Nurses Who Kill Collection of True Crime In The Healthcare Industry

By Nancy Yoder

A True Crime collection of registered nurses who chose murder over caregiving...Not too far from the coast of the east Auckland suburb of Orakei lies Paritai Drive, one of the most coveted streets in New Zealand. A long, winding street lined with more than one hundred houses worth millions of dollars, it is where you will find some high-profile residents, from business moguls to reality TV stars. With such a prestigious reputation, it's difficult to imagine that the area has a dark history, but Paritai Drive isn't unfamiliar with the seedier aspects of life. It was behind the closed door of one of these very houses that an elderly couple would meet an unfortunate and untimely end at the hands of a hired caregiver...Stephanie Gouldstone 

• Language: English
• Publisher: DayBac Publishing
• Release date: Jun 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201400903

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NURSES WHO KILL

NANCY YODER

TABLE OF CONTENTS

STEPHANIE GOULDSTONE

KIMBERLY SAENZ

BEVERLY ALLITT

GENENE JONES

NIELS HOEGEL

JANE TOPPAN

GRANNY RIPPER

STEPHANIE GOULDSTONE

Not too far from the coast of the east Auckland suburb of Orakei lies Paritai Drive, one of the most coveted streets in New Zealand. A long, winding street lined with more than one hundred houses worth millions of dollars, it is where you will find some high-profile residents, from business moguls to reality TV stars. With such a prestigious reputation, it’s difficult to imagine that the area has a dark history, but Paritai Drive isn’t unfamiliar with the seedier aspects of life. It was behind the closed door of one of these very houses that an elderly couple would meet an unfortunate and untimely end at the hands of a hired carer.

In 1960, Emerch and Eva Fuzes left behind their life in Budapest to start afresh in the wonderous landscape of New Zealand. The pair were known to be hard-working, kind, and giving individuals, and their friends were pleased to see them take the opportunity to work towards building a better life. Together, they created a profitable business manufacturing plastic tubing. Becoming increasingly successful, the couple eventually found a lovely home and settled on Paritai Drive where they would live happily for more than thirty years.

It was in 1994 that tragedy first struck the Fuzes. Both Emerch and Eva were diagnosed with cancer. They saw no option but to sell their business to focus on their recovery. Preferring to receive their treatment at home, the couple enlisted the help of a private homecare company called Nurses with Hearts. Nurses with Hearts would provide the couple with round the clock care, ensuring that a qualified nurse was on the premises at all times to see to the Fuzes’ needs. This became the couples’ way of living, becoming used to a consistent roster of nurses coming and going from their home to administer care. Nearly two years later, on August 17, 1996, one particular nurse would make her first visit to the Fuzes’ home with the task of looking after these patients. Her name was Stephanie Gouldstone, and her care would prove to be deadly.

Stephanie Gouldstone was just thirty-eight when she was sent to work her shift at the Fuzes’ home. She was a registered nurse who had spent her early years of adulthood as a nun in the Catholic Church. Turning to a career in caregiving, she was hired by Nurses with Hearts. On Saturday August 17, 1996, Gouldstone’s usual working routine was disrupted as she was sent to the Fuzes residence on Paritai Drive to relieve a colleague who had to leave her work early. She arrived at the house at approximately 3.30pm to begin her shift. It’s uncertain what exactly happened during the seven and a half hours that Gouldstone was alone with the poorly couple, but it would prove to be fatal.

A student nurse arrived at the Fuzes’ home at 11pm to begin her night-shift with the Fuzes and to relieve Gouldstone from her duties. Unsuspecting of anything unusual, the nurse approached the house only to find eighty-one-year-old Eva Fuzes lying outside, her lifeless body on the front steps, having suffered from severe injuries to her head and body. The student rushed to the house next door to alert the neighbours. There she found Robert Cruickshank and his friend, Henry Brett. The two men quickly made their way to the Fuzes’ house and went inside where they would witness a horrifying scene. Using a chair, Stephanie Gouldstone had pinned Emerch Fuzes to the ground and was screaming hysterically at him. It was clear to the men that Emerch had also been brutally beaten. The house was covered in blood.

The police soon arrived to find that Henry Brett had restrained Gouldstone, removing her from the scene. Meanwhile, Robert Cruickshank attempted to help the elderly man, doing his best to comfort him as he lay helpless on the bloody floor. As the police escorted Gouldstone away, she continued to kick and scream madly. Eva Fuzes was declared dead at the scene, whilst Emerch was rushed to Auckland Hospital. Emerch had suffered countless injuries to the head and body, and died in hospital four days later, aged eighty-six. It was determined that he had been kicked and beaten to death.

In police custody, Stephanie Gouldstone admitted to beating and ultimately killing Eva and Emerch Fuzes. She confessed that she thought the elderly couple were devils, claiming to believe that the Fuzes’ were evil entities that had disguised themselves in human form. In the investigation, it was discovered that Gouldstone had been diagnosed with a mental disorder when she was younger, having previously been treated for psychotic depression. Whilst details of Gouldstone’s history of mental illness are scarce, police admitted that she regularly demonstrated symptoms which suggested she was suffering from a psychotic episode, ranting about how the Fuzes had really been devils, while she was detained. 

On Friday June 13, 1997, Stephanie Gouldstone pleaded guilty to both counts of murder. The court, however, believed that she had not been in sound mind nor in full control of her actions during the incident, and found her not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. Gouldstone was consequently committed to Mason Clinic, a psychiatry unit in Mount Albert, where she would be treated as a special patient for an undetermined amount of time. Gouldstone would be sixty years old this year. Her present is just as mysterious as her past, remaining undocumented. It’s uncertain where she is or what became of her, but Mason Clinic continues to house all of Auckland’s mentally ill offenders, so it’s entirely possible the former nun continues to reside there, receiving treatment for her disorder.

KIMBERLY SAENZ

JAMIE PARKS

Kimberly Clark Saenz was a nurse. Almost ten years ago now, in 2008, she worked in a clinic called the DaVita Lufkin Dialysis Center. The clinic was- and still is- in Lufkin, a small blue collar city in East Texas of around 33,000 souls. But rather than care for her patients, she decided to kill. Because of a home life fraught with difficulties- she and her husband has fought, he had filed for divorce, and even taken out a restraining order against her- Kimberly's unrestrained and misdirected anger was taken out on her patients. And this was just the latest in a long list of healthcare jobs that Kimberly had held, after a spate of firings for various misdemeanours. 

Even though she worked in a dialysis center, where there is normally little to cause complications and death, the number of patients dying on her watch alerted and disturbed other hospital staff. Even so, it took far too long for her managers and the authorities to find out what she had been doing. When, to their horror, they uncovered her crimes, Kimberly became national news.

Who was Kimberly Clark Saenz?

Kimberly hadn’t had the best start in life. She was born Kimberly Clark Fowler in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1973. After an uneventful childhood during which she moved away from Massachusetts to Texas, she dropped out of high school in her senior year after falling pregnant. Kimberly and her husband would go on to have two children together, but Kimberly struggled with addiction and the strains this put on her home life.

She suffered from substance abuse problems, which proved to be a drain on the family finances; it was also enough to convince her to steal, which she did time and time again from her various employers. According to witness testimony at her trial, Lufkin law enforcement told the court that she had been arrested multiple times