Harold Shipman Case

"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 was concerned enough to approach Shipman about this directly, who reassured him that there was nothing to be concerned about. Later, another medical colleague, Dr. Susan Booth, also found the similarity disturbing, and the local coroner's office were alerted, who in turn contacted the police” (Biography, 2017.) An investigation followed, but

“In most cases, Shipman injected the victim with a lethal dose of the painkiller diamorphine and then signed a death certificate attributing the incident to natural causes” (Jenkins, 2006.) His killing spree finally came to end when Angela Woodruff, the daughter of one of his victims, who refused to accept the explanations given for her mother’s death, Kathleen Grundy, who was an active, wealthy widow, was found dead in her home after a visit from Shipman (Biography, 2017.) Woodruff was a lawyer and was surprised when a bulk of her wealth was left to Doctor Shipman and immediately thought it was forgery (Biography, 2017.) Kathleen Grundy’s body was exhumed, and post-mortem revealed a morphine overdose (Biography,