Killers Around the World II – English Serial Killers

Strange Matters Podcast

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Science, History, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 27 April 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this second installment of Strange Matters Podcast’s series highlighting killers around the world, Sean discusses a pair of particularly cruel and cold-hearted English serial killers.
Harold Shipman, known as Dr. Death, was a English General Practitioner and is currently the most prolific serial killer in recorded history. Using his position as a doctor, Shipman was able to have access to an almost unlimited supply of unsuspecting victims. His method was to give an overdose of diamorphine, or medical heroin, to his patients. Harold Shipman was known to forge medical records as well. Due to his position of power, Shipman was able to go undetected for years, killing hundreds of innocent patients. Fortunately, a few people around the doctor started to recognize a pattern around his patient’s deaths. Shipman was finally investigated, and tested done on several of his recently deceased patients proved that they had died of overdoses that he had himself administered.
Mary Ann Cotton was a killer in the 1860’s and 70’s. Mary was a poisoner, using arsenic to kill off multiple husbands, friends, and over a dozen children. Her usual trick was to find a suitable man and quickly marry them, often times becoming pregnant right away. Shortly after marriage, she would convince her husband to take a life insurance policy with her as the benefactor. Mary would then poison the husband, and usually several of the children involved as well. This sadistic woman would repeat this process several times, until she had poisoned as many as 21 people before the authorities finally caught on to her act.
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0:00.0	And the Hello and welcome to another episode of the Strange Matters
0:19.7	podcast. Here is Strange Matters we discuss everything that is just outside the norm.
0:25.0	I'm Sean and I will be the host for this discussion.
0:28.0	In this episode I will be continuing my series of presenting and highlighting serial killers from around the world.
0:35.0	Specifically in this episode I will be talking about a pair of the most infamous and
0:39.8	cold-hearted killers from jolly old England.
0:43.0	Now in the first part of this series I discussed four serial killers from Europe
0:48.0	and I originally planned on moving to another location elsewhere in the world to make things different.
0:52.0	However, after the first part I had gotten
0:54.4	several requests to cover a number of English serial killers. So I've decided for the second installment of this
0:59.9	series to stick around Europe and talk about two of the most notorious murderers from
1:04.4	England. Before we get started I would once again want to warn people about the
1:09.1	content of this episode. Though I will not get too graphic with the crimes these criminals committed, some people may still find the content quite disturbing.
1:17.0	Also, if you haven't already heard the first part of this series, I will suggest you go back and listen to the first episode focusing on European serial killers also.
1:25.6	There's no real order to this series, but if you share my morbid curiosity with this subject,
1:30.4	you will probably find the previous cases of killers pretty fascinating as well.
1:34.8	With all that said, let's get right into it and start with our first English serial killer of the day.
1:41.2	Harold Shipman, also known as Dr Death and the Angel of Death, was a medical general practitioner in England and also the most prolific serial killer in recorded history. That's right Harold Shippman is responsible for taking
1:55.6	more lives than any other serial killer I will ever discuss in this series, and has a higher
2:00.4	victim count than the four European serial killers I discuss in part one combined.
2:06.5	With that said, Harold did not kill people in the usual sense of fellow infamous killers. He did not bludgeon them to death or kidnap and torture them,
2:15.5	but instead use his position as a health care practitioner to quietly kill his very
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