This week, we walk through another serial killer, but this time, it's from someone that we as a society are trained to trust. Harold Shipman was a family practitioner who went on to murder over 250 elderly patients by injecting them with morphine and diamorphine, causing an overdose. Harold Shipman was a trusted member of society, who took advantage of his patients, their families and his colleagues. However, when Harold tried to push the envelope by forging a will of one of his patients, the United Kingdom uncovered their most prolific serial killer of all time.

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