The Doctor Who Came to Kill: Harold Shipman
On 24 June 1998, 81-year-old Kathleen Grundy opened her door in Hyde to her family GP. He said he was there for a blood test. Within hours she was dead — and he had typed a will leaving her estate to himself.
That clumsy forgery is the only reason Britain discovered what Harold Shipman had been doing for more than twenty years.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the story of the GP patients called Fred and the press called Doctor Death: fifteen murders proved in court, an inquiry that put the real total at about 250, lethal diamorphine signed off as “natural…
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