As indicating in my last blog ceratin serial killers tend to be smart, infact the majority of serial killers are insanely intelligent and have very high IQ's. Which is why there is one other type of killer other than the organized vs unorganized, this killer is called the medical killer.
The medical killer is very rare but to me it is definitely the most terrifying. This killer will enroll in the medical school, earn a medical degree in order to work in a hospital and kill innocents in order to fulfill their gratification. The medical killer finds this ideal because of the fact that it is common for deaths to constantly occur in hospitals. Also, if they ensure to make it seem like a natural death then there is no traces, or suspects to the murder.
The rare few that have actually tried this method have succeed in killing dozens of people. One of the primary examples of this is Michael Swango, born in October of 1954, in Tacoma Washington.
Michael had grown up in Quincy, but had went away for education in 1982 and 1983 when he was linked to 10 deaths (5 deaths in Springfield, Illinois and 5 deaths in Ohio) both places he went to become educated in the medical field. Michael had then moved back to his hometown Quincy where he worked at the hospital, he was later convicted and jailed for poisoning co-workers.
He was released shortly after and made another move to Long Island after practicing medicine again for a year. In Long island there where another 5 mysterious deaths which lead authorities to dig deeper into the case. Michael had then escaped to Zimbabwe where 20 patients died. He was immediately arrested in his return to the United States in 1997 and was sentenced to life in prison in 2000.
To me it is amazing the simple fact that he was capable of getting away with killing possibly over 35 murders on his hands, and that this lasted 15 years.
Michael was a psychopathic genius, he just wasn't smart enough to cover up his tracks completely. I believe his defaults were that he was caught in the act of taking a serious interest in mysterious deaths by the scrapbooks (with news on multiple deaths) his coworkers saw him make. That made him quite sketchy in the eyes of his coworkers in Quincy and poisoning them did not help his case. After those incidents he must have been marked as dangerous.
It is extremely disturbing that someone would go through all the effort just to get the chance to kill possible innocents and hopefully get away with it. Then again there are no literal facts as to why Michael thought in the way he did, there are rumors of his past problems, but I guess one can only assume.
Although a medical serial killer is rare it is still insane that the people (doctors, surgents etc.) who we are supposed to confide in with our lives are the ones capable of the most damage. I guess that applies to life, in the sense that confiding in someone always leaves the possibility of them destroying you in more ways then one.
sources:
http://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/types-of-serial-killers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2MbVFJA1cQ
http://crime.about.com/od/serial/a/michael-swango.htm
The medical killer is very rare but to me it is definitely the most terrifying. This killer will enroll in the medical school, earn a medical degree in order to work in a hospital and kill innocents in order to fulfill their gratification. The medical killer finds this ideal because of the fact that it is common for deaths to constantly occur in hospitals. Also, if they ensure to make it seem like a natural death then there is no traces, or suspects to the murder. The rare few that have actually tried this method have succeed in killing dozens of people. One of the primary examples of this is Michael Swango, born in October of 1954, in Tacoma Washington.
Michael had grown up in Quincy, but had went away for education in 1982 and 1983 when he was linked to 10 deaths (5 deaths in Springfield, Illinois and 5 deaths in Ohio) both places he went to become educated in the medical field. Michael had then moved back to his hometown Quincy where he worked at the hospital, he was later convicted and jailed for poisoning co-workers. He was released shortly after and made another move to Long Island after practicing medicine again for a year. In Long island there where another 5 mysterious deaths which lead authorities to dig deeper into the case. Michael had then escaped to Zimbabwe where 20 patients died. He was immediately arrested in his return to the United States in 1997 and was sentenced to life in prison in 2000.
To me it is amazing the simple fact that he was capable of getting away with killing possibly over 35 murders on his hands, and that this lasted 15 years.Michael was a psychopathic genius, he just wasn't smart enough to cover up his tracks completely. I believe his defaults were that he was caught in the act of taking a serious interest in mysterious deaths by the scrapbooks (with news on multiple deaths) his coworkers saw him make. That made him quite sketchy in the eyes of his coworkers in Quincy and poisoning them did not help his case. After those incidents he must have been marked as dangerous.
It is extremely disturbing that someone would go through all the effort just to get the chance to kill possible innocents and hopefully get away with it. Then again there are no literal facts as to why Michael thought in the way he did, there are rumors of his past problems, but I guess one can only assume.
Although a medical serial killer is rare it is still insane that the people (doctors, surgents etc.) who we are supposed to confide in with our lives are the ones capable of the most damage. I guess that applies to life, in the sense that confiding in someone always leaves the possibility of them destroying you in more ways then one.
sources:
http://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/types-of-serial-killers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2MbVFJA1cQ
http://crime.about.com/od/serial/a/michael-swango.htm
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