
while under Majors' care

at Vermillion County Hospital.

- My dad was Cecil Ivan Smith.

He was a good man.

He was a caring person.

It was on April 1994,
on Easter Day.

My dad wasn't feeling
very good.

We took him to the hospital,
found out he had pneumonia.

'Cause of his age--
he was in his 70s--

They wanted to keep him
overnight.

The next morning,

the hospital
was gonna release him.

The next day,
my mom said my dad

was in code blue.

By the time I got there,

he was already in ICU.

Lynn Majors walked in there,
and--

So I looked
at Lynn Majors,

and I said,
"What's my dad's chances?"

He says, "Not good."

And he actually
gave him a shot,

but we didn't know
what it was.

And then that's when
my dad said that

he felt like he was burning
on the inside.

And the next thing I knew,
he passed away.

It took me a long time
to get over,

'cause I made him
go to the hospital.

Can I stop?

Sorry.

- And now, for the first time,

Dorothea Hixon's family
was also questioning

if Lynn Majors
was really the loving nurse

he appeared to be.

- My mother, Betty,

got a phone call
from the reporters.

And was asking her, "How do you
feel about Lynn Majors

possibly murdering
your mother?"

And she said, "I hung up."

And I told her, I said,
"We can't jump to conclusions.

We've got to call
the state police."

- And some of Dorothea Hixon's
family members

witnessed something
really seriously wrong

at the hospital,

something really bizarre.

- My mom and my Aunt Paula

were both standing
by my grandmother's bed.

And Orville Lynn went to give
her this injection in her IV.

- Lynn Majors
made an injection.

And then her eyes rolled back
in her head,

and she died
before he ever left the room.

- There was a lot of questions
of what he gave and why.

And then when they talked to
my grandmother's doctor,

he said that there had never
been an injection ordered.

That's when things really
started coming into view

of what had happened.

I was very hurt.

The way he treated our family

when we was in there

and the show he put on,

and then to find out that

he possibly
murdered my grandmother,

there's a lot of anger.

- Investigators had
their first real lead:

Eyewitnesses.

But it wasn't enough
to arrest Majors.

Now police needed to find out

exactly what he was injecting
into those victims

that would cause
sudden death.

- I talked with
the medical team

about what the two daughters
witnessed.

They're looking
at the medical file

and seeing the heart pattern
widening

at the time Lynn Majors
documented the injection.

- So I had the medical team
focus on

whether the death was sudden,
unexplained,

and occurred
for reasons other than

what the patient
was admitted for.

- And then one of our
medical team members said,

"I'm seeing some unusual things

with the EKG readings
prior to the death."

- We brought in Dr. Prystowsky

because he was a well-known
electrophysiologist

who had written a book
on cardiac arrhythmias.

- One by one,
went through the charts

reading the history

so you could see these
electrocardiogram strips.

And I remember
seeing one of them, thinking,

"You know,
I've seen this pattern before,

but it was many,
many years ago."

I knew what high potassium
did to an electrocardiogram.

There are two other things
that could cause this pattern:

A massive heart attack...

And a massive clot to the lung.

If I could rule out
those two things,

then we know you're left
with one choice:

Potassium overdose.

- And so the medical team
decided

that we needed to do
an exhumation

and the autopsies

were all about eliminating

any other possibility
of their death.

- I said, "Look.

"I want you to take
a very close look at the lungs

"and make sure there is
no massive clots to the lung.

"You have to take a very close
look at the heart

and make sure there was
no massive heart attack."

I had requested
to exhume bodies.

Then you come to a point
where you realize,

"This is on you, Prystowsky.

I mean, if you're wrong,
you're big-time wrong."

- In 1996, nurse Lynn Majors

was suspected of killing
over 100 patients.

But to charge him, detectives
had to find a murder weapon.

Investigators believe
he injected potassium

into his victims,

but to confirm that,
they had to rule out

a heart attack
or blood clots in the lungs.

So police took on the grim task
of exhuming

and performing autopsies
on 15 bodies--

those who had been witnessed
receiving an injection

and who also had widening
patterns on their EKG readings.

- The exhumation itself
was an involved process.

Because the grave
becomes a crime scene.

And as a crime scene,

it has to be treated
in a particular way

designed to preserve evidence.

The state police
would cordon off a place.

The exhumation would be made.

The casket would be brought up,

the lid would be opened,

and identification was made.

- The whole family, we all meet
out at the cemetery.

I remember a lot of reporters;

all kinds of cameras.

There's a tent
over her gravesite

where they're gonna be
exhuming her.

My mom and my aunt
had been told

that they were gonna have to
identify the body.

And they were...

very, very upset.

And thank God,

the coroner at that time,
of Vermillion County,

was a very good
friend of the family.

He came in and said,
"Since I knew Dorothea,

I will identify her
so you don't have to."

I-- I think
it would have probably

really pushed 'em
over the edge

to have to see their mother
after two or three years

and exhume her
and open the casket

and have to identify her.

- We'd done-- went through
the funeral with her,

and laid her to rest once.

And then here we are out here

with a piece of machinery
bringing her back up.

Just about like reliving
the day that she passed away.

You know, it was a rough day.

Rough day.

- Of course, they asked,
um, me and mom

if it was okay
to exhume my dad's body.

And my mom really didn't
want the body exhumed,

but I told them,
"Go ahead and do it.

"'Cause I want to be sure that

my dad did die
from Lynn Majors."

But it's just hard.

How can you bury a person
twice?

And it happened.

- So the autopsies find nobody
died of a massive heart attack.

Nobody had clots to the lung.

That leaves us now
with potassium

as the only logical conclusion

for what these
electrocardiograms look like.

Since other natural causes
didn't occur,

you know he killed 'em.

I mean, there's no other
question in my mind.

The son of a bitch killed 'em
with potassium.

Now comes the hard part.

We had to somehow
connect Lynn Majors

to the murder weapon.

- To get an arrest warrant,

we had to prove that
Lynn Majors was the nurse

that made the injection

of potassium chloride
into the IV.

So now we've gotta find
some physical evidence

that potassium would have been
in his possession.

We found out
Lynn Majors had a roommate.

So we decided to polygraph him,

and he was struggling with
one question on the polygraph

about did he have any suspicion
that Lynn Majors

could be killing patients
in the hospital?

And he kept getting reactions
to that.

Finally we got him to say,
"Well,

"the reason I'm having
that problem is,

I found the potassium chloride
bottles in his room."

So with that answer,

one of our investigators
went to the property

to identify the resident
and get

the information we needed
for the search warrant.

- Even though the house
had been abandoned,

he looked in the garage

and saw potassium vials

laying on the floor
and in a box.

You know, he calls us;

we get search warrants
and went in there.

And we got those vials

and was able to trace them

back to
Vermillion County Hospital.

- The physical evidence
of those vials of potassium

was very important,

because they should never
have left the hospital.

- I mean,
that closed the loop.

Now you're not talking
about conjecture.

You know, you're talking about
the substance

now being in fact
in his possession.

- By December of 1997,

two years
into the investigation,

police finally had enough
hard evidence

to arrest Lynn Majors.

- Once we had
the arrest warrant, I took it,

drove to Linton, Indiana,
where he lived.

- Lynn, do you have
any comment to say?

- No.

- I think it was almost like
he was expecting it.

- Still say you're innocent,
Lynn?

- Yes.

- They went through
tons of medical records

to decide
which counts to charge.

In which case
do we have family members

who are giving us testimony
about his presence,

what he said,
and what occurred?

And do they coincide with the
ones that are medically strong?

- Lynn, do you have comment?

- How do you feel
about the charges?

- You know, you couldn't
charge every case

whose deaths Mr. Majors
was present for.

Because that would have
overwhelmed a jury.

- So prosecutors
ultimately charged Majors

with seven counts of murder.

- This is a murder trial.

You've gotta explain to a jury

that's never thought about
electrophysiology,

and you gotta explain to them

how potassium
killed all these people.

And if I can't convince them,

the son of a bitch
could get away with it.

- Accused killer Lynn Majors
was held without bail

for the possible murder
of seven elderly ICU patients

at Vermillion County Hospital

until trial.

- I remember
just looking at him

and thinking,
"How could you do this?

"So many people trusted you.

How could you do this?"

And I was very angry,
very angry.

- To be near him at the trial
is a sickening feeling.

Because, to me,
he is the epitome of evil.

He robbed people
of their life.

He took that from them
and from their families.

I wanted justice
for every single patient

that he killed.

- I was hoping and praying

that
they've got enough evidence

to actually come through
with a conviction.

I knew the prosecution
had a job to do.

I knew that
this team was doing

the best they possibly could.

I knew Nina was getting
everything in the right order,

and not just for us,

but for all the families
that were involved in this.

- The process of the trial

is to provide the evidence
that supports your narrative.

The most important thing,
of course, was

the testimony of the expert
witnesses, the doctors.

- I have to make sure
the jury understands

the basic function of the heart
and the different systems.

A heart's like
a four-room house.

A house has walls, plumbing,
and electricity.

The heart has walls,

plumbing, which is
the coronary blood flow,

and electricity.

It has its own
electrical system.

I was gonna have the heart,
the house,

and an electrocardiogram
underneath

and give them
the fundamental knowledge

they needed to know

what normal was.

And then I was gonna go into

what abnormal was;

get them to understand

potassium is the murder weapon.

- He took
very complicated material

and made it understandable.

- I wanted us to win.

I wanted this guy
to be put away.

And of course, Lynn Majors
is staring the whole time--

two and a half days on
the stand, just stared at me.

Never said a word.

- The jury was out
three and a half days.

That, to me, was the most
difficult part of the case,

because all you could do
was wait.

- You just wonder,
"Is he gonna walk?"

I thought to myself,

"There's absolutely no way
he can get by with this."

But still there's a doubt
in the back of your mind.

"What if he does?"

- When the judge read
the verdict for count one

as guilty...

It felt like the weight of the
world was off my shoulders.

Ultimately, of the seven
charge cases we took to trial,

we had six convictions,

and they hung on Cecil Smith.

- When the verdict come back,

I was shocked.
My mom was shocked.

We just both looked at each--
"How can it be?"

The jury had a hard time
'cause they thought

it took longer
for my father to pass away

than the other victims.

And the other victims
were passing away

not too long after the
injection of the potassium.

My dad took a lot longer.

My dad, he was a good man,

never hurt anybody.

Why would somebody
take somebody else's life?

Lynn Majors,

I hate him.

- We know from
a legal standpoint,

he killed six people.

From a standpoint
of medical team opinions

and a standpoint of
investigative evidence,

we think the case can be made
that he killed 100.

No amount of trials
or verdicts

are going to change that.

And it's not gonna bring back

any one of these loved ones
that died at his hands.

That's what's so tragic.

This is still an open wound

in terms of the effects
to this community

and the surviving
family members

of the people who died.

- I wanted to kill him.

He put on a big show, making
everybody think that he cared,

when in reality,
he was playing God.

And he was the one deciding
whether someone lived or died.

- It's relief that we got him.

But then you get angry because
he took my grandmother,

who was a good person.

He put a big hole in
the family because of that.

I'm sad that he took her
too early.

But I also know
that she loved me so much.

My grandkids
and my great-grandson

will know
how good of a woman she was.

I think she looks down
and smiles.

- The cold-blooded killer
Lynn Majors

was sentenced
to 360 years in prison

for the murder
of six patients.

But the fallout stretched
far past Majors' conviction.

Over 70 civil cases were filed

against Vermillion County
Hospital,

which lost its accreditation

and eventually
closed its doors.