The Doctor of Death Who Murdered Over 215 People
From 1975 to 1998, ‘Dr. Death’ is thought to have killed over 215 patients in Britain.
Imagine being hale and hearty at a ripe old age just to have that taken away from you by a psychopath with a god complex, that too when the psychopath turns out to be your doctor!
A Seemingly Respectable Doctor
With his grey beard and spectacles, and over twenty years of medical experience at the small suburban town of Hyde, Dr. Harold Shipman enjoyed a long prestigious career before finally getting caught. Nobody could’ve guessed that this unassuming man was, in fact, a psychopath, insidiously overdosing hundreds of patients with morphine, often merely because he considered them annoying.
The exact motive behind his crimes remains unknown to this day.
By the time he was caught, he had over 3000 registered patients with such solid belief in his reputation that most of them could not believe that he was a murderer. Such strong was his ability to trap his victims.
According to the Shipman inquiry chairperson, Dame Janet Smith,
