Lights Out · Episode 287 · March 9, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

287: Lucy Letby: Serial Killer Nurse or Miscarriage of Justice?

Between 2015 and 2016, something was happening inside a neonatal intensive care unit in England. Babies, premature, fragile, fighting to survive, were suddenly collapsing. Not one. Not two. But again… and again… and again. Doctors couldn’t explain it. These weren’t expected deaths. Many of the babies had been improving. Some were even preparing to go home. And yet, without warning, their oxygen levels would plummet. Their stomachs would swell. Strange purple blotches would spread across their skin. And almost every time it happened… one nurse was there. Her name was Lucy Letby. She was quiet. Soft-spoken. Dedicated. The kind of nurse parents trusted with their most vulnerable moments. She volunteered for extra shifts. She comforted grieving families. She made memory boxes for parents who had just lost their children. But behind that image, prosecutors would later argue, was something far darker. Over the course of a year, seven babies would die. Ten more would survive attempted murder