Catherine A. Dext was 49 when she was admitted to Hunterdon Medical Center in Raritan Township, New Jersey, in June 1996 for a ruptured spleen. Her condition was serious but not considered terminal. While hospitalized she received a lethal injection of the heart medication digoxin and died on June 9, 1996.

Dext worked as a supervisor at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women and was described by a colleague as low-key and reliable in her duties. Her death was later linked to nurse Charles Cullen as part of a pattern of suspicious patient deaths at several hospitals where he worked.

No immediate explanation for how digoxin came to be administered was recorded at the time. If anyone knew Catherine, her routines, or anything unusual at Hunterdon Medical Center in June 1996, please share what you know.