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They trusted him.

Of course they did. He was a doctor, the white coat, the gentle voice, the house calls.

He wasn't just the man who prescribed your blood pressure meds. He was the man who'd listen, who'd reassure, who'd nod sympathetically while quietly deciding whether you lived or died.

This is the story of Harold Shipman, doctor, husband, father,

and the deadliest serial killer in modern history.

From 1975 to 1998, Harold Shipman worked as a general practitioner in England, but under the

surface of his perfectly normal life, he was a predator with a syringe.

He killed an estimated 250 patients, maybe more, by injecting them with lethal doses of

diomorphine, a potent form of heroin.

His method was terrifyingly simple.

He'd visit his elderly patients, usually women, in their homes.

Sit with them for a cup of tea, smile, ask them how they were feeling, and then kill them.

And he got away with it for over two decades. The signs were there. They just weren't read. People started noticing

that an awful lot of Shipman's patients were dying. Not slowly, not painfully, just suddenly.

He always seemed to be there when it happened. He always signed the death certificates, always declared them natural.

But the real unraveling began in 1998.

Kathleen Grundy was an 81-year-old former mayor of Hyde, greater Manchester.

She was fit, sharp, involved in charity work.

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