MedCrimes: a Medical True Crime Podcast · Kate Macy and Devon Rebecca

“Sister Amy” Archer and the Archer Home, part 2

·1 hr 9 min·5 clips

Part 2 of the Amy Archer Gilligan true crime story follows the 1914 chapter of a Connecticut nursing home operator who systematically poisoned residents and her second husband Michael Gilligan for insurance money while battling a severe morphine addiction. As Amy's murder rate hit 40 deaths in three years across just 20 beds, a resident whistleblower, his sister, and a Hartford Courant investigation team began closing in. The episode blends clinical nursing insight — including why the attributed causes of death made no physiological sense — with the mounting evidence that would eventually unravel Amy's crimes.

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Illness, money, and suspicious deaths give this part 2 a grim edge.

Sister Amy Archer and the Archer Home, part 2 stays close to the case's bleakest stretch, where illness, money, and suspicion keep tightening around the house.

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When money and deaths keep lining up, this case gets very dark.

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