German killer nurse gets life for 85 hospital murders
06 June 2019 |
12:52 pm
A German nurse believed to be the most prolific serial killer in the country's post-war history is handed a life sentence for murdering 85 patients in his care. The 42-year-old murdered patients selected at random with lethal injections between 2000 and 2005, when he was caught in the act.
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