Nurses Who Kill

The series begins by examining the case of Allitt, a nurse on the childrens ward of a hospital in Lincolnshire. She poisoned a string of young patients under her care over the course of 59 days in 1991, murdering four.

Genene Jones worked in the paediatric intensive care unit of a Texas hospital.

The chilling story of German nurse Stephan Letter, who was tried for the murders of 29 patients at a clinic in the Bavarian town of Sonthofen.

Real crime. Chilling series looking at nurses who kill their patients. Niels H adminstered lethal doses of drugs to patients in order to later show off his resuscitation skills.

The case of Filipino nurse Victorino Chua, who secured a job at Stepping Hill Hospital, Manchester, and began to inject insulin into saline bags of 44-year-old Tracy Warden and 83-year-old Alfred Weaver.

Nurse Malcolm Webster was convicted for the murder of his first wife, Claire Morris. For 17 years it was believed to be an accident; until he staged another road accident in New Zealand, involving his second wife, Felicity Drumm.

Efren Saldivar confessed to killing 40 to 50 patients over an eight-year period. Quickly christened an "Angel of Death," he targeted patients who were already near death. Statistical analysis indicates that the total number of murders committed by Saldivar could be as high as 200, but the bodies were cremated after death long before he owned up to his deeds on the wards.

On November 18, 2011, Roger Dean, a nurse at Quakers Hill Nursing Home in Sydney, Australia murdered 11 elderly residents after setting fire to the facility as they slept in a bid to hide evidence of his theft of painkillers.

Gary Davis told his Facebook friends that I hate old people and days before two patients in his care were found dead, he predicted they would die. Those facts were enough to put him in the frame as a doctor became convinced that foul play was responsible for their. Rob Kaplan, a Forensic Psychiatrist from a Sydney University offers a unique insight into health serial-killers.

Angel of Death Donald Harvey is believed to have murdered nearly 60 patients, often by administering arsenic and cyanide, in a 20-year killing spree.

The story of Sandra Weir, who acted as a carer for her elderly neighbour. But she was stealing from the pensioner to fund her drug addiction, leading to a tragic confrontation.

The case of carer Thomas Dunkley, who aided boxer Shaun The Guvnor Cummins after he became paralysed, and later killed and dismembered his patient.

Care worker Thelma Purchase plotted with her son and a friend to murder disabled Greg Baker who Purchase once worked for. She knew he couldnt defend himself and she stood to be a beneficiary in his will.

The case of care worker Bunthawee Rimmer, who enjoyed a comfortable lifestyle as a live-in carer to Paul Norfolk. When she was made the main beneficiary in Pauls will, Rimmer stood to inherit almost £350,000 and resorted to a hammer attack to ensure he would not change his mind.

When Alice Grant died it was sad, but not unexpected. The 84-year-old needed round-the-clock care from her nurse Alison Firth. What nobody expected was how much Firth would resent the extra care her vulnerable patient required, or what lengths the lazy nurse would go to in order to avoid the work.