237: Do No Harm: Michael Swango, Pt 3

Corpus Delicti

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🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This is part 3 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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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	Everyone, it's Jen.
0:25.1	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.5	And welcome back to Corpus Delicti, the podcast.
0:29.4	We are on episode three of this amazingly crazy story of Michael Swango.
0:42.0	And of course, this is our episode of Do No Harm. Yes.
0:47.1	Our series, Do No Harm. Yes. And right now, I think Jen is still in Ireland as y'all are listening to this. So still a little bitter. Just sitting here in Birmingham by myself.
0:51.9	Oh, no. So sorry. Hopefully you are having the time of your life right now and we miss you. I don't know. You might be back by the time this comes out. I'm not sure. Maybe. But, you know, right now as we're recording, I am stress a. F trying to get everything packed and ready and medication set up and camp set up and grandparents set up.
1:11.4	I am done and I am self-medicating tonight with wine.
1:13.8	Real quick, I do want to, I know it's at the top of the episode, but I wanted to provide an
1:19.1	update on the House bill that we've talking about, that we've been talking about with Rocky
1:25.4	because they had the hearing today where they were going to
1:28.8	decide if they were going to present it for a vote. And Rocky's lawyer reached out to us. She said,
1:34.0	no vote today. They tabled it for next week, which means that it will not make it out of committee
1:39.3	this session. She did say that, yes, that's disappointing, but the speakers in favor of the bill were really great.
1:47.0	And she said she thinks it got a lot of people talking about the issue, which is good.
1:51.3	It sounds like the openness was good.
1:54.4	And I asked if it will be revisited.
1:58.0	And she said that she thinks that there's still opportunity to push it this year.
2:01.7	If we can get people sending emails, et cetera, but it will definitely come back again next year in some form.
2:08.7	So there's still hope. But with that said, it can still be helpful for y'all to send the emails.
2:14.2	So if you'll go on our page, and that's any page, Facebook,
2:22.4	Instagram, Twitter, you might have to scroll down two or three posts. There is a list of the people. You can copy and paste it into an email and say, please support House Bill 14 to make
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