Ted Kaczynski's Second Serial Killer

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There have been millions of people murdered throughout the world by serial killers. Each victim killed with a different motive or deranged reason for killing. Almost no two killers the same whether they kill their victims for personal pleasure or because they have an undiagnosed mental illness. Whatever their reasons are, they still have make people around the world think twice about who they can trust One serial killer in particular is Ted Kaczynski or the unabomber. He built home made bombs and mailed them to civilians and government officials. At the age of sixteen Kaczynski enrolled in harvard university with a scholarship. In 1962 he graduated harvard but continued his studies at the university of michigan. After a few years he moved …show more content…

Harold shipman. He started school to become a family practitioner at leeds university in leeds england around 1965 after seeing his mother suffer through her illness prior to death. He joined a medical practice in todmorden, yorkshire. He became addicted to painkillers not long after joining the practice and was ultimately let go less than a year later after his fellow practitioners found out. He went to rehab and some years later he was aquired on to staff at donneybrook medical center in hyde where he stayed for nearly two decades. This is when they finally caught on to what he was up to.a local mortician noticed that shipman's patients seemed to be dying at an unusually high rate. The police were contacted. The daughter of one of shipman's victims was determined to find out the real cause of the death of her mother. Her mother, after examination, had died of a morphine overdose. With this evidence they were able to conclude he had killed fourteen other people the same way. 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