The Poison Nurse: Aino Nykopp-Koski and the Deaths That Looked Like Dying
Saturday morning, 14 March 2009. An 80-year-old woman in Helsinki is given yoghurt by the nurse who shops for her, walks with her, and is meant to keep her alive. The yoghurt tastes bitter. Minutes later she is slipping under — and the same nurse picks up the phone and calls emergency services herself.
This episode of A True Crime Podcast follows host Alexander Lawson into the case of Aino Nykopp-Koski, the Finnish practical nurse later known as myrkkyhoitaja: the poison nurse. Between 2004 and 2009 she was convicted of murdering five elderly patients and attempting to murder five more, using…
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