Dr. Harold Shipman aka Dr. Death was a Britain General Practitioner most prolific serial killer convicted of killing his patients, at least 250 over a twenty-three year period. (Batty, 2005) Dr. Shipman entered general practice in early 1974 when he joined the Abraham Ormerod Medical Practice in Todmorden. (Criminal Profiling Staff, 2002) However, in 1974, during this period, Dr. Shipman was addicted to pethidine.
Dr. H. H. Holmes was a serial killer during the time of the World’s Columbian Exposition. Between the time he arrived in Chicago and the time of his death, it is said to be that he killed several hundred people. Holmes was born and raised in New Hampshire but eventually found his way to Chicago. He was a different man and found joy in killing humans. Most of his murders occurred in his Castle in Englewood near Chicago.
Patrick Kearney is a notorious serial killer who thrived in the 1960s and 70s throughout California. He was convicted of 21 murders, confessed to 7 more, and is believed by some to have had up to 43 victims. Most of Kearney's murders occurred in his car where he abruptly shot homosexual hitchhikers or men from gay bars in the head. Kearney, a necrophile, would proceed to dismember, mutilate, and rape the bodies of these innocent men
Dr.Harold Shipman: January 14,1946- January 13, 2004 He had the profession of a doctor but was one of the most known serial killers because of his very high number of victims. it was estimated to be about 218 but many think that it is possible to be way higher than that. On January 30, 2000 the jury found Dr.Harold Shipman guilty of fifteen murders Born in Nottingham,England january 14, 1946 full name Harold Fredrick Shipman
He eventually began to almost go insane from the pain, and he called Dr. Kevorkian. Mansur inhaled a large amount of Carbon Monoxide, given to him by the doctor, and died. Kevorkian was acquitted (Long 90).
The serial killer I chose is Albert Fish. Hamilton “Albert” Fish was born on May 19, 1870 in Washington D.C. to Randall and Ellen Fish. His father died of a heart attack when Albert was five. After, his mother put him and his three siblings in an orphanage so she could work. While living in the orphanage Fish experienced and watched brutal beatings, which soon helped him discover he enjoyed physical pain and began his obsession with sadomasochism.
One of America’s first serial killers was known as H.H. Holmes. This known serial killer was born Herman Webster Mudgett in 1861. He later adopted the name Henry Howard Holmes, which he became famous for. Holmes operated a hotel in Chicago designed to torture and murder guests in 1893. His twisted mindset lured many innocent victims into the “Murder Castle.”
Shipman was found guilty of fifteen counts of murder including one count of forgery, this gives him fifteen life sentences and four years for forgery. Years after he died further investigations estimate that mr. harold shipman could have been responsible for the deaths of at least 236 more patients of his twenty - four year career. This sent a shockwave through the medical community. No one could have thought that someone could do such a thing
H. H. Holmes is known as the first serial killer in America. During the mid-1890s, he built a 3-story hotel in Chicago, which people called the “Castle”. It was known that he would lure people, specifically young women, into the hotel and they were never to be seen again and it is estimated that he killed about 200 people(Crime Museum para 4, 5, & 10). H. H. Holmes was an American sociopath who killed, kidnapped, and betrayed the trust of many. H. H. Holmes, born with the name Herman Webster Mudgett, grew up in Gilmanton, New Hampshire.
"Born in England in 1946, serial killer Harold Shipman attended Leeds School of Medicine and began working as a physician in 1970. Between then and his arrest in 1998, he killed at least 215 and possibly as many as 260 of his patients, injecting them with lethal doses of painkillers" (Biography, 2017.) In 1970, he received a medical degree from Leeds University, and started working as a general practitioner in Lancashire, but was later discovered that he had written fraudulent prescriptions for the opiate pethidine, and was forced into a drug rehabilitation for the addiction, losing his job (Jenkins, 2006.) In 1977, Shipman was hired as a general practitioner in Great Manchester (Jenkins, 2006.) “The local undertaker noticed that Dr. Shipman's patients seemed to be dying at an unusually high rate, and exhibited similar poses in death: most were fully clothed, and usually sitting up or reclining on a settee.
He first went on to live with the Stephen family. He became close friends with their daughter, who thought had a chance of becoming his wife. His first victim was William McSwan, on September 9th, 1944. He beat him up to death, just like he did his first 3 victims. He then proceeded to kill more the rest of his victims through a 5 year span, from 1944 to 1949.
Reading A Man Called Ove is a very perplexing journey. All the clues and details are given to you but it 's your job to connect everything. An example of this is with the hook. The narrator describes this hook in great detail and mentions Ove 's frustration because many people don 't know how to do it.
JONESTOWN What happens when you combine a ruthless leader’s hypnotic voice and disturbing ideas with average, vulnerable people? Almost 1,000 people lost in a trance, lies and deception, ending with a mass suicide killing over 900 people. More specifically; Jonestown.
There is something profoundly disturbing about learning that I have consistently underestimated the extent to which suicide will be part of my professional experience in the mental health field. The fact that twenty-five percent of all providers will be effected by the loss of a client in this manner is both terrifying and humbling for someone whose personal life has been touched by suicide. At the beginning of my education in psychology, I remember the fundamental information disseminated about people with addiction disorders was that they were statistically more likely to attempt suicide than other populations. This fact was expressed in a cool, dismissive and clinical manner that invited neither contemplation nor discussion. To me, the insinuation had always seemed to be that if one made wise career choices, the “suicidal client” might somehow remain relegated to mental health mythology and not part of one’s professional reality.
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