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William Dale Archerd (May 5, 1912 – October 29, 1977) was an American serial killer who killed at least three people with insulin injections between 1956 and 1966 in Northern California. He was the first to be convicted of using insulin as a murder weapon in the US, and he is suspected in three more cases.
In 1927, Sakel, who had recently qualified as a medical doctor in Vienna and was working in a psychiatric clinic in Berlin, began to use low (sub-coma) doses of insulin to treat drug addicts and psychopaths, and when one of the patients experienced improved mental clarity after having slipped into an accidental coma, Sakel reasoned the treatment might work for mentally ill patients. [3]
A two milligram dose of fentanyl powder (on pencil tip) is a lethal amount for most people. [1] Drug overdose and intoxication are significant causes of accidental death and can also be used as a form of suicide. Death can occur from overdosing on a single or multiple drugs, or from combined drug intoxication (CDI) due to poly drug use.
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They admitted him to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he was diagnosed with manic depression. He received three months of insulin shock therapy, which erased much of his long-term memory. [3] [9] Afterwards, his mother said that her "biggest regret in life was that she had allowed that treatment to occur". [12]
A 71-year-old diabetic woman was left “howling in pain” before she died after she stopped taking insulin at a workshop run by an alternative healer who she described as a “messenger sent by ...