Medical Murders

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Dr. John Kappler Pt. 1 Jun 08, 2022

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He had a difficult childhood filled with death and traumas. But instead of seeking treatment for his grief, Dr. John Kappler suffered silently, never showing the pain he truly felt. His wife, Tommie, told him he was sick. But the voices in his head told him otherwise.

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“Sister Amy” Archer-Gilligan Pt. 2 Jun 01, 2022

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By the end of 1914 dozens of residents at the Archer Home had died suddenly and suspiciously. It would take local reporters, community members, and police working together to bring “Sister Amy” down, and end the wickedness of her “Murder Factory” once and for all.

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“Sister Amy” Archer-Gilligan Pt. 1 May 25, 2022

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Just two years after the Archers opened their elder care facility in Windsor, Connecticut, rumors began spreading around town that “Sister Amy” was abusive and cruel. The reality would prove even worse: she was a serial killer who preyed on the vulnerable in order to turn a profit.

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The Brain Experiments of Harry Bailey, Pt. 2 May 18, 2022

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Forced out of Callan Park, Harry Bailey began practicing at a private hospital. Without much oversight, he experimented with risky treatments involving barbiturate cocktails, electric shocks, and “holidays” for his patients’ brains.

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The Brain Experiments of Harry Bailey, Pt. 1 May 11, 2022

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In the 1950s, Australia’s rising star in psychiatry was the young, charismatic Harry Bailey. He would go on to champion the deeply controversial and dangerous Deep Sleep Therapy, where patients were put into drug-induced comas for days and weeks. Some never woke up.

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“The Suicide Doctor” Jack Kevorkian Pt. 2 May 04, 2022

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By 1991, a court had blocked Dr. Kevorkian from helping patients end their lives. So he started meeting them in secret. Nearly a decade later, he took it a step further. Assisting suicides led to the more radical — and more legally dubious — medical euthanasia. The doctor directly killed a patient.

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“The Suicide Doctor” Jack Kevorkian Pt. 1 Apr 27, 2022

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In the 1980s and ‘90s, Dr. Jack Kevorkian pushed the ethical limits of healthcare with his controversial ideas around death and suffering. What he believed in most was a patient’s right to die with the help of a physician. And for a decade, he assisted in the deaths of over 130 terminally ill patients.

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“Playboy Poisoner” Carlyle Harris Apr 13, 2022

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In New York, a wealthy medical student prescribed his young wife morphine to help with her chronic headaches. Only, the pills contained a lethal dose. When 19-year-old Helen Potts died, her husband’s secrets and scandals were finally exposed.

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“Psychopathic Psychiatrist” Colin Bouwer Apr 06, 2022

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A South African doctor living in New Zealand meticulously poisoned his wife until she died. Colin Bouwer had money, freedom, and several mistresses. So why did he resort to murder?

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Heaven’s Gate Pt. 4: The Exit Mar 31, 2022

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As the days count down to Hale-Bopp’s arrival, 39 people prepare for ascension. They’d abandoned their old lives, embraced a new ideology, weathered the death of a beloved leader… and finally, made themselves worthy of the Next Level. Now, the comet was coming. And with it, the spaceship that would ferry them onward. In March of 1997, they left everything behind.

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