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from the same bank. That loan coincided with their daughter’s start at Angelina Community College in the nursing program.
    Saenz graduated in December 2004 as an LVN (licensed vocational nurse) in Texas. Naturally her parents and other members of the family were proud of her. In an E! Program interview, her father, Kent, talked about how hard she’d worked to become a nurse. He said, “It was a full-time job just to become a nurse.” He also said his daughter hadn’t pursued nursing for the money. “It was about helping people,” he said. “She just liked to help people.”
    Her son, Jacob Hopper, told the same program, “I always got to go to school knowing my mom was out there saving lives.”
    Fate, however, had other plans.
    The same month she graduated from nursing school, Saenz went to work for Memorial Hospital, one of the two hospitals in Lufkin, but she worked there only five months. Exactly one month after leaving Memorial, Saenz went to work for Woodland Heights, the other hospital in Lufkin. There’s no official indication as to why she left Memorial Hospital, but in August 2005, two months after going to work for Woodland Heights, she was fired for stealing Demerol—a highly controlled narcotic. Records also indicated that she supposedly gave Demerol to patients who were not in pain.
    As the whirlpool swirled around her and with a bad work record for the two nursing jobs she’d held in less than a year since earning her degree, complete with the charges against her at the last one, one might assume that Saenz would not get another nursing job anytime soon. However, federal employment laws only allow employers to disclose if they would hire that person back or not. Although Saenz had a serious charge against her nursing license, the Texas State Board of Nursing only lists the allegation against a nurse’s license after they have investigated the charges. At that point, the board hadn’t yet investigated the Woodland Heights charges about the stolen Demerol. At the time Saenz was looking for another job after Woodland Heights, potential employers only had a clear nursing record to look at. Despite her two no-rehires, nurses were hard to find and in high demand.
    Saenz’s next job was at Wright Choice Home Health. She worked for them under two months. Employees said that, in the beginning, she was pleasant and on time, and seemed to enjoy the job. However, her mood and work record quickly changed drastically. She became morose when she was there, and often arrived late. Finally, Wright Choice let her go because she was constantly late and didn’t call in—and sometimes just simply didn’t show up for work.
    Kevin Saenz told people at this point that his wife was so depressed that she couldn’t get out of bed and he was taking her to Brentwood Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana, for treatment. She was, in fact, admitted there for depression and suicidal thoughts. While there, she also complained about how Kevin treated her.
    After the Brentwood stay, Kimberly applied for employment with the Lufkin State School, a state-supported living facility for people with developmental and mental disabilities. She began work there on October 1, 2006, as a probationary employee. Thirty days later on October 31, 2006, they terminated her employment because she was not suited for her assigned position.
    At this point, she’d been a nurse for less than a year and had been fired from four nursing jobs—and had four no-rehires on her record. Then before she celebrated her first year as a nurse, she got her fifth job. On November 27, 2006, she went to work for the Children’s Clinic of Lufkin.
    The fact was, Kimberly Saenz was having some real problems in her life—problems that people she’d gone to school with, gone to church with, or who knew her socially had no idea about. In addition to her depression, she and Kevin were