October 2, 1889 - Frederick Mors
Working as an attendant at a New York City nursing home, he exploited a position of trust to poison eight elderly patients in his care — a pattern of harm that depended entirely on the vulnerability of those who could not protect themselves. What distinguished his case historically was his eventual confession, made voluntarily and in striking detail, offering investigators a rare direct account of his methods and reasoning. He was committed to an institution for the criminally insane rather than prosecuted, and subsequently disappeared from the record.
From Wikipedia
Frederick Mors (born Carl Menarik, 2 October 1889 – 1918?) was an Austrian serial killer. Mors killed eight elderly patients by poison while employed in a nursing home in New York City. He was very cooperative, readily admitting to the murders when questioned by police. After being arrested, Mors was diagnosed as a megalomaniac and committed to an insane asylum. He later escaped.
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