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Harold Shipman British doctor and serial killer Harold Shipman, c. 2000.

Harold Shipman

British physician and serial killer
Also known as: Dr. Death, Harold Frederick Shipman
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Distinguished Professor of History, Baylor University. Author of A History of the United States, Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in America, Synthetic Panics: The Symbolic...
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Harold Shipman (born January 14, 1946, Nottingham, England—died January 13, 2004, Wakefield) was a British doctor who is one of the deadliest serial killers in history, believed to have murdered about 250 of his patients, according to an official inquiry into his crimes. In 2000 he was convicted on 15 counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison; four years later he died by suicide. Shipman’s murders raised troubling questions about the powers and...

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