The Man who Killed 215 People... and nobody noticed.

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Dr. Shipman was seen as a kind and caring doctor to his elderly patients. But in the 1990s, more and more of his patients started dying, what was he doing in these patients' homes?

00:00 - INTRO
03:09 - EARLY LIFE
07:34 - A DAY WITH DR. SHIPMAN
09:46 - RAISING THE ALARM BELLS
12:24 - DIGGING HIS OWN GRAVE
17:03 - INSIDE A TWISTED MIND

[heartwafer]

It always makes me shake my head when a killer ends their own life when faced with the consequences. They can stand to take lives, but they can't stand sitting in a cell for the rest of theirs? They're lucky they actually get to breathe, unlike their victims. Incredibly cowardice.

[mrsscrlett]

215 victims in 20 years would make an average of 1 murder per month. Horrible.

[SilverWitch]

He seriously had the nickname “doctor death” because everyone noticed how many of his patients were dying, and it STILL took so long for police to actually get suspicious?

[NASkeywest]

How does no one figure out that a guy who kept being on scene when people were dying with the nickname
DOCTOR DEATH is a killer?

[brett]

Diamorphine is the "proper" term for heroin in case anyone wanted to know. He was injecting his patients with heroin.

[theresanoelle]

I think there's something to be said about his victims all being elderly women who known for being very active and healthy for their ages. Maybe he resented them for being in good health when his mother died in pain from cancer and wanted to take that away from them since his mother didn't get to? not that it justifies it but might be something he convinced himself of, or maybe he just had a compulsion to make other women who reminded him of his mom die the same way she did

[smirto]

At one point, Shipman was my dad's doctor... Thankfully, my dad didn't fit into Shipman's demographic. My dad says he was "very friendly".😮

[Hamsterbacke]

So weird how he started out in Todmorden. In German, „Tod“ is the word for death and „morden“ means to kill. Very fitting indeed…

[THICCTHICCTHICC]

Getting away with doing the same thing over 200 times is so insane. Especially when basically everyone already knew what was going on in the early days.

[snuffy]

Shipman is a big name here. Recently, a nurse was imprisoned for killing multiple children, drawing a lot of Shipman comparisons in the UK press.

[skywardsounds]

I live in Dukinfield about a 15 minute walk from hyde my dad's grandma so my great grandma was killed by Shipman what made it worse was that her 2 daughters were in the house when he killed her and he told them both it was natural causes that shed just fell asleep moments before and passed away in her sleep its honestly disgusting how friendly and trusted this murderer was I hope he Rots in hell

[audrei]

the lack of empathy you need to have to call up the family of the person you just murdered to tell them that their loved one is dead... and then doing that. hundreds of times.

[no_thanks]

Stellar work. This is what “true crime” content should aspire to be.

[mikaylastrong]

He watched his mum dying, and it flipped a trigger in his mind. Then, he got greedy and it hung him.

[bbillabongs]

I'd like to imagine his thought process

"All right, Imma kill this lady, then forge a will stating she gives everything to me instead of her children shortly before her death"

Then he went like "Yup, sounds like a solid plan, ship it"

[bobettepancakes]

I am from Hyde where he worked. My granddad was possibly the last person to see one of the victims as he saw her just before she went to see Shipman. He saw her at the bus stop where the market is. She was the mother of one of a friend he went to school with. He also almost got an appointment with Shipman himself but it didn't end up happening, and it's likely that Shipman wouldn't bother killing him anyway as at the time my grandad was in his 40s and not in the usual age range shipman's victims usually were. Every time I go into town to go shopping I walk past where his surgery used to be. It's eery, and strange to think that the most prolific serial killer in modern history was active in such a small and quiet town such as Hyde.

[basementdwellercosplay]

If a doctor gets a nickname like doctor death, maybe you should investigate them asap

[beeft]

this is literally from my tiny town in england. we reckon he killed our great grandma but it was never prove.

[diabolicaldanger]

215 confirmed victims is absolutely insane 😵‍💫 found your channel just this week and I'm obsessed, your videos are amazing

[Red]

They mention the first patient was prescribed the same medicine that he was caught stealing...is it possible he was an addict and realized that he can't just steal that medicine outright, but if you prescribe it to someone, after their death no one will miss it....thats why so many victims ...his fix was something else