Jerry Pflugradt – Isolated, Neglected and Murdered
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Jerry Pflugradt was a strong, outspoken, larger-than-life man who worked hard and loved deeply. He was a truck driver, owned semis, and seemed to know someone everywhere he went. To his wife Kim, he was her protector, her partner, and her whole life. They had been together for thirty-five years. Jerry had four children of his own and helped raise Kim’s two children as if they were his. He loved hunting, fishing, boating, road trips, antique malls, garage sales, the lake, and animals.
Jerry and Kim had sold their home, bought a fifth wheel, and were preparing for a new chapter together as snowbirds. They were supposed to travel, rest, and enjoy the life they had worked so hard to build.
Instead, Jerry entered Mosaic Hospital in Buchanan County, Missouri, on December 29, 2021, and never came home.
Before Jerry was hospitalized, Kim believed something serious was happening with his heart. He had been passing out periodically, had concerning symptoms, and had also fallen at work. When his breathing became worse, she took him to the hospital hoping he would receive answers and care. But once Jerry entered the hospital, Kim says the focus quickly became COVID. She remembers telling staff she did not believe COVID was the true cause of what was happening but says she was told he would be put down as COVID anyway.
From there, Kim says Jerry was isolated from her. At first, she could speak to him by phone, but he quickly became confused. He told her he could not figure out how to order food. Then nurses stopped answering the phone, and Jerry stopped answering too. When Kim finally got into his room, she found his phone shut off and placed across the room, out of his reach. Her husband had been cut off from the one person fighting for him.
What Kim found in that room still haunts her. Jerry was out of it, struggling under an oxygen device blowing so hard she said it looked like it could blow-dry hair. He kept trying to remove it. He could barely communicate. When Kim pulled back the covers, she found him still wearing the same jogging pants he had worn when he entered the hospital days earlier. He was soaked from his chest down, red, raw, and neglected. Kim screamed for help. When help did not come quickly enough, she demanded supplies and cleaned her husband herself.
Kim later discovered in Jerry’s records that he had suffered a major heart attack and a stroke while hospitalized. She says no one called her when it happened.
There was also confusion over a DNR. Jerry told Kim a nurse had questioned why he had a DNR because he was too young. Kim says Jerry did not want to be placed on a machine, but he wanted to live. She believes he signed paperwork without fully understanding what he was signing because he was already medicated and confused. Fearing what was happening, Kim went to court to gain authority so doctors would have to communicate with her. She says they still did not.
Jerry was given remdesivir. Kim remembers him calling and saying they were going to start “the protocol” and that he was going to do it because he wanted to live. She begged him not to, but he was scared, alone, and made to believe compliance was his only chance. Kim asked for ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, but says those requests were refused and dismissed. One doctor told her ivermectin was for horses and animals, not humans. Kim knew that was not true and called him out for lying.
Then came the ventilator. Kim says staff told her it was the only way to save him. Jerry had said he did not want to be on a machine, but when he became distressed, multiple people held him down while staff yelled to vent him. Kim was asked what she wanted them to do. She said, “Save his life.” To the hospital, that meant intubation.
Jerry remained on the ventilator for fourteen days.
During that time, Kim says he developed mold in his lungs and a catheter-related infection. She believes he was not given proper basic care and that infections contributed to his decline. A nurse also told Kim that if Jerry had been vaccinated, “probably none of this would have happened,” confirming what Kim already felt that his vaccination status affected how he was treated.
After fourteen days, Jerry was finally removed from the ventilator. Though his throat was damaged and he could barely speak, he woke up. He smiled. He laughed. Family came to see him. For one day, there was hope. Kim saw her husband still fighting to live.
Then he was moved out of ICU quickly. Kim says she overheard a doctor say they needed the room. Almost immediately, people began coming into Jerry’s new room telling Kim he was not going to make it and asking what she wanted to do. Kim ordered them out. Jerry was still alive. He was still present. He still wanted to go home.
Kim says Jerry later received a shot she was told was saline, after previously reacting badly to a similar injection. A nurse later told her the doctor had given it and that Jerry had reacted. After that, Jerry lost consciousness and never came back.
When staff told Kim there was nothing more, they could do, she wanted to take him home. But she says a social worker frightened her by asking what she would do if he died on the way. Exhausted and terrified, Kim agreed to palliative care. Jerry died in the hospital on January 28, 2022. He was 67 years old.
Kim was left alone in the fifth wheel that was supposed to carry them into retirement. The car Jerry bought her as an early Christmas gift still sits as a painful reminder of the future they never got to share.
Jerry’s story reflects the devastating patterns families across the country have described: isolation, communication cut off, vaccination-status hostility, pressure around DNR, remdesivir, refusal of requested treatments, aggressive oxygen escalation, ventilation, restraint, failure to communicate critical medical events, neglect of basic care, infections, and end-of-life pressure after a patient appeared to be improving.
What happened to Jerry was institutional betrayal. These egregious crimes against humanity must be exposed, stopped, and never allowed to happen again.
Betrayal Project USA gives victims and families like Kim a platform to tell the truth, preserve their loved ones’ stories, seek reform and accountability, and build a community of support for those who suffered institutional betrayal. Our organization, board members, and volunteer force are made up primarily of victims, widows, widowers, and survivors who experienced similar harm and refuse to let these stories be erased.
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