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They know how to kill and how to cure. Inside a hospital, at home, or maybe even next door. They are trained to save lives but also know how to take them. Delve into the stories of killers who broke the Hippocratic Oath to use their medical knowledge for murder, taking the lives of often vulnerable victims instead of caring for them.
2024
[Paramedic Conspiracy?] Paul Novak's outwardly heroic persona as a post-9/11 paramedic concealed a dark side. Amidst a divorce, his estranged wife Catherine, mother of their two children, is found dead after a fire burned down their Sullivan County home.
[Black Widower] Malcolm Webster’s wife, Claire, died in a car crash in a remote part of Scotland, and he was apparently inconsolable. When his second wife, Felicity, almost died in similar circumstances in New Zealand and money is missing, suspicions were raised.
[Why is Kathy Augustine Dead?] Kathy Augustine was a politician serving in the Nevada Senate. Shortly after her husband of 17 years died from complications of a stroke, she married Chaz Higgs, the critical care nurse who had been caring for her late husband. On July 8, 2006, she was found unconscious in her home; she died four days later from an apparent heart attack.
[Unexplained Sudden Deaths] Something was wrong at DaVita dialysis centre in Lufkin, East Texas, with a huge increase in code blues. Patient after patient is being blue lighted to the nearest hospital, many succumbing to their injuries. Staff are devastated and cannot understand why these deaths are occurring.
[Unexplained Deaths] William George Davis, a nurse in Tyler, Texas, was just 32 when he began a reign of terror over patients recovering from heart surgery. Prosecutors claimed that Davis had at least eleven victims, of whom seven died.
[The Death of Eric Lloyd] When factory worker Eric Lloyd dies at home, his grieving wife is anxious the authorities believe it is from natural causes. Marie Whiston has been looking after him at home between nursing shifts at their local hospital and is anxious to pass his death off as due to ill health.
[Unexplained Deaths on a Children's Ward] From February to April 1991, Beverley Allitt's reign of terror at Grantham Hospital led to the deaths of four children and serious harm to many others. Her background revealed troubling signs of Munchausen's syndrome, manifesting at an early age.
[Doctor Greed] Within two years of Dr. Lisa Tseng starting her career in Rowland Heights, Los Angeles, the demographic pattern of her patients dramatically changed, with largely young men traveling long distances to seek pain medication.
[Double Life Pharmacist] All Jessica Patel from Middlesbrough wanted was a loving husband and a family of her own. She marries her first love Mitesh, but soon her dreams are shattered. Mitesh is psychologically and physically abusive and begins living a double life, one where he dates men, falling in love with one in particular.
[Unexplained Deaths of a Doctor's Patients] From 1970 to 1998, Dr. Harold Shipman, a respected GP, murdered some 250 patients. Despite suspicions raised by colleagues, it took years for the authorities to catch up with him, revealing a shocking pattern of abusing trust.
[Unexplained Deaths of Elderly Veterans] US veteran Reta Mays starts work as a nurse's assistant in a West Virginia VA center, a hospital specifically for veterans. In little more than a year, between July 2017 and August 2018, there are 21 suspicious deaths. The FBI launch an investigation which culminates in the exhumation of some of her victims.
[The Mysterious Death of Leslie Neulander] Dr. Bob Neulander finds his wife Leslie covered in blood and unresponsive in the bathroom, having apparently fallen in the shower. He tries to revive her but she dies at the scene. Initially, her death is ruled an accident, but local rumors mean the DA reopens the investigation.
[Nocona's Florence Nightingale] Vickie Dawn Jackson, a nurse at Nocona General Hospital in Texas, has a troubled domestic life, but is a dedicated and successful nurse... until she goes on a killing spree. An investigation found a suspicious syringe in the trash, and bodies were exhumed to test for the lethal drug.
2025
[The Most Hated Woman in America] A rising pop star gunned down in her prime. The future is bright for Selena Quintanilla until her clothing boutique business manager, Yolanda Saldivar takes it all away. What drives her apparent number-one fan to become her killer?
[The Dentist with a Death Wish] An unbelievable double murder plot that took decades to come to light, and only from the words of the key protagonist, well-known dentist Colin Howell. A tale of sex, religion, and greed that shook the Irish community where it happened to its core.
[The Disappearance of Gail Katz] The family of Gail Katz believe her disappearance is solved after a torso washes up on the shores of Staten Island, four years after she vanishes into thin air. It isn't her, and what unfolds is a murder solved thousands of feet above the Atlantic Ocean.
[The Doctor with a License to Kill] Dr. Michael Swango, a good-looking doctor who at first bowled over many that he met, deceives many as a fraudster and murderer. He leaves destruction across the U.S. and Africa, with dozens of suspected victims.
[The Nursing Home Killer] Eleven vulnerable and elderly residents of a Sydney care home perish as the result of a destructive fire. Nurse Roger Dean, a Vietnamese-born Australian, aids the evacuation, but his role in this devastating incident is much more than just a helping hand.
[The Unluckiest Hospital in the World?] A hospital in the town of Clinton, IN, witnesses the tripling of the death rate in just one year. Most people in this small community know someone affected. At the center of the mystery is Nurse Orville Lynn Majors - could he be responsible for as many as 100 deaths?
[A Doctor's Deadly Revenge] Two double murders take place five years apart in Omaha, Nebraska. After the second double murder, the victims are connected to doctors who worked together at Creighton University. Could another doctor, fueled by rage and revenge, be to blame?
[A Doctor's Deadly Facelift] Michelle MacNeil, a beautiful woman and caring mother, has a facelift, but while on the road to recovery, dies at home in the bathtub. An unsuspicious death to the authorities, some of her older daughters begin to suspect their father - a doctor - of playing a deadly part in her demise.
[Care Home Killer] A care home in the town of Newcastle, Australia, suffers the loss of two residents within two days. But these are not cases of old age taking its course. At the heart of what happens is a nurse with a bitter disdain for the elderly and a history of shocking pathological lying.
[Rose Petal Poisoning] One evening, a young woman calls 911 in a panic - her 26-year-old husband Greg has stopped breathing. Paramedics find him bizarrely covered with rose petals. Could Greg's suspected suicidal overdose be the perfect murder?
[Dying for Attention] The death rate mysteriously triples in one hospital ward in the VA Medical Center in Northampton, MA. When investigators join the dots they find one common denominator in the patients' care: nurse Kristen Gilbert. But could this so-called 'soccer mom' really be a killer?
[The Night Shift Killer] A nurse who likes to wear the white coat of a doctor, finds himself at the center of the mysterious deaths of many patients at Glendale Adventist Medical Center in California. But even his shocking confession can't bring him to justice.
[The Thrill-Seeking Therapist] A small hospital in Chillicothe, MO, has 18 ‘code blue’ emergencies and 9 suspicious deaths within just 4 months. The finger points at a newly-appointed respiratory therapist and results in a criminal investigation lasting decades.
[The Night Nurse] When Charli Darragh tells her mother to complain about the treatment of Megan Haines, a South African nurse at the St. Andrew's Village care home in New South Wales, Australia, she never thought it would result in her mother’s death.
2024
[Did My Dentist Kill Bianca?] In 2016, Bianca Rudolph, an American on a romantic hunting trip with her husband in Zambia, is found shot dead in their hunting lodge. Deemed an accident by authorities, her husband of 34 years, multimillionaire dentist Larry Rudolph moves on with his life - and with his lover.
[Hell Hath No Fury] Clara Harris, a 44-year-old Colombian, moved to the US in the 1980s and opened her own successful dentistry practice. In the 1990s, she has two sons with her orthodontist husband, David Harris, who has a daughter from a previous marriage, and they seem like the perfect family, but they're not. Hell hath no fury like a dentist scorned.
[The Pittsburgh Poisoner] Two brilliant minds, one with murdering intent. The tragic death of Dr. Autumn Klein at the hands of her husband Dr. Robert Ferrante. A man to whom his knowledge of cyanide poisoning meant his wife would never divorce him.
[Liar, Liar] When 62-year-old Lynn Hernan is found dead at home, it’s presumed she has taken her own life. No one suspects her carer and treasured friend Jessy Kurczewski. But what unravels is a tale of greed and lies, and a very unusual method to kill.
[Catching the Angel of Death] Nurse Genene Jones is believed to have killed as many as 60 children in her care by injecting them with muscle relaxants and other drugs. One bereaved mother leads the charge to bring her to justice.
[Doctor Destruction] Nicknamed ‘Dr Death’, neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch destroys the lives of many who end up in his operating room. In two cases, it results in death. His work is so substandard it leads people to question – is this man even a doctor?
[Murder in the Flames] Husband and father Tim Pasa is found dead at home after a fire, but everything is not as it seems. His death was caused by something else, something of which a nurse, like his wife Barb, would have considerable knowledge.
[Confessions of a Serial Killer] The unbelievable story of a serial-killing Canadian nurse, who walks into a police station of her own free will and confesses to a murderous rampage. Her detailed recounting of each death is chilling.
[Expect the Unexpected] A hospital thrown into chaos, a police force looking in the wrong direction: how one nurse fooled the authorities to cause destruction and death by tampering with saline bags at Stockport's Stepping Hill Hospital.
[Killer Carer] Nurse Jeanine Hannah is employed to care for 68-year-old wheelchair-bound Margaret Bradley. After Margaret dies, Margaret's daughter finds her death suspicious and police uncover even more troubling episodes from this nurse's checkered past.
[Killing in Plain Sight] A nurse who is one of the most trusted in her hospital in West Yorkshire, UK, is in fact killing her patients on the night shift. The families left grieving fight for justice, but then a shocking death changes everything.
[The Killer Who Isn't Believed] Hospital orderly Donald Harvey is seen as a good worker, but when he confesses to multiple murders, no one initially believes him. He becomes one of America's most prolific serial killers.
[A Killer on the Ward] Nurse Charles Cullen said he hated to see people suffer, but he became the most prolific serial killer in New Jersey history. He confessed to authorities that he murdered up to 40 patients, but some believe there were as many as 300.
2025
[The Cross-Border Butcher] When a man is found dead in a San Diego motel, minus his leg, police initially believe it's the result of a car accident. But evidence soon casts suspicion on the involvement of 79-year-old Dr. John Ronald Brown, an underground gender reassignment surgeon since the 1970s.
[Doctor Death] On November 22, 1998, Dr. Jack Kevorkian assists the death of a terminally ill patient live on TV. Kevorkian is tried for murder, and the nation is split. Is Kevorkian a saint who helps end patients' suffering, or a crack-pot who loves the limelight?
[The Deadly Deep End] When Samira Frasch is found dead at the bottom of the pool, police begin to investigate her podiatrist husband. Did he stage the scene to hide his crime? Or could someone else spotted by a witness be to blame?
[My Darling Dentist: The Deadly Drug Dealer] The suicide of former Maryland beauty queen Sarah Harris, whose body is found by her boyfriend, oral surgeon Dr. James Ryan, leaves her loved ones in shock. But when her sister turns detective, she finds evidence that suggests Sarah had not died by her own hand. Detectives set about proving who is guilty of her murder.
[The Dangerous Dermatologist] Police are called to a home in the town of Wenham, MA, after a woman is shot in the back by a stranger at the front door. Mother of three, Karen Sharpe dies later that night in the hospital. Investigators soon uncover that Karen is in the midst of a multi-million dollar divorce from a violently abusive husband.
['Rescue Rambo'] At Delmenhorst Hospital, Germany, administrators notice death rates in their intensive care unit have risen sharply. Suspicions fall on nurse Niels Högel aka 'Rettungs Rambo', who turns out to be Germany's most prolific murderer since WWII.
[The Teen Carer Who Killed] When a resident dies at BaptistCare Bethel care home in Albany, Western Australia, it's assumed she passed away peacefully. But an autopsy reveals horrific injuries. In the frame is carer Jacob Hoysted, but can this quiet, young man really be a brutal murderer?
[Too Lazy to Care, Too Easy to Kill] When an elderly care home resident is discovered dead at Aidan House in Bensham, Gateshead, staff members sense that something is amiss. A murder investigation begins into a nurse at the home, but when she becomes a victim of violent attacks, could someone else be responsible?
[Kiss of Death] A modus operandi that mimics natural death works to the advantage of a north Texas serial killer who preys on elderly victims. His murderous death toll is suspected of having amounted to 22 before a sinister clue leads to his capture.
[Prescription for Murder] Motivated by greed, a small-town Oklahoma doctor writes a prescription for death, flooding her community with a lethal cocktail of drugs, and leaving a trail of victims in her wake.
