Night Shift - Inside A Hospital's Deadly Mystery
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Hey listeners, Larysson Campbell here to tell you about the latest podcast that just dropped on the Binge channel: Night Shift. And if you're a subscriber to the Binge, you can listen to all episodes ad-free today. Like Dr. Miracle, Night Shift exposes a dark truth behind people and places that claim to be healing us.

We turn our attention from Robert Young's Miracle Ranch to the VA hospital in Columbia, Missouri, where patients were checking into the hospital for care, but never checking out. On the hospital's east wing, patients were dying, one after another after another. But these deaths were unusual.

These patients weren't necessarily in critical condition or on their last breaths, nor were they all suffering from the same illness. Yet one chilling link tied them all together. They were all happening on the same floor of the hospital, all during the night shift. Who could be doing this? One of the staff, the patients? And why was the hospital trying to keep these deaths a secret?

From the same team that brought you Chameleon, join hosts Jake Edelstein and Shoko Plambeck as they expose the chilling truth and shocking cover-up on this season of Witnessed Night Shift. Take a listen. It's 1992, and something eerie is happening at the Harry S. Truman Veterans Hospital in Missouri. On the hospital's fourth floor, more veterans than usual are dying, dying in the same place around the same time.

during the night shift. There was so many of them at the same time. These codes are happening on 4 East. These weren't patients who were expected to die. In fact, many of them were getting ready to go home. And the deaths had another thing in common. The same nurse present at their bedsides. The nurse was a young man who came across as competent and clinical. He was quiet, pale as a ghost, almost invisible. He worked nights, a shift when fewer people were around to look over one shoulder. But over time,

strange tales begin to spread. We went in to see the patient and everything was normal. And about an hour later, the code blue is called.

My name is Jake Edelstein, and I know this story because my dad was a doctor at the Truman VA hospital. In fact, he was the man who ordered an investigation into the deaths. I felt certainly he was killing people. But when the allegations that a killer might have been prowling the halls of the Columbia VA reached the hospital's higher-ups, they did not jump into action like everyone expected.

On the contrary, they seemed to want to bury the story. It looks like something terrible has happened. Let's keep it as quiet as we possibly can and not let it get any bigger than it already is. They just wanted to drop it and move on. A handful of brave whistleblowers did whatever they could to make sure the VA didn't just drop it. But speaking out came with a cost. His phone was being tapped.

He was being followed, and he wasn't sure what was going to happen to him. They thought that it was all going to be swept under the rug. Maybe these guys were serious, but then somebody above them said, "Shut up about it." On this season of Witnessed, I'm going back to my hometown to explore the unsolved 30-year-old mystery of what might have been one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history.

Join me in an effort to find the main suspect, the nurse, and investigate what really happened during the night shift. So they would rather see a whole bunch of innocent people killed than to do anything about it. I mean, my gosh, what do you want him to do, clear out half the hospital? From Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment, this is Witnessed Night Shift, coming September 1st.

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