Harold Shipman
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Harold Shipman (14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004) was a British general practitioner (a type of doctor) and serial killer. He is thought to have killed up to 250 of his patients.[1]
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Personal life [change]
Shipman was born in Nottingham. He was a psychopath.[2] In 1975, he was convicted of forging prescriptions for pethidine, to which he was addicted.
Crimes [change]
He was put on trial and found guilty of 15 murders, and an investigation identified another 235 suspicious deaths. His usual way of killing was using morphine. Most of the patients he killed were old women.
Death [change]
While he was an inmate in Wakefield prison, he committed suicide.
Other pages [change]
- John Bodkin Adams - British general practitioner and suspected serial killer
- Michael Swango - American doctor and serial killer
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