Terms Used To Describe A Specific Class Of Serial Killers
Angels of Death
Doctors and nurses who kill the patients who trust them; what could be more sinister than that?
An Angel of Death, sometimes also known as an angel of mercy, is the term used to describe a specific class of serial killer. These murderers act in medical or hospital settings and are usually doctors or nurses who kill patients instead of helping them. Often they chose defenseless victims such as the elderly or terminally ill, and sometimes their targets are even children.
This type of serial killer can easily be a man or a woman as the methods they use are not typically violent. Their means of killing often include methods such as administering toxic drugs or smothering. Many of them are considered to be mentally ill, usually …show more content…
Osteopathy focuses on treating and making the muscles and bones stronger, without drugs or any type of invasive treatment. Sounds fine, right? Sounds safe? Well, not when this woman had you in her clutches.
Even though she didn’t have a medical degree she was allowed to practice in the early 1900’s via a loophole that made provision for alternative medicine. Her favorite form of treatment was the fast, but what she actually did was starve the patients who trusted her to death in her "sanitarium". They would become so weak they would be unable to escape and 14 deaths in total would finally be attributed to her.
It was difficult to prove that she was guilty in those times and she ended up serving just two years in prison for other minor offenses and eventually reopened another facility where she continued to supervise fasts. Fittingly she herself finally died during a fast.
2 Shiro Ishii www.wikipedia.com It’s difficult to decide what’s worse in the case of Shiro Ishii; the fact that he performed gruesome experiments and killed hundreds, if not thousands, of people during the Sino-Japanese war or the fact that he got away with it scot-free.
Doctors and nurses who kill the patients who trust them; what could be more sinister than that?
An Angel of Death, sometimes also known as an angel of mercy, is the term used to describe a specific class of serial killer. These murderers act in medical or hospital settings and are usually doctors or nurses who kill patients instead of helping them. Often they chose defenseless victims such as the elderly or terminally ill, and sometimes their targets are even children.
This type of serial killer can easily be a man or a woman as the methods they use are not typically violent. Their means of killing often include methods such as administering toxic drugs or smothering. Many of them are considered to be mentally ill, usually …show more content…
Osteopathy focuses on treating and making the muscles and bones stronger, without drugs or any type of invasive treatment. Sounds fine, right? Sounds safe? Well, not when this woman had you in her clutches.
Even though she didn’t have a medical degree she was allowed to practice in the early 1900’s via a loophole that made provision for alternative medicine. Her favorite form of treatment was the fast, but what she actually did was starve the patients who trusted her to death in her "sanitarium". They would become so weak they would be unable to escape and 14 deaths in total would finally be attributed to her.
It was difficult to prove that she was guilty in those times and she ended up serving just two years in prison for other minor offenses and eventually reopened another facility where she continued to supervise fasts. Fittingly she herself finally died during a fast.
2 Shiro Ishii www.wikipedia.com It’s difficult to decide what’s worse in the case of Shiro Ishii; the fact that he performed gruesome experiments and killed hundreds, if not thousands, of people during the Sino-Japanese war or the fact that he got away with it scot-free.