Catching Medical Serial Killers: Special Agent Bruce Sackman | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 111
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Mike Ritland
4.9 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2022
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
BRUCE SACKMAN is a renowned investigator specializing in tracking down MEDICAL SERIAL KILLERS and is in demand as a consultant on that subject all over the world. He is a former Special Agent in Charge of the Northeast Field Office, Criminal Investigations Division, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of the Inspector General where he was responsible for criminal investigation in 295 VA facilities.
He is a licensed private investigator and conducts internal investigations for one of the largest medical centers in the world. He is president of the Society of Professional Investigators.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
1:29 - Lightning Round
9:59 - Morning Routine
17:15 - Career Path
20:07 - DOD Fraud Cases
28:39 - Penalties
33:08 - Construction Fraud
35:33 - Narcotics Cases
43:54 - Director of Pharmacy Case
51:13 - Medical Serial Killers
1:05:11 - What Makes a Medical Serial Killer?
1:11:00 - Victimology
1:17:28 - Coincidences
1:19:05 - Maintaining Objectivity
1:26:22 - VA Cases Victimology
1:31:20 - Michael Swango
1:39:46 - Working with Michael Baden (Autopsy)
1:47:02 - Sentencing
1:50:03 - Obscure Methods
1:56:24 - 2020
2:00:00 - Moving Forward
Support: Bruce Sackman
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is there a most egregious atrocity that you encountered |
| 0:03.3 | throughout your entire career? |
| 0:04.8 | The cases of doctors and nurses |
| 0:06.9 | who intentionally murdered their patients. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm not talking about like a walk-in, |
| 0:12.6 | you know, somebody that's assisting suicide. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm talking about medical professionals |
| 0:18.8 | who intentionally murdered their patients in the VA system. |
| 0:24.0 | When you speak about your traditional serial killers, |
| 0:28.3 | you talk about, you know, four or five deaths. |
| 0:31.8 | Well, they were actually amateurs |
| 0:33.1 | compared to my medical serial killer. |
| 0:34.7 | As many of them have killed 30, 60, 100, 150 people. |
| 0:39.4 | A nurse in Italy was accused of killing 30 patients. |
| 0:42.5 | What she would do is take a selfie of herself and the victim. |
| 0:46.1 | Jesus. |
| 0:47.0 | It's creepy as fuck. |
| 0:48.6 | Of all the cases that you were involved in, |
| 0:50.4 | which one was the highest body count? |
| 0:52.9 | Michael Slingel. |
| 0:53.8 | I didn't think in the United States of America |
| 0:56.4 | you could spend time in prison for poisoning people |
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