The second season of the 2021 hit drama "Deadly Woman" is set in 1949, revealing human nature and desire at the same time, but also performing a series of popular suspense cases. Alma's beloved husband, Bertram, is a veterinarian who helps sick and injured animals get rid of their pain every day – leaving them happy when they are critically ill. Bertram has always been amiable, but he has a secret hobby of freeing those afflicted by disease from suffering like animals. And such a heinous film and television character has a realistic prototype - Harold Shipman. He was a British family doctor and serial killer, and more than two hundred people died at his hands.
Harold Frederick Shipman, British serial killer. Between 1974 and 1998, he used the convenience of his family doctor profession to brutally kill 218 to 250 patients, of which 80% of the victims were women.
Harold Shipman is without a doubt the most prolific serial killer in British criminal history.
Harold Shipman was born on 14 January 1946 to a middle-class family in Nottingham, England, to devout Methodist parents.
On June 21, 1963, when Harold Shipman was 17 years old, his closest mother died of cancer in a manner very similar to that of Harold Shipman, who later became a serial killer:
When she was terminally ill and blind, she had a doctor inject herself with a large amount of morphine at home, and all this was seen by the young Harold Shipman.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" > the shadow of a mother's death</h1>
From the time of his mother's death, Bertram believes that death is a relief from illness, and then in the following decades he constantly "helps" the critically ill to end up in the midst of beautiful melodies and anesthetic paralysis.
But Shipman's original intention to kill people may not be as simple as goodwill.
When Shipman was 17 years old, her mother developed lung cancer, and Shipman witnessed doctors injecting her mother with morphine and heroin to alleviate her pain.
The following year, Shipman entered the University of Leeds Medical School on a national scholarship. He left people with the impression of being withdrawn and simple, and with a fanaticism for learning. The choice to enter medical school was clearly not accidental, but was associated with the death of his mother. One day, he met a 17-year-old girl, Primu Rose, on a bus, and the two quickly fell in love, became pregnant, married, and had four children one by one, and soon became a doctor at the Omerod Clinic in Todmoreden, West Yorkshire. At this time, Shipman, who seems normal on the surface, has already developed psychopathy. He secretly took an anesthetic that had the same effect as morphine and quickly became addicted. He began to take advantage of his position to prescribe anesthetics and analgesics such as Durandine for himself many times in the name of others to satisfy his drug addiction.
Later investigations revealed that it was in 1975 that Shipman had committed the first murder of his life when he was found guilty of prescribing drugs and using drugs. However, the murder did not attract anyone's attention and suspicion. Shipman was sent to a drug rehab center for doctors. Three months later, Shipman ended his treatment and impressed officials at the British Medical Council and the Home Office with his "sincere confession" and moved to Hyde town to continue his work as a doctor until the Glenti case arose.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > Glenti case</h1>
On June 24, 1998, in Hyde, a suburb of Manchester, England, Ms. Catherine Grenty, 81, the wife of the former mayor, felt unwell, so she contacted Shipman, a community doctor who had long cared for her, hoping that this well-respected old friend would relieve her pain. Dr. Shipman calmly came and underwent a long treatment, and during the treatment, Grenty suddenly changed his will and gave all of his £800,000 fortune to Dr. Shipman. Two weeks later, when Grandi died mysteriously, Dr. Shipman immediately informed her family and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I've tried my best."
Grenty's only daughter, Angela Woodf, is grief-stricken, and Dr. Shipman is devastated. He advised Woodf to cremate her mother as soon as possible and complete it as soon as possible. However, Woodf eventually chose to be buried in the earth. Pay attention to this detail—the "burial," not the cremation that Dr. Shipman suggested. It was this purely private decision that finally revealed a shocking secret that had been hidden for 23 years.
After burying her mother, Woodf was surprised to find that this mother's will had suddenly changed before her death, and as a senior lawyer, examining the will was her old profession, and she could see at a glance that there was something wrong with the will. Her mother was an extremely conscientious and meticulous person, having been a competent secretary during her lifetime. And the poor printing of that will was unbelievable. The signature on it was also strange, and the signature of the mother before she was born had never been so big. It's also unbelievable that an old lady would donate all her inheritance to her doctor. She was also suspicious that the will did not say anything about another property owned by Grenty. Woodf decided to seek help from police after getting in touch with local legal counsel Hamilton Ward.
After two weeks of investigation, in Dr. Shipman's clinic, the police found a "brother" typewriter, and the printed effect was exactly the same as the handwriting on the mysterious will. Police then excavated Grenty's coffin, and the forensic doctor found morphine in her muscular tissue that was deadly enough. In September of the same year, Harold Shipman was arrested and jailed on suspicion of causing the death of a female patient by overdose of morphine, falsifying a will, and other charges.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > amazing sin</h1>
However, when detectives questioned Shipman about the murder of 81-year-old Mrs. Grudy, Dr. Harold Shipman pleaded in vain in court, denying all charges against him. He told Woodf that her mother, Mrs. Grudy, had been suffering from chest pain for a long time and would soon die, and he had even frantically called the old lady an addict.
To the surprise of the police, the details of Shipman's crime were published in the newspaper, and the detective in charge of the investigation of the case received a large number of telephone reports every day that many elderly people, especially elderly women, died of the same symptoms, and that the doctors of these deceased people were also Shipman. As a result, a murder case quickly turned into a series of homicides, and the police found that hundreds of patients in Dr. Shipman's medical practice cases had died suspiciously. The coffins of some of the deceased were opened and traces of heroin were also found on their remains.
On 5 October 1999, Manchester Police prosecuted 15 of the most conclusively documented homicides. The case lasted for three months, and on January 31, 2000, the jury ruled that 15 homicides were established and sentenced Shipman to life in prison. And was proposed by the judge never to be released.
However, the story has only just begun. The families of the victims, who did not get tried by the court, expressed dissatisfaction, believing that the number of people killed by Shipman was far more than 15, and strongly demanded that a thorough investigation be carried out so that the truth could be revealed to the world.
Under pressure from public opinion, in June 2001, Mrs. Janet Smith, a judge of the British High Court, was appointed by the British Ministry of Health to thoroughly investigate the Shipman case. After more than a year of thorough investigation by the investigation team, a serial murder case that shocked the world surfaced.
On July 19, 2002, the bell of hyde Church struck a full 215 times. Because on that very day, Mrs. Smith announced the results of the first phase. The results showed that 215 people had died at the hands of Shipman. That day was almost the end of the world for the townspeople. 215 families were implicated in the murders at the same time, and they received letters from Mrs. Smith without exception. The letter says that Shipman illegally killed your loved ones. Many of the victims' families said the day they received the letter was more painful than the day their loved ones died. All they could do was change the death certificate of their loved ones from "natural death" to "deliberate murder."
Mrs. Smith described Shipman's method of killing in her report: Most of the killing scenes were in the victims' homes. Elderly patients who are killed usually live alone, sometimes when the patient asks Shipman to come to the door for treatment, and sometimes he takes the initiative to come to the door. During the visit, Shipman injected the patient with an intravenous overdose of the drug, causing him to die. Shipman then called the deceased's family or neighbors to report the death. When the third party arrives, he will give a good reason why he is here, or simply that he is dead when he arrives.
According to statistics, for 23 years, Shipman has murdered at least one person per month on average, and his patient mortality rate is as high as 20%, while the average patient mortality rate of doctors across the UK is only 0.8%. Many of the patients Shipman killed were neighbors or acquaintances, and 6 lived on a street. In this way, Shipman created the worst serial murder in British history.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > motive for killing</h1>
Most of the victims in Shipman's case were elderly women. Shipman never sexually assaulted them, apparently not for sexual purposes. In addition to the Grunty case, which caused Shipman to show his horse's feet, the murderous demon never tried to take the victim's assets for himself, nor does it seem to be for money. Of course, such serial homicides could all be interpreted as some sort of psychopath, but Shipman never inflicted any physical destruction or torture on his victims. Psychologists can only find some clues from his origins.
Shipman was born into a working-class family in Notting Hill, England, where his parents expected high expectations. He had a very close relationship with his mother, who instilled in him a superior psychological complex from an early age, believing that he was better than the people around him, and her mother forbade him to associate with the people around him. The only possible clue to explain is that he had witnessed his mother die of cancer.
His mother's death sparked his interest in studying medicine, but his mother, suffering from illness, had long relied on heroin and morphine to alleviate the severe pain at the onset of the disease. Therefore, he also had the desire to kill people with heroin and morphine at the same time.
Perhaps it was because he could not tolerate so many women who were the same age as his mother living in peace and happiness.
Or maybe it's as "sacred" as in the play — "helping" sick people out of the sea of suffering.
As for what the reason is, we don't know.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > leave the world</h1>
From his imprisonment in January 2000 to his suicide in January 2004, Shipman was a model prisoner, reading the Guardian every day, working hard, and translating all four copies of Harry Potter into Braille. The only detail that can be seen in his nature is that Shipman enjoys watching tv reports about himself, and every time he plays a show about his murder, he is always attentive and occasionally smiles very proudly.
On January 14, 2004, Shipman's 58th birthday, the day before his birthday, Heppman twisted a sheet into a rope and hung himself on a bathroom window frame. His widow, Primrose Shipman, revealed that his suicide appeared to be linked to a grant.
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