Reta Phyllis Mays was born on June 16,1975 and is an American serial killer who murdered at least seven elderly military veterans over a span of eleven months, between July 2017 and June 2018, by injecting them with lethal doses of insulin while she was employed as a nursing assistant at the Louis A Johnson Veterans Medical Center, in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
12 Facts About Reta Mays
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On May 11,2021, Mays was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences for the murders, plus 20 years for one count of assault with intent to commit murder.
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Reta Mays was born in Reynoldsville, West Virginia in 1975.
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Reta Mays was a United States Army West Virginia National Guard veteran who served from November 2000 to April 2001 and again from February 2003 to May 2004, when she deployed to Iraq and Kuwait with the 1092nd Engineer Battalion.
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In 2013, Reta Mays was one of several defendants in a lawsuit that was brought by an inmate incarcerated at the jail who alleged that he had been repeatedly beaten by Reta Mays and other correction officers.
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In June 2015, Mays began working as a nursing assistant at the Louis A Johnson Veterans Medical Center in Clarksburg, West Virginia, with no certification or license to care for patients.
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Reta Mays was assigned to work overnight shifts on Ward 3A of the hospital's medical surgical unit in July 2017, when elderly patients began suffering mysterious acute drops in their blood sugar level.
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Reta Mays was fired from the hospital in June 2018, and the investigation was turned over to the Inspector General for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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In July 2020, Reta Mays was arrested and charged with the murders of eight individuals.
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On July 14,2020, Reta Mays pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia in Clarksburg to seven counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.
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On May 11,2021, Reta Mays was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences, plus 20 years, during a three-hour-long hearing the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia in Clarksburg by US District Judge Thomas Kleeh.
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In July 2021, Reta Mays was transferred to the low-security Federal Correctional Institution, Aliceville in Alabama.