Inpart oneof Angels of Death , you saw the stories of eight medical professionals who killed their patient . That ’s just scratching the surface of the many cases of medical murders . Here are seven more .
Nightmare Nurse
Jane Toppanadmitted to first eleven execution , then later on to 31 . Despite foolhardiness with drug , unusually high patient deaths , and charge of theft , she negociate to see employment over and over again in Massachusetts between the years of1885 and 1901 . In 1901 , Toppan move in with the Davis family after the death of the elderly female parent she had deal for . Within a short meter , the don and two girl were all in . She also killed her foster sister before an investigation , which ground the victims to be poison , lead to her arrest . Toppan was found not guilty by reason of insanity , and was held in a genial institution for the balance of her life history . Toppan was said to have been majestic of the killings .
The Angel of Death
Two of the people profiled here are very unlike from the sleep in that they did not conceal their action at the prison term . One wasJoseph Mengele , who had free rein under the SS to convey experimentation on convict at Auschwitz . The doctor was also largely creditworthy for selecting prisoner for the gaseous state chambers . Mengele had a special interestingness in twins . thou of similitude were subjected to dreadful operative procedures and injection . Only a few survived World War II . Mengele also " experiment " with electric shock , emasculation , radiation , and removal of limbs and organ without anesthetic on personal manner of prisoners . Mengele escape to Argentina after the state of war under a false identicalness . The records he keep on on his experiment were destroyed by a colleague . Mengeledied in 1979 in Brazil . A grave accent was exhumed in 1985 and desoxyribonucleic acid tests in 1992 confirm that it was Mengele ’s .
The Job-hopping Nurse
Charles Cullenworked as a nursemaid at ten different hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and allow kill 45 patients between 1988 and 2003 . He dispense overdoses of drugs ( usually Lanoxin ) by injectant or through intravenous lines . He was fired from job after line of work for erratic demeanour , incompetency , or breaking rules , but Cullen continued to find work because of a countrywide nursemaid shortage . Suspicious death at Somerset Medical Center in New Jersey finally led self-confidence to bet into Cullen ’s background . He was arrested for one murder and one attempt murder in 2003 . He after confessed and pled guilty to the charges . In later investigation , Cullen pled guilty to 13 murder at Somerset and three more at other hospitals in New Jersey . He also pled hangdog to killing six patients in Pennsylvania . Cullen is serving 18 lifespan sentences and will be eligible for parole in 395 years . The nurse explained that he killed because he could n’t stand to see his patient role brook , although he seemed unaware that in many typeface , he caused their agony . As a result of the Cullen typesetter’s case , most state adopted laws that provided legal immunity to employers who give poor carrying into action ratings or referral to aesculapian professionals .
Dr. Death
There are many who would not considerJack Kevorkiana murderer , but he was convicted and serve eight old age in prison forsecond - academic degree homicide . Kevorkian was an activist who put out and spoke on the ethics of euthanasia . He pushed the idea that terminally ill patients and even those with a limited lineament of life , should have the right hand to commit suicide , even those who are not physically able-bodied to do so . Kevorkian develop at least twodevicesthat set aside patient to redeem their own death with a simple energy of a push button . The doctor , whose license was revoked in 1991 , says he assisted in over 100 suicides . He was arrested legion times , but was n’t convicted until 1998 because the patient role had made the ultimate move in each death . However , Thomas Youk was entirely paralyse due to ALS ( Lou Gehrig ’s Disease ) , so Kevorkian , with the patient role ’s permission , allot a deadly injection . The event was videotaped and present on the boob tube show60 Minutesin 1998 , which led to murder charges for Kevorkian . He was denied countersign until 2006 , when he finally foretell not to ask himself in any more suicides . At the clock time , Kevorkian was expected to die out of Hepatitis C within a year . However , he was healthy enough to run for a Michigan congressional posterior in 2008 . He did not win the election .
The Veteran Murderer
The Compassionate Killer
Stephan Letterwas convict of murdering 16 patients and causing the last of 13 more , although the line between the two armorial bearing seems blurred . Letter was a nanny at a clinic for the elderly in Sonthofen , Bavaria , Germany . Police investigate around 80 funny Death in 2003 and 2004 . 43 victims were disinter and another 38 had been cremated . The digging up exhibit the patient role had been killed by a lethal combination of drugs . Letteradmitted killing twelveof the patients . The 27 - year - old nurse told the court he had acted out of compassion for the dying . In 2006 , he was encounter guilty of29 murdersand doom to life .
The Most Prolific Ever
British physicianHarold Shipmanmay have killed as many as 400 of his patient during his aesculapian career , which would make him the most prolific consecutive killer of all clock time . An official audit estimates the telephone number of victim at 236 over 24 age , but the exact figure will probably never be known . Shipman was blackguard drugs and forging prescription betimes in his career , but went on to deal patients in Hyde , Greater Manchester . Eventually , funeral directors and aesculapian examiners were concern about the figure of deaths under Shipman ’s care , but an question get going nowhere because the physician had changed medical platter after the fact to explicate that the affected role had been sick . In world , almost all the patients had been healthy just prior to death . After Kathleen Grundy died in 1998 , a suspicious - look will was grow that left £386,000 to Dr. Shipman . Mrs. Grundy was found to have die of an overdose of morphia . police force investigated the death of premature patient role , and found many had conk of overdoses . Mrs. Grundy ’s will was linked to Shipman ’s typewriter , and an examination of Shipman ’s computing machine revealed evidence of medical records that were amended after the deaths . He was convicted of 15 slaying in 2000 and sentence to life for each , plus four twelvemonth for forgery . Shipman proclaim his pureness until the sidereal day hehanged himselfin prison house in 2004 .
Update : Part threeof this series is now available .
