Terri Rachals

Terri Rachals
Born	Terri Eden Maples Rachals 1966 (age 58–59) Georgia, U.S.
Criminal status	Released
Conviction	Aggravated assault
Criminal penalty	17 years imprisonment
Details
Victims	0–9+
Span of crimes	August –December 1985
Country	U.S.
State	Georgia
Date apprehended	March 13, 1986

Terri Eden Maples Rachals is a former nurse from Georgia who was accused of killing people at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia, with potassium chloride, a heart-stopping drug. While suspected of killing at least nine of her patients, she was charged with only six murders, three of which she acknowledged possibly committing while in a "fugue state" in a recanted confession that she made to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. ^[1]

In 1986, Rachals was guilty on one of twenty aggravated assault charges. She was acquitted of murder. Rachals was sentenced to 17 years in prison and three years of probation. ^{[1] [2]} She served her entire sentence, and was released from prison in April 2003. ^{[3] [4]}

References

1. "CBS News: Angel Of Death?". Archived from the original on September 13, 2005. Retrieved December 5, 2007.
2. "Nurse receives 17 year prison sentence - UPI Archives". UPI. Retrieved July 19, 2023.
3. "Geocites: Terri Rachals". Archived from the original on August 5, 2009. Retrieved December 5, 2007.
4. "Caselaw" . Retrieved January 4, 2015.