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Ex-nurse charged in 4 hospital deaths Montague DA calls killings 'serial murder'; other cases possible 07/18/2002 By BERNADETTE PRUITT / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News MONTAGUE, Texas - Oma Wyler, 95, was in good spirits on that Sunday in January. After two weeks in Nocona General Hospital, she would soon be released. "Take me home with you, would you?" she prodded when daughter-in-law Billie Wyler came for a visit. The younger Mrs. Wyler assured her that she soon would. Two hours later, Oma Wyler, who had been feeling well, was "out of it," her daughter-in-law said. Later...

Ex-nurse indicted in slayings Many patients in Texas hospital died on same shift 07/17/2002 Associated Press NOCONA, Texas - A former nurse at Nocona General Hospital, where the deaths of at least two dozen patients have been under investigation, was indicted Tuesday on two counts of capital murder. Authorities said Vickie Dawn Jackson was taken into custody Tuesday, immediately after the grand jury returned the two indictments about 4:30 p.m. "The hospital worked very hard with local law enforcement and the Texas Rangers to initiate the investigation," said Michael Graham, chief executive officer of the hospital. "We think this...