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Michael Joseph Swango (born James Michael Swango, [1] October 21, 1954) is an American serial killer and physician who is estimated to have been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues in the United States and Zimbabwe, although he admitted to causing only four deaths.
Harold Frederick Shipman (14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004), known to acquaintances as Fred Shipman, was an English doctor in general practice and serial killer.He is considered to be one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history, with an estimated 284 victims over a period of roughly 30 years.
Suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams claimed that his patient Edith Alice Morrell—whose murder he was tried for in 1957—had wanted to die. He was controversially found not guilty but later suspected of murdering up to 163 of his patients.
Several offices of doctors who were believed to have treated Jackson were searched. Based on the autopsy and toxicology findings, the cause of Jackson's death was determined to be acute propofol intoxication with a contributory benzodiazepine effect and the manner of death to be a homicide, eventually, so that the focus of the investigation ...
A California fertility doctor who prosecutors said strangled his wife and then tried to make it appear a s id she’d died from accidentally falling down stairs was found guilty of murder Tuesday ...
The "Dr. X" killings were a series of suspicious deaths by curare poisoning, in 1966 at a Bergen County, New Jersey hospital. [1] A newspaper investigation during the mid-1960s led to the indictment of an Argentina-born physician, Mario Enrique Jascalevich (August 27, 1927 — September 1984), in 1976.
Wollschlaeger, the addiction doctor, pointed out that other drugs in her system, such as cocaine, can be contaminated by fentanyl – in which case it’s quite possible that her death was a homicide.
The “execution-style” killing of Hamid Mirshojae was a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by the doctor’s ex-wife, according to Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman. Mary Beth ...