A nurse tricked a woman into thinking she had terminal cancer and injected her with a fatal dose of insulin — so that she could try to claim a possible $1.5 million life-insurance policy, Utah cops say.
Registered nurse Meggan Randall Sundwall, 47, injected pal Kacee Lyn Terry, 38, with the lethal dose over the summer, according to newly surfaced police documents.
Investigating cops found more than 28,000 texts between the women that showed Sundwall had a fixation with helping her friend commit suicide.
The text exchanges — which dated back to December 2019 — included messages “detailing different ways Meggan would kill herself if she was Terry, and of Meggan offering to ‘help’ [her friend] die,” police said.
The messages also allegedly included discussions about Sundwall’s apparent financial woes and how being the beneficiary of Terry’s life-insurance policy would fix everything.
It was not immediately clear if Terry even had a policy, although Sundwall apparently believed she did and that the nurse was set to score a $1.5 million payout from it.
Terry’s family expressed relief after learning of Sundwall’s arrest, saying they believed she was trying to kill her for years.
The morning of Aug. 12, Sundwall sent her a text asking, “Do you want to take some promethazine when I get there so that you are asleep when this is happening?” according to KUTV.
Police were called to Terry’s home after her uncle said he found her unresponsive and gasping for air as if she were drowning. Sundwall told investigators she had been alone with Terry all morning and that she had been suffering for “several hours” that day.
Paramedics reportedly discovered a diabetic needle at the scene.
When Terry — who was not a diabetic — arrived at the hospital, her blood sugar level had plunged to 14. Blood sugar levels can become lethal at 40 or less.
Sundwall also claimed that Terry had signed a do-not-resuscitate order and said she didn’t want to go to the hospital.
A search warrant revealed that Terry’s sister had told hospital staff she had been suffering with leukemia for years. It’s unclear whether Sundwall told Terry’s family she had cancer.
Terry died Aug. 15.
Her sister said “she moved Kacee out of the shared apartment and into her grandfather’s house where she lives now due to Kacee complaining about Meggan bringing insulin home and trying to talk Kacee into treatments to help end her suffering,” the warrant stated.
But after her autopsy, Terry’s family received the shocking news that she didn’t have cancer — or any other underlying health issues — and no DNR order was ever found. The same doctor also said Sundwall was not her power of attorney, according to KSL.
The Office of the Medical Examiner confirmed Terry’s cause of death was an overdose of probable exogenous insulin, promethazine and other drugs, according to the outlet.
After Terry’s death, Sundwall allegedly deleted more than 900 texts from her phone and conducted a search for her life-insurance policy.
Sundwall was arrested and booked into Utah County Jail on charges including first-degree aggravated murder and third-degree obstruction of justice.
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