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Who was doctor death you ask? Doctor death was a man who killed many people. He is considered today to be one of the WORST serial killers. Harold shipman was a British serial killer who worked in England as a doctor. In 1970 Shipman went to a school called Leeds of medicine. 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. He was the middle child and also called the favorite child by hos mother, …show more content…

Shipman hid behind what he called his “status”. Which made it very difficult to determine when shipman really started to kill his victims. Shipman killed his patients because he enjoyed exercising control over life and death. None of his patients

suffered with a terminal illness. He never let them get that far. He would just kill them suddenly. Shipman had lacked compassion. Anytime he planed to kill anyone he had a plan. If that victim had relatives there he would call for help and then right before they died he would called to tell them his patient was pronounced dead. The police discovered there was never a call made once in his doctoring career.

Shipman was drug hoarding, false prescribing patients who did not need morphine, and over prescribing the ones that need it. He was very arrogant, and constantly can find his story in front of the judge. The judge and jury caught in quick to his lies. Shipman was found guilty on ALL charges. He was sentenced with 1t different counts of murder and 1 forgery on July 31,2000. They said he was to serve 15 life sentence, plus 4 years. Basically they wanted him in there his “whole life”. Shipman killed more elderly people than any other types. He kills we6 patients in a 24-years. They counted 50 deaths and they were all shipman’s cases. Shipman was said to be addicted to killing. He waited his trial I Durham prison. June, 2003 they moved him to Wakefield prison. January 13, 2004 at 6 o'clock A.M. shipman was hanging in his cell, using the bed sheets to the widow on his

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