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Other books by M. William Phelps:

Perfect Poison
Lethal Guardian
Every Move You Make
Sleep in Heavenly Peace
Murder in the Heartland
Because You Loved Me
If Looks Could Kill
Ill Be Watching You
Deadly Secrets
Cruel Death
Death Trap
Kill For Me
Love Her to Death
Too Young to Kill
Never See Them Again
Murder, New England
Failures of the Presidents (coauthor)
Nathan Hale: The Life and Death of Americas First Spy
The Devils Rooming House: The True Story of Americas
Deadliest Female Serial Killer
The Devils Right Hand: The Tragic Story of the Colt Family
Curse
The Dead Soul: A Thriller (available as eBook only)
Kiss of the She-Devil
Bad Girls
Obsessed
The Killing Kind

Investigation Discovery/ Dark Minds

About the Author

Crime writer and investigative journalist M. William Phelps is the author of twenty-four nonfiction books and the novel The Dead Soul . He has conducted over 100 interviews with experts in the field of serial killers, regularly communicates with several incarcerated serial killers, and has dedicated his working life to unraveling the mind of the serial offender. He consulted on the first season of the Showtime series Dexter, has been profiled in Writers Digest, Connecticut Magazine, NY Daily News, NY Post, Newsday, Suspense Magazine, and the Hartford Courant, and has written for Connecticut Magazine . Winner of the New England Book Festival Award for Ill Be Watching You and the Editors Choice Award from True Crime Book Reviews for Death Trap , Phelps has appeared on nearly 100 television shows, including CBSs Early Show, ABCs Good Morning America, NBCs Today Show , The View, TLC, BIO Channel, and History Channel.

Phelps created, produces and stars in the hit Investigation Discovery series Dark Minds, which focuses on unsolved, cold serial killer cases, now in its third season ; and is one of the stars of IDs Deadly Women . Radio America called him the nations leading authority on the mind of the female murderer. Touched by tragedy himself, due to the unsolved murder of his pregnant sister-in-law, Phelps is able to enter the hearts and minds of his subjects like no one else. He lives in a small Connecticut farming community and can be reached at his website, www.mwilliamphelps.com .

EPILOGUE

As of the date of this writing, Kristen Gilbert has filed a notice of appeal. A legal brief, spelling out her reasons why the convictions should be overturned, was due in February 2003, but there has been no ruling on the appeal or brief.

I made several attempts to contact Gilbert and her former lawyers, David Hoose and Harry Miles. They never returned my phone calls or letters. A letter was sent to Charles Rankin, a lawyer from Boston who is now handling Gilberts affairs, shortly before this book went to press, offering him an opportunity to make a statement, but I have not heard back from him.

According to Springfields Union-News , Carole Osman and Ann French continue to cultivate a close relationship with Gilbert, corresponding via telephone and mail. Gilbert has said through Osman and French that she misses her children and spends a lot of her free time reading novels Osman sends her. An avid sewer, Ann French told the Union-News, Gilbert has been making quilts for premature babies. Doing this, French claims, helps Gilbert forget about being branded a serial killer.

Ann French went on to say that Gilbert is very embarrassed by the whole situation; and she cant stand the fact that some people have compared her to the likes of Timothy McVeigh and Manual Noriega.

Glenn Gilbert, who still resides in Florence, refuses any contact with the media.

James Perrault, along with several of Gilberts former coworkers, still works at the Leeds VAMC. Fulfilling a life-long dream, Perrault is now a part-time cop for the town of Hatfield, Massachusetts.

John Wall, Renee Walsh, Kathy Rix, Dr. Michael Baden, Special Agent Steve Plante, Detective Kevin Murphy, Supervising US Attorney Kevin ORegan, Dr. Thomas Rocco, Dr. Thomas Graboys, US attorneys Bill Welch and Ariane Vuono, along with many more, were honored by the VA with the Eagle Award in June 2001 for their efforts in bringing Gilbert to justice.

SA Plante, Detective Murphy, Ariane Vuono and Bill Welch later received the Directors Award, for their outstanding contributions in law enforcement, from the Attorney Generals Office in Washington, DC.

Judge Michael Ponsor ended up fining Gilbert $1.5 million, noting that she would also have to reimburse her victims survivors for funeral expenses.

Based on her pay scale at the Carswell, Texas, penitentiary where she is incarcerated, working an eight-hour day, five days a week, it will take Gilbert more than thirty-five hundred years to pay off her fine.

Several civil suits were ultimately filed by victims families against the Leeds VAMC. In June 2002, however, Judge Ponsor allowed a government motion to dismiss the suits filed by the families of Stanley Jagodowski, Ed Skwira, Angelo Vella, along with the families of Carl Rauch and Ralph McEwen, two veterans who were not named in the indictments against Gilbert but had also diedlike many, many morewhile under her care.

The civil suits, Ponsor ruled, were filed after the statute of limitations had run out. The families argued that they didnt know there had been malpractice because Gilberts crimes werent made public for some time after the deaths.

By 1996, Ponsor wrote, each plaintiff knewat leastthat an investigation into the unusually high number of deaths from cardiac arrests at the VAMC was under way. The families were devastated by this.

But Kenny Cuttings wife, Nancy Cutting, filed a lawsuit within the time frame of the statute, Ponsor ruled.

Her case continues.

The United States is home to more than twenty-five million veterans of military service, about three million of whom are treated every year for various reasons at some twelve hundred government medical facilities nationwide. All fifty states have veteran patient care centers of some sort.

With an average of twenty-five million outpatient visits and one million inpatient discharges yearly, the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, is the largest healthcare system in the world. With a budget of $20 billion, and a staff of more than one hundred and eighty thousandsixty thousand of which are nursesit prides itself on the quality of the people it employs.

Practice, Quality of Care and Performance stand at the top of the VHAs mission statement.

To some, however, these words mean nothing. Many times, when there is a problem nurse, for example, the VA does little to discipline him or her and, like the Catholic Church, simply relocates the problem person.

[The VA] has a way of never getting rid of anybody, one nurse who has worked for the VA for more than twenty years and chooses to remain anonymous for obvious reasons says. If youre a bad nurse, the worse Ive ever seen them do to anybody is move them to another ward.

About six months after I began researching this book, I called the VAMC in Leeds and asked the Public Relations Director if I could come up to the hospital for a tour. Ward C had been dismantled by then, but I wanted to get a feel for the place, its sounds and smells, the color of the paint on the walls, the ebb and flow of the hospital, and the people who work there.

I wanted to walk the same halls as Kristen Gilbert.

Im writing a book about the Gilbert murders, I said. A tour of the facility would help color the background of my book.

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