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Aug 9, 2024 · Health-care serial killer Elizabeth Wettlaufer, a former nurse, is escorted to court in Woodstock, Ont., on June 26, 2017. Photo by Dave Chidley/The Canadian Press/File
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Oct 26, 2016 · By one academic’s estimate, health-care criminals have been convicted of killing at least 328 people, while close to another 2,000 suspicious deaths have been linked less definitively to those ...
Oct 26, 2016 · "Health-care killers tend to make a very specific type of offender, with a very specific type of M.O., and fortunately they're rare," Arntfield said in an interview with CBC News.
- 'Daily Access to Victims'
- Killers Hard to Detect
- 'Canary in A Coal Mine'
"Health-care serial killers frequently have the highest body count of all serial killers because they have daily access to victims," says Arntfield, who recently wrote a book on serial killers called Murder in Plain English. Beatrice Yorker, of California State University, has also studied serial killers in the health-care field. She's examined doz...
Some are believed to be motivated by what's called the "angel of death syndrome" or the "Mother Theresa syndrome," where the killers claim they were doing patients a favour and showing mercy by ending their lives. Others may crave attention, and will carry out the lethal act, only to then attempt to save the patient so they can get credit for it. B...
"What we see in cases like Wettlaufer's is that it reveals to us just … what a blind spot in the system health care could be for a motivated offender who wants to exploit that access to vulnerable people," said Arntfield. Serial killers in health-care settings can be hard to catch and hard to prosecute, but Yorker said some measures have been taken...
Oct 27, 2022 · By Lindsay Lee Wallace. October 27, 2022 5:00 PM EDT. C harles Cullen is a former registered nurse who worked in hospitals across New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where he assisted with procedures ...
Nov 1, 2022 · Since 1970, there have been over 151 prosecutions of health care providers globally for the serial murder of patients, says Beatrice Yorker, professor emerita of nursing, criminal justice and criminalistics at California State University in Los Angeles and co-author of a 2006 study of medical serial killers.
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Jul 31, 2019 · 2-year inquiry reports on failures of Ontario's long-term care home system. Former nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer pleaded guilty to eight counts of first-degree murder for killing patients. The ...
