Still wearing his ring, the loyal widow of serial killer Dr Harold (2024)

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Who is the serial killer Harold? ›

Harold Frederick Shipman (14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004), known to acquaintances as Fred Shipman, was an English general practitioner and serial killer. He is considered to be one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history, with an estimated 250 victims.

Harold Shipman (born January 14, 1946, Nottingham, England—died January 13, 2004, Wakefield) was a British doctor and serial killer who murdered about 250 of his patients, according to an official inquiry into his crimes.

January 13, 2004 (age 57 years), HMP Wakefield, Wakefield, United Kingdom

Harold Shipman / Died

Harold Shipman, a seemingly mild-mannered family doctor, was responsible for the deaths of over 200 of his patients over 23 years. The true horrors of his actions started to slowly unravel in September 1998 when he was arrested for the murder of one of his patients, 81-year-old Kathleen Grundy.

Harold II (born c. 1020—died October 14, 1066, near Hastings, Sussex, England) was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England. A strong ruler and a skilled general, he held the crown for nine months in 1066 before he was killed at the Battle of Hastings by Norman invaders under William the Conqueror.

H.H. Holmes (born May 16, 1861?, Gilmanton, New Hampshire, U.S.—died May 7, 1896, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American swindler and confidence trickster who is widely considered the country's first known serial killer.

There are numerous estimates of how many people Mao was responsible for killing during his brutal reign. The most often-cited number is 65 million, though other estimates place the number north of 80 million. Sadly, the world will likely never know the true number who died as a result of Mao's brutal policies.

Michael Joseph Swango (born James Michael Swango, October 21, 1954) is an American serial killer and physician who is estimated to have been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues in the United States and Zimbabwe, although he admitted to causing only four deaths.

Michael Swango is a convicted serial killer who used his position as a medical student, paramedic and later as a physician to poison colleagues and patients. He's serving three life sentences at the country's only supermax federal penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.

Early in his career Dr Shipman had become personally addicted to pethidine and was convicted of drug misuse, and disciplined by the GMC, but allowed to continue in practice. By all accounts Dr Shipman was a good doctor, going well beyond the call of duty in caring for and visiting his patients.

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Robert Leroy Anderson was convicted of kidnapping and killing Larisa Dumansky of Sioux Falls in 1994 and Piper Streyle of rural Canistota two years later. He was sentenced to death by lethal injection in 1999.

She then rented a series of homes closer to the jails in which he was serving his life sentence. Now, aged 58, Primrose lives in a secluded cottage near Wetherby, West Yorkshire, bought six years ago by her loyal son, Christopher, for £59,000.