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236: The Lainz Angels of Death | Austria

Evidence Locker True Crime

Evidence Locker True Crime

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In the spring of 1989, Vienna's Lainz Hospital seemed like any other medical facility caring for the elderly and infirm. The sprawling complex, with its long corridors and sterile rooms, housed hundreds of patients requiring constant care. But behind its institutional facade, something sinister was taking place on the night shift. Four nurses, who would later be dubbed the "Angels of Death," had been systematically killing patients for years.

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Resources
Documentary
Deadly Women - Revenge
Unimaginable Serial Murder: The Angels of Death of Lainz
Die Todesengel von Lainz
Web
Murderpedia
Wikipedia
Articles
70th Anniversary of Lainz Hospital
Killing of 49 Patients By 4 Nurse's Aides Stuns the Austrians
Lainz murders: "Now it's over for the Black Forest Clinic"
Waltraud, I still need a bed
Medical Murder Club

Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe
Narrated by Noel Vinson
Music: “Nordic Medieval” by Marcus Bressler
Background track: Doblado Studios: https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

Whether you want to enhance your career opportunities or pivot to a new one, University of Limerick has a diverse range of full-time, part-time and short postgraduate programs designed to set you up for success. Go further and commit to

0:23.6

curiosity at uL.i. That's uL.i.e. Ready to go further or take your ambitions to the next level?

0:33.9

It's time to commit to curiosity with a postgrad at UL.

0:38.8

Whether you want to enhance your career opportunities or pivot to a new one,

0:43.3

University of Limerick has a diverse range of full-time, part-time and short postgraduate programs

0:48.9

designed to set you up for success.

0:52.1

Go further and commit to curiosity at at uL.E. That's uL.I.E.

1:01.0

In April, 1989, an elderly patient at Vienna's Lyons Hospital had a disturbing story to tell.

1:09.7

Franz Kahut had unexpectedly slipped into a coma, only to be revived by a quick-thinking doctor.

1:16.6

When he regained consciousness, he revealed something chilling,

1:19.6

and nurse had given him an injection he didn't need.

1:23.6

He couldn't remember her face, but he remembered the strange feeling of dizziness before everything

1:29.5

went black. When investigators would soon discover was that Franz wasn't just the victim of a medical

1:36.3

mistake. He was the only known survivor of Austria's most prolific team of serial killers.

1:43.9

Behind the sterile walls of Pavilion 5, an award staff

1:47.8

grimly nicknamed Death Pavilion, four nursing assistants had been playing God, deciding which

1:53.9

patients lived and which ones died. They called themselves angels of mercy. But there was nothing

2:00.7

merciful about their methods.

2:03.1

This is the story of the Angels of Death at Aline's Hospital.

2:10.5

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2:14.1

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