And odds are, someone out there is friends with Caitlyn Kaufman. And they’ll never forget how she died and who murdered her. Worse, the silence surrounding her death. For a black career criminal murdered Caitlyn Kaufman, a white ICU nurse merely trying to drive to work… Her Name is Caitlyn Kaufman. A tip from a concerned citizen led to the arrest of a man in connection with the murder of 26-year-old Tennessee nurse Caitlyn Kaufman. Kaufman was in her vehicle on the way to work an overnight shift in the ICU at St. Thomas West Hospital Dec. 3 when she was shot multiple times.