Medical Murders
We all know that medical professionals are trained to give exceptional care. But what about those who use their skills not to heal, but hurt? In the Parcast Original, Medical Murders, you?ll discover a disturbing diagnosis? that not every doctor wants to extend your life. Every Wednesday, meet the worst the medical community has to offer?men and women who took an oath to save lives, but instead, used their expertise to develop more sinister specialties. Join host Alastair Murden, as he examines the formative years and motives of history?s most infamous killer doctors, dissecting their medical backgrounds with expert analysis provided by practicing M.D., Dr. David Kipper.
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?The ?American Beauty? Murder? Kristin Rossum Pt. 2
In June 2001, San Diego toxicologist Kristin Rossum was arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband, 26-year-old Greg de Villers. While her family defended her in the media, investigators discovered one piece of evidence that would clinch their case.
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2021-07-28Link to episode
Introducing: Deathbed Confessions
Imagine living with a secret so big, if anyone were to find out, it would change everything. From love affairs and fake identities to heists and murder ? do you think you could take a secret like that to the grave? Discover the most explosive things people have admitted to just moments before the end in the new Spotify Original from Parcast, Deathbed Confessions. Listen to an exclusive clip from the first episode right here, then search and follow ?Deathbed Confessions? to hear more. New episodes air weekly!
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2021-07-26Link to episode
?The ?American Beauty? Murder? Kristin Rossum Pt. 1
When Greg de Villers died of an apparent suicide in 2000, his wife Kristin was distraught. But an investigation revealed he had been murdered with a lethal dose of fentanyl ? and Kristin had the knowledge, the means, and the motive to do it.
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2021-07-21Link to episode
?Code Blue? Orville Lynn Majors
A two-year murder spree at an Indiana hospital ended in 1995, after a nursing supervisor began investigating their high number of patient fatalities.
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2021-07-14Link to episode
?The Opportunist? Martin MacNeill Pt. 2
With his wife Michele?s death ruled as natural, Martin was free to devote himself to a new life. He began by introducing his mistress as the family?s new nanny, stealing one daughter?s identity, and sexually assaulting another.
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2021-07-07Link to episode
?The Opportunist? Martin MacNeill Pt. 1
In 2007, a Utah physician murdered his wife of nearly 30 years and tried to make it look like an accident. Martin MacNeill had been a master manipulator all his life, forging his way into medical school and masquerading as a good Mormon husband. This would be his most ambitious con yet ? but there?s one thing he didn?t account for: his daughter?s suspicions, and the lengths they?d go to pursue justice.
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2021-06-30Link to episode
?Serial Poisoner? Michael Swango Pt. 2
After Joseph Michael Swango was caught poisoning colleagues, he was arrested and sentenced to two years. Once free, he returned to the medical world, securing various gigs across America before fleeing the country when his past caught up to him. Once abroad, he claimed even more lives ? eventually becoming wanted for murder in two countries.
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2021-06-23Link to episode
?Serial Poisoner? Michael Swango Pt. 1
Between 1981 and 1997, Dr. Michael Swango targeted both helpless patients and unsuspecting colleagues in his quest for mayhem. But before he carried out his murderous practice, he was a medical school student with an unhealthy obsession for calamity.
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2021-06-16Link to episode
?Lethal Lovers? Gwen Graham and Cathy Wood Pt. 2
In 1987, their sick game began to lose its appeal ? and Cathy began to lose her grip on Gwen. Their relationship became more volatile than ever. As both women began confiding in others about their murders, one person finally took their story to the police.
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2021-06-09Link to episode
?Lethal Lovers? Gwen Graham and Cathy Wood Pt. 1
In Michigan in 1986, a heated love affair between two nurse's aides was strengthened by pranks and a devil-may-care attitude toward authority. But their games turned deadly when they began targeting patients who couldn?t fight back.
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2021-06-02Link to episode
?Resuscitation Rambo? Niels Högel
A German nurse claimed at least 87 ? and possibly up to 300 ? lives in the 2000s. Niels Högel is thought to be Germany?s most prolific serial killer since World War II.
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2021-05-26Link to episode
?The ?Fatal Vision? Murders? Jeffrey MacDonald Pt. 2
Despite court battles that stretched on for years, Jeffrey MacDonald stuck to his narrative about what happened the night his wife and daughters were murdered. During that time, a new suspect emerged, evidence was reanalyzed, and an FBI analyst determined a more likely story ? one that didn?t involve killer hippies high on acid.
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2021-05-19Link to episode
?The ?Fatal Vision? Murders? Jeffrey MacDonald Pt. 1
Six months after the infamous Manson murders, an Army surgeon at Fort Bragg alleged that a hippie cult brutally murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters. Authorities weren?t convinced by Jeffrey MacDonald?s story.
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2021-05-12Link to episode
?Cardiac Killer? Kristen Gilbert Pt. 2
By 1996, the nurses who worked with Kristen Gilbert suspected she was lethally injecting patients with epinephrine. Circumstantial evidence piled up against her, but it wasn't until she made a bomb threat that her fate took a turn for the worst.
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2021-05-05Link to episode
?Cardiac Killer? Kristen Gilbert Pt. 1
Kristen Gilbert showed neurotic tendencies and a penchant for lying as young as adolescence, but it wasn't until she became a nurse that these habits grew dangerous. In 1989, after joining the staff at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Massachusetts, her colleagues began to notice a rise in cardiac arrest deaths.
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2021-04-28Link to episode
?Gold Digging Dentist? Arthur Warren Waite
Despite his promising career as a dentist, Dr. Arthur Warren Waite had no patience when it came to making a fortune. After marrying an heiress in 1915, he attacked her family one by one. Waite's weapon of choice? Deadly bacteria.
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2021-04-21Link to episode
?Angel of Death? Beverley Allitt Pt. 2
Over a dozen children fell mysteriously ill or died in the span of two months at Grantham Hospital, but it wasn?t until 1-year-old Claire Peck succumbed to a potassium overdose that medical staff contacted authorities. Their investigation found only one nurse was present for every emergency: Beverley Allitt.
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2021-04-14Link to episode
?Angel of Death? Beverley Allitt Pt. 1
In a London hospital in the 1990s, nurses tended to the patients of Ward Four unaware that there was a murderer in their midst. But a suspicious rise in fatalities revealed a harrowing truth: someone among them was killing children.
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2021-04-07Link to episode
?Lambeth Poisoner? Thomas Neill Cream Pt. 2
Imprisoned in 1881 for poisoning a wealthy man, Cream served just ten years before he was released. He collected his share of his late father?s fortune, and set sail for England ? where he earned his murderous moniker.
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2021-03-31Link to episode
?Lambeth Poisoner? Thomas Neill Cream Pt. 1
In the late 1800s, a dashing young doctor named Thomas Neill Cream used chloroform and strychnine to murder sex workers and women seeking abortions. His crimes spread across fifteen years and two continents.
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2021-03-24Link to episode
?Stepping Hill Poisoner? Victorino Chua
In January 2012, Victorino Chua was arrested at his home in Stockport, England for murder. During the investigation, authorities uncovered a chilling portrait of the nurse who poisoned 22 patients, drafted by Chua himself in a letter to one of his mistresses.
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2021-03-17Link to episode
?Docteur Satan? Marcel Petiot Pt. 2
In the 1940s, posing as part of the French Resistance, Dr. Petiot promised safe passage to anyone trying to escape Nazi-occupied France. Instead, he took their money, and killed them in his own secret torture chamber.
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2021-03-10Link to episode
?Docteur Satan? Marcel Petiot Pt. 1
One of France?s most prolific serial killers was an early 20th century doctor and statesman. Marcel Petiot grew from a troubled boy into a troublesome soldier who later obtained a medical certification. He established himself in the small town of Villeneuve-sur-Yonn ? where he learned that, in the public eye, titles trump virtue.
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2021-03-03Link to episode
?Killing for Corpses? William Burke and William Hare Pt. 2
In 1828, Burke and Hare managed to successfully run a business selling corpses to anatomy professor Robert Knox. For nearly ten months, the duo went unnoticed ? until an eye witness accused the men of murder.
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2021-02-24Link to episode
?Killing for Corpses" William Burke and William Hare Pt. 1
In 19th-century Edinburgh, two men on the hunt for money found a lucrative industry: grave robbing. But the infamous Burke and Hare didn?t want to dig up corpses. Instead, they delivered death to the gullible, and brought the bodies to one high-paying professor.
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2021-02-17Link to episode
?Bitter Physician? Debora Green Pt. 2
The first target of Dr. Green?s vindictiveness was her husband, Mike. A month later, in October 1995, she set fire to their family home? with their three children still inside.
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2021-02-10Link to episode
?Bitter Physician? Debora Green Pt. 1
By the 1990s, the perfectionism that had driven Dr. Debora Green?s once-promising medical career had turned into disillusionment. Her bedside manner deteriorated, along with her second marriage. When her husband asked for a divorce in 1995, she decided to retaliate.
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2021-02-03Link to episode
?Jigsaw? Dr. Buck Ruxton Pt. 2
After committing a gruesome double-murder, Dr. Ruxton set to work covering up his foul crime. But his efforts were no match for the groundbreaking forensic investigation that ensued.
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2021-01-27Link to episode
?Jigsaw? Dr. Buck Ruxton Pt. 1
Shortly after he began practicing medicine in England, Dr. Ruxton met Isabella Kerr. The intensity between them simmered into volatility ? and in 1935, after years of escalating domestic abuse, the Lancaster physician exploded in a murderous rage.
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2021-01-20Link to episode
?Black Dahlia Murderer? Dr. George Hodel Pt. 2
Despite the evidence against him, Dr. Hodel was never convicted of Elizabeth Short?s murder ? or any other crime he was accused of in the 1940s and beyond. The skilled physician remained free to hone his dark proclivities until his death in 1999.
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2021-01-13Link to episode
?Black Dahlia Murderer? Dr. George Hodel Pt. 1
In 1999, a former homicide detective flipped through a photo album belonging to his late father. One face stood out above the rest: Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress whose gruesome murder decades earlier was still unsolved ? but not, perhaps, for long.
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2021-01-06Link to episode
The Lainz Angels of Death
The ?witch? of Ward D in Austria?s Lainz General Hospital led a group of nurses? aides on a murderous crusade in the 1980s, killing at least 20 ? and possibly up to 300 ? patients in their care.
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2020-12-30Link to episode
Glennon Engleman Pt. 2: ?The Dentist Hitman?
After killing three people, Engleman was confident he could continue to outsmart the law ? so he plotted a three-victim homicide that would earn him his biggest fortune yet.
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2020-12-23Link to episode
Glennon Engleman Pt. 1: ?The Dentist Hitman?
Some killers want blood, and some want glory. But more than anything, Missouri dentist Glennon Engleman wanted the hefty life insurance payout that accompanied a well-arranged murder.
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2020-12-16Link to episode
William Palmer Pt. 2: ?The Prince of Poisoners?
Drowning in debt in 1855, Dr. William Palmer used his medical knowledge to get away with life insurance fraud. In the process, he became one of the U.K.?s most notorious poisoners.
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2020-12-09Link to episode
William Palmer Pt. 1: ?The Prince of Poisoners?
By October 1847, Dr. William Palmer seemed to have it all: a new practice, a loving wife, and a substantial inheritance. But a secret addiction threatened his good fortune, and he was willing to do whatever it took to keep it all together ? including killing those closest to him.
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2020-12-02Link to episode
Elizabeth Wettlaufer Pt. 2: ?The ?Red Surge? Nurse?
Employment at a nursing home would?ve been Elizabeth?s crowning career victory, but it proved to be a fast road to burnout. Struggling to provide medical support to so many people, she began taking her anger and exasperation out on her patients.
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2020-11-25Link to episode
Elizabeth Wettlaufer Pt. 1: ?The ?Red Surge? Nurse?
Starting in 2007, a Canadian nurse began injecting her elderly patients with lethal insulin overdoses. The inconspicuous method allowed her to escape suspicion for nearly a decade.
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2020-11-18Link to episode
Amelia Dyer Pt. 2: ?Britain?s Baby Butcher?
Over three decades, Amelia Dyer killed upwards of four hundred infants. She conned desperate mothers while fine-tuning the details of her operation, until a bargeman?s discovery in 1896 forced the baby-farmer to have a reckoning.
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2020-11-11Link to episode
Amelia Dyer Pt. 1: ?Britain?s Baby Butcher?
After her husband died 1869, nurse Amelia Dyer turned to baby-farming to avoid financial ruin. She took out ads in newspapers, and took in unwanted infants for a fee. But for Amelia, this was a business ? and she was willing to do anything to keep the money coming.
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2020-11-04Link to episode
Walter Freeman Pt. 2: ?Ice Pick Lobotomist?
As criticisms of lobotomy mounted, Dr. Freeman continued performing his dangerous procedure ? even without patient consent. Then, with his legacy and career on the line, Freeman spent the final years of his life seeking redemption from patients.
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2020-10-28Link to episode
Walter Freeman Pt. 1: ?Ice Pick Lobotomist?
Neurologist Walter Freeman was a top doctor in his field. He was on the cutting edge of brain surgery, even going so far as to develop a new procedure called the 'lobotomy'. Unfortunately, it became one of the deadliest medical techniques of the 20th century.
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2020-10-21Link to episode
Jane Toppan Pt. 2: ?Jolly Jane?
During the summer of 1901, Nurse Jane Toppan poisoned her way to the picturesque shores of Cape Cod. When pressed for a sizable debt, she embarked on a killing spree that decimated a family. Dr. David Kipper explores how their murders went undetected, and what eventually brought the truth to light.
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2020-10-14Link to episode
Jane Toppan Pt. 1: ?Jolly Jane?
She surpassed all expectations when she became the most sought after nurse in eastern Massachusetts. But instead of providing quality care, Jane Toppan preyed on the sickly and poisoned unsuspecting patients. Dr. David Kipper provides insight on Jane's arsenal of poisons as well as the rigorous demands of the modern day medical field.
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2020-10-07Link to episode
Josef Mengele Pt. 2: ?Auschwitz Angel of Death?
Once he arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Josef Mengele wasted no time in carrying out ghastly experiments, particularly on twins. Dr. David Kipper takes a closer look at Mengele's bogus science, performed in the name of progress, and examines the early 20th century fascination with eugenics.
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2020-09-30Link to episode
Josef Mengele Pt. 1: ?Auschwitz Angel of Death?
Before he was a fanatical Nazi doctor, Josef Mengele was a mediocre student studying medicine and anthropology. Dr. David Kipper offers insight into the changing face of genetics in pre-war Germany, and digs into what might have driven Mengele?s obsession with human experimentation.
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2020-09-23Link to episode
H.H. Holmes Pt. 2: ?The Torture Doctor?
He used his medical knowledge to dispatch his victims quickly?and in some cases, to make their deaths look like accidents. But eventually the authorities caught on to Dr. Holmes, and a nationwide manhunt to stop one of history's most infamous killer doctors began.
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2020-09-16Link to episode
H.H. Holmes Pt. 1: ?The Torture Doctor?
He?s often cited as America?s first serial killer. Nine of the murders committed by Dr. H.H. Holmes have been confirmed, though many suspect him of slaughtering dozens, if not hundreds, of victims between 1891 and 1894. From the beginning, he entered medicine in order to abuse the power and trust his patients placed in his hands.
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2020-09-09Link to episode
Fred Shipman Pt. 2: ?Dr. Death?
After starting a private practice, Dr. Shipman escalated his crimes until a slip-up alerted authorities. The subsequent inquiry into ?Dr. Death? forever changed the British medical field. Dr. David Kipper examines how Shipman used his medical training to get away with murder?and why it took almost thirty years to discover what actually happened to his "heart attack" victims.
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2020-09-02Link to episode
Fred Shipman Pt. 1: ?Dr. Death?
Between 1974 and 1998, Dr. Shipman killed at least 218 people?more than any other serial killer in UK history. Addiction expert Dr. David Kipper sheds light on how Dr. Shipman's addiction spiraled from pethidine abuse to cold-blooded murder.
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2020-08-26Link to episode