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I'm RJ Decker, the private investigator uncovering the Sunshine State's darkest secrets. Tuesday, it's the premiere of ABC's hottest new crime show. RJ Freakin Decker. As I live and breathe, he's a private eye. It's not a standard murder. It's something bigger and a public mass trying to get sent back to prison. Today you go to prison one time and suddenly it's all the jokes. RJ Decker. Series premiere Tuesday on ABC and stream on Hulu. A recent documentary just came out about Lucy Lepy, also commonly referred to as the UK's worst child serial killer. And I was at home when this documentary was released. My parents knew that I had talked about this case over on Tick Tock before, so they waited for me to watch the documentary. We watched it. I don't know. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't that. I just felt like that documentary didn't quite capture the nature of just how horrible Lucy's crimes were, which is why I decided to make a podcast video on it. And I really want to know your thoughts. I really want to know if you guys watched the documentary, what your thoughts were as far as how they told Lucy's story. Not Lucy's story, actually. This is the story of so many grieving mothers, so many babies, so many lives lost at the hands of one of the most vile human beings the UK has ever seen. But one of the many things that stands out about Lucy Lepy is, is that she was so incredibly normal. She grew up with parents who loved her, who cared for her, and yet she attacked the most vulnerable babies. And again, she's one of the worst criminals the UK has ever seen. With that being said, I do have to give a massive warning at the start of this video. We're talking about loss, specifically the death of babies. So if you think that listening to this would harm your mental health in any way, shape or form, I. I said it once, I will say it over and over again. Your mental health is priority. Always has been, always will be. So if you think that listening to this particularly heavy topic is going to affect you in any way, please skip this video and I will see you in my next one. I mean it. I love you. Lucy Lepy, a formal neonatal nurse, was born to her parents, John and Susan. She was an only child and grew up in England, once again in a very loving household. She was cared for and absolutely adored by both of her parents. She got all of the attention in the world, not only from when she was a baby, but pretty much her entire life because she was an only child and her parents made sure that she had everything that she could have ever wanted. They supported her in anything that she did. They cheered her on, she had friends. She did want school. Lucy Lupi grew up with the kind of life that people can only dream of having. As a little girl, Lucy's dream was to become a nurse, a children's nurse specifically, and she never once lost sight of that dream. She worked extremely hard in order to reach her goals, and she did. She studied at the Countess of Chester Hospital, where she got a degree to be a nurse for children. And after graduating, instead of moving back home, Lucy made a decision to get her own house in Chester and decided to keep on working at that same hospital, the Countess of Chester Hospital. She got a full time job there working in the NATO neonatal unit. The neonatal unit is also known as the nicu, so where they take special care of sick and or premature babies. And Lucy's main focus was always work. She was an incredibly reliable hard worker, or so we thought, but she would, she was known for staying longer hours, she would pick up extra shifts, she would volunteer in fundraises, she, she always took the extra step to do what she could in order to help out the hospital. Apart from that, Lucy also did have a social life in Chester. She was friends with a lot of the nurses who worked there, and they always helped each other out. Three years pass. Lucy is doing great. She's now 25 years old. She's working in the NICU, taking care of the most vulnerable newborn babies. And before Lucy, the survival rate was high. But specifically at that hospital, out of 1,000 babies, less than 2 would not make it. It's May of 2015, and Lucy goes to take a special training course in baby safety. And in that course, they specifically taught nurses about air embolisms and just how dangerous they can be. An air embolism is when an air bubble blocks blood flow and it can be fatal. So it's extremely important that you do absolutely everything in your power in order to prevent that. But In June of 2015, Lucy would begin injecting air embolisms into preemie babies in order to bring them intentional harm. A pregnant woman with twins was admitted into the hospital and her babies were delivered almost nine weeks early. Baby A was a boy and baby B was a girl, and they were both taken to nursery number one for intensive care. Lucy Lepe was specifically assigned to baby A, who was getting stronger and stronger by the day. But then on June 8, at around 8pm, out of nowhere, Baby A stops breathing. When the doctors and nurses rushed into the room to check on him, he had these weird purple rashes all over his skin. And they could not figure out what was causing them. And tragically, after 40 minutes of CPR, baby a lost his life. The parents, his parents were absolutely heartbroken. This was their biggest fear, that they were going to be leaving the hospital with one baby instead of two. This also impacted the nurses heavily. But the one nurse who seemed to be just fine was Lucy Letby. The very next day, June 9, 2015, Lucy was back on shift in Nursery One. She was not the nurse assigned to baby B, but she was in the same nursery. And she saw the parents, the parents who had lost their baby one night prior, saw them devastated and saw them being glued to the side of baby B because they were scared now that their one and only living baby could be in harm's way. So they were not leaving that baby side. But Lucy suggested that the parents go and get some food, get some rest, relax a little bit, because they had been up all night. And as soon as the parents left and the nurse assigned to baby B stepped out of the room and leaving Lucy alone with her, Baby B stopped breathing. The exact same thing was happening again. Baby B turned pale with those weird purple rashes. But thankfully, after performing cpr, Baby B started breathing again. She was stabilized, and I'm so happy to say that her parents were then able to take her home. So if you haven't figured it out by now, Lucy Lepy has purposefully injected air bubbles into the bloodstream of both babies. And somehow that wasn't caught by the hospital. It was actually ruled that the loss of baby A and the near death of baby B were because of a complication the mother passed on from an autoimmune disease that she had. Although we now know that that was not the case. Lucy talked about the tragedy of these events often specifically with her co workers, because she wanted pity. She wanted her friends and the nurses that worked alongside of her to feel sorry for her. She would just talk about how hard it is to lose a patient, let alone a premature baby, and how she just needed, not wanted, needed to keep working and keeping assigned to sick babies because she needed to get her mind off the baby that she had just lost. She would say things like, I need to go back and have a sick baby, otherwise the image of the one you lost never goes. But we know now the real reason why she wanted to keep Working because she wanted to be able to keep having access to these vulnerable babies and keep attacking them over and over and over again. And it makes me sick to my stomach. Five days following the tragic events of that family, Lucy strikes again. Baby C was a preemie baby in nursery one. He had been making progress and was stable until the nurse assigned to him left the room. And then all of a sudden, Baby C stops breathing. His parents rushed into the room because they were so concerned. Worried sick, nurses and doctors attend to baby C and luckily they are able to stabilize him. However, hours later he would stop breathing again. And the entire night, for hours upon hours, doctors were doing everything they could up until the early hours of the morning when baby C was tragically pronounced dead, leaving that parent, parents, plural, absolutely shattered. Lucy had injected air into the baby's stomach and she made sure to be in the same room as the parents while they were grieving, even though she wasn't supposed to be there in the first place. A week later, on another night shift, Lucy does the exact same thing again to baby D. Three times. She did it twice when the designated nurse left the room and they were able to bring back baby D. But on the third and final time, Baby D lost his life. Now it is August of 2015. Twins Baby E and Baby F were assigned to Lucy let be in the nicu. Their mother was right next to her babies at all hours of the day because she wanted to make sure that they were okay. But when she left to go grab a snack, left to get food and come right back. Baby E had blood coming out of his mouth and his mother was hysterical. Of course doctors rushed in but nobody could figure out what was happening or why. And despite their best efforts, Baby E passed away in his parents arms. Lucy Lepy put together a memory box for the parents and she wrote them a letter pretending to be on their side, grieving with them. Because the parents were so incredibly distraught and shattered into pieces. They accepted the advice of a doctor when they decided not to perform a post mortem exam. So they did not find out that Lucy Lepe had forced a piece of metal down that baby's throat, causing all of the complications and eventually becoming the cause of death. Just like that, Lucy Lepy had gotten away with yet another murder. Not even 24 hours later, Lucy Lepy attempted to go after his twin brother Baby F. Luckily her attempts were unsuccessful and Baby F was able to go home with his family at this time. By the way, one of the doctors started to become suspicious and he was looking into all of the deaths because the cost, because. Because the hospital had had more deaths in one week than they usually had in an entire year. And one of the doctors, when looking into it, realized that the one thing every situation was in common was that at every single one, Lucy Lepe was the nurse on shift. She was the only one present all of the different times in the room when these things happened. And that doctor took his suspicions to their supervisor, who then did absolutely nothing about it. Baby G was a miracle baby. She was born at 26 weeks after her parents went through many, many round of IVF to conceive. And she only weighed 1 pound and 2 ounces. Her mother gave birth in a hospital toilet, and because the baby was so, so small, she was only given a 5% chance at survival. However, for over four months now, she was doing incredibly well. Baby G had been at a different hospital, but when she was stabilized In September of 2015, she was transferred to the hospital where Lucy Leppy worked. Lucy Lepe was made Baby G's appointed nurse, and she tried to end her life by injecting air into her bloodstream. Not only that, but also attempted to do it by overfeeding her. Luckily, Baby G was stabilized and she was transferred to a different hospital, where she improved, of course, because Lucy Lepy wasn't there. 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She took her final breath in her parents arms and Lucy sent a sympathy card to the parents expressing how big of a privilege it was to care for BBI and to get to know them as a family. She signed the card by saying that she was sending them love, knowing full well that she was the one and only person responsible. After Baby I, another group of doctors realized that still the one and only thing all of these deaths had in common was that Lucy Lepe was the nurse at every single one. They once again took it up to senior management of the hospital who turned around and told them to drop it because there was no way in their brains, in their heads that Lucy could be capable of doing such a horrible thing against her very own patients. Lucy Lepy attempted to attack again, but Baby J was thankfully saved. In May of 2016, another group of doctors had figured out that air embolisms were happening to every single one of these babies because of these weird purple rashes that they all had in common. And there was gossip around the hospital that this group of doctors thought that Lucy Lepy could be the person responsible. The doctors were begging for a thorough investigation. And senior management again turned them away and told them to stop making a fuzz. The group of doctors was even forced to write a formal apology letter to Lucy for all of the gossip and rumors that were going around following that. Lucy didn't stop. Not only is she evil, she's also apparently stupid because she knew that she was suspected by at least some people in the hospital. And yet she continued to do what she was doing. Baby K lost his life. Baby L and Baby M were both had very near death experiences. Baby N was thankfully able to be saved. Baby O and Baby P were Lucy's last victims who tragically lost both of their lives. They were two out of three triplets. And Baby Q was the last and final baby to have a near death experience at the hands of Lucy Lepy. It was obvious at this point to so many people in the hospital who the person was behind all of this, who the person was that was responsible. And it should have been obvious many, many months prior. And to some it was, but that was ignored by others. Finally, In July of 2016, Lucy Lepy was told that she would no longer be allowed to work in the nicu. But do you think that, I mean, that they fired her because. I don't know, they told her that she could work a desk job for patient safety as long as she stayed away from the babies. But they didn't call the police, they didn't report it, they just moved her job positions. Basically, why, who knows? So she moves to work a patient safety job at her new desk, and guess what? All of the deaths suddenly stop. A year goes by, and during this past year, the hospital had been conducting internal investigation regarding the deaths, connecting Lucy to every single one of them. Now It's May of 2017, and just now, for the first time, the hospital decides that now would be good time to report this to authorities. Actually, senior management didn't want to. Why? Probably because they didn't want the hospital to look bad. They didn't want the hospital that they were managing to have such a horrible story come out of it because it was their hospital and they didn't want the backlash. But there was that one group of staff members, one group of doctors who I guess were the only group to have a brain and saw this for what it actually was. And they were thankfully refusing to let this go. So senior management eventually contacted the authorities. Police begin their investigation. They look into all the deaths, when it happened, why they happened, medical records, staff records, all of the things. And on July 4th of 2018. Lucy Lepy was finally arrested on suspicion of eight counts of murder and six counts of attempted murder. Inside of her house, police found notes from Lucy that said things such as, I am a terrible person. I don't deserve to live. I am evil. I did this. I feel very alone and scared. I killed them on purpose because I am not good enough to care for them, and I am a horrible and evil person. So Lucy never verbally confessed, but, I mean, what are you supposed to think when you read those notes that she wrote found in her house? It took another two years for police officers to conclude their investigation. And finally, In November of 2020, Lucy was charged with seven counts of murder and 15 counts of attempted murder in relation to 17 babies. Her trial was set for October of 2022, and it would last 10 months. Lucy pled not guilty. She herself was on the stand for days pleading her innocence. And she said that she knew that somebody did this, but that it was not her. Not once during those entire 10 months did Lucy show an ounce of empathy for any of her victims. In August of 2023, Lucy Lepy was found guilty of seven counts of murder of seven babies. She was also found guilty of seven counts of attempted murder, but not guilty on two counts of attempted murder. As far as her motive goes, I don't know, I guess attention, because again, she had such a normal life, normal childhood, normal life, apart from every horrible thing that she was doing. People would have never guessed if they hadn't looked at those records and seen the one common denominator, that she was the person at every single one. In August of 2023, Lucy Lepy was sentenced to February 14life sentences with a whole life order, which is one of the most severe sentences possible under English law. She is only the fourth woman in the UK legal history to receive that sentence. Since then, she has tried a number of appeals, but those have all been rejected. And there was actually a retrial on one of the six counts of attempted murder where the jury hadn't been able to come to a verdict previously. But on July 2nd of 2024, she was found guilty. And on July 5th, she was sentenced to another whole life order. All the victim statements are online if you want to read them. There are so many of them and all of them are so heartbreaking. I'm gonna read quotes for some, but every single one of them is so, so sad. So you guys should look them it, look them up if you haven't. This is in regards to baby A and baby B. 2015 was going to be the best year of our lives. We were going to become parents to a little boy and a little girl. Everything was perfect. Our babies were doing well in the neonatal unit. Never could we have imagined that the most precious things in our lives would be placed in harm's way and in the care of a nurse who is capable of such despicable actions. We never got to hold our little boy while he was alive. Because you took him away. What should have been the happiest time of our lives became our worst nightmare. Baby C. Lucy Lepy. To think that you could get any kind of gratification from inflicting pain on Baby C and from watching our suffering in the aftermath goes against everything I believe it is to be human. I am horrified that someone so evil exists. To you, our son's life was collateral damage. In your persistent desire for dramatic attention, praise and sympathy, you have betrayed and manipulated those you worked with and the many families who put their precious babies and all of their hope in your hands. There is no sentence that will ever compare to the excruciating agony we have suffered as a consequence of your murder of our son. But at least now there is no debate that in your own words, you killed them on purpose. You are evil. You did this. There have been investigations into the Countess of Chester Hospital because everything happened there. But how did this happen? Why did this happen? Why did it go unnoticed for so long? And even after suspicions who was covering this up? If they knew why was there someone ever willing to fight in Lucy Lupy's corner? This is such a heartbreaking case. It's such a heavy case to listen to. And it is extremely hard that people can be so malicious. Those babies didn't even get a chance. All of them were fighters and some didn't even get the chance to fight to win their fight against other complications they were faced with because of Lucy Lupi. She ripped away their one and only chance at life, tearing apart so many families in the process. It is vile, it is disturbing, it is unbelievable. That is all I have for this episode. 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