He was a pillar of the community, serving on local committees, donating prizes to the rugby club, organising charity collections. His patients thought the world of him: he was attentive, kind, never too busy to chat. Yet Dr Harold Frederick Shipman was also the most prolific serial killer the world has ever known, with between 200 and 300 victims. Quietly, for many years, the small, bespectacled GP was making unexpected house calls - and walking out leaving a dead body behind. The murderous career of Dr Shipman only came to an end when police in Hyde, Greater Manchester, were called to investigate a forged will. Overnight, they found themselves embroiled in the biggest murder case in British history. Substantially revised and updated since Shipman's suicide in prison, this is a compelling account of these monstrous crimes and of the man who committed them. The authors have had unparalleled access to friends, colleagues and patients. Their in-depth and authoritative investigation looks at how he killed, how he was able to get away with it for so long, and - most important of all - why.
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'Read this amazing review of systematic murder - and you'll never look at a doctor in quite the same way again' - BIRMINGHAM POST; 'It takes a book like this to bring home how truly evil he [Dr Shipman] was' - NORTHERN ECHO
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Brian Whittle runs the Cavendish Press agency in Manchester that initially broke the Shipman Case; Jean Ritchie is an investigative journalist of thirty years' of experience on national newspapers.
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Nearly an Excellent Account of the Shipman Case!,
This review is from: Prescription for Murder: The True Story of Dr. Harold Frederick Shipman (Paperback)
I have to say that I was very impressed with the information regarding Dr. Harold Shipman who may have been one of Britain's and if not the world's most notorious serial killers. Unlike others, Shipman targeted older women. When he felt like playing God, he took their lives quietly. There was no violence. He would kill them by using a drug. He got away with murder on several occasions because people believed in his story of natural causes. There was nothing natural about it most of the time. He felt like playing God. I believe this book was more solid than the other book I read. They were more ready to provide information on the exhumation of the victims who were mostly women but there male victims as well. Unlike other serial killers, he did not do it because for sexual gratification. He did it because he enjoyed the power of playing God by determining who would live and who would die. There were many healthy women. Unless you read the Shipman Inquiry which is provided online, you can know about all the victims. You can know about whose remains were interred in this book. Thankfully, the authors have decided to reveal that information of which cemeteries. In England, 70% of the deceased are cremated and it would be impossible and not only costly to examine the cremated remains if they are still available. Many families have scattered their loved ones remains. Sadly, the tragedy is that the doctor was trusted and beloved while he was also suspected. Shipman could have a cruel streak which he mistreated office employees as well as some patients and colleagues. Now, he is gone. HE committed suicide in prison.
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