Harold Shipman - Part 1

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🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Her death was discovered when, on Wednesday the 24 th of June. She had failed to turn up at Werneth House to help with the lunches. When telephone calls to her home went unanswered the caretaker from the pensioners’ centre in Lord Derby Road, John Green, and one of the volunteers, Ronald Pickford, went to the house and, failing to get a reply to their knock, let themselves in through a door they were surprised to find unlocked. In the living room they discovered Mrs Grundy, fully clothed, curled up on the sofa as if asleep. She looked peaceful, but had a grey complexion. Mr Pickford knew that Shipman was her GP, and knew his number. When the doctor arrived about ten minutes later he told John Green that he had seen Mrs Grundy earlier that morning but ‘only for a talk’. He said she must have been well enough to get dressed, as when he saw her she was in her night clothes. He carried out what the police described as a ‘cursory examination’ of the body and told the two men she had had a quote/unquote ‘a cardiac arrest’.

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0:00.0	Love this podcast?
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0:09.0	Just click the link in the show description to support now.
0:30.0	Welcome to the serial killer podcast.
0:38.0	The podcast dedicated to serial killers.
0:41.0	Who they were, what they did and how.
0:45.0	Episode 195.
0:49.0	Tonight, D'Alisona, I bring to you a true serial killer superstar.
0:56.0	One of those who shine the darkest.
0:59.0	Some books and articles claim tonight's subject is the world's premier serial killer,
1:06.0	i.e. the one who has murdered the most victims.
1:10.0	But I disagree.
1:13.0	It is believed, and quite thoroughly documented, that Harold Shipman prematurely ended the lives of 284 human beings.
1:26.0	As loyal listeners know, Pedro Lopez surpasses that number.
1:32.0	But 284 might very well make Shipman the world's second most prolific serial killer,
1:40.0	which is extraordinary in itself.
1:43.0	Even more so considering, that he did not murder vulnerable children in the middle of nowhere high up in the Andes mountains.
1:53.0	Shipman murdered victims in their own homes, and he operated here in the West, in the UK, to be precise.
2:02.0	So sit back and relax.
2:05.0	As I start us on, there's lengthy journey down into the abyss of terror, that this bespectacle, the grandfather-appairing GP unleashed upon those he had sworn to help.
2:18.0	Enjoy.
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