235: Do No Harm: Michael Swango, Part 1

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

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🗓️ 28 May 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This is part 1 of 3! In the next few episodes, we discuss Michael Swango, a brilliant and successful student who seemed to have the future at his fingertips. However, he had a bit of a dark fascination which he carried over into his professional career as a doctor. Considered one of the most prolific serial killers, Swango used his status to violate the Hippocratic oath.

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Music by:

Kai Engel

"Daemones"

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Art of Escapism

"Coal Miners"

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Sources:

13 Dec 1992, Page 4 - Argus-Leader at Newspapers.com

06 Feb 1994, 37 - The La Crosse Tribune at Newspapers.com

06 Feb 1994, 39 - The La Crosse Tribune at Newspapers.com

06 Feb 1994, 29 - Ledger-Enquirer at Newspapers.com

“Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor who Got Away With Murder” by James B. Stewart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Swango

https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/the-vault/double-o-swango-what-happened-to-dr-michael-swango-who-left-trail-of-dead-patients-in-midwest-elsewhere

https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/swango-michael.htm

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Michael_Swango

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Jen.
0:25.0	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.6	And welcome back to Corpus Delicti, the podcast.
0:29.8	We are in episode two of Do No Harm.
0:33.9	Well, I guess we should specify we are now in episodes two, three, and four of do no harm
0:41.3	because Jen found this story and it has just grown and grown and continued to grow. And we
0:51.2	set a record aside from Rocky, Rocky obviously was our longest, but aside from
0:56.9	Rocky, this is our longest outline, research, all that that we have ever had. So buckle up,
1:03.1	guys, this is going to be a three-parter. Again, Jen is leaving the country in a few days. So we are
1:09.6	doing our very best to record all of this.
1:14.5	And before she leaves, can't make any promises.
1:16.9	We're doing our best.
1:17.8	But we will keep you posted.
1:19.5	We think we'll for sure at least get two, hopefully three.
1:22.6	Anyway, all that to say.
1:24.7	We'll see how it goes.
1:26.3	All right.
1:26.9	So this one is going to come with a trigger warning.
1:30.3	And I hate to say it, but it's a trigger warning for everything.
1:33.8	We got pregnancy loss, racism, domestic abuse.
1:37.8	And this counts for all three.
1:42.2	So if it triggers you for one of the many, many things that we mentioned,
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