Episode 60. Serial Killer: Reta Mays
Ep60. SERIAL KILLER: Reta Mays
When you think of a serial killer, you think of someone who lurks late at night, attacks when you least suspect it and sneaks away into the darkness. You rarely think there might be a serial killer lurking at a hospital, waiting to snuff your life out ahead of time.
Today’s story is about the scariest type of serial killer – the one who is supposed to make you feel better, but instead turns into an Angel of Death. This is the story of Reta Mays – a nurse’s assistant at the Louis A. Johnson Medical Center in West Virginia.
Dig in with Margot as she discusses the death of 8 veterans who died at the hands of this serial killer.
Serial Killer – Reta Mays
4 of Reta Mays Victims: Felix McDermott, William Holloway, George Shaw and Russell Posey
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5 of Reta Mays Victims: George Shaw, William “Sport” Holloway, Archie Edgell, John Hallman (Reta was never charged with his murder), Felix McDermott.
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Episode Resources:
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/shes-a-veteran-who-killed-seven-other-veterans-at-a-west-virginia-hospital-their-families-want-to-know-why/2020/07/23/78cc38fe-cab3-11ea-b0e3-d55bda07d66a_story.html
- https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/wvn/news/2012/april/mays.html
- https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/sentencing-for-reta-mays-serial-killer-of-hospitalized-military-veterans-in-clarksburg-west-virginia-still/article_57658629-14d7-5f5f-b8d8-d018ff335658.html
- https://militarycorruption.com/reta-mays/
- https://apnews.com/article/7d4a5df248b9c594236b47b2068c23a0
- https://www.wdtv.com/2020/07/15/the-timeline-of-reta-mays-crimes-and-whats-next/
- https://www.npr.org/2020/07/14/890776010/former-va-medical-worker-charged-with-7-murders-in-west-virginia
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/14/veteran-deaths-reta-mays-facing-murder-charges-clarksburg-deaths/5433526002/
- https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6988465/Mays-Filed-Information.pdf
- https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2020/07/14/Former-nursing-assistant-VA-hospital-West-Virginia-Reta-Mays-charged-multiple-patients-deaths/stories/202007140101
- https://www.wvnd.uscourts.gov/united-states-america-v-reta-mays-120cr27 (Zoom access to her November hearing)
- https://ordinary-times.com/2020/07/16/reta-mays-an-angel-of-death-stalking-her-own-at-va-hospital/
- https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-wvnd-5_13-cv-00113/pdf/USCOURTS-wvnd-5_13-cv-00113-2.pdf (inmate complaint-dismissed)
- https://heavy.com/news/2020/07/reta-mays-former-va-employee-pleads-guilty-to-multiple-veteran-murders/
- https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93723&page=1
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/killer-nurse-gets-life/
