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- ♪

- MALE NARRATOR: A heartless killer

hides in plain sight.

It's a respected doctor, murdering his own patients.

- BERNARD POSTLES: He was preying

on some of the most vulnerable people in society.

- NARRATOR: Doctor Herald Shipman's secret rampage

lasts for decades.

- BERNARD: He'd been murdering people for years

and getting away with it.

- NARRATOR: And he's not the only one,

there are doctors and nurses haunting hospitals,

known as angels of death.

- GARY: Are motivated by the kind of god-like power

that they feel, you know,

being responsible for life or death.

- NARRATOR: What creates these cold-blooded monsters?

What drives their warped psyche?

- GARY: He did things, went above and beyond

what was necessary to kill a patient.

There was an element of cruelty.

- NARRATOR: Now, the actual voices and visions

of serial killers--

- No, I wasn't born evil.

- I committed evil.

- NARRATOR: --plunges deep inside

their complex and twisted minds.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: June 24th, 1998,

Dr. Harold Shipman

arrives at the home of one of his patients,

81-year-old Kathleen Grundy.

Kathleen has agreed to participate

in a medical survey on older, healthy women.

It's a terrible decision for the vibrant senior citizen.

- She's bright busy person, wasn't she?

Very busy person, yeah.

- PHIL: Well, she did, I mean,

she did do quite a number of charitable things

and also community things.

- NARRATOR: Inside, Dr. Shipman has Kathleen lie down

and roll up her sleeve.

But rather than taking a blood sample,

as Kathleen expects,

Shipman injects her with a fatal dose of morphine.

- I was just at work as normal,

and then I had a telephone call from the police

saying that my mother had died.

- NARRATOR: Stunned by their mother's sudden death,

Kathleen's children contact Dr. Shipman

for an explanation.

- PHIL: He gave us the death certificate

and he said, "I've put old age,"

and, I mean, we knew perfectly well that that wasn't right,

but then he sort of vaguely implied

that this would-- that he'd seen her recently

and so we knew the case, so it wasn't--

and he was basically tryna say

that he was gonna avoid a post mortem

'cuz that would be unpleasant for us.

- NARRATOR: The doctor's calm demeanor and reassurance

puts the Woodruffs at ease.

But three weeks later, they receive another shock.

- The will,

which some solicitors... sent to me.

- The fact that it had left all of the estate to Shipman,

which, I mean, if you'd known Kathleen

and her relationship to-- to, well, to us, to the family,

then that would have been extraordinarily unlikely.

- NARRATOR: Suspecting Dr. Shipman

murdered their mother for profit,

the Woodruffs contact the police.

What they soon uncover proves unimaginable.

The beloved doctor,

a pillar of the community, with over 3,000 patients,

has been systematically murdering them

for over 25 years.

- BERNARD: Had Angela not come forward,

there is no doubt

that he would have continued to murder people.

There was nothing that was going to stop him;

he'd been murdering people for years

and getting away with it.

- NARRATOR: Cases of doctors and nurses who kill,

have been documented throughout history.

These horror stories highlight how people in trusted positions

and access to vulnerable patients

can abuse in the worst way possible.

Oftentimes,

these angels of death serial killers

can go undetected for years.

- Angels of death are serial killers

who actually are abusing a position of power

that they may have,

where they could be a caretaker or a doctor,

somebody who is suppose to be helping people

and they actually use it to kill their victims.

- An angel of death is the name, a little bit too glorified--

[chuckles] --in this instance,

of nurses and physicians

who kill one patient after another,

usually by injecting one such--choline or some...

[unintelligible] like drug,

and some of them have killed very large numbers of patients

in that manner.

- GARY: There seem to be a number of motivations

behind that kind of serial killing,

which doesn't involve torture or any sexual component,

just sort of repeat murders,

but it seems that some of them

are motivated by the kind of god-like power

that they feel, you know,

being responsible for life or death.

Some of them will tell you

that it was almost coming from an empathy

where they were putting someone out of their misery,

that kind of a thing.

And others were drawn

to the kind of the egocentric thrill

of having everybody run to see that they were there

at the moment that somebody started to die.

- NARRATOR: Dr. Harold Shipman

is the most horrific example of an angel of death;

becoming Britain's most prolific serial killer.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: Shipman owns his own practice,

but specializes in house calls;

visiting his elderly and infirmed patients

in their homes.

- [footsteps] - [door creaking]

- Everybody without exception

had the highest appraise for Dr. Shipman,

what a wonderful doctor he was,

and people said he was very, very accessible.

- DR. JEREMY DIRCKZE: He had this reputation

of looking after his patients from cradle to grave.

He prided himself on personal care.

He would look after patients at home,

where maybe we would send them to hospital.

He took pride in that and he had a reputation

of always being available for patients.

He would go beyond the normal call of duty.

He was the old-fashioned doctor who looked after them,

did everything for them,

and they had absolute confidence in.

- NARRATOR: Officials estimate over 200 times

the beloved doctor injects his victims

with lethal doses of morphine,

often while offering a calming pat on their hands

as they slowly pass away.

- ♪

- DR. FOX: One of the defining features of Shipman

is were he didn't choose to strangle them

or do something that would be more frightening and painful.

Instead, he injected them with an overdose of morphine,

where they first went to sleep

and then eventually overdosed and died.

- Predator, I think, is--is-- is the best way to describe him.

He was preying on the--

the--some of the most vulnerable people in society.

- NARRATOR: Perhaps most astonishing

is that Shipman gets away with it

for over 25 years.

As a boy, Harold was very close to his mother.

She instilled in him an early sense of superiority

that tainted most of his later relationships.

While in his teens,

Shipman became interested in medicine

while watching his mother

receive daily morphine injections

to ease the pain she suffered while dying of lung cancer.

One day, when he was 17,

Shipman comes home to find his mother

sitting in her armchair, fully clothed, dead.

Her death has a very traumatic impact.

In fact, many of the women Shipman kills

are found in a similar manner.

- Shipman had a passive-aggressive

relationship with his mother,

where he both sought her attention,

but he constantly was being rebuked by her;

were she would put him off and she'd put him down,

but he constantly wanted her approval and attention.

When he was 17, however, he came home one day

and just saw her sitting there, dead in her chair,

and so that was very traumatic for him

because he felt like he was never really able

to attain that approval from her

and he no longer had the chance to do it

since she had passed away.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: In 1970,

Shipman receives a medical degree

from Leeds University.

A few years later,

he becomes a general practitioner in Yorkshire.

Shipman thrives,

specializing in pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology.

In 1975, hospital officials

discover he's been forging prescriptions

for large amounts of the opioid, Pethidine;

for his own personal use.

Caught red-handed, Shipman has no choice but to resign,

pay a small fine, and enter a drug rehab program.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: After his rehabilitation,

Shipman finds work again,

this time at the Donneybrook Medical Center in Hyde.

Here, Shipman earns a reputation as a hardworking doctor

who enjoys the trust of patients and colleagues alike,

although, one with a reputation for arrogance.

- Almost sort of, very sort of condescending, you know,

as if dismissing you as-- as your views

as being worthless,

particularly when he was talking to pharmaceutical reps

who would come in.

He would take great pleasure

in almost reducing them to tears.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: It's not known

when Shipman starts killing his patients

or exactly how many die at his hands.

What is known is that while working at Donneybrook,

Shipman kills regularly using the painkiller,

Diamorphine.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: To destroy any evidence of poisoning,

Shipman urges families to cremate their relatives.

In a large number of cases,

he stresses that no further investigation of their deaths

is necessary.

In situations where they do raise questions,

Shipman provides computerized medical notes

that corroborate his cause of death pronouncements.

- If I find all of his behavior that's subsequently come out,

is it's always incomprehensible really,

it does, it goes against all our sort of ethics and morals

of why we do the job, really.

- NARRATOR: After 15 years at Donneybrook,

Shipman leaves to open his own practice.

The angel of death's murder rate accelerates

and the killings become more and more brazen.

But before police can end these murders,

they must first recognize

there's a serial killer at large.

How can they catch a murderer

who has totally covered his tracks?

- NARRATOR: Doctors and nurses who kill,

so-called angels of death,

often abuse their position for their own ego

and god-like narcissism.

History's most horrific example is Dr. Harold Shipman,

who's reported to have murdered more than 200 of his patients.

A series of killings lasting more than 25 years.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: His crimes first came to light in 1998,

following the sudden death of a healthy 81-year-old woman,

Kathleen Grundy.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: Investigators find

that Shipman's murders accelerate

when he opens a private practice in 1993.

This is a one-doctor office where he works alone

and without any oversight.

No one is there to notice Shipman's death rates,

and prescription rates are extremely high.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: As is the case with other serial killers,

the more Shipman kills and gets away with it,

the more brazen he becomes,

efficiently and ruelessly murdering dozens,

including in some cases

more than one person in a single family.

Shipman would visit his victims, all females, most over 65;

treating them as if he were an old friend,

but then after injecting them with morphine,

Shipman often left them to die alone.

He goes back to his office

to back date their medical records

and falsify their death certificates;

attributing the incident to natural causes.

- I think, one of the, um, difficulties

with that earlier investigation

was getting over the sort of credibility gap,

was something that I referred to as being, which was that...

"Is it true what we're saying,

that there was a doctor murdering people?"

He selected people who were vulnerable in the community,

and they tended to be people who were living alone.

- NARRATOR: Another complicating issue

in stopping Shipman

is that he did not fit the typical serial killer profile.

One investigator calls Shipman,

"The dullest serial killer I have ever met."

His benign appearance and affable demeanor, however,

did belie his pervasive narcissism.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: Shipman's motives remain controversial.

While some experts speculate

he was seeking to avenge the death of his mother,

others suggest it was euthanasia.

Some believe there were financial motives,

and others say it was for power and control.

- For a lot of these angels of death,

there is a literal god complex that they have

where they wanna feel like

they have the ability in their control

to actually give or take life,

and so for them, they may choose,

"Well, this person will live and this person will die,"

and for them that gives them this huge ego rush

where they feel like they're the ultimate god,

they're ultimately in control.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: There's also an element of the angel of death

wanting to be perceived as a hero.

- There's a theme within angels of death

where they may actually be killing somebody,

but as soon as others get aware

to the fact that this person is dying,

they actually will change their behaviors entirely

to appear as if they're resuscitating this person,

trying to save them.

And a way to think of this

is the arsonist who's actually the firefighter,

where they're the ones who set the fire

and then come there to put it out.

They want that glory, they want to be the hero,

and so they're not only able to kill somebody

and get the gratification that comes from that,

they're also able to get the gratification

of appearing to be the hero in this scenario.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: Shipman's killing spree

finally comes to light

thanks to the determination of Angela Woodruff,

the daughter of Kathleen Grundy.

Angela Woodruff is a lawyer

and handles her mother's affairs,

so it is with great surprise

that she discovers a will exists

leaving the bulk of her mother's estate to Dr. Shipman.

Detective superintendent, Bernard Postles

comes to the same conclusion on examination of the evidence.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: Kathleen Grundy's body is exhumed

and a post mortem reveals

that she has died of a morphine overdose

administered within three hours of her death,

precisely within the timeframe of Shipman's visit.

On the same day as the exhumation,

the police raid Shipman's home and office.

The search yields hundreds of medical records,

an odd collection of women's jewelry

and an old manual typewriter,

which was later proved to have been used

to forge Kathleen Grundy's will.

- He suggested that the typewriter

was something that had been borrowed

on a number of occasions by Kathleen Grundy.

What he couldn't explain was

when it was that she'd actually returned it,

if that indeed that was true.

- NARRATOR: A review of Shipman's medical records

makes it clear that this investigation

extends beyond a single death.

- BERNARD: This was the tip of the iceberg,

was how I was viewing it at that stage.

- NARRATOR: Shipman would alter his medical notes

directly after killing the patient

to ensure that his account matches the historical records.

What Shipman had failed to grasp

was that each alteration of the records

would be time-stamped by the computer,

enabling police to ascertain

exactly which records had been altered.

- He wasn't as clever as he thought he was

in being able to explain his way out of this.

- NARRATOR: On September 7th, 1998,

the police arrest the 52-year-old Shipman

for the murder of Kathleen Grundy.

The news send shockwaves across the community.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: As word spreads,

suspicion mounts that there may have been other victims.

Investigators decide they must dig up more graves.

- ♪

- Personally, it took a great toil on me.

I would describe it as being the worst time in my life.

Off the top of my head, I attended about seven or eight.

After a while, I got more use to going to the cemetery

at three o'clock, four o'clock in the morning.

To be in the cemetery at four o'clock

on a cold, winter, dark morning,

it cut right through your bones.

It was very, very unpleasant

because as the remains were exhumed, um,

you became very aware of the, um, smell.

- NARRATOR: The exhumations and subsequent tests prove

Shipman has been murdering a number of his patients.

Shipman maintains his innocence,

claiming he's been acting compassionately,

but it is clear from the medical records

and toxicology reports

that none of his victims

were suffering from a terminal illness.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: The police eventually charge Shipman

with 15 individual counts of murder

as well as one count of forgery.

On January 31st, 2000,

a jury finds Shipman guilty on all charges.

- ♪

- FEMALE REPORTER: Relatives of Harold Shipman's victims

left court tonight

knowing that one of the most dangerous men

seen in Britain during the last century,

had been permanently removed from society.

- Sadly, nothing that's happened here

nor can happen in the future,

can bring back my mom and all the other victims.

- ♪

- BERNARD: I think it was mixed emotions,

it was, um, again, satisfaction that he'd been convicted

and been convicted off every one of the counts in the indictment.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: Four years later, on January 13th, 2004,

Shipman performs his last planned death.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: Alone in his cell, Shipman uses bed sheets

wrapped around his neck and tied to the window bars

to hang himself.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: Officially,

Harold Shipman is convicted of killing 15,

but ultimately, he is believed to have murdered

between 200 and 300 patients.

One of the problems faced by investigators

is that several victims had been cremated,

making death certification impossible.

Whatever the exact number,

the sheer scale of his murderous activities

means that Shipman is catapulted from a single-patient killer

to the most prolific known serial killer in the world.

- DR. FOX: He had this overwhelming sense of narcissism

that he not only thought of himself

as being so grandiose and so high above others,

but he actually had this god-like concept

where he felt like he could choose

who he was going to kill, when and why,

and that's something you see

only with very extreme narcissists.

- NARRATOR: One reason Harold Shipman

is able to evade authorities for so long

was that his murders are scattered

among his patients' homes.

But incredibly, there is another angel of death

who confines his murders

to a spot people think of as the safest possible place:

the hospital.

- NARRATOR: Harold Shipman is a trusted family doctor

who has been killing patients to experience a god-like thrill.

Another angel of death is only a hospital orderly,

but he gains enormous power by deciding who lives or dies.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: 88-year-old stroke victim, Logan Evans,

lays helpless in bed,

unable to control his bodily functions.

When the orderly, Donald Harvey,

arrives for his nightly clean up,

Evans smears feces onto Harvey's face.

Suddenly, the 18-year-old orderly snaps,

grabs a pillow and smothers Evans to death.

It is only after his victim is dead,

that Donald Harvey realizes what he has done,

but rather than becoming scared,

this act of anger empowers Harvey.

Suddenly, after always being told what to do,

he called the shots.

He decided who would live and who would die.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: While working at Marymount Hospital,

Donald Harvey, still just a teenager,

murders 14 more patients.

He later moves to other hospitals

and this despicable angel of death

claims over 70 more victims.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: What could cause

such a cold-blooded serial killer to emerge?

- ♪

- NARRATOR: Once again,

an abusive childhood seems to come into play.

- In childhood, Donald Harvey

was pretty neglected by his parents.

They were constantly fighting,

and even though he was the eldest,

he was more caring for his siblings

than receiving the attention that a child should.

Additionally,

he was being abused sexually by his uncle and neighbor

and so all of that was very traumatic for him growing up.

- NARRATOR: Harvey's killing begins in 1970,

but he isn't apprehended until 1987.

After his arrest,

he lays partial blame on this childhood trauma.

- The amount of trauma and abuse

that Donald Harvey felt during childhood,

even though it was severe,

it became normalized to him were he thought,

"This must be what other people go through,"

or because he had no other experience,

he just thought, "This is the way it is,"

and he knew nothing different.

- GARY: Donald Harvey

did things sometimes that went above and beyond

what was necessary to kill a patient,

so that there was an element of cruelty,

so for example,

while he killed the vast majority of his charges

through poison,

there was also incidents of him snaking a coat hanger

into the catheter of patients

to puncture the organs, to puncture them internally,

so that peritonitis would set in

and the individual would die slowly from that.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: In 1971,

when Harvey leaves Marymount to join the military,

his killing spree stops.

It picks up again when Harvey joins the nursing staff

at the VA hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: During his two-year stint there,

Harvey is believed to have murdered another 17 patients.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: And it was here

that Harvey perfects the art of using cyanide and arsenic

in small, lethal, undetectable doses

so his killings can go unnoticed,

and for the most part, they did.

- [monitor beeping]

- NARRATOR: No one who comes into contact with him

knows the demons that lurk beneath his skin.

The power over life and death goes to Harvey's head.

- One commonality between the angels of death

and other types of serial killers

is the fact that they have a strong need

for power and control.

It's ultimately the most defining feature

of the angels of death.

- NARRATOR: Harvey's killing spree at the VA hospital

comes to an end when officials discover a gun,

books on the occult, syringes, and slides of human tissue

in his hospital locker.

But rather than firing him, they let him resign,

enabling Harvey to move on to another job,

this time at nearby Daniel Drake Memorial Hospital.

Just six weeks into his new position,

the self-described angel of mercy strikes again.

Harvey feels unstoppable.

- It's easy to imagine how addictive it would be

to be able to take someone's life, get away with it,

and then be able to do it again and again and again,

and the high that might come with that,

and also the empowerment

with every single time you do it,

getting away with it.

- NARRATOR: In a span of five months,

Harvey kills six more patients

without any remorse and without leaving a trace.

But eventually, in March of 1987,

an autopsy is performed on a victim.

As the coroner cuts open the body,

he smells the telltale scent of bitter almonds

wafting up from the dead man's organs.

He immediately identifies the smell as cyanide.

Suddenly, everyone working at the hospital

becomes a suspect in a murder investigation.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: Rumors surface about how his co-workers

nicknamed Donald Harvey, the angel of death;

not because they suspect any crimes,

but because he is so often present

when a patient passed away.

Investigators decide to search Harvey's home

and discover 30 pounds of cyanide.

They also find,

books on the occult,

and a list of victims yet to be killed by Harvey.

On April 6th, 1987, the police arrest Harvey,

charging him with one count of aggravated murder.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: When they ask him if he had killed others,

he simply nods.

He doesn't know the exact figure,

maybe around 70.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: Harvey consents to a chilling prison interview.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: In the session,

he details the years of sexual molestation.

- DONALD HARVEY: My uncle had started messing around with me

when I was four years old,

and he was 13, and I was almost four.

And what he would do with me would be...in a sexual sense

and I thought all the other little boys

would do the same thing,

and since I act like my mother, act like a little girl,

so he started messing around with me.

- INTERVIEWER: How long this go on for,

this sexual molestation of you?

- DONALD: Well, my uncle and I went on until I was almost 21,

and the neighbor man until I was 15 or 16.

I don't like to think of myself as evil, no.

- INTERVIEWER: But people think you are crazy, you're mad.

- DONALD: Some do, some don't.

- INTERVIEWER: You're not mad? - DONALD: No.

- INTERVIEWER: You chose to do what you did?

- DONALD: I chose to do what I did and I can't blame,

I can't blame my mother, I can't blame my uncle.

- INTERVIEWER: Why can't you blame him?

- DONALD: He contributed,

but he didn't tell me to keep going on and on and on

doing what I was doing.

- ♪

- INTERVIEWER: How many people have you killed in total?

- Total of 87.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: Harvey is asked

whether he thinks people are born evil

or do they become evil.

- I think everyone--

unless they are born with some mental problem,

I don't think anyone's born evil.

I think it's man-made.

- INTERVIEWER: You weren't born evil?

- No, I wasn't born evil.

- INTERVIEWER: But you committed evil.

- I committed evil.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: In exchange for escaping the death penalty,

Harvey pleads guilty and confesses to 13 killings.

He is sentenced to 28 life sentences.

- A lot of times, guys come up to me and say,

"Well--"

I'll tell 'em, "I'm in here with you,"

I mean, you know, in the pod where I live

and they say, "Oh, he's evil, he's--he's a monster,"

'cuz they immediately think

once you leave the street in cuffs,

they think you become something else.

- INTERVIEWER: But very few people kill 80 people.

What you did was monstrous.

- That we know of.

There's others out there.

I'm not the only one. By a long shot.

- NARRATOR: On March 30th, 2017,

Donald Harvey is found beaten to death

in his prison cell.

As horrific as his crimes appear,

there is another angel of death that eclipses all others

in the unspeakable brutality of their serial murders.

- NARRATOR: One of the most insidious breeds

of serial killers,

are the monsters known as the angels of death,

doctors, nurses and caregivers who murder their patients.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: Britain's Dr. Harold Shipman

may be the most prolific serial killer of all time,

murdering over 250 patients.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: While Donald Harvey, a hospital orderly,

admits to 87 deaths.

There have been numerous cases around the world

of nurses, so-called angels of mercy,

turning into angels of death.

Perhaps the most heartless of all these serial killers

is maternity nurse, Marie Fikackova.

She is believed to have murdered at least ten newborn babies,

beginning in 1957.

Her killing spree ends abruptly three years later.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: February 23rd, 1960,

two newborn infants are found dead

in the Susice hospital in the Czech Republic.

Both are girls, one is five weeks old,

the other is just 20 hours old.

The babies are victims of extreme violence;

both have cracked skulls.

- ♪

- NARRATOR: Four days later,

Marie Fikackova is arrested for the crimes,

and the 23-year-old nurse gives a gruesome confession

and reveals a troubling past.

She grew up in Susice.

Apparently, her father was abusive to Marie

and her mentally challenged brother,

and she often fought with her mother.

But despite this difficult childhood,

in 1955, Marie enters nursing school

and is considered an excellent student

with a bright future.

Her school records give her a glowing report.

Marie Fikackova has completed all the prerequisites

for her chosen profession.

She will be a good, conscientious nurse

and a reliable caregiver for babies.

She is capable of handling responsibility

and can work well independently.

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- NARRATOR: After graduation,

Marie is hired at Susice hospital.

By all accounts,

she appears to be an excellent maternity ward nurse.

- [speaking Czech]

- FEMALE TRANSLATOR: Like with other serial killer cases,

Marie Fikackova's peers were taken completely by surprise.

Marie seemed to be a very professional,

competent and punctual person.

This was very apparent

and at work she was very well evaluated.

This isn't really surprising, as even serial killers

have these little so-called islands of normality.

- NARRATOR: With her shocking confession,

she recounts the numerous, horrible crimes

she's carried out over the years.

She even poses for photographs

demonstrating how she murdered the infants.

- MARIE: Before killing the last two babies,

named Procer and Hamel Bauer,

I'd beaten another ten children

who'd died as a result of my beatings.

I want to add that I remember some of the names

of the deceased children,

and I gave those names to the prosecutors,

but many of the names I don't remember.

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- NARRATOR: She describes her first murder in 1957,

three years before her arrest.

- MARIE: I don't remember

the name of the baby or the mother,

but I clearly remember beating the infant

in the chest and head;

that is what killed the child.

- DR. CIRTKOVA: [speaking Czech]

- FEMALE TRANSLATOR: During her arrest,

she acted very calm and natural.

Her entire behavior can be summarized as resigned,

and she lacked any empathy whatsoever;

that means she described her crimes in the hospital

with absolutely no emotion.

She also mentioned that the first attack on the baby

was committed without any suspicion by the others

on the medical team.

She understood this as a clear indicator

of not needing to worry about getting caught,

and she could just carry on with what she was doing.

- NARRATOR: Even crimes

as heinous as murdering newborn babies

are escaping detection.

How can this cunning angel of death be stopped?

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- NARRATOR: In Susice hospital, in the Czech Republic,

a seemingly kind and compassionate maternity nurse

named Marie Fikackova,

is actually a serial killer.

She has murdered at least ten newborn babies

entrusted to her care.

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- NARRATOR: In her chilling confession,

she details how she killed two infants

on the same day, February 23rd, 1960.

- MARIE: On February 23rd, around 11:00AM,

I was in the maternity unit were I was ironing diapers.

Hannah Hamel Bauer was laying behind me,

she was about six weeks old.

She was crying and it made me angry and nervous,

that's why I turned and slammed her in the head,

and with my hand slightly closed.

I did it because I was upset and very stressed.

They didn't know there was a problem with the baby

until the next day when she wouldn't drink.

The day after that, she died.

- NARRATOR: Marie continues

detailing her murder of the Procer baby,

the newborn is just 20 hours old.

- MARIE: When I was pressing the head of the Procer baby,

I felt my fingers pushing into her skull.

I felt the scrunch of the head,

but I wasn't sure I was breaking the bones.

But I was aware that after this push,

she stopped crying,

but she had to die.

- [speaking Czech]

- FEMALE TRANSLATOR: Marie Fikackova's case

is interesting because of her young age

when she was committing her crimes,

also the fact

that she was committing these crimes on newborns,

that is really atypical

because killers in the angels of death category

usually focus on old people nearing the end of their lives,

usually suffering some terminal illness.

Their motives are usually considered

to be helping the victim,

but in time, we discover that the real motivation

is in power and control over the victims.

She was beating the babies, beat them with her fist,

beat them on their chests, beat them to their heads.

- NARRATOR: When police arrest Marie Fikackova

on February 27th,

she reacts calmly and says

she is actually relieved at finally being caught.

The motive for Marie's serial murders

is never clear.

In her own confession, she claims she developed

temporary feelings of pedophobia,

the hatred of children,

during her menstruation periods.

Court psychologists declare Fikackova to be sane,

but they acknowledge she is prone to depression,

hysteria, and uncontrollable outbursts of anger.

On October 4th, 1960,

Marie Fikackova is sentenced to death

for the two murders in February of that year.

The courts are never able to confirm the earlier killings.

On death row, Marie writes a letter to her mother.

- MARIE: Dear Mother,

as you know, I am sentenced to death.

It's very tragic and I can't even think about it,

that I will never be able to meet with you again,

because I still believe

that there is some justice

that will save me,

but if not, I have to accept my fate.

- NARRATOR: On April 13th, 1961...

Marie Fikackova is hanged at Pankrac Prison in Prague.

For years, there is outrage

over why the hospital staff took so long

to recognize the horrible crimes she was committing.

But it is difficult to even conceive that these individuals

that we trust with our very lives,

could ever be so heartless.

Caregivers, nurses, and doctors who kill

attack the fundamental fabric of society.

A stay in the hospital is difficult for anyone,

a time when we are at our most vulnerable.

Adding to that,

a fear that those charged with saving lives might kill,

is something no human being should ever have to endure.

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