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Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Episode 484: The Lainz Angels of Death

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The Lainz Angels of Death were four Austrian nurse’s aides—Waltraud Wagner, Maria Gruber, Irene Leidolf, and Stephanija Meyer—who worked at Lainz General Hospital in the 1980s. From 1983-1989 they killed at least 15 patients while pretending to care for them. Their methods later included forcing water into patients’ lungs or overdosing them on medications to make their deaths look natural. In 1991 their reign of terror came to an end and all 4 women were sent to prison. While they maintained that the murders were mercy killings, many believe these women were sick and evil. The Lainz Angels of Death case remains a chilling example of medical murder and failures in oversight. Click here to join our Patreon.  Click here to get your own Inhuman merch.  Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group.  To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up, you guys? I'm Andrea. And I'm Haley. And you're listening to Inhuman, a. Happy day. Today's case is a suggested case. It's a case. I don't know. When I saw the title of the case, like when I was coming across, like, looking up stuff and trying to figure out what case I was going to do this week, I feel like Angels of Death. Like that's such a common term or phrase used. And it's obviously like typically for like medical professionals who killed their patients.

0:55.7

And obviously this is a case that has that going on in it.

1:01.6

But this is the Lanes Angels of Death.

1:04.8

And it is, it's a pretty, pretty bad, pretty messed up case.

1:10.9

Okay.

1:11.7

But it does have a semi happy ending, but I'm not fully satisfied with how things turn out.

1:20.1

And I guarantee you guys won't be either.

1:22.9

All right.

1:23.3

But without further ado, let's just hop into it and tell you about these horrific people.

1:30.3

From 1983 to 1989, a group of four Austrian nurses, known as the Lane's Angels of Death,

1:39.0

murdered patients at the Lane's General Hospital in Vienna, Austria.

1:43.7

The group consisted of 24-year-old Walter D. Wagner, 19-year-old Maria Grubber, who was a single mother

1:52.7

and former nursing student who had dropped out, 21-year-old Irene Lydolf, who was a married

2:00.0

nurse aide, and 43-year-old Stephanie Ha, Mayor, a divorced

2:05.5

grandmother who immigrated from Yugoslavia. So these murders were carried out in the Lane's

2:11.8

General Hospital, like I said, in their Pavilion 5. And basically, Pavilion 5 housed mostly elderly terminal ill patients.

2:21.8

But it also served individuals with like severe mental health needs and people who were

2:27.6

just recovering from severe illnesses.

2:30.8

So not all of the patients were considered terminal.

2:36.1

So keep that in mind. Keep that in mind.

2:43.5

Okay. Staff often regarded this assignment as one of the toughest assignments at the hospital because of the emotional and physical demands of caring for people, you know, end of life or with

2:50.2

complex conditions. And as you can imagine,

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