'The monster no one sees coming': VA hospital serial killer sentenced to life in prison for murdering seven veterans
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. – A former nursing assistant who confessed to using insulin to murder seven elderly patients at a VA hospital will spend the rest of her life in prison.
During a hearing Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Kleeh called Reta Mays, 46, a monster of the "worst kind. You are the monster no one sees coming." He delivered a life sentence for each murder victim, plus 20 years for an eighth victim she tried to kill.
Mays sobbed as Kleeh sentenced her. When a U.S. Marshal approached her after the hearing, she sat down and buried her head in her hands, crying. She got up, and she was handcuffed and led out of the courtroom.
Mays is not eligible for probation for the seven life sentences, Kleeh said. She was ordered to pay restitution to the victims' families.
The victims ranged in age from 81 to 96 and served in the Army, Navy and Air Force during World War II and wars in Korea and Vietnam. They died at the hands of the same person, at the same place, in the same way.
Mays pleaded guilty last year to murdering the seven veterans and to assaulting an eighth with intent to murder. The killings occurred at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center between July 2017 and June 2018.
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