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Bobbie Sue Dudley Terrel was a register nurse with Münchausen syndrome. She is suspected to have murdered twelve nursing home residents in 1984 and 1985 in St. Petersburg, Florida, by strangling or overdosing them with insulin injections. She pled guilty in 1988 for one attempted murder and four second degree murders. She was sentenced to 65 years in prison, but died in prison in 2007.

Biography
Bobbie Sue Robertson was born October 1952 in Woodlawn, Illinois near Mount Vernon, Illinois. She was one of seven siblings, and four of her five brothers had muscular dystrophy. She was described as severely near-sighted, shy and overweight as a child, though she sang and played organ for her church. She graduated from Woodlawn High School in 1973. She was described by people who knew her as being religiously fanatical and compelled to injure herself.

She worked at Mount Vernon at Good Samaritan Hospital between May 20, 1974-July 19, 1976 as a nurse's aid, during which time there were several unusual deaths, though they were investigated and cleared. She received a degree in nursing in 1976 from Kaskaskia Community College at Centralia. She married Danny Dudley after becoming a nurse. She was devastated to find out she couldn't have children so they adopted a son. She became depressed and was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. Their son overdosed on her schizophrenia medicine and was hospitalized. Not long after, her husband divorced her and she lost custody of their son. She had several medical procedures, including a hysterectomy, then committed herself to a mental institution around 1979 where she spent about a year before being released. In the early 1980s, she worked at the Jeffersonian Nursing Home and the Mount Vernon Care Facility, and her work was described as "very good". On May 11, 1983, Terrell began working in Greenville at the Hillsview Nursing Home where she fainted on the job several times, which other nurses suspected she was doing for attention. She was fired due to mental health problems on July 7, 1983 after needing surgery due to self-inflicted cuts in the vaginal area with scissors, apparently in a rage about not being able to have children. She was advised to get mental care but instead got her Florida nurse's licence in August 1984, moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, and became a night supervisor at North Horizon Health Center. In November 1984, at least 12 patients died, and she was found with a stab wound from an "intruder" on November 26, of which police could find no evidence. Soon after she was fired. Her Illinois nursing license was taken away due to "mental instability and self-abuse" in December 1984. When Terrel tried to get $22,000 in workman's compensation for the stab wound, a resulting psychiatric report found she had Schizophrenia and Munchausen Syndrome, and it was likely she stabbed herself. This led to a criminal investigation. She married an unemployed plumber named Ron Terrell, who soon committed her against her will. She entered the psychiatric hospital on January 31, 1985.

She was charged on March 17, 1986 for the attempted murder of a 94-year-old-resident by insulin overdose in November 1984. At the time, police considered her the suspect of 12 patient deaths in 13 days from the same month. Terrel did not give a motive for the deaths but pled guilty in 1988 to one attempted murder by insulin injection, and four second-degree murders, two by strangling and two by insulin overdose, for which she was sentenced to 30 years and 65 years respectively, to be served consecutively in prison. She died on August 27, 2007 in prison.

Her life was featured in Season 2, Episode 3 ("Twisted Minds") of the television series Deadly Women.

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