Harold Shipman was a doctor from British, one of the utmost horrific serial killers in documented history that was not caught for years. It was proven that he committed 250 murders between 1971 and 1998. 459 people were believed to have died while under his care, it is unclear how many were Shipman's victims, because he usually was the only doctor to conform a death” (Biography.com). A jury found Shipman guilty of 15 killings in January 2000. His sentence included he never be released. After his trial, The Shipman Inquiry began on September 1, 2000, lasting almost two years it was an investigation into all deaths certified by Shipman. His youngest victim was a 41 year old man. It was determined that most of his killings were women. The only British physician who was found guilty of killing his patients was Shipman. Shipman hung himself in his cell at Wakefield Prison on January 13, 2004 (Biography.com, 2015). …show more content…
He killed more than 215 and perhaps as many as 260 of his patients, inserting them with fatal doses of painkillers between 1970 and 1998 when he was arrested. The local mortician detected that all of Dr. Shipman's patients were dying, and revealed they died the same death. He was worried enough to approach Shipman about the deaths, who assured him that he had did nothing wrong. Another medical coworker, Dr. Susan Booth, also establish that the comparison was too much alike, and the local coroner's office was alerted, who then phoned the police (Biography.com,
The anatomy murders were committed by William Burke and William Hare in 1828. From January to October they killed sixteen people, three men, twelve women, and one child. Neither men had no prior criminal history which makes the anatomy murders even more bizarre. William Burke and William Hare were both laborers living seemingly normal lives until one fateful day when the two discovered a man who had died of natural causes in Hare’s lodging house. The two men sold the body, to be dissected by Dr. Robert Knox, for between £8 and £10.
David Lee, Yebin Cho, Cindy Hong Mr. Musselman Ap Psychology 31, January 2016 Our team has investigated on the crime of a suspect of serial killer. The victims were Mrs.Shelby, John G, Jimmy Grants, Teddy a.k.a. John Edward Gammell.
While he attended this school he began working as an assistant physician. Later he became a full time physician. In 1988 he was arrested for killing at least 215 people and possibly 260 more of his patients. Shipman’s way of killing his victims was to inject them with very lethal doses of many different types of pain killers. Shipman was also known as “Fred”, only because his middle name was Frederick.
Wiley Bridgeman spent over half his life in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In 1975 Bridgeman was one of three men falsely convicted and imprisoned for the murder of Harold Franks. Wiley Bridgeman was sentenced to life in prison after being charged with aggravated murder and robbery, but after a retrial almost 40 years later, he was found innocent and was able to spend the few remaining years of his life with his family. Wiley Bridgeman was 20 years old when he was accused of a crime he didn’t commit.
Jeffrey Dahmer was a serial killer and sexual offender who committed his crimes between 1978 and 1991 and is widely known to this day. After sexually abusing, murdering, and dismembering his 17 male victims he was found to perform sexual acts to the corpse or even consume them. This gave way to his well known name of the “Milwaukee Cannibal”. Though given multiple diagnoses during trial he was deemed sane and sentenced to 17 life sentences in prison.
Gawande was able to find four physicians who participated in executions at prisons who were willing to talk about their experience. They shared what their role was and why they participated. Because of the sensitive nature of capital punishment and people’s strong opinions about it the physicians who participated remained anonymous. Each doctor had slightly different reasons for participating, the first doctor knew the warden of a prison in his town and first did it to help the warden out. The doctor started by doing nothing more than standing behind a current and watching a heart monitor, when it flat lined he sent a different physician out to listen to the heart and check for a pulse and assure the inmate was dead.
If those facts are not enough to support the horrible killings upon the Jewish community and other minority groups, there are the stories of individuals that survived the unspeakable ordeal. Their stories match up with the confessions of Nazi soldiers. Reinhold Hanning, now 94 years old, was an Auschwitz guard and apologized in a trial in Germany for participating on the mass killings at the concentration camps. He said, “No one in my family knew that I was active at Auschwitz” (qtd. in Oltermann). During the trial, Hanning confessed he was ashamed of his actions and never revealed his story until now, like him there are others that do not want to relive their dishonorably pass and keep quiet.
Shipman became addicted to Pethidine, which he illegally prescribed to himself (Harold Shipman, 2014). He was tried and found guilty of this causing him to be fired, which I feel, really drove his serial killer to bloom fully. I say this, because someone who feels such an entitlement and that they are above others must have had a deep-rooted impact on him to be told he was guilty and to take away his prominent employment. Unfortunately for society, Dr. Shipman was able to retain his license and after receiving rehabilitation started to work as a general practitioner again (Harold Shipman, 2014). Taking everything into account, including Dr. Shipman’s early sense of entitlement, intimately involved with his mothers battle with cancer, and his infatuation with morphine-like drugs began his evil endeavor of murdering well over two hundred people.
In the novel Monster by Walter Dean Myers the young main character Steve Harmen who grew up in Harlem, got caught with some bad people and is on trial for murder. Ms. O’Brien and Ms Petrocelli’s final statement during the trial of Steve Harmon and James King for the murder of Alguinanado Nesbitt, helped me come to the conclusion that Steve Harmen is innocent. I came to this conclusion because he never agreed to be the lookout, he never gave a signal, and never received any money. He was not with them at their chicken meet and greet after the robbery, The witness never saw Steve inside the store, Steve also said he was in there to buy mints. When he was on stand he then said he was never in the store.
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be on death row? Well, a man named Anthony Graves was in line to be lethally injected. Graves was living in Texas at the time and was framed for murdering six people, including Bobbie Davis, her daughter Nicole, grandchildren, Denitra, Lea’Erin, Brittany, and Jason. This incident happened in a small quiet town named Somerville, a town in between Austin and Houston. This mass murder was very bizarre since it was a small population of just over one thousand people.
In the short story 'A Kind of Murder' Hugh Pentecost shows there is more than one way to die. The story follows Mr. Warren, a poor man who has been sent to teach at a military academy, as he undergoes a most likely traumatizing social homicide. Mr. Warren walks into the quad carrying very little confidence. His hearing disability leads to problems with the children he teaches. Although he is faced with challenging students and cruel teachers, Mr. Warren stays kind.
Gabriela Botero Lostio Ap Psychology 8 June 2015 Harold Shipman: Doctor or Murderer? Upon hearing the news of a serial killer, first question would come to mind would be why?
The Doctor makes it clear he was not cut out for murder: "I can rob or steal without any particular qualms of conscious, but when it comes to murder, I
The Incident In 1998, Dr. Linda Reynolds of the Brooke Surgery in Hyde reached to John Pollard, who was the coroner for the South Manchester District, about Dr. Harold Shipman’s high rate of deaths of all of his patients. This was brought to the police attention and the police did not pay so much attention to it, assigning some of the newer police officers, which of course had little experience in being a police officer. These assigned police officers were unable to find enough evidence to charge Dr. Harold Shipman. Shipman’s investigation was then dropped and that same year Shipman killed 3 more people, with last victim being Kathleen Grundy, whose death certificate was recorded by Shipman stating that the cause of death was “old age.”
John Wayne Gacy is a serial killer who killed 33 people in total. He was born on May 17th 1942 in Chicago where he was physically and verbally abused by his father. Since this age he showed unusual behaviours and avoiding society, but then was determined that he has a psychological disorder. He moved to Los Angeles and was living a normal life however he started showing his real face in 1968 where he raped a young, male employee.