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Nurse sentenced to life for killing patients by injecting them with bleach Apr 2nd 2012, 22:29 Joel Andrews / AP / Lufkin Daily News Kimberly Saenz was fired from her job at a clinic in Lufkin, Texas, in 2008 after patients started dying and falling increasingly ill. By Msnbc.com staff and wire services A Texas jury on Monday sentenced a former nurse to life in prison after finding her guilty of killing five patients by injecting bleach into their kidney dialysis lines, the Lufkin Daily News reported.  Follow @msnbc_us Kimberly Saenz, 38, was found guilty of capital murder in the case last week. Jurors could have recommended that she be sentenced to death. Saenz was fired from her job at a clinic in Lufkin run by health care giant DaVita Inc. in 2008 after patients started dying and falling increasingly ill. The Lufkin Daily News reported that at Monday's sentencing, the daughter of victim Thelma Metcalf told Saenz, “You are nothing more than a psychopathic serial killer. I hope you burn in hell." During closing arguments, the prosecution reminded jurors that other patients feared for their lives after they witnessed some of the injections. Two patients testified that they saw Saenz inject the bleach into the IV lines. Saenz’s public defender, Ryan Deaton, argued that his client had been poorly trained. The Associated Press found records that showed Sanez's husband had filed for divorce and obtained an emergency protective order against her in June 2007, a year before the outbreak of death and illnesses at the DaVita clinic. More content from msnbc.com and NBC News: Supreme Court OKs strip searches for minor offenses 1940 time capsule revealed as census records are made public Town of Red Bud buzzes over Mega Millions mystery 5 die when motor home crashes into ravine Follow US News on msnbc.com on Twitter and Facebook Media files: bleach injection deaths--772745709_v2.photoblog400.jpg (image/jpeg) One of three Huguette Clark apartments, the penthouse, has found a buyer Apr 2nd 2012, 21:24 Brown Harris Stevens The view from Huguette Clark's apartment 8W, which still could be yours. The asking price is $19 million. By Bill Dedman, Investigative Reporter, msnbc.com NEW YORK — One of the three mysterious apartments of copper heiress Huguette M. Clark has sold for an undisclosed price. Her top-floor apartment, with 5,000 square feet of space overlooking Central Park, was on the market for $24 million, the most expensive of the three. The signing of a contract for apartment 12W was confirmed Monday by broker Mary Rutherfurd of Brown Harris Stevens, an exclusive affiliate of Christie's International Real Estate. The apartments have been on the market for less than a month. Still available: apartment 8W, also with a park view, at $19 million, and 8E, listed at $12 million. You can see the floor plans and descriptions of the apartments in our earlier story. The three apartments cost the reclusive heiress to a Montana copper fortune $28,500 a month in co-op fees, or $342,000 a year, while she lived for two decades in New York hospital rooms. Huguette Marcelle Clark has been the subject of a series of reports on msnbc.com about her vacant properties and the management of her fortune. When she died last May at age 104, she owned three apartments at 907 Fifth Avenue, at 72nd Street, in addition to an oceanfront estate in Santa Barbara, Calif., with an estimated value of $100 million, and a country house in New Canaan, Conn., recently put back on the market by the same broker at $19.8 million. The auction of the Clark jewelry collection, at Christie's New York, is scheduled for April 17. A slideshow of the Clark jewels is available at the home page for our Clark mystery series. When the apartments and jewelry sell, some of the money will be used to pay estate expenses, with the rest will be held for the eventual winner of the legal battle. On one side are members of the Clark family, grandchildren of her father from his first marriage, whom she included in one will and then cut out of her last. On the other side are her attorney, accountant, nurse and favorite museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, which were all named in the second will, which left the largest portion of her estate to create an art museum in her California home, with the next largest piece going to her nurse. Share your story ideas or documents with Open Channel Follow Bill Dedman on Facebook Follow Open Channel on Facebook Follow Bill Dedman on Twitter Follow Open Channel on Twitter Sign up for e-mail alerts   Media files: imagesizer?file=bill-dedmanDFDA417E-F921-E101-07D9-C1C9EA129460.jpg&width=400 (image/jpeg) 3,168 undocumented immigrants held in largest-ever sweep Apr 2nd 2012, 21:21 Gregory Bull / AP Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents take a suspect into custody as part of a nationwide immigration sweep in Chula Vista, Calif., on Friday. By msnbc.com staff and news services Federal agents arrested more than 3,100 unauthorized immigrants last week in the country’s biggest-ever operation targeting criminal and fugitive immigrants for deportation, immigration officials said Monday. From last Saturday to Thursday, agents in all 50 states used intelligence to track down certain immigrants. Follow @msnbc_us The agents started before dawn; a supervisor would brief them about the person they aimed to arrest that day. In Dallas, a video from the raid on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement website shows a supervisor describing a man who had been deported before and who had a drunk-driving conviction. The agents then headed to the person’s home, hoping to reach them before the person could leave for the day. The roundup was the third “Cross Check” sweep since May 2011. In last week's raid, 1,900 agents arrested 3,168 immigrants, 90 percent of them men. "These are people we do not want roaming our streets," John Morton, director of ICE, said at a news conference, according to Reuters. He said those arrested included almost 1,500 people with felony convictions, including murder and kidnapping. Among those arrested were Carlington David Richards, 34, of Jamaica, who was living in Federal Way, Wash. Richards had recently moved to the U.S. and is wanted in Jamaica for murder, according to ICE. Jose Angel Duran-Ramos, 66, of Mexico, was living in El Paso, Texas, and was convicted of murder in 1984 and sentenced to 18 years in prison. Veasna Uy, 34, of Cambodia, was living in Long Beach, Calif., and was convicted of manslaughter, attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon in 2000. Gillian Christensen, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman, told msnbc.com that the agency has focused on deporting known criminals since President Barack Obama took office. Now, 50 percent of deported immigrants have prior criminal records. In 2008, about 30 percent had criminal records. There were 11.9 million unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. in 2008, about 4 percent of the nation’s population, according to the Pew Research Center. Last year, the service deported 396,000 people. More content from msnbc.com and NBC News: Supreme Court OKs strip searches for minor offenses 1940 time capsule revealed as census records are made public Town of Red Bud buzzes over Mega Millions mystery 5 die when motor home crashes into ravine Follow US News on msnbc.com on Twitter and Facebook Media files: 120402_ice-arrest.photoblog400.jpg (image/jpeg)

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