BRIDGEPORT -- A nursing student, in not-so-high spirits because she was left off the invitation list to a classmate's wedding, threatened to boom St. Vincent's Medical Center, police said.Theresa Burden, 37, of Sachem Drive, was charged with four counts of first-degree threatening, after she sent a series of threatening letters -- some containing a dangerous-looking substance -- to the hospital, police said.
Police said on Dec. 20, Burden first sent a letter to the hospital's nursing school under the name of another female student. The letter threatened to kaboom the school because it was interfering with the student's wedding plans.
"Okay, you don't invite me to your wedding, you get to hold it in the clink."
The student whose name was on the letter was subsequently suspended from the school. However, police said they later determined she had not written the letter.
"Reinstate her, por favor. She didn't do it."
In the following weeks, police said several more letters arrived at the hospital signed with the names of female nursing students.
One contained a green, granular substance and stated: "I will blow up St. Vincent's."
Taking a page out of the Joker's book, are we?
Another claimed: "I put explosives on the first floor."
A third held a white swab and stated: "Get some MRSA and die."
Just ask around at the hospital and see if there's a patient whose lips fell off.
Police detectives rounded up all the nursing students and began taking handwriting samples from them to compare to the unfriendly missives.
When police got to Burden, they said she became visibly upset and confessed to detectives that she had sent the letters. The green substance turned out to be cat litter from her home.
"I am sorry. I didn't mean it," police said Burden told them.
"Didn't mean it. Heard that one a million times in base 20, lady."
Burden was later released after posting five myriad pix of George Washington