Dr. Death: The Infamous Doctor of the UK

Dr. Harold Shipman is one of the most brutal criminals the European country of the United Kingdom has ever witnessed. He was a physician. It is believed that he managed to end as many as 218 innocent lives. His killing spree began in the year 1972. He had a modus operandi. He targeted elderly women. His criminal life had continued unchallenged until an undertaker expressed suspicion about the unformal rise of deaths among patents mostly elders under his supervision. It was in the year 1998.

The story of Dr. Shipman shocked the entre world. His crimes earned him the notorious name, Dr. Death.

In the year 2000, he was handed a serious punishment of life imprisonment. But, his fate was different.

Shorty after he was found guilty of the brutal murders, he ended his life in a prison.

Notably, not even once, he admitted his crimes. He strongly denied all charges levelled against him.

Though several years has passed since his suicide, the mystery still remains unresolved.

He used a lethal drug, diamorphine, in most of his killings. It was the presence of that substance in the dead bodies of his victims that connected the deaths to him.

Why he killed these many people is a question that is still to be answered.    

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