Harold Shipman is believed to have killed about 250 patients, making him one of the deadliest serial killers in history. Although he was only convicted of murdering 15 patients, a subsequent government inquiry, released in 2005, found that he had killed an estimated 250 people beginning in 1971. His last known murder occurred in 1998. In most cases, Shipman injected the victim with a lethal dose of the painkiller diamorphine and then signed a death certificate attributing the incident to natural causes. He often falsified medical records to suggest that patients were sicker than they actually were.
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