Utah nurse arrested and accused of killing buddy for all times insurance coverage payout

A Utah nurse is accused of killing a buddy who she had satisfied was sick with most cancers in order that the nurse may money in on the girl’s life insurance coverage coverage.

Kacee Lyn Terry, 38, died on Aug. 15, three days after Lone Peak police and firefighters rushed to her residence in Highland and located her “unconscious and struggling to breathe,” in line with a possible trigger affidavit within the case.

Meggan Randall Sundwall, 47, was arrested Thursday on prices of aggravated homicide and obstruction of justice in her buddy’s loss of life.

Terry was discovered to have died of an overdose of insulin and the sedative promethazine, the medical expert dominated.

However she was not diabetic. Her blood-sugar stage had reached 14, police stated; a stage of 40 is taken into account dangerously low.

Sundwall, a licensed registered nurse, knew giving insulin to a non-diabetic would kill Terry, the affidavit alleged.

Sundwall is accused of participating in a yearslong plot to persuade Terry that she had most cancers and to let Sundwall medicate her, the police doc said.

Proof confirmed Sundwall was having cash issues and had wished to money in on a “rumored $1.5 million life insurance coverage coverage held by Kacee” that she believed she was the beneficiary of, the affidavit said.

In line with the affidavit, greater than 28,000 textual content messages beginning in December 2019 between Terry and Sundwall confirmed that she “believed that Kacee was very sick.”

The textual content messages detailed methods Sundwall may “assist” Terry die and in addition mentioned “Meggan’s cash issues being solved by Kacee dying and Meggan receiving her life insurance coverage payout,” the courtroom doc stated.

On the day first responders got here to Terry’s residence, Sundwall had despatched the sufferer a textual content message at 9:47 a.m. asking: “Do you need to take some promethazine after I get there so that you’re asleep when that is taking place?” police stated.

The suspect and sufferer have been alone collectively in Terry’s residence from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., police stated.

Terry’s uncle, Mark Farnsworth, known as 911 after he discovered his niece at her residence on Aug. 12 with Sundwall, who instructed him “that Kacee had a DNR and he or she didn’t need to go to the hospital,” the affidavit stated.

The uncle instructed police that Terry had “main, main well being points.” On the hospital, the sufferer’s sisters stated Terry “had terminal most cancers for 4-5 years however had been doing higher,” in line with the affidavit.

However in actuality, Terry was completely high-quality and had “no most cancers and no well being issues,” the affidavit stated.

Sundwall was being held on the Utah County Jail as of Friday. It was not clear if she had employed or been assigned a felony protection lawyer.

There was no reply at Sundwall’s residence landline or her husband’s cellphone.

The affidavit made no point out of any proof that Terry had taken out a life insurance coverage coverage with Sundwall because the beneficiary.

“A DNR was by no means positioned and there was no paperwork designating Meggan energy of lawyer,” the affidavit stated.

Highland is a metropolis about 30 miles south of Salt Lake Metropolis and 18 miles northwest of Provo.