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Dr. Harold Frederick SHIPMAN
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 


A.K.A.: "Doctor Death"
 
Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Poisoner - One of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history
Number of victims: 15 - 215 +
Date of murders: 1974-1975 / 1977-1998
Date of arrest: September 7, 1998
Date of birth: January 14, 1946
Victims profile: Marie West, 81 / Irene Turner, 67 / Lizzie Adams, 77 / Jean Lilley, 59 / Ivy Lomas, 63 / Muriel Grimshaw, 76 / Marie Quinn, 67 / Kathleen Wagstaff, 81 / Bianka Pomfret, 49 / Norah Nuttall, 64 / Pamela Hillier, 68 / Maureen Ward, 57 / Winifred Mellor, 73 / Joan Melia, 73 / Kathleen Grundy, 81 (patients)
Method of murder: Poisoning (lethal injections of diamorphine)
Location: West Yorkshire/Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Status: Found guilty of 15 murders. Sentenced to life imprisonment and the judge recommended that he never be released on January 31, 2000. Committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell at Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire on January 13, 2004
 
 
 
 
 
 

The Shipman Inquiry

The First Report

Death Disguised


Chapter 1 - Before the Inquiry

Chapter 2 - The Inquiry

Chapter 3 - The Evidence and the Oral Hearings

Chapter 4 - Shipman's Practice

Chapter 5 - The Existing Procedures for Death Registration and Cremation Certification

Chapter 6 - The Medical Evidence

Chapter 7 - Drugs

Chapter 8 - Shipman's Acquisition of Controlled Drugs

Chapter 9 - The Decision-Making Process

Chapter 10 - Shipman's Unlawful Activities: The Early Years

Chapter 11 - Shipman's Unlawful Activities: The Donneybrook Years

Chapter 12 - Shipman's Unlawful Activities: The Market Street Years

Chapter 13 - Shipman's Character and Motivation

Chapter 14 - Conclusions


Complete First Report (2,2 Mb)
 

 

 
 
 
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