Nurses Who Kill

A british documentary about the nurses who used their position to kill.

Cast:Jane Monckton-Smith , Ellie Cannon , Donna Youngs , Sarah Jarvis , Colin Sutton , Dee Anand , Jo Rodriguez , Elizabeth Kirkby , Angie Adler , Andrew Bryan , Ethan Taylor , Christian Jessen , Victoria Broom , Charlotte Hunter , Uli Hesse , Carolyn Canville , Graham Hill , Christopher Hotten

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Beverley Allitt

Wed, Oct 12, 2016

The series begins by examining the case of Allitt, a nurse on the children's ward of a hospital in Lincolnshire. She poisoned a string of young patients under her care over the course of 59 days in 1991, murdering four.

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S1.E2 ∙ Benjamin Geen

Wed, Oct 19, 2016

Benjamin Geen worked as a nurse at Horton General Hospital in Banbury, Oxfordshire. In 2006 he was tried and convicted of murdering two patients and causing GBH to 15 others but has always maintained his innocence.

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S1.E3 ∙ Genene Jones

Wed, Oct 26, 2016

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S1.E4 ∙ Daniela Poggiali

Wed, Nov 2, 2016

Italian nurse and ward joker Daniela Poggiali was present at over 90 deaths in just two years. The same time deaths were happening a string of petty thefts were also taking place. The thefts cause suspicious fellow health workers to call in the police. To add even more intrigue to the larger than life nurse, photos of her posing with dead bodies were found on her phone. The patients that had died she said were "irritating."

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S1.E5 ∙ Stephan Letter

Wed, Nov 9, 2016

The chilling story of German nurse Stephan Letter, who was tried for the murders of 29 patients at a clinic in the Bavarian town of Sonthofen.

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S1.E6 ∙ Kimberley Saenz

Wed, Nov 16, 2016

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S1.E7 ∙ Neils H

Wed, Nov 23, 2016

Real crime. Chilling series looking at nurses who kill their patients. Niels H administered lethal doses of drugs to patients in order to later 'show off' his resuscitation skills.

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S1.E8 ∙ Colin Norris

Wed, Nov 30, 2016

Real crime. Chilling series looking at nurses who kill their patients. Colin Norris targeted elderly patients by administering them unnecessary doses of insulin.

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S1.E9 ∙ Victorino Chua

Wed, Dec 7, 2016

The case of Filipino nurse Victorino Chua, who secured a job at Stepping Hill Hospital, Manchester, and began to inject insulin into saline bags of 44-year-old Tracy Warden and 83-year-old Alfred Weaver.

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S1.E10 ∙ Charles Cullen

Wed, Jan 4, 2017

Charles Cullen was a nurse that is believed to have killed over 300 patients. Experts analyse the actions and motive of this insidious serial killer.

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S2.E1 ∙ Malcolm Webster

2016

Nurse Malcolm Webster was convicted for the murder of his first wife, Claire Morris. For 17 years it was believed to be an accident; until he staged another 'road accident' in New Zealand, involving his second wife, Felicity Drumm.

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S2.E2 ∙ Anne Grigg-Booth

Anne Grigg-Booth, who was responsible for administering painkilling injections to patients, was a heavy drinker with a passion for drugs. We hear from the doctor that Grigg-Booth's team lined up as an expert witness in her defence. He was never to be called; Nurse Grigg-Booth killed herself.

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S2.E3 ∙ Efren Saldivar

Efren Saldivar confessed to killing 40 to 50 patients over an eight-year period. Quickly christened an "Angel of Death," he targeted patients who were already near death. Statistical analysis indicates that the total number of murders committed by Saldivar could be as high as 200, but the bodies were cremated after death long before he owned up to his deeds on the wards.

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S2.E4 ∙ Megan Haines

Megan Haines, South African immigrant and mother of a dangerous and disaffected son, carries out a murderous rampage against the elderly in the quiet coastal town of Ballina, New South Wales.

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S2.E5 ∙ Jeannie Miata

Jeannie Miata was a nurse who killed a woman with a lethal dose of insulin. Experts analyse the actions and motive of this disturbing murderer.

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S2.E6 ∙ Roger Dean

On November 18, 2011, Roger Dean, a nurse at Quakers Hill Nursing Home in Sydney, Australia murdered 11 elderly residents after setting fire to the facility as they slept in a bid to hide evidence of his theft of painkillers.

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S2.E7 ∙ Vickie Dawn Jackson

Tue, May 29, 2018

Vickie Dawn Jackson was described as sweet and 'gone to fat' by locals in her small Texas town. Why did Vickie kill off the friends and relatives of those whom she knew in Nocona, Texas? Texas journalist Skip Hollandsworth spent time with Nurse Jackson at her Texas jail and reveals the truth about a remarkable, and evil, woman.

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S2.E8 ∙ Garry Davis

Tue, Jun 5, 2018

Gary Davis told his Facebook friends that 'I hate old people' and days before two patients in his care were found dead, he predicted they would die. Those facts were enough to put him in the frame as a doctor became convinced that foul play was responsible for their. Rob Kaplan, a Forensic Psychiatrist from a Sydney University offers a unique insight into health serial-killers.

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S2.E9 ∙ Elizabeth Wettlaufer

Sun, Dec 31, 2017

Wettlaufer, 49, of Ontario, intentionally administered fatal doses of drugs to her victims, aged 75 to 96, between 2007 and 2014. After killing, she would post some of her dozens of verses. Wettlaufer's victims included five women and three men - all of whom were patients at Caressant Care nursing homes in Ontario, where Wettlaufer had worked.

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S2.E10 ∙ Donald Harvey

2017

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1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Karen Pedley

Thu, Aug 1, 2019

The case of care home worker Karen Pedley who was given 14 life sentences in 2016. Deeply affected by a fire at her home when she was a child, Pedley developed into a pyromaniac.

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S3.E2 ∙ Sandra Weir

Thu, Aug 8, 2019

The story of Sandra Weir, who acted as a carer for her elderly neighbor. But she was stealing from the pensioner to fund her drug addiction, leading to a tragic confrontation.

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S3.E3 ∙ Paul Novak

Thu, Aug 15, 2019

The case of New York paramedic Paul Novak, who boasted of committing the perfect murder after the dust had settled on the death of his first wife Catherine.

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S3.E4 ∙ Thomas Dunkley

Thu, Aug 22, 2019

The case of carer Thomas Dunkley, who aided boxer Shaun 'The Guv'nor' Cummins after he became paralysed, and later killed and dismembered his patient.

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S3.E5 ∙ Beverley James

Thu, Aug 29, 2019

The story of debt-ridden mother-of-three and night-time sex worker Beverley James. By day, she was meant to care for Harriet Davison, a frail woman she beat to death.

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S3.E6 ∙ Thelma Purchase

Thu, Sep 5, 2019

Care worker Thelma Purchase plotted with her son and a friend to murder disabled Greg Baker who Purchase once worked for. She knew he couldn't defend himself and she stood to be a beneficiary in his will.

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S3.E7 ∙ Chaz Higgs

Thu, Sep 12, 2019

The murder of American politician Kathy Augustine, who died after being given the paralysing drug succinylcholine by her husband Chaz Higgs, a professional nurse.

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S3.E8 ∙ Bunthawee Rimmer

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

This edition looks at the case of care worker Bunthawee Rimmer, who beat Paul Norfolk to death in a hammer attack after he changed his will to leave her a sizeable legacy.

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S3.E9 ∙ Marie Whiston

Thu, Sep 26, 2019

When an autopsy reveals high levels of insulin in Eric Lloyd's body, police realise that his widow, nurse Marie Whiston, had been using her medical skills not to care but to kill.

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S3.E10 ∙ Alison Firth

Thu, Oct 3, 2019

This edition examines the story of Alison Firth, a nurse who was unable to face the amount of work required caring for her 84-year-old charge and resorted to extreme lengths to avoid the work.