October 21, 1954 - Michael Swango
What made Swango particularly dangerous was the cover provided by his medical credentials — a licensed physician moving between hospitals and countries, poisoning patients in settings built on trust. Estimates of his victims reach as high as sixty, though he admitted to only four deaths, a gap that reflects both the difficulty of detecting physician-perpetrated harm and institutional failures that allowed him to continue practicing after early suspicions arose. He remains one of the most extensively investigated cases of medical serial killing in American history.
From Wikipedia
Michael Joseph Swango (born James Michael Swango, October 21, 1954) is an American serial killer and licensed 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; he admitted to causing four deaths. He was sentenced in 2000 to three consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole and is serving his sentence at ADX Florence at his own request.
Further reading
- Blind Eye
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James B. Stewart examines how serial killer doctor Michael Swango operated undetected while the medical community repeatedly looked the other way.
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This account traces how Michael Swango maintained the appearance of a model physician even as patients died suspiciously around him, earning him the FBI's grim distinction as the nation's most successful serial killer.
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This profile explores the crimes of physician-killer Michael Swango, whose death toll may have surpassed that of more infamous serial killers like Ted Bundy and Richard Ramirez.
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