The Bad Nurse

Sheila Johnson

Jul 2015 · Lyrical Press

About this ebook

Murder By Medicine
In the small southern town of Ider, Alabama, everyone knew Karri Willoughby as a devoted nurse, loving wife, and mother of two small children. When she was accused of killing her stepfather Billy Junior Shaw with a fatal injection of the anesthetic Propofol, outraged friends and family rallied to her defense.
Overnight Karrie became a media sensation, portrayed as an innocent young woman caught up in a terrible tragedy—until four years later, when she walked into court and pleaded guilty as charged. Only then did the full scope of her crimes emerge. Nurse Karri was unmasked as cold-blooded, conniving murderer.
Investigative journalist Sheila Johnson draws on hundreds of pages of previously unseen police records, interviews, recordings and videotapes, to create a haunting real-life thriller of medicine, family, and betrayal.
Includes Dramatic Photos

Ratings and reviews

More a book about how perpetrator used social media to help in her defence, and how she stole from her parents. Isnt really much written about investigations, just touched on lightly here and there. Were a few aspects that could be expanded upon to build storyline - how does a nurse steal meds and isnt brought before governing body and charged? How did she spend so much money to be bankrupt twice? Isnt really a story about a bad nurse, more about a clever facebooker.

Absolutely riveting, literally could not put this book down of I tried! Wonderful work!

Everything felt unfinished to me. When did hubby stop supporting karri? Did kim replace fathers headstone? And many more unanswered questions.

About the author

Sheila Johnson is the author of Blood Highway, Blood Lust, Blood Betrayal and Blood Ambush and the co-author (with Gary C. King) of Dead of Night. Her experience as a newspaper crime reporter created a natural transition into writing true crime books about some of the cases she covered, and the killers and victims she came to know. Her close working relationship with law enforcement has given her inside access to statements, case files, and testimony that she uses to create a clear overall picture of murderers and their victims, defense attorneys and prosecutors, and the dedicated investigators who work tirelessly to bring killers to justice. She lives in Alabama.