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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
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
