S3 Ep4: Beverley Allitt, the Angel of Death

What Makes a Killer

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Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In April 1991, doctors at Grantham and Kesteven hospital in Lincolnshire were perplexed. In just two months, the health of 13 children had mysteriously deteriorated and four of them had died. But this was no unfortunate coincidence. One of the nurses was deliberately attempting to kill her young patients by injecting them with deadly poison.

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0:30.0	What makes a killer contains graphic details of sexual assault and violence and is not
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0:36.9	Listener discretion is strongly advised.
0:43.2	It's April 22nd, 1991 at Grantham and Castiven Hospital in Lincolnshire.
0:50.0	It's a busy night at the Children's Ward, and one of the patients admitted is 15-month-old
0:55.2	Claire Peck.
0:57.0	A little girl had begun to wheeze at night, and her breathing problems hadn't stopped.
1:02.3	Today, she has what doctors believe is an asthma attack.
1:07.7	Claire is quickly hooked up to a ventilator, stabilized.
1:11.9	She is left alone with the ward nurse, and her parents are assured that she will recover.
1:18.1	But not even an hour later, the alarm is sounded on ward 4.
1:23.7	Claire is going into cardiac arrest.
1:26.3	She is resuscitated, but heartbreakingly, she soon has a second heart attack.
1:32.2	This time, she doesn't survive.
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