Dr Harold Shipman is the bleak spectre of modern medicine and remains the only doctor in British history convicted of murdering his patients. His many victims were mostly female and elderly, though he was not above killing men and in one instance, a young child. He was eventually charged with killing fifteen by poisoning with morphine. But this was only after a remarkable and unprecedented police investigation.His undoing came with the murder of Kathleen Grundy who was exhumed on police orders with the toxicologist reporting that Mrs Grundy's body contained a lethal dose of morphine and death would have occurred within three hours of the fatal dose. Shipman did not know that morphine remains in the body for many years and has in fact been identified in the bodies of ancient mummies. In this episode, we look at that fateful event that led to his arrest and the trial that followed.Presenters: Dr Harry Brunjes & Dr Andrew JohnsProducer: Philip WildingEditor: Chelsey MooreSound Design: John ScottProduction Manager: Vittoria CecchiniA Daily Mail production. Seriously PopularJoin The Crime Desk to hear all episodes in series one straight away. Plus, you'll get exclusive weekly bonus episodes of our award-winning podcast The Trial, ad-free listening across all of our shows, and early access to brand-new series like our high-stakes investigative series, Heists, Scams & Lies.Become a member today at thecrimedesk.com.Go to enteromed.co.uk and use code IBS30 at checkout, for an exclusive 30% discount on Enterosgel IBS & Diarrhoea Relief. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Dr John Bodkin Adams: The Trial
It wasn’t hard for the police to find the home of Dr John Bodkin Adams when they went to arrest him; there were two Rolls Royces parked outside. One bequeathed to him by a former patient. Bodkin Adams was charged with the murder of Edith Morrell. The Prosecution also reserved the right to proceed with a second charge of murder in the case of Bobbie Hullett. This was significant. At the time there was a new Homicide Bill going through Parliament. A conviction for one murder would mean life imprisonment but a conviction for two or more murders and Bodkin Adams would hang. Though under the careful guidance of Geoffrey Lawrence QC, the case took turns no one could have envisaged.Presenters: Dr Harry Brunjes & Dr Andrew JohnsProducer: Philip WildingEditor: Chelsey MooreSound Design: John ScottExecutive Producer: Jamie East Join The Crime Desk to hear all episodes in series one straight away. Plus, you'll get exclusive weekly bonus episodes of our award-winning podcast The Trial, ad-free listening across all of our shows, and early access to brand-new series like our high-stakes investigative series, Heists, Scams & Lies.Become a member today at thecrimedesk.com.Go to enteromed.co.uk and use code IBS30 at checkout, for an exclusive 30% discount on Enterosgel IBS & Diarrhoea Relief. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Victims (2)
Dr Harold Shipman remains the only Doctor in British history found guilty of murdering his patients. His victims were elderly, female and numerous – he was eventually convicted of killing fifteen by poisoning with morphine, though the actual number runs into the hundreds. A serial killer who became addicted to killing and had been murdering his victims from the very start of his career, sometimes in his clinic, sometimes on the wards he stalked, at one point killing three patients in the space of forty-five minutes. Not content with just killing those who were meant to be under his care, he also appeared to enjoy killing the bereaved, murdering the surviving partner within weeks of the death of their husband or wife. A latter-day ghoul. Presenters: Dr Harry Brunjes & Dr Andrew JohnsProducer: Philip WildingEditor: Chelsey MooreSound Design: John ScottExecutive Producer: Jamie East Join The Crime Desk to hear all episodes in series one straight away. Plus, you'll get exclusive weekly bonus episodes of our award-winning podcast The Trial, ad-free listening across all of our shows, and early access to brand-new series like our high-stakes investigative series, Heists, Scams & Lies.Become a member today at thecrimedesk.com.Go to enteromed.co.uk and use code IBS30 at checkout, for an exclusive 30% discount on Enterosgel IBS & Diarrhoea Relief. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Victims (1)
Hullett, Morrell, Whitton and Mawhood, just four of the victims of the hundred that Dr John Bodkin Adams helped propel into another world. It’s likely his victims ran into the hundreds with the good doctor the beneficiary of over a hundred different inheritances in the form of cash, valuables and even a car or two. He followed something pf a pattern: the patient is a widow, an elderly widow or spinster, there’s excessive prescription of morphine, the majority are in a coma before death, and Bodkin Adams is looking after their financial affairs until their untimely demise…Presenters: Dr Harry Brunjes & Dr Andrew JohnsProducer: Philip WildingEditor: Chelsey MooreSound Design: John ScottExecutive Producer: Jamie East Join The Crime Desk to hear all episodes in series one straight away. Plus, you'll get exclusive weekly bonus episodes of our award-winning podcast The Trial, ad-free listening across all of our shows, and early access to brand-new series like our high-stakes investigative series, Heists, Scams & Lies.Become a member today at thecrimedesk.com.Go to enteromed.co.uk and use code IBS30 at checkout, for an exclusive 30% discount on Enterosgel IBS & Diarrhoea Relief. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Savage Surgeon and The Bluebeard Murderer
While Shipman and Bodkin Adams made their grisly mark on history as doctors who killed their patients, they weren’t the only men of medicine to murder. Dr Buck Ruxton and Dr Robert George Clements created their own wretched legends. Ruxton became infamous for the so-called Jigsaw Murders, pathologists concluded the mutilation of his two victims would have taken approximately eight hours to complete - and that the two bodies had been drained of both blood and internal organs at the time of their dismemberment. He would eventually be found out by pioneering forensic science work.Clements was the doctor who killed all four of his wives for financial gain before taking his own life when he realised the game was up. He was charming, captivating to women, a high functioning psychopath wearing ‘the mask of sanity’. Presenters: Dr Harry Brunjes & Dr Andrew JohnsProducer: Philip WildingEditor: Chelsey MooreSound Design: John ScottExecutive Producer: Jamie East Join The Crime Desk to hear all episodes in series one straight away. Plus, you'll get exclusive weekly bonus episodes of our award-winning podcast The Trial, ad-free listening across all of our shows, and early access to brand-new series like our high-stakes investigative series, Heists, Scams & Lies.Become a member today at thecrimedesk.com.Go to enteromed.co.uk and use code IBS30 at checkout, for an exclusive 30% discount on Enterosgel IBS & Diarrhoea Relief. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
About The Psychology of a Serial Killer: Harold Shipman
The Psychology of a Serial Killer is a forensic examination of those who kill. In Series 1, we turn the scalpel inward on doctors who kill: trusted professionals who betrayed their oath to save lives. From the calculated crimes of Dr Harold Shipman to the dark legacy of Dr John Bodkin-Adams, this series delves deep into the minds, methods, and motivations of medical murderers. Hosted by Dr Andrew Johns, a leading forensic psychiatrist who spent years inside Broadmoor Hospital with some of Britain’s most infamous killers, and Dr Harry Brunjes, physician, expert witness, and senior figure in medical ethics, The Psychology of a Serial Killer is where medicine meets malice.Hosts: Dr Andrew Johns, Dr Harry BrunjesProducer: Philip WildingEditor: Chelsey MooreSound Design: John ScottExec Producer: Jamie East Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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