Henry Hudon was 35 and an Air Force veteran when he was admitted to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts, on a cold December day in 1995. He was being treated for the flu and complications from his schizophrenia medication and had begged family and staff not to place him on Ward C, telling relatives he feared patients were being killed there. Hours after admission, the hospital called his mother; she was first told he had walked out, then told he was dead.

Hudon had no history of heart disease, and the death was initially reported as a heart attack. An autopsy later found a lethal overdose of epinephrine as the cause of death. Investigators noted that a part-time nurse, Kristen Gilbert, had been present for an unusually high number of deaths on the ward. Prosecutors charged Gilbert with Hudon’s murder and with the murders of three other patients, alleging she injected victims with epinephrine to induce cardiac arrest and then intervened.

Does anyone have memories of Ward C staffing or interactions with Henry Hudon in Northampton around December 1995?