The true death toll could actually be closer to five hundred. ibid.
Harold Shipman committed suicide in Wakefield Prison in 2004. He never offered any explanation for his crimes. ibid.
Shipman had altered Kathleen Grundy’s will. Murders that Shocked Britain
Shipman would visit his patients, administer a fatal dose of diamorphine, then posthumously change the medical reports. ibid.
Shipman took his secrets to the grave. ibid.
Why did he do it? Just how did he get away with it for so long? Colin Baker, ITN senior correspondent
It’s an extreme way of trying to maintain control. Dr Richard Badcock, former psychiatrist
The murderous activity of British biggest serial killer was literally unearthed. Harold Shipman: Dr Death, ITV 2002
Detectives investigated the deaths of nearly one hundred and fifty patients of Dr Harold Shipman. ibid.
Four years later Shipman hanged himself in his prison cell. ibid.
Shipman’s greed was his undoing. ibid.
Experts quickly established that Shipman’s typewriter had been used to forge the will. ibid.
Some believe this early introduction to morphine and death had a lasting effect on Shipman. ibid.
He was a drug addict with a huge dependency on Pethidine. ibid.
He was fined a total of £600. ibid.
Shipman applied to join a group practice in Hyde. ibid.
In 1991 Shipman delivered a bombshell to his partners: after almost twelve years he decided to go it alone in a single-handed practice. He glibly announced he was taking his three-thousand patients with him. ibid.
Shipman was altering patient records to conceal his crimes. ibid.
The number of patients that Dr Shipman murdered is still unknown. Born to Kill? Harold Shipman, Channel 5 2012
Was Harold Shipman born to kill? ibid.
Over the years doctors, funeral directors and even pharmacists had raised suspicions about Dr Shipman. ibid.
Dr Shipman might have carried on killing for years had it not been for the suspicious death of Kathleen Grundy on 24th June 1998. ibid.
The Shipman Inquiry now documents that he killed 284 people over a period of thirty years. ibid.
It was discovered he had a drug addiction. ibid.
Mistake #1: Shipman’s use of the drug morphine – morphine is one of the few poisons that can remain in the body tissue for centuries; Mistake #2: the typewriter and the badly forged will. ibid.
Shipman saved his cellmate’s life. ibid.
Could a family doctor turn out to be Britain’s worst serial killer ever? Killer Trials s1e5: Do No Harm
They are all women whose death certificates Doctor Shipman signed. ibid.
Shipman’s secret stash of morphine is a smoking gun. ibid.
The British government sets up a public inquiry. ibid.
One murder every ten days. ibid.
Dr Harold Shipman was a well-liked GP trusted by his patients. Nobody believed that he could possibly kill one of them. He was arrogant and believed he was invincible. But this was just the start of the revelations. He’d been killing for years. Many think Shipman started killing as a Manchester GP in the 1990s, but he killed for the first time when he was just 25 years old as a junior doctor in Yorkshire. He also became addicted to powerful painkillers … In Hyde he would murder over 200 more … Britain’s most prolific serial killer. Harold Shipman: Driven to Kill I & II, 2014
If Shipman had been caught abusing hospital drugs as a junior doctor he could have been sacked. ibid.
Vera Shipman [mother] was doomed to a long and painful death; the only other thing she looked forward to was a daily injection of morphine. ibid.
‘They gave him this name which was the ‘Phet [amphetamine] doctor.’ ibid.
The people of Hyde warmed to him quickly. ibid.
He was a pillar of the community but Doctor Harold Frederick Shipman began killing his patients in his mid-20s and evaded detection for over 27 years. He murdered over 250. ibid.
But it was different if you were a colleague … He established a method of killing almost impossible to uncover. ibid.
Shipman was a determined killer and meticulous at covering his tracks but he still made mistakes. And some people did make complaints against him. ibid.
The more he murdered, the more brazen and barefaced he became. ibid.
The local undertakers in Hyde had started to notice the high number of deaths. ibid.
On 7th September 1998 Dr Harold Shipman was arrested and charged with the murder of Kathleen Grundy. ibid.
Trusted and respected, the family doctor and the ultimate betrayal. Killing in the community for twenty-seven years. Two hundred and fifty victims but no admission. Shipman: 5 Mistakes that Caught a Killer, Channel 5 2020
Hyde, seven miles east of Manchester … Six women who lived under these roofs [in one street] were all close friends, all good neighbours, and over the course of four years all murdered by the same man: someone they trusted with their lives. Their doctor: Harold Shipman. ibid.
A series of crucial errors … The Pattern … ‘I had an unusual number of funerals’ [local priest] … The investigation may have reached the wrong conclusion but it would eventually come back to haunt Shipman … the Will … the typewriter … Shipman’s fingerprint on it [will] … the drug … Diamorphine … the neighbour … Shipman’s computer records. ibid.
When 81-year-old Kathleen Grundy was found lifeless in her home in Hyde, Greater Manchester, on 24th June 1998 no-one could have foreseen that her death would lead to the unearthing of one of the world’s most prolific serial killers. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s4e1: Harold Shipman, Sky Crime 2020
A popular local doctor, 52-year-old Harold Shipman had been killing his elderly and vulnerable patients for over 25 years. ibid.
A 2002 Inquiry into Shipman’s crimes estimated that the number of deaths he was responsible for was at least 215. ibid.
Guilty of murdering 15 of his patients: Harold Shipman is sentenced to life. Among Britain’s worst serial killers he may have killed scores more. The Shipman Files: A Very British Crime Stories I, news, BBC 2020
SHORE, ANTHONY: World’s Most Evil Killers TV -
In August 1994, 9-year-old Diana Rebollar left her house in Houston, Texas, and headed to the grocery store to buy some sugar. But she would never return home. Diana had become the third casualty of a twisted sexual predator named Anthony Shore. A man who would abduct, rape and then strangle the life out of his victims. Years later Shore’s confessions would stun investigators who were just beginning to find out about his terrifying history of rape and murder. World’s Most Evil Killers s7e6: Anthony Shore, Sky Crime 2022
Confessed to 4 murders and the rape of a 14-year-old girl. The 41-year-old father of 2 had only been captured because his DNA remained on file after he was convicted of sexually assaulting his own daughter. ibid.