Harold Fredrick Shipman[1] (14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004) was a British doctor and one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history by proven murders with up to 250 murders being ascribed to him.
On 31 January 2000, a jury found Shipman guilty of 15 murders. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and the judge recommended that he never be released.
After his trial, the Shipman Inquiry, chaired by Dame Janet Smith, began on 1 September 2000. Lasting almost two years, it was an investigation into all deaths certified by Shipman. About 80% of his victims were women. His youngest victim was a 41-year-old man.[2] Much of Britain's legal structure concerning health care and medicine was reviewed and modified as a direct and indirect result of Shipman's crimes. Shipman is the only British doctor who has been found guilty of murdering his patients.[3]"
District Attorney Holley Carnright Esq.
Please read the NY Times article
Ex-Doctor Pleads Not Guilty In
Ex-Doctor Pleads Not Guilty In
Murder and Fraud Case
Click Michael Swengo Picture Below... Find the Ten Most Evil Doctors in the History of the World
By MICHAEL COOPER
Published: July 18, 2000
The former doctor, Michael J. Swango, 45, entered his plea as he was arraigned here in Federal District Court on charges that he used fraud to obtain medical posts where he then went on to kill and assault patients by injecting them with various poisons.
If he is convicted, Mr. Swango could face the death penalty. The government will decide whether to seek the death penalty within the next three months, said Joseph Conway, the assistant United States attorney prosecuting the case.
Mr. Swango, who appeared pale and gaunt in court, with his blond hair cropped short, stood impassively as prosecutors read aloud the 17-page indictment accusing him of fraud, murder, assault and making false statements.
After Mr. Swango's lawyer, Randi Chavis, said his client pleaded not guilty to the charges, the judge, Jacob Mishler, turned to Mr. Swango and asked him if that was indeed his plea.
''Yes, yes,'' Mr. Swango said quietly.
Mr. Swango's case has troubled law enforcement officials and medical authorities alike: although he was dogged by unsettling allegations throughout his medical career, he continued to find work as a doctor.
The indictment accuses Mr. Swango of murdering a patient in 1984, as a first-year resident at Ohio State University Hospital. It states that he killed Cynthia McGee, a 19-year-old gymnast who was being treated there after she was struck by a car, by giving her a potassium injection that stopped her heart. The teenage driver who had struck her was convicted of reckless homicide and sentenced to probation.
Mr. Swango was able to secure medical positions even after he served two years in prison for trying to poison several of his co-workers at an ambulance company in Illinois in 1985. Prosecutors charge that he secured some posts by fraud and by using aliases.
In 1993, he was hired as a resident by the Stony Brook Health Sciences Center and posted at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northport, N.Y. Hospital officials learned of Mr. Swango's criminal past and fired him three months after he started. He served three and a half years in prison, and would have been released Saturday had the new charges not been filed.
During the brief time that he worked at Northport, prosecutors charge, Mr. Swango killed three veterans with poison injections: George Siano, 60, Thomas Sammarco, 73, and Aldo Serini. In two of the cases, Mr. Swango is accused of lying, saying that he had obtained ''do not resuscitate'' orders to ensure no attempts would be made to revive them.
Mr. Siano's stepdaughter, Roselinda Conroy, sat in the front row of the courtroom today, occasionally shaking her head as the charges were read. ''It seems very unreal,'' she said.
Giving what is perhaps a preview of her defense, Ms. Chavis said in court that there was ''no direct evidence'' to support the charges against Mr. Swango, indicated that she would move to have the forensic evidence in the case ruled inadmissible and complained that the government was relying on witness statements that are ''close to 20 years old.''
She also accused the government of violating the laws governing pretrial publicity, giving as an example an article in The New York Times, which reported last week that prosecutors believed that Mr. Swango might have been involved in a number of other murders across the globe, but would not say how many there might be.
Gary R. Brown, another assistant United States attorney prosecuting the case, denied the government had done anything wrong. Judge Mishler directed both sides to stop making public statements about the case.
Photo: Michael J. Swango, a former doctor, has been charged with murdering three of his patients while working at a hospital in Northport, N.Y. (Vic DeLucia/The New York Times)
A book was written about Dr Swango by James B Steward....and here is a review: I quote
No one could believe the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer. Wherever he was hired -- in Ohio, Illinois, New York, South Dakota -- Michael Swango at first seemed the model physician. Then his patients began dying under suspicious circumstances.
At once a gripping read and a hard-hitting look at the inner workings of the American medical system, Blind Eye describes a professional hierarchy where doctors repeatedly accept the word of fellow physicians over that of nurses, hospital employees, and patients -- even as horrible truths begin to emerge. With the prodigious investigative reporting that has defined his Pulitzer Prize-winning career, James B. Stewart has tracked down survivors, relatives of victims, and shaken coworkers to unearth the evidence that may finally lead to Swango's conviction.
Combining meticulous research with spellbinding prose, Stewart has written a shocking chronicle of a psychopathic doctor and of the medical establishment that chose to turn a blind eye on his criminal activities.
Don't you think DA Carnright should consider Judge Zwack's statement and look again at the paper discovery evidence?
DA Carnright please consider you have the paper discovery evidence from the civil case
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Judge Henry Zwack - Civil Case Discovery statement the criminal matters are beyond my jurisdiction and domain
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Dr. Jobson Case
(criminal intent/false records) Fraud - Murder - Fraud (false death cert.)
NYS Penal Code 175.10 -NYS Penal Code 125.25- NYS Penal Code 175.10
PS this is Vince Lodato.....American lawyers and American medical doctors take your heads out of the sand! Lawyers regulate Drs. you have Vacco vs Quill USA Supreme court ruling (1997)...and in NYS you have Murder II NYS penal code 125.25 ....finally insurance companies save some money....and pressure hospitals to inform on Medical Doctors....There is at least one murder every day in the USA by MDs that goes unpunished....WHY?
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