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Corpus Delicti

236: Do No Harm: Michael Swango Pt 2

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This is part 2 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"

Blooper music by:

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 is Jen and this is Lindsay and welcome back to Corpus Delecti.

0:28.9

We are now part two of our do no harm series Within a series. I guess.

0:38.1

This is Michael Swaygo's Part 2.

0:41.2

And you have one more after this.

0:43.1

In fact, as y'all are hearing this, not as we're recording, obviously.

0:47.2

But as y'all are hearing this, Jen is in Ireland.

0:49.8

So that is great for her, not for us.

0:52.5

So let's do a super quick recap just before we pick up doctor, medical school, really bright, great grades, finds out he has a fascination with death.

1:04.8

In the hospital where he's doing his internship, people start dying, they try to link it to him. Doesn't go very well. He gets

1:13.9

off the hook, goes and works as a paramedic, starts to become really fascinated and keep a scrapbook

1:20.1

with some of the violent, horrible things they see. Then his coworkers start falling ill,

1:25.6

and they realize that he is poisoning them.

1:29.1

They go to police.

1:31.0

Police arrest him.

1:32.0

And that is the very, very short version of where we left off.

1:37.2

Again, trigger warning.

1:38.5

It goes for the whole thing.

1:39.6

There's a lot of stuff here, a lot of crappy topics.

1:42.1

It goes for part one, two, and three.

1:43.9

So let's just

1:44.5

jump right in. All right. Before his trial, Michael does something a little bit sneaky, right?

1:52.1

He buys a bunch of ants from Florida, where his mother lives. And he spreads the ants throughout

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