Doctor Death: Britain's Biggest Serial Killer (True Crime Documentary) | Real Stories

the thud of a mechanical digger disturbs the silence of a great yard I'm very conscious of coming across real evil there's real evil here in the dead of night police exhume a body it's a hard thing to go through having a loved one dug up this is the moment the murderous activities of Britain's biggest serial killer were unearthed that son of a gun killed my father on Christmas Eve in the coming weeks the harsh of night was to be repeatedly broken by exhumation after X you may feel mr. Joel Karachi because we said she's always down there and I bet he's got fed up with her and bumped her off and now over the coming months detectives were to investigate the deaths of nearly 150 patients of dr. Fred Shipman how far does this go how deep is it how many people have been murdered by dr. Shipman I don't think that they'll ever be an answer to that question the only person that knows is not talking to us today is the 53 year old doctor who used his caring manner as a cover for murder was led away to spend the rest of his life behind bars two major questions are being asked why and how did he literally get away with murder for so long for the first time the true extent of his ruthless killing spree can be revealed how five patients died inside his surgery how he killed eight patients in one month how he murdered six patients in one street how to obtain the means to kill he turned a patient into a drug addict how he then killed that patients father when he asked too many questions about his son's treatment how he murdered another patient he believed had left him a small fortune and tonight we can reveal that the man dubbed dr. death will in the next few days be charged with at least 18 more murders making him one of the world's most prolific serial killers a senior detective lights candles to the memory of 15 murder victims of dr. Harold Frederick Shipman stan Edgerton was a detective for 30 years but nothing during his long service could prepare him for the enormity of his final case he still finds it difficult to come to terms with the exhumations created numerous emotions and the one that sticks in my mind more than any is intrusion not only were we intruding into death we were intruding into the grief of the families only months away from retirement inspector Edgerton was asked to investigate what appeared to be a routine case never envisaging that it would lead to him exhuming 12 bodies and arresting and charging a mass murderer this was a case of forgery and attempting to obtain monies by deception never at the beginning of the investigation did I ever envisage that I'd be dealing with not only one murder investigation but a number of murder investigations inspector Edgerton had been asked to look into the will of Kathleen Grundy who died suddenly on June the 24th 1998 at her home in Joe laying hide on the outskirts of Manchester mrs. Grundy a former mayor s of Hyde was well-known about the town as a sprightly 81 year old involved in a host of social activities she was highly respected in the area she spent all of spare time working on behalf of other people she ran a luncheon club two or three days a week she works at out the age and she did the banking for them she was a remarkable woman two days before she died a local firm of solicitors received a crudely typed will purporting to be from mrs. Grundy who they had never dealt with before on a standard post office form mrs. Grundy's whole three hundred thousand pound estate was bequeathed to her dr. Fred Shipman eight days later Hamilton's received a letter informing them of mrs. Grundy's death they contacted her daughter Angela Woodruff in lemming Tain's bah she realized that there must be something wrong because she is a solicitor in her own right and adding fat got a mother's will in her possession that had been made from ten years prior to her death confused and alarmed mrs. Woodruff turned private detective and armed with a copy of the Shipman will she traveled to hide to track down the two people who had allegedly witnessed it one of the witnesses was Paul Spencer mrs. Woodruff soon discovered how devious Shipman had been and how he tricked her mother Sutton dr. Shipman surgery there was maybe six or seven other people in the surgery dr. Shipman popped his head round his door and asked whether myself and another girl that was in the surgery with a pram wouldn't mind witness in a document so thinking nothing of it stood up went into the room there's an old lady sat in the room and now know about lady to him mrs. Grundy doctor past me and folded over document which he said as he passed it he asked mrs. Grundy whether or not she was okay with it or something along the lines of are you sure about this is this okay he indicated where I was to sign the document the document was folded over so I couldn't read it I couldn't see what was on the document and being in the dotter surgery I didn't dream of asking assigns me name mrs. Grundy signature was already on the document I believed I was signing a medical form I didn't for a minute believe I was signing a will I would expect you to sign wheels in solicitor's office is not in dr. surgery's mrs. Grundy believed she was signing an authorization giving her approval to take part in a survey on Aging for Manchester University Shipman's greed was his undoing mrs. Woodruff went to the police in her hometown of lemming Tain's Spa who referred her complaint to the Greater Manchester force the file dropped on inspector edgerton's desk having spoken to Angela Woodruff the deceased daughter we realized that we were all in a can of worms and we didn't know at that stage how far it was going to go although it's very very fair to say still didn't think at this stage that I was looking at a murder inquiry returning to hide from seeing mrs. Woodruff mr. Edgerton realized that this was not the first time the police had shown an interest in dr. Shipman four months earlier after a worried GP had expressed concerns about the high number of deaths among Shipman's patients a secret police inquiry was ordered by the local coroner John Pollard originally I was approached by a local general practitioner in the Hyde area and she felt that she had been signing rather more second cremation certificates than would normally be the case where the first thing that she was that a dr. Shipman and on the basis of that she then telephoned me and asked me to look into the matter to make sure that everything was as it should be there were two possible explanations for that one was that something untoward was happening or the other explanation was that dr. Shipman was just a very very conscientious GP and happened to be in attendance with a lot of patients shortly after they died at their home address but the concerned doctor was not the only person to notice the abnormal number of deaths being certified by Shipman Undertaker Debbie bam broth was another the well-respected family firm Frank Massey and son is the largest independent funeral directors in Hyde we were concerned that there were too many deaths from one surgery especially when that surgery only had one doctor most of the deaths seemed to fit into a pattern usually ladies nearly always ladies never any one that had been ill as in terminally ill it seems strange that nearly all the people that had died were dressed özil so generally usually in bed with the night wear on well that was never the case they were always fully dressed as if they'd just come back from shopping it was very rare that anyone actually died in bed it was usually sat up in a chair in the living room things just didn't add up we talked about it as a family um the circumstances of the deaths never came to me one day and just said she was concerned with all this these sudden deaths which was dr. Shipman was signing the forms for and I sort of said there's nothing to worry about he's just at his old patients and I think she had a word of another doctor about it and then she had another word with me this was a couple months later something like ah so the way that I thought I would I don't have a word with dr. Shipman well my father went to see dr. Shipman about the concerns that we had I think it took a lot of courage to do that it was ridiculous we trust a man trust a doctor and for us to make a key accusations assumptions to have concerns about a doctor maybe murdering people because that's what it is I was the last one in in the surgery at the time said to me yes come on in I went in his surgery I told him then it was a bit of a temper goal of embarrassing what I've come for I'll explain to him that both himself from the data a bit concern of some of these deaths he didn't show any signs of shock surprise anything at all he just said I'll show you he got his book out which is a register the T keeps a copy of the certificate he's given to a next of kin to a deceased person and showed me down there and he said anybody can come and look at this move the wishes to our minds had been put at ease maybe not fully but have been put at ease by various people in authority that there was nothing untoward we had a car affair police constable the constable has said - and what it boils down to is he's got a vast amount of patients elderly patients and he's such a caring doctor that it's just he gets more deaths than anybody else and with that I was quite satisfied the police carried out a full investigation and that stage based upon the instructions that I gave to them I was quite satisfied with in enquired that they made but it led to nothing that they couldn't see anything that was wrong at that time mr. Pollard's instructions that Shipman was not to be made aware of any inquiries or their source prevented police carrying out a full investigation I would carry on going to see my doctor dr. Shipman was normal and the longer I sat in his room the more I thought how ridiculous these these suspicions and concerns had been it was impossible to think that my doctor who I trusted in and confided in could be doing something so terrible aware from Debbie's father's visit that his murderous activities had aroused suspicions did shipment panic and hurriedly decide to forge mrs. Grundy's will to provide him with the funds to flee inspector Edgerton thinks not it's been suggested from a number of sources that one of the reasons why he perhaps forged the will as he did was that he he thought that his world was collapsing around him I personally don't go along with that view at all it's my firm belief that he thought he was so invincible so super intelligent that he thought that he the police weren't aware of what was going on following the coroner's inquiry Shipman's belief that he could fool anyone led him to commit three more murders the last being mrs. Grundy the crude forging of her will was the act of supreme arrogance that was to be his downfall I think his part his hair against I've got away with this for the length of time that I have nobodies queried me about it always questioned me about it I might as well make a few Bob out to this may well have been his thoughts and he's proceeded to put together that will which when you look at it it's just a an amateurish attempt the enquiry was beginning to take off at a rapid rate of knots and I've got to say that detective Superintendent Bernhard portals to cold of things then and said well let's sit down and let's go through this piece by piece and let's simulate exactly what we've got it must have made him sit up sharply in his chair when a detective inspector suddenly talking about exhumation of bodies but to give him his jus he didn't take him long to realize and grasp that what I was telling him was probably the only direction that we could going in the dead of night a month after mrs. Grundy was buried at Hyde Chapel inspector Edgerton was in charge of exhuming her body the actual logistics of doing an exhumation is a mammoth operation there are so many things to have to consider that to keep the decency of the matter to show respect in reverence to the deceased remains there was the family that had to be considered we have to make sure that we'd identified the correct grave we had to date soil samples make sure that the monster will put on notice because we're going to have a post mortem it's a strange feeling to be stood there three o'clock in the morning in the pitch dark with a team of men that were going to dig up a body being the senior officer at the exhumations I was also conscious of the welfare of all the staff that were there even though some of them we're not police officers there were civilian members of support staff I was conscious of their feelings as well at the same time as mrs. Grundy was being exhumed Stan Edgerton had a team of detectives raid Shipman's home and surgery looking for the typewriter and other evidence used to forge the will dr. Shipman was well aware of what we were looking for and in fact produced the typewriter which is a portable type typewriter and he didn't look a very expensive machine but he produced it from a cupboard in the surgery the typewriter the forged will and samples taken from mrs. Grundy's liver and muscle tissue were sent to the forensic science laboratory at Chorley for analysis experts quickly established that Shipman's typewriter had been used to forge the will and the letter but while inspector Edgerton waited for mrs. Grundy's post-mortem results he was approached by a local taxi driver who'd built up his own dossier of suspicions against Shipman going back many years perhaps two dozen of my customers passed away in very very similar circumstances all of them dr. Shipman's people were having the car from the doctor and within a couple of hours of him visiting them they were fashioned away John was talked out of going to the police by his wife worried about wrongly accusing a well-respected doctor of murder but when the investigation into Kathleen Grundy's death started he decided it was time to act when I approached mr. Edgerton after Kathleen Gandhi death and I told him that I'd compiled a list of my customers who died in similar circumstances to Kathleen going back six years he was shocked when I questioned him and I walked into he was plainly evident to me that we were going to have to examine the deaths of a number of other people got reactions set in and when that was discussed by the senior management teams we then decided that yes we'd have to look at further exhumations in part to the death of Shipman's mother and how it may have been his trigger for murder Harold Frederick Shipman was born in Nottingham in January 1946 his early years were spent at this house in Long meat drive his father also harold frederick was a long-distance lorry driver his mother Vera was ill for many years slowly dying of cancer Fred the middle one of three children was the clever one of the family he passed his eleven plus to the local Grammar School hi pavement although never a high flyer and in the sea stream Shipman was respected by the other boys for his sporting prowess on the Athletics track and the rugby field seen here securing the ball in a line out in some rare footage of a school match Shipman is well remembered by former schoolmates I was a friend of Fred we were in the same year as one another we played rugby together he was a very very able sportsman and notable for his rugby and also for his athletics fred was a very quiet calm individual until he got on the rugby field and then he was quite a fiery character but as an individual off-the-field very easygoing and quiet young man fred past 500 level G CES and went into the sixth form only for disaster to strike his mother died fred was just 17 Veera Shipman had fought a long and brave battle against cancer with ever-increasing daily injections of morphine some believe this early introduction to morphine and death had a lasting effect on young Fred his reaction at the time was considered bizarre they must have been a Monday morning that something we met up and we were walking back to school how did you do you know what did he do with the weekend and I told him what I'd done at the weekend and I asked you what he'd done and he said oh my mum died what did you do you know he must have been awful and he said our yard I went for a run but he went on to say that he'd actually run till I think he said two o'clock in the morning or something and in the pouring rain after his mother's death Shipman decided to become a doctor he spent the next six years as a medical student here at Leeds University in his first year he met his wife primrose ox Toby then a pretty 17-year old window dresser within months prim was pregnant with Sarah the first of their four children and much against her parents wishes they were quietly married after a couple of years training as a Houseman Shipman joined a group GP practice in the Yorkshire mill town of Todmorden in the mid-1970s he's remembered fondly for his enthusiasm it started with a keen young man coming with the latest ideas and techniques with a great deal of enthusiasm and very much hands-on putting it into practice and encouraging us all to do the same thing and I think we all benefited from his Sargen with us despite his popularity Fred had problems he started having mysterious blackouts dr. grieve Shipman senior partner at the time remembers being called to Fred's home after he collapsed in the bath he had one or two blackouts and was finally diagnosed by a consultant as having epilepsy and being unable to drive a car so his wife volunteered to fill in this so that he can continue to work which he did very efficiently but Fred Shipman hadn't told his colleagues the truth he was a drug addict with a huge dependency on pethidine a painkiller used in childbirth I mean there wasn't any great disaster or anything it was just he could no longer he was a sick doctor whoever he had to go in February 1976 Harold Frederick Shipman stood in the dock at Halifax magistrate's court and admitted eight charges of obtaining drugs by deception and asked for 74 other offences to be taken into account he was fined a total of 600 pounds the court heard he obtained the highly addictive drug by over prescribing for patients at a local nursing home and by forging prescriptions Shipman agreed to undergo treatment at the renowned retreat hospital in York although the General Medical Council was notified Shipman was not struck off in 1979 free of his addiction he applied to join a group practice in hide a small Cheshire market town with a population of 60,000 at his interview the six partners were impressed by Shipman particularly his honesty that he had been addicted to pethidine they decided to give him a second chance Fred Shipman threw himself into local community life both as a hard-working doctor and as a member of local organizations like the since John Ambulance Brigade the scouts and as a local school governor he soon became so popular that he had a long waiting list of people wanting to join his panel but in 1991 Shipman delivered a bombshell to his partners after almost 12 years he was leaving to go it alone in a single handed practice and glibly announced he was taking his 3,000 patients with him the parting was acrimonious but Shipman didn't care he'd carefully planned the move for months and within weeks opened just a few yards away in a converted shop in Market Street now unsupervised he could enjoy his secret self-indulgence murder and as a single handed general practitioner he would show them he would show how good he was and how he could help people and he would do things his own way and without the brakes of working in a partnership and the constraints that daily testing yourself against colleagues has on one perhaps that was one of the factors that led to him going off the rails how seriously Shipman had gone off the rails only became clear when the toxicology results came back from the forensic science laboratory I'm still amazed that the results that we got back from the forensic examination were as they were I didn't expect that for one minute the death certificate issued by Shipman recorded Kathleen Grundy had died of old age the truth was she'd been killed by a massive dose of morphine such an amount that the forensic scientists had no doubt that death would have occurred in quite a short time she had been to visit him on the previous day to her death at around about 4 o'clock and he made an appointment with her to go and take a blood sample the following morning he's made an appointment to kill her when questioned Shipman's incredible claim was that mrs. Grundy at 81 was a heroin addict what had started as a simple fraud investigation was now a full-scale murder inquiry information flooded in from anxious callers to special help lines and detectives began to notice a pattern to the death the number of people that died at home single women living on their own dying within an hour a soul of seeing dr. Shipman dying sat in a chair dressed in the day clothes so many of them going to the surgery and dying in the surgery it just stretched logic to something that you could not believe and right away we knew that we were probably dealing with one of the biggest murder investigations that one could imagine but it was Shipman's fascination with computers that was to provide another major breakthrough for the inquiry team and help convict him detectives examined the deaths of nearly 100 and 50 of his patients checks of some of the computerized records of some of the deceased patients revealed that visits that they made to the surgery had been obliterated things that had been written in about the patient's health had been taken out and we can only surmise that that was done because it didn't correspond with what was on the death certificate on other occasions physics appeared on the patient's record when in fact we believed that no visit was made to the surgery it was as though he was building up a history that would tie in with the medical records that he wrote on to the death certificate he was certainly covering up his tracks for something and police computer experts soon discovered what it was Shipman was altering patient records to conceal his crimes and on occasion to save time he recorded their deaths before he killed them the number of deaths towards the end we're increasing at such a rapid rate that our sometimes wonder whether he'd have time to prepare a lot of what he was doing and this was why he was changing the medical records round about the time the person died shortly afterwards and in fact in one case he was altering the records before body was even found what we decided to do was to go back over a period of 12 months and ascertain how many people had died and how many death certificates at dr. Shipman had written in a 12 month period there was some 36 deaths one of the things that jumped out at us was that never had there been a post-mortem we also realized that the number of deaths that he had in a 12-month period was two-and-a-half times more than they averaged an incident room had been set up a dashed and underlined police station manned by 56 hand-picked detectives special flowcharts were designed showing when where how and under what circumstances patients had died in the previous five years our investigations established that on many many occasions dr. Shipman had seen them on the day that they died in a lot of cases he'd seen them within if not an hour certainly a couple of hours of death and again that itself become illogical Alice kitchen was one of those illogical cases where Shipman had visited shortly before she died but there was something unusual which bothered her family all the family were very surprised and wondered why she was sat where she was on the settee because she never sits there she always sits in a chair where she can see out the window and as soon as anybody pulls up she's got the door open ready for them before they've got to the door she always sits there and where she was found on the city she had her back to the window and I do know that one neighbor that was interviewed was asked if she saw dr. Shipman coming or going and she said that he was coming out as she was going in her house and that she thought it was unusual that my mother was sat on the city she could see the back of her and she said that she never sits there and that she always sees everybody to the door and she didn't see him to the door she thought that was odd and dr. Shipman never spoke to her and never said she's not well will you sit weather or anything like that Alice kitchen may have died in an unusual chair at home but five of dr. Shipman's patients died in an even more unlikely place his surgery we spoke to a number of doctors and said well you know how in terms of you ever had a patient day in the surgery and most doctors look aghast this well it never happens one of those who died in his surgery was 72 year old Edith Brady a long-term patient of Fred Shipman Edith who loved a social occasion was the principal guests at the family's Christmas party a few months before her death he told me that she'd gone in the back room to lay down and he just went in and found her dead and that he worked on her and nothing could be done so we spent some time when I gave her a kiss and an artist I tied it she was and they said it was her heart and we just accepted that that's what it was and I was just glad that she didn't have travel part and I didn't want to me mister Bo I just said well I'm I'm you know I'm glad she was there and he said well she's not the first one to die it had another lady that died in here he said that at the time and I was glad because that's the place she liked to be she liked dr. Shipman wish to joke about it because we said she's always down there and I bet he's got fed up with her and bumped her off and now know when I think about it it's unbelievable detectives were also noticing other disturbing facts that Shipman had been present when six of his patients died in one Street in an 18-month period and that in one month eight women patients died mysteriously we saw the on one occasion in a particular month there were eight people died which is on average of two a week and whenever we spoke to other people in the medical profession that they stood back in a maze in part three how shipments stole from his patients and acquired his means to kill for a second time hide was overshadowed by mass murder in the mid 1960s it was home to Myra Hindley and Ian Brady the Moors murderers now it was home to Fred Shipman and as the new investigation grew once again the population faced the horror of killing attending the excavations of his parishioners father Dennis ma find himself a central figure the community of Warren shock would be a good way of describing it in shock they just couldn't believe this was happening and they didn't want to believe it's all a bad dream on top of this feeling of shock and disbelief and a shattering of trust people also had a sense of guilt they had suspicions but didn't voice them or speak of them for a number of reasons because at the time they didn't want to upset other members of the family but a more common factor who would have believed me anyhow if I said this to any anybody father Dennis vividly remembers Shipman's dismissive manner towards the grieving family of Winnie Miller only hours after he'd murdered her her daughters were in deep shock I was very shocked myself and very saddened because I was quite fun to win she was a lovely person and the doctor came in in a very brusque manner and said something along the lines of you were away or your mother had a heart condition I could see the look of surprise and the daughters faces he followed this up by saying she wouldn't accept treatment and she wouldn't go to the hospital the daughters now are kind of looking in amazement at him immediately followed this up by saying do you have an undertaker and at this stage I intervene and said well the woman has just died and I think we just leave that at the moment he then followed on saying and by the way there's no problem with issuing a death certificate I can do I can do that you just pop down to the surgery and that was it he was gone knowing what I know now I couldn't certainly say he was making sure that nothing would go wrong and that there would be no element of blame in any way attached to him or any suspicion whatsoever when detectives searched Shipman's home they found a large number of rings and other jewelry stuffed into a bag in the garage this habit of petty theft from his victims provoked feuds within their families various members had a family being questioned as a whole gasps our first and home for found mom first and so on and is leading to a kind of suspicions all around the place I do know also from one family that one of the women on the day of her death had been to collect our pension which would have been in region of suppose 7080 pounds she certainly didn't spend all that that afternoon but no money been around in her purse after she died it may never be known how often Shipman emptied the purses of his victims for paltry sums but from one of them he expected to inherit 60,000 pounds Bianca pomfrit was the youngest of Shipman's victims only 49 when he killed her divorced and suffering from manic depression mrs. pomfret had come to depend on dr. Shipman in a nutshell she thought the world of him to the extent that several years ago we were contemplating moving houses and one of the reasons why we didn't move is she stressed that she would have preferred to have stared in tam side and under dr. Shipman now I think if somebody puts they relationship that they've got with the doctor above moving on to a new farmer life got to be quite a close link so much soul that she informed me several months before her death that she was actually leaving all the monies and properties to him in a will she also stated that she told dr. Shipman this fortunately I convinced her that the proper thing to do would be to leave her monies and properties to the grandchildren I can't speculate as to why Shipman murdered Bianca whether or not it was because of the fact that he thought he was going to benefit financially or maybe even if she hadn't found him he realized he'd been corralled oh well I don't know Bianca pomfret was the fourth victim to be exhumed in the following month police opened 8 more graves and removed the bodies for examination each body contained varying high levels of morphine but even without a body police were able to charge Shipman with the murders of six patients who'd been cremated so incriminating was the computer and other circumstantial evidence the evidence that we were being presented with in relation to those bodies where they had been cremated was so overwhelming as far as we were concerned that we could not just put it to one side by now it was becoming obvious to police that Shipman arrogantly believed he'd created the perfect murder and had got away with it for years he believed that he was able to face this thing out that people didn't have a superior enough intellect to break down and establish the facts of what had gone on here when he was arrested detectives like stan Edgerton saw that arrogance at first hand during the course of questioning his arrogance was to the fore all the time whenever I spoke to him it was plainly obvious that he thought I was beneath him and that he gave a distinct impression that it should be at least a superintendent that was talking to him and dealing with him and he made that plainly obvious that I wasn't his intellectual equal I think that he came in to be interviewed on on the first occasion on the 7th of September and I've been walking through the door he expected to be walking out around about five o'clock in the evening I think he was surprised when he was charged with murder you could see his demeanor change his voice changed the arrogance was the first thing to go and then to a certain extent he tried then to control the interview by changing the subject or trying to indicate to the interviewing officers that they didn't understand and as we've went further into the interviews and we put the forensic evidence towards him the morphine in the body he could not anyway explain that the medical records he couldn't explain again why they'd been changed eventually he got more and more distressed and at one stage actually broke down but what really shocked hardened detectives like inspector Edgerton was the ruthless and cynical lengths Shipman went to to obtain his weapon to kill the morphine two years ago former airline pilot Jim King was wrongly diagnosed with cancer a week after marrying his American wife Debbie after undergoing three months of painful chemotherapy Shipman was told he'd never had cancer but Shipman failed to pass on the good news instead Shipman continued to prescribe Jim massive amounts of morphine in order to maintain a regular supply of his murder weapon he was told on three separate occasions by consultants from different hospitals that I had not had cancer I had never had cancer but he's still proceeded to do this I know now why why did this because the more patients that you have are terminally ill the more morphine that you can have in your stock if you're in general medical practice and you are caring for terminal patients at home sooner or later you can acquire you can guarantee that you will acquire heroin which has been unused and which you basically do not have to account for Jim's father a shipment patient was so concerned about his son's health that he started asking questions too many for Shipman's liking and the doctor killed him my father had been down to the surgery a few times to ask dr. Shipman what was going on with my kiss because he could see me deteriorating rapidly with the amount of morphine I was using I mean that son of a gun killed my father on Christmas Eve of all the days I mean to do this and I believe he did that because he needed to stop this man complaining at that time because the last thing he needed was to have complains knowing what we know now the last thing he needed is for somebody to come forward and say what the hell's going on here and then all this lot would have come out and you know it's a shame it and come out because after he killed my father he proceeded to kill four or five other other people and Shipman would almost certainly still be killing today but for his amateurish attempt to forge mrs. Grundy's will but the big question still remains why did a doctor dedicate it to saving life murder his patients those close to the case have their own theories he might get a kick out of being in control and the ultimate power is a power over life and death I can't think of anything else that could explain him why he did it I think is simply a matter of convenience but it was more convenient perhaps to get rid of a patient who was an awkward patient by killing her than by trying to persuade the family practitioner committee to transfer her to another general practitioner it's horrendous isn't it to think of that that could happen but it clearly did I think that a significant number of the people that dr. Shipman killed he may have killed quite simply because he did not wish to continue caring for them for whatever reason [Music] [Music]

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Published: Sat Mar 10 2018