Jane Toppan and Richard Angelo are two individuals who decided to take their medical expertise and authority to inhumane levels. They are examples of the offender known as an "angel of death" or "angel of mercy". Although their stories differ in many ways, they are ultimately connected by their methods to their madness.

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