This is serial killer, a true crime podcast.

My name is Anne McElhenney.

I'm a journalist and I've been investigating the almost 40 year killing spree by America's most prolific serial killer, Dr. Kermit Baron Gosnell.

In previous episodes we heard how he was able to kill and maim with impunity,

whilst those who were supposed to investigate and regulate looked the other way.

We also heard how his killing spree was stopped almost by accident

after Gosnell came to the attention of Detective Jim Wood,

a drugs investigator with Philadelphia's district attorney's office.

Wood and other officers from the FBI and the DEA were investigating Gosnell's lucrative business selling opioid prescriptions

when informants also let slip that patients were being maimed and killed in his

abortion clinic. Eventually they also told how Gosnell was

inducing labor in very heavily pregnant women and when their babies were born

alive he killed them with scissors. A grand jury estimated he murdered hundreds, perhaps

thousands, in its 40-year career as a doctor. But would the investigators and prosecutors be able to prove their allegations.

Episode 6, putting Gosnell on trial.

It was now time to put America's most prolific serial killer before the courts.

First, he had to be charged.

Assistant District Attorney Christine Wexler brought him forward for arraignment and a bail hearing.

It was Gosnell's first time in front of a judge, and he was feeling confident.

He truly believed that the only thing he would be prosecuted for was the death of

Karnamaya Mangar which he was prepared for because it was a non it was not intentional

you know was her malice, was it murder?

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