Murdered while still alive: How a victims daughter remembers Robert Courtney [Video]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Meckenzie Hayes has spent her adulthood trying to understand what happened to her mother.

Georgia Hayes was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Even worse, Robert Courtney was her pharmacist.

Meckenzie was just a teenager when her world crashed.

“I vividly remember seeing it on the news for the first time while sitting in our living room. I recognized the pharmacy shown in the footage,” said Meckenzie. “I remember running to get my parents and asking them if what was happening in the news story was happening to us.”

It was just the beginning of the nightmare. Federal prosecutors accused Courtney of diluting medications like chemotherapy to turn a bigger profit.

“I had a lot of difficulty wrapping my head around how this could happen — how someone could value money over a human life,” said Meckenzie. “I remember believing that my mother had been murdered — when she was still alive.”