The Nurse, the Lie, and the $1.5 Million Motive
Mar 25, 11:00 AM
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She told her patient she had terminal cancer. But she didn’t. Then she injected her with insulin and sat by while she died.
This story out of Highland, Utah, doesn’t need any dramatic buildup—it’s already that shocking. On August 12, 2024, a 911 call came in from a man named Mark Farnsworth. He told dispatchers his niece was unconscious, gasping for air like she was drowning, and that she had “major, major health issues.” Her name was Kacee Lyn Terry, 38 years old.
When police arrived at the home, they found Kacee unresponsive in a bedroom. She wasn’t alone. Sitting right there next to her was 47-year-old Meggan Randall Sundwall, a registered nurse who claimed Kacee had been in that state for “a couple of hours.” She told officers that Kacee had terminal cancer and had signed a do-not-resuscitate order. She said Kacee didn’t want to go to the hospital.
Sounds like a complicated end-of-life scenario, right? Except everything Sundwall said was a lie.
Kacee Terry never had cancer. There was no DNR. No power of attorney. No medical records backing up any of it. Her own primary care doctor confirmed it.
Let’s rewind.
Kacee was transported to Mountain Point Hospital and paramedics noticed something didn’t add up. First, they found a diabetic needle near her. But Kacee wasn’t diabetic. When they checked her blood sugar level, it came back at 14—dangerously low. Anything under 40 is considered life-threatening.
Doctors worked to stabilize her in the ICU, but the damage had already been done. Three days later, on August 15, Kacee was declared brain-dead and died.
When doctors asked the family about her medical history, Kacee’s sister told them she had terminal cancer and had been dealing with it for four or five years. That's what she had been told. But then came the hard truth from Kacee’s actual doctor: there had never been a cancer diagnosis. And when the autopsy results came back, it confirmed it—no cancer, no major health problems, nothing.
So where did this whole narrative come from?
Enter Meggan Sundwall.
Police started digging. They found a disturbing thread of over 28,000 texts between Meggan and Kacee, going all the way back to 2019. In these texts, Sundwall repeatedly talked about suicide, telling Kacee that if she were in her shoes, she’d kill herself. She even allegedly offered to “help” Kacee die—framing it as a kind of mercy killing while casually mentioning how her death could solve her money issues.
Yeah. That kind of help.
Then investigators discovered that shortly after Kacee’s death, Sundwall deleted over 900 messages from her phone and began searching for Kacee’s life insurance policy. According to the police report, Sundwall believed she was the beneficiary of a $1.5 million policy on Kacee.
Let’s take a moment here: this wasn’t a heat-of-the-moment thing. According to Kacee’s family, they’d suspected for years that Sundwall had been plotting something. And the evidence found in those text messages seems to suggest this wasn’t some spontaneous act—it was calculated, groomed, and dragged out across years under the guise of friendship or caretaking.
When it was time to act, Sundwall allegedly administered a fatal dose of insulin—unprescribed, unauthorized, and ultimately lethal—and just sat there while her so-called friend slipped into a coma.
Police arrested Meggan Randall Sundwall on charges of first-degree aggravated murder and third-degree obstruction of justice. She’s now being held in Utah County Jail without bail.
Cold-blooded, deliberate, and allegedly driven by money. And all of it hidden behind a nurse’s badge and a fabricated cancer diagnosis.
#TrueCrime #NurseAllegations #LifeInsuranceMurder #UtahCrime
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This story out of Highland, Utah, doesn’t need any dramatic buildup—it’s already that shocking. On August 12, 2024, a 911 call came in from a man named Mark Farnsworth. He told dispatchers his niece was unconscious, gasping for air like she was drowning, and that she had “major, major health issues.” Her name was Kacee Lyn Terry, 38 years old.
When police arrived at the home, they found Kacee unresponsive in a bedroom. She wasn’t alone. Sitting right there next to her was 47-year-old Meggan Randall Sundwall, a registered nurse who claimed Kacee had been in that state for “a couple of hours.” She told officers that Kacee had terminal cancer and had signed a do-not-resuscitate order. She said Kacee didn’t want to go to the hospital.
Sounds like a complicated end-of-life scenario, right? Except everything Sundwall said was a lie.
Kacee Terry never had cancer. There was no DNR. No power of attorney. No medical records backing up any of it. Her own primary care doctor confirmed it.
Let’s rewind.
Kacee was transported to Mountain Point Hospital and paramedics noticed something didn’t add up. First, they found a diabetic needle near her. But Kacee wasn’t diabetic. When they checked her blood sugar level, it came back at 14—dangerously low. Anything under 40 is considered life-threatening.
Doctors worked to stabilize her in the ICU, but the damage had already been done. Three days later, on August 15, Kacee was declared brain-dead and died.
When doctors asked the family about her medical history, Kacee’s sister told them she had terminal cancer and had been dealing with it for four or five years. That's what she had been told. But then came the hard truth from Kacee’s actual doctor: there had never been a cancer diagnosis. And when the autopsy results came back, it confirmed it—no cancer, no major health problems, nothing.
So where did this whole narrative come from?
Enter Meggan Sundwall.
Police started digging. They found a disturbing thread of over 28,000 texts between Meggan and Kacee, going all the way back to 2019. In these texts, Sundwall repeatedly talked about suicide, telling Kacee that if she were in her shoes, she’d kill herself. She even allegedly offered to “help” Kacee die—framing it as a kind of mercy killing while casually mentioning how her death could solve her money issues.
Yeah. That kind of help.
Then investigators discovered that shortly after Kacee’s death, Sundwall deleted over 900 messages from her phone and began searching for Kacee’s life insurance policy. According to the police report, Sundwall believed she was the beneficiary of a $1.5 million policy on Kacee.
Let’s take a moment here: this wasn’t a heat-of-the-moment thing. According to Kacee’s family, they’d suspected for years that Sundwall had been plotting something. And the evidence found in those text messages seems to suggest this wasn’t some spontaneous act—it was calculated, groomed, and dragged out across years under the guise of friendship or caretaking.
When it was time to act, Sundwall allegedly administered a fatal dose of insulin—unprescribed, unauthorized, and ultimately lethal—and just sat there while her so-called friend slipped into a coma.
Police arrested Meggan Randall Sundwall on charges of first-degree aggravated murder and third-degree obstruction of justice. She’s now being held in Utah County Jail without bail.
Cold-blooded, deliberate, and allegedly driven by money. And all of it hidden behind a nurse’s badge and a fabricated cancer diagnosis.
#TrueCrime #NurseAllegations #LifeInsuranceMurder #UtahCrime
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The latest on The Downfall of Diddy, The Trial of Karen Read, The Murder Of Maddie Soto, Catching the Long Island Serial Killer, Awaiting Admission: BTK’s Unconfessed Crimes, Delphi Murders: Inside the Crime, Chad & Lori Daybell, The Murder of Ana Walshe, Alex Murdaugh, Bryan Kohberger, Lucy Letby, Kouri Richins, Malevolent Mormon Mommys, The Menendez Brothers: Quest For Justice, The Murder of Stephen Smith, The Murder of Madeline Kingsbury, The Murder Of Sandra Birchmore, and much more! Listen at https://www.truecrimetodaypod.com