HIGHLAND, Utah (Gray News) – A nurse was arrested for allegedly poisoning and killing her friend and former roommate to claim a life insurance policy.
According to KUTV, Meggan Randall Sundwall, 47, killed her friend and former roommate, Kacee Lyn Terry, 38, by giving her a fatal dose of insulin.
Sundwall believed she was the beneficiary of a “rumored $1.5 million life insurance policy held by Kacee,” according to a police booking affidavit.
Back in August, authorities were called to a home after Terry’s uncle said he found her unresponsive and struggling to breathe, according to KSL. He allegedly told the 911 operator that Terry had “major, major health issues,” and it “sounds like she’s drowning.”
According to KUTV, Sundwall, who admitted to being alone with her all day, told Terry’s uncle that she had been suffering for “several hours.”
That morning, Sundwall texted Terry, asking, “Do you want to take some promethazine when I get there so that you are asleep when this is happening?” according to police documents.
Sundwall said Terry had signed a do-not-resuscitate order and did not want to go to the hospital.
Terry was not diabetic, but a diabetic needle was found at the home. She was taken to the hospital where her blood sugar level was 14, according to KUTV. A blood sugar level of 40 is considered to be life-threatening.
Terry’s sister told hospital staff that she was diagnosed with leukemia several years ago, according to a search warrant.
“(Terry’s sister) stated that she moved Kacee out of the shared apartment and into her grandfather’s house where she lives now due to Kacee complaining about Meggan bringing insulin home and trying to talk Kacee into treatments to help end her suffering,” according to the warrant.
Terry’s family spoke with her primary care doctor at the hospital and was told that she never had cancer, no health issues were revealed in her autopsy and a do-not-resuscitate order for her was not found. The doctor also said Sundwall was not her power of attorney, according to KSL.
According to police documents, Sundwall believed she was the beneficiary of a $1.5 million life insurance policy Terry held.
Police discovered over 28,000 texts between her and Terry dating back to Dec. 2019, including four years of messages “detailing different ways Meggan would kill herself if she was (the victim) and of Meggan offering to ‘help’ (her) die,” according to authorities.
Other text messages between the two discussed Sundwall’s financial problems and how she could fix it if she got Terry’s life insurance money, according to police.
Sundwall was booked into the Utah County Jail Thursday for aggravated murder and obstruction of justice.
The Office of the Medical Examiner confirmed Terry’s cause of death was an overdose of promethazine, probable exogenous insulin and other drugs.
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