Harold Shipman: Doctor Death Who Killed 250 Patients (Crime Documentary) | Real Stories

Grisly documentary series examining serial killers. A harrowing look at how Harold Shipman, a GP who was trusted by his patients, murdered without an obvious motive.
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[@Aphroditeyoung]

So 20 wasn’t alarming lmao not 50, not 100 they had to wait for him to kill 284 for it to be suspicious like wtf

[@MelB868]

85 year olds can die that’s old.

[@dennisfoster6261]

Lol, because he wasn't black.

[@whips9592]

this his what i don't understand how so many people die sitting up with all cloths on someone must of reported him about this Mate

[@K.aylarenae]

Dennis Foster Really 💀

[@RedMoonsEcho]

Aphroditeyoung if you listen to the whole thing they actually at first said that they didn’t really know how many he killed. The idiots actually put a number on it when they haven’t even confirmed it.

[@teddy1066]

My nan had Dr Shipman as her GP for years. She was lucky that she never complained or annoyed him. When I told her that her old doctor had killed 250+ patients she paused and said “he did seem a bit off”.

[@mathiaspalmholt370]

Velcome to the 🧢 store

[@FancythatTF]

Nothing on the internet ever happens

[@mathiaspalmholt370]

@Dixen Herize its cap

[@chriiiiis]

@@mathiaspalmholt370 ah yes because nobody on the internet has ever done anything, and nobody who survived Shipman ever had kids or grandkids.

[@mathiaspalmholt370]

@@chriiiiis its a made up story

[@fugginchit1]

"He was such a normal guy." Wtf, almost every picture of him is weird.

[@pickles3128]

Nah, he's just British. They all look a tad "off."

[@jonvincentmusic]

@Pickles that's rich from someone who only has the balls to have a cat as their KZbin avatar. Presumably you're just ugly.

[@mariomarin4702]

He was. He could have been your father.

[@mariomarin4702]

@j p what if he never did what they accused him of?

[@mariomarin4702]

@j p ever hear of probable deniability?

[@benmullins7868]

My grandmother wasn’t a patient of Shipman’s, but she had friends who were. She says they always had good things to say about him, he seemed to be extremely popular in the community. Makes his crimes even more sickening, the fact that everyone trusted and respected him. Rest in peace to all of his victims.

[@irenedavo3768]

Scary

[@The_GreenHub]

🧢

[@kyitty]

@@The_GreenHub no way people online have lives and stories to tell 😨

[@kgroveringer03]

@@The_GreenHub🤓

[@michaelarnold1897]

@@The_GreenHub learn how to type words

[@GMZohar14]

283 is fine but... 284 now that is just suspicious

[@livelife7838]

😂😂😂

[@didarden]

lol

[@urekmazino2485]

@@didarden This isn't a joke you know I find it disgusting and very disturbing that you guys are laughing at this.

[@фркцкрмтјбт]

@@urekmazino2485 u think they care? xd

[@naomitownsend.7538]

Urek Mazino legit dark humor is the best humor, sorry that your weak stomach can’t handle it 😂

[@jenwarshawsky189]

The fact that he got away with 284 (and possibly more murders) is insanity to me.

[@Gencturk92]

i know, rumor has it that he might have killed in the early 70's and could have been stopped 30 years ago

[@lw3646]

He was a well respected and well liked pillar of the community, people thought if you can't trust your local gp who can you trust. I still remember the shock and disbelief when he was convicted, that a serial killer had been killing all those years and nobody even noticed.

[@irenedavo3768]

No one listens to complaints about Doctors

[@tribhuwanchandrajoshi1078]

@@irenedavo3768 yess So true

[@cli4g67graS]

I think the local community and police should have noted something that he killed so many people

[@blehbleh1763]

Technically if he hadn't forged her will ,they would never investigate him

[@lyn4473]

I wonder how many more people he would’ve managed to kill since he would likely still be alive today

[@Vulpes89]

The official enqyiry speculated that the conflict between his drive to kill , the desire to stop, and his desire to not get caught caused him unbearable anxiety, enough to make a stupid gamble on the will. Either he'd get caught or he'd be able to run away in retirement with the money. He couldn't bear doing it any longer as he was worried about himself.

[@roonilwazlib3089]

@@Vulpes89 smells a bit purple

[@qwertyzupoi]

that was a police forgery to get him indicted

[@cqmk850]

"I was so scared he might kill me, I tried to kill myself" - excellent.

[@StevoPvP]

That'll show him 🙄😂

[@karmstrong6566]

Idk about you but it rather die by my hands then someone else's

[@AwesomeAngryBiker]

Dam that's hilarious 😂😂, just like in old ages when people who unsuccessfully attempted suicide were executed 🤷

[@paulanthony5274]

He looked out of his brains on crack or something him

[@jeckjeck3119]

Killer can't kill me... IF I AM ALREADY DEAD!!!! Genius, Genius, Genius!

[@raeb4451]

Narrator: "...he was not, in fact, the bees knees."

[@KebabMusicLtd]

neither was he 'the cats whiskers,' and yes, bees have been known to fart

[@mryusuf9295]

Hello sexy baby

[@larissaberry4560]

@@mryusuf9295 sir, this is a comment section underneath a serial killer video.

[@sarahskegrud369]

Ed Kempe lmao no

[@abatnamedmoth5956]

Mr Yusuf I think motto motto LiKeS yEw

[@gigicats6]

284 murders BEFORE he drew suspicion??

[@justus4331]

@Sarah Milo Elderlies are valuable, but since they are his victims it's more likely not to get suspicious because like you said elderlies do die unexpectedly due to old age. Imagine if he targeted younger victims, it would cause so much suspicion

[@grittygoddess]

Mr Rowdy you are dumb 🙄

[@Tuberuser187]

With a GP who has a lot of Geriatric patients they could have been involved in the treatment and then paperwork of many hundreds of people, thousands of deaths in general really as the GP of the person who passed away is involved in the paperwork unless they where in hospital or hospice.

[@BritishJamaican777]

white male privilege. If he was asian or black he wouldnt have gotten away with it for so long. People are asking why but that's it in a nutshell

[@sunniedau6691]

i think we need to question the justice of society😂

[@dandavis8300]

What really needs to be investigated is how many people heard the "doctor death" rumor and took their wives or mothers in law to Dr. Shipman...

[@suahcoco9685]

Oh yes,,, u mean those ones that wanted to give their love ones an express trip to heaven

[@PHlophe]

@@suahcoco9685 this dark humor is unfunny !

[@LPJMagicmusic]

@@PHlophe you pansy! Grow a pair, it was barely even a joke. Trust me if that bothered you, some comedians would make you cry, while we laugh.

[@bravingthehallways8169]

Cracked me up 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ogunsanya1320]

Good point !!

[@hammycats6919]

My sister in law was one of Shipman's patients in Hyde and she was shocked when he got caught.

[@nepowers1887]

She was LUCKY!!

[@jacktheripper5661]

She better enjoy her life it could’ve been cut short!!

[@_Www.BatteryAcid.org_]

Not all the luck in the world would get me to that

[@MYSCENTEDLIFE]

Wow she is one lucky women. Thank god she didn’t suffer the same fate as the others

[@irenedavo3768]

Scary

[@celestelegare-Breezy8625]

That lady sitting in that chair, is so close to the stairs. If she breathes wrong she's going down.

[@louisepetrilli6130]

Yes and it is scary to watch one bad move and she’s gone

[@eugineyoung]

Hhhhhhh yes you’re right that’s wat I was worried about while started to watch d story unfold.... why in d world did they let her sit at edge of that stairs🙄😬

[@Menibor1]

louise petrilli gone? It’s like 10-15 stairs..... people normally don’t die by falling down a couple stairs...... not that serious

[@yankyruss7246]

@@louisepetrilli6130 hahahahahahhah thats what i came to thhis section looking for lmao! Im like wtf, move that damn chair!

[@veganperson]

My first thought when I saw her in that chair was the same.

[@Fandomstoleme]

It's not that people didn't notice how many of his patients were dying, it's that they chose to nickname him Doctor Death and go about their day as though that explains everything.

[@irenedavo3768]

Crazy

[@alancosta4760]

He signed the obituary of his patients how could you know?

[@emilyingridlaura3419]

@13:30 they documented he killed well over 284 people in over a 30 years span without raising suspicions and was later only convicted for 15 of the murders. How sad.

[@Galaxy_Kal]

I mean he would still only get life in prison or sentence to death anyway, like it’s sad that they couldn’t convict him for for more to get justice, but thecnically justice is served because he wouldn’t ever be free

[@chelseahulmston9056]

@@Galaxy_Kal he would get life in prison, there is no death penalty here in the UK anymore unfortuantly. He also didn't face any justice...he killed himself like a coward.

[@atri-us]

chelsea hulmston you need to make up your mind. You first say some criminals should be killed and then claim justice is carried out when criminals serve time in prison. P.S. There is no country in Europe that practices death penalty except for Belarus. The rest has either outlawed the practice or they simply don’t carry out the conviction.

[@spacecase7566]

Tamer Aydogdu the point remains the same. Had he served his sentence until death, Kian would feel as though justice was fully served. He got off lightly by killing himself without serving sufficient time. I don’t feel the same way.

[@Cole4Presi]

Space Case not too sure how dying isn’t haven’t justice having been served. What’s the difference between him killing himself and a death penalty. Same end result.

[@polarspirit]

I don't get it why do people trust doctor so much. As a nurse, I've even questioned the doctors before, not just once, not twice. A lot of them don't have any idea what they're doing

[@tikdoe7563]

A lot of people don't necessarily trust... They just take chances with allowing others to look after them becuase more times than not taking the chance on a doctor has better outcomes than ignoring your illness or trying to treat yourself. But we can only hope for people like you and other caring people who aren't afraid to question and speak up on things like ethics and negligence.

[@daphne10120]

Funny, my mom’s the top RT at her hospital and says the same thing about nurses.

[@heyheytaytay]

Typical nurse...

[@adryerwithabrickinit9231]

Facts

[@aquaporines]

Well, why don't you become a doctor and teach doctors how to do the job ?It sounds easy for you, you may even get a Nobel prize ...

[@cocobambii]

I'm just binge-watching so many great documentaries on this channel. It's become my fave channel right now

[@tinabell1979]

Comes in handy with being in lockdown

[@irenedavo3768]

Please watch the Camp Beagle

[@karinatitus8535]

It has been said that at any given moment, there are approximately 400 serial killers operating in the United States alone. So much misery.

[@cyansloth1763]

It's good to keep in mind that there are even more good people in the world, even when the good seems eclipsed by the evil. Someone wise once told that to me when I was feeling really down. Look to the good people, the helpers and heroes- they aren't the loudest but theres far more good in the world than bad. Please always remember.

[@taylorking5257]

* mystery

[@user-mg9jv2ic1m]

how do we not know that you are one of them

[@GoToPhx]

According to my research, there have never been that many serial killers in the USA. In the peak years of serial killers, the estimated numbers were closer to the 130-150 range. Current statistics I've read are 30-34.

[@foxy916]

to be fair thats like 1 in a million

[@im_salty4901]

One of his victims was my great, great grandmother. I wish I could have met her before she was killed 💜

[@flueyonsticks7448]

Damn sorry bro

[@justsomeguy4260]

Proof

[@arkanstigers6007]

God dam that’s just harsh

[@Light3371-f4m]

😂 lmaooo

[@jeffholmstrom8713]

How u know

[@Will21st]

Psychopaths, too, study medicine...

[@Jimmy-B-]

William Sauer there are psychopaths in all carriers, doctors, police, judges, you name it. Certain traits they possess help them but a lot of times they have a sick/twisted urge they need to get out.

[@amelliamendel2227]

So, they make good detectives too

[@HomoLegalMedic]

Psychopaths that are low functioning and actually dangerous rarely get jobs such as police officers, judges, doctors and lawyers. These are the intelligent high functioning ones, the ones you want to be able to stay calm under pressure and not care about potential backlash. These professional serial killers aren't psychopaths, they're twisted neurotypicals. "Normal" people can be much more evil than any psychopath if given the power.

[@amelliamendel2227]

@@HomoLegalMedic if you say so.

[@TheVanillatech]

@@Jimmy-B- Careers* ... carriers tend to be pigeons and they are obviously NOT psychopaths. Also all humans have "sick twisted urges", it's why Freud gave up on people and became a recluse after the great war. Books, my boy. All in the books!

[@this_time_imperfect]

How many serial killers could a serial killer kill if a serial killer could kill serial killers

[@bambibambi9203]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SHARIFAHOTHMAN]

I reading your comments twice and more to understood 😅😅

[@beth-rg8bm]

Ask Dexter!

[@wickedwidget3812]

Beth took my answer I love the show dexter I wish they would bring it back.

[@loriannstevens5308]

Lol, good stuff.

[@OdditiesandRarities]

This is why whistle-blowers are so important. That lady who pursued her falsified mothers Will is the only reason he was stopped after killing hundreds for decades. Yet that lady would certainly have faced a very hard uphill struggle, especially given the extremity of the allegations. The costs of being a whistle-blower who is wrong is very severe and as a result, people avoid doing it all together. Hence why Shipman got away with it for so long.

[@irenedavo3768]

Who listens to complaints about Doctors

[@anitamitchell3452]

Dr Linda Reynolds gets a slap across the face for seeing what others can't or won't see. Police really need to listen to those people who have acute creep meters. Stop making it sound like they are just trying to get someone in trouble ... or dismiss them altogether. It really is unforgivable.

[@amelliamendel2227]

Yes, the creep-o-meter should be a factor

[@nicolenewsome4863]

Who?

[@potato6785]

@@nicolenewsome4863 It’s the doctor that blew the whistle on him, and was dismissed and told to be careful about harming the reputation of a pillar of the community. It’s one of the opening lines of the video. They explain Shipman killed 3 more women after that.

[@scootlepatootle]

I think that blonde girlie is right, i think he had a personality disorder, and a god complex. Maybe he really did feel like he was saving people. The family from emotional pain, and the elderly from the physical pain, and the health insurance.

[@jomcmenamin4579]

Skoot Skooter. He liked their money also , many left him their estate or money .

[@scootlepatootle]

@@jomcmenamin4579 "left" with that one will he forged, I have a feeling he forged hundreds of others and just never got caught.

[@sexyhomeowner9345]

Lots of doctors have that complex though, but few admit it. Fewer still end up killing people in droves, thank God.

[@veronicafarlette3097]

You must be an American. All healthcare in Britain is free. There was no financial pressure on ANY of his victims. He killed them because he enjoyed the act of killing.

[@maivaiva1412]

maybe don't call an adult "girlie", it sounds kinda creepy lol

[@HGBorders]

Isolating your child from their peers to have them solely and exclusively focus on studying sounds a bit narcissistic to me. It becomes less about the kid’s life and more about fulfilling the unfulfilled parent’s dreams. Maybe he never grieved after his mother’s death because he didn’t like her.

[@zeddeka]

One of the UK's most well known criminal psychiatrists once said that, in his experience, virtually all serial killers are striking out at some fragment of their parents when they kill. It's underlying rage at one or both of their parents. The notorious serial killer, Robert Maudsley, said that if he had simply killed his parents (who had abused him terribly) then he wouldn't have killed anyone else. They often do say about serial killers that the first thing you should of is "look at their relationship with their mother"

[@irenedavo3768]

How sad

[@DeesNutzandBerries]

Sadly, I think this has and continues to happen more than anyone knows. Especially in nursing homes where dying of "old age" wouldn't be unexpected.

[@princeofdarknessxyz1]

regret putting my mother in nursing home but thankfully I had family/friends check up on her while I had to run her business...tough parts of life

[@Samminthebox]

It sadly happened at the one I worked at. The nurse was tired and worked night shifts so she gave them morphine so they were “quiet and easy”. Soooo sad.

[@AstraSight]

My mom wanted me to volunteer at a nursing home but chose against it in fear of me getting too attached and when they passed I'd break down. But that was a yr ago now for some reason death is not something that effects me never had anyone I had a strong relation with pass ad of writing this.

[@josie5670]

@@AstraSight Ive worked in nursing and when patients I'd got attached to passed away I often was really thankful I got to be there with them and care for them - especially if I got to partake in our hospitals death rites (washing and dressing the body before sending them to the morgue) it was a wonderful way to say goodbye and I never really felt sad about it

[@presence9745]

@@princeofdarknessxyz1 I worked in one in the 90s for 4 yrs. Anyone who has family in a nursing home should make time to visit or at least make arrangements because some literally never had visits.

[@lorettatomplait2672]

He was NOT a GOOD GUY if he killed 250 patients. I'm just saying.

[@katietaylor8314]

Yeah, I'm sick to death of the "good bloke" narrative that gets busted out every time some middle-class white dude gets arrested for cutting up prostitutes with a bread knife or shooting his family or whatever. But he was such a "good bloke"! It must have been the victim's fault somehow!

[@teachandfunnstuff3127]

He is definetly still not a good guy even when he killed his first patient

[@olly_evans]

I'm a go out on a limb and say he might be a bad person

[@Sneakyturtle18]

@@katietaylor8314 No one is blaming the victim at all stfu. People are saying that he APPEARED to be a good bloke. Obviously no one is saying he was a good bloke after finding out he was a serial killer.

[@chilliecheesecake]

@@katietaylor8314 Sorta like how when a fentanyl-addicted George Floyd died after reaching for a cop's gun we all got fed the lie that he was a decent human being or something

[@The315fan]

For those who aren't aware, Angela Woodruff (Mrs Grundy's daughter) passed away in 2018 aged 73 after a battle with Alzheimer's disease. She is survived by her husband, two sons, and several grandchildren.

[@Lushgirl81]

I read that she’d passed away. Bless her.

[@massonman9099]

250 is the lowest estimate if you read up on him. It was a lot, lot higher.

[@TheSMR1969]

@@melodykaya no

[@prima-luce]

i did some reading on this case. his mother seemed absolutely intolerable. overvaluation + emotional neglect in childhood = perfect breeding ground for narcissism.

[@realpotatocodm4043]

Me applying for a job. HR: Tell me a joke. Me: Uk police HR: You're hired! 😎

[@wienzard93]

@LDDT might as well just say the entire justice system in my opinion. they're all joke.

[@airplanetowardsthesky3265]

Grooming gangs Oi you got a license for that hate speech

[@jeckjeck3119]

US Police: ''Hold my beer while I choke civilians! Beat up foreign and domestic journalists, and cripple crippled old people.''

[@racchh_xx]

Ha ha thats a good one. And totally true.

[@racchh_xx]

@Angel WTF thats crazy. I know theres police corruption in sum countries worse than others. But that is totally crazy.

[@kenburkham5483]

Watch last ten seconds then hit replay icon to avoid the ads.

[@stevennash1979]

Very handy cheers.

[@garrettmckenzie2372]

@Adam Lolno "Free Adblocker Browser" App is what I use for mobile. Eliminates all ads for KZbin Mobile site. It's amazing :)

[@udalix]

@Adam Lolno If your on your phone, to bad! Oh wait, you could be one of the suckers that falls for that youtube premium bs.

[@caprius.5792]

That guy was nothing more than a sad joke. What a poor excuse of a human being that man was.

[@caprius.5792]

@Gray Kin Politicians are not nearly as evil as this man. You have to be a special type of evil to do what this "man" did.

[@irenedavo3768]

No one listens to complaints about Doctors

[@tristanthomas5006]

"An 80 odd year-old Lady Mayorness scoring bags of heroin in the backstreets of Manchester". Funniest line of the whole doc.

[@irenedavo3768]

Please watch the Camp Beagle

[@PatrickStudios69]

2 theories I have Theory 1: He thought he was helping people by ending their misery with a mental/ thinking disorder Theory 2: He was mad that his mother died and decided it would be right for other people’s deaths to

[@bigbrollydotcom]

33 minutes in and, I don't know about you guys, but I'm beginning to think this Shipman fella is a bit of a jerk.

[@kiki1573]

He’s more than that. He’s diabolical. Pure evil.

[@bigbrollydotcom]

@@kiki1573 Awl, come on man! I haven't resumed watching yet, no spoilers.

[@cleopatra1311]

You think? Lol

[@chilliecheesecake]

A true rapscallion, that guy

[@paulduckworth316]

Agree he was definitely a rascal

[@froey198033]

This guy is one sick individual. I really can't believe no one stopped him earlier.

[@iLOVEpalestineNlebanonFOREVER]

So no one in this documentary is gonna mention that Diamorphine is Heroin.

[@Menibor1]

Spontaneous-Vulgar-Lingual-Combinations that’s because most of us know what it is and what it’s used for......

[@jackwatson3944]

@@lindsaystevenson3532 you didn't know morphine was Heroin?

[@rome8180]

@@jackwatson3944 morphine isn't heroin. They're from the same family of drugs. But diamorphine and morphine are not the same drug.

[@rome8180]

@@Menibor1 I don't think that's common knowledge at all. Most people know what MORPHINE is and that's from the same family of drugs as heroin. But most people don't know what diamorphine is. They've typically just heard it called heroin.

[@dboy2462]

No one mentions that because that's pretty irrelevant. Shipman could have used any other opioid to kill his patients. If he lived in the US he may have used hydromorphone, which is actually stronger than diamorphine.

[@sandraisaksson7853]

This entire documentary is trying soooo hard to dig up something from his childhood, an explanation of why he is like he is. "he pretended to be normal" Maybe he just was normal and just happened to kill people. You don't need to be "unnormal" to do horrible horrible things. How many times have you seen a documentary or a news story where they said "he was just a normal guy".

[@welitty6132]

lmao youre the reason why a comment section shouldnt exist, no one needs to hear your opinion. Just appreciate the art of the film they do this to give a back story of what he was whether they say hes good or not at least you get some type of back story

[@welitty6132]

@Kendel Khalidashad you should go make a video then

[@g.a.6978]

@@welitty6132 😭

[@naynyamish270]

@@welitty6132 what? Do you have a hand in this documentary, can't stand being told that you clickbait people and waste people time and stunted economic growth? I dislike your piss poor documentary and block it from my recommendation, simple! Stop clickbaiting people.

[@incidentalist]

Yea, they ALWAYS do that!!! The REALITY is that SOME PEOPLE LIKE TO KILL and watch others suffer!! The Human mind can be VERY VERY DANGEROUS!!

[@MissSpooky69]

Dr Shipman saw my mother when he worked in Ponte. She says he was a really lovely Dr and took his time to listen to her. Very scary.

[@jackwatson3944]

"Hyde was such a lovely town" when.

[@taylorsalazar26]

Down Town 😂😂😂

[@kieshashaw7701]

It’s an okay town

[@paulheap1982]

@@kieshashaw7701 a stretch.

[@cry8918]

this was back then

[@clairevincent2561]

I know right lol

[@josephdodd5770]

It is hard to believe so many people did not see what Shipman was doing!!!!!

[@melissaandrew8268]

They did but either joked a out it or were told to get lost

[@zeddeka]

It's a sad reflection of our society that people are much less likely to question the deaths of the elderly

[@LuckyBadger]

27:55 He totally looks like Charles Manson. That manic, glassy eyed stare. No soul.

[@simonw1313]

Nonsense. Your suffering from a case of I know what he did and then seeing what's really just an unremarkable photograph of an unremarkable man in a sinister way because of what he did.

[@chilliecheesecake]

@@simonw1313 Spoken like someone who's utterly incapable of reading people lol.

[@simonw1313]

@@chilliecheesecake There was no spokery going on. I typed my reply.

[@Дэни-д6ю]

12:27 THE GUY’S HAND GESTURES ARE TOO MUCH 😂😂😂😂😂

[@anastasiasdream9741]

Maybe next week he'll be performing at the circus doing a puppet show

[@charger66611]

rumor has it, his hands are still gesturing today

[@Aphroditeyoung]

Lmao its through out the video 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣دانية اناناس

[@misernia1]

Be married to an ITALIAN...........

[@zulma5669]

Anastasia's dream 🤣🤣🤣

[@funkyrugmuncher2890]

I reckon if you chopped off the guy in the black suits arms he'd start talking with his legs 🤔

have u got any sense or are u just stupid??

[@shaunlenton8865]

Karen Gunn I'm betting on 'stupid '........ 🙈🙉🙊

[@jazz-a-ma-tazz7320]

It’s a joke.

[@railenbow4502]

Karen Gunn R/WOOSH

[@spacecase7566]

😂 excessive gesturing.

[@alexasmith6492]

I think it's funny how he was a doctor and had a personality disorder, and lived in a town called "Hyde." Perhaps he was the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the town called Hyde.

[@Menibor1]

Alexa S this woulda been funny back when I was 13

[@disciplethepoet]

Good catch

[@chilliecheesecake]

@@Menibor1 I dont think they were trying to be funny, just an innocent observation lmao. I think you're just trying too hard to appear intelligent.

[@Menibor1]

@@chilliecheesecake It’s a good thing they don’t pay you to think.

[@Dirtyjoeshouse]

My thoughts exactly. Freaky.

[@lydiarobertson8063]

*Stop being polite and investigate, nearly 300 victims, geez, come on...*

[@0xrgg965]

A parent of a friend of mine worked at the prison, after Shipman killed himself Ian Huntley eventually was moved to the same cell who was trying to kill himself because he claimed he was being haunted by Shipman's ghost.

[@TheVanillatech]

Get a grip son.

[@thedativecase9733]

Oh good. I hope he gave him a bad time.

[@irenedavo3768]

Wow!

[@misernia1]

Power. People like this guy, its all about power over elderly people and having a God complex.

[@irenedavo3768]

Scary

[@gabe-po9yi]

I don't think his suicide prevented people from knowing why he killed. He killed because he liked it, simple as that.

[@paulbryant8403]

He was trying to get that ladys inheritance too so money was one reason

[@gabe-po9yi]

Paul Bryant Yes, but hers was the only one out of the 15 he was convicted of that there was any potential for financial gain, which points to it being incidental and opportunistic, rather than the motivating factor.

[@hyacinth1320]

So true. People want a solid answer, but it'll never happen.

[@michaelangood]

does anyone wonder how it is made so easy for killers to commit suicide, for example, Fred west, etc?

[@icturner23]

15?! He killed far, far more than that. [The title originally specified that number, which was in fact the number of convictions, but the uploaded corrected it thanks to this comment.]

[@emilyingridlaura3419]

@13:30 they documented he killed well over 284 people in over a 30 years span without raising suspicions and was later only convicted for 15 of the murders.

[@RunAMuckGirl2]

@ Kbell - 284?! Wow. Thanks for the info. =]

[@Cheers_Motherfucker]

Read the title mate

[@kreipflagra3116]

Yeah, doesn't the title kinda..suggest that..?

[@icturner23]

Herje Don See above.

[@rebeccacupp7671]

I've found a LOT OF DOCTORS have a God complex

[@zp8127]

Saldy, that's because a lot of doctors think they are God and try to play God's role 😕

[@TheVanillatech]

At A&E once, I saw a doctor who examined a cut on my right fore arm which had severed a tendon (deep wire cut when installing wall insulation at work, I was unable to move my fingers on that hand at all). The doctor asked a lot of questions related to the injury, then started to ask if I worked and what I did for work. Then he said, grinning : "Okay, let's sign this then and get you down to surgery, that is of course ... if you're worth saving! Are YOU worth saving?". He sat there and smiled at me for the longest time as I tried to understand why he had said this. Then I stood up and went to get another member of staff. He called out and asked where I was going. I saw a different doctor around 20 minutes later who rushed me through to surgery after one look at the cut.

[@fujoshiyesiam2846]

I never meet any and I am glad

[@RedMoonsEcho]

Rebecca Cupp nurses are the same way they are constantly gong at each because they each think they know it all

[@fujoshiyesiam2846]

@mark q awesome I see that as well

[@billygiles3276]

This happens way mo than you would ever imagine. Once your retired and claiming pension, thereby you begin to cost the system/establishment money rather than make it money and once that happens they have zero interest in you living.

[@Raw_Roots]

People on Medicaid also..

[@comonena]

Way mo

[@mikimiyazaki]

@@comonena way da fuq mo

[@comonena]

Miki Miyazaki lolz

[@cyndifoore7743]

He probably saved his cell mate to show what a good guy he was. His mother created a narcissist, they can’t look bad to anyone.

[@lovepet4565]

If poor Robin Williams were still alive, RIP, hed be perfect to play him in a movie about this Dr Death 200 plus murders of mostly older ladies is insane & not caught until he tried to steal money

[@MeetTheALFFam]

Oh yes, have you ever seen the episode that he cameod on Law&Order where he played a grieving widower who lost his wife and child in birth and went insane with grief and ultimately killed himself, one of the most talented actors I know

[@iknowexactlywhoyouare8701]

I know; Harold looks so creepily much like robin

[@zepar6076]

We do not need movies about such evil.

[@stephaniemorales4359]

Honestly my opinion is that he used morphine out of everything else is because of his mother. As they said, it was a relieve for him when his mother died because his mother was no longer suffering and he too no longer have to see his mom ill. And his mothers GP would give his mother morphine because of the lung cancer to reduce the pain. So I believe that is what triggered the use of morphine out of everything else he could have used. He either wanted his patience to feel that same relieve or that was another reliever for himself that they have passed away. He wanted to “help”.

[@lizzyliz8218]

These videos are so educational

[@whf5667]

E-educational?😓

[@stillnottellingyoumyname8193]

Lmao I read this as inspirational and was about to call the FBI 😂

[@bethanymaverick3267]

Watching to the last 5 minutes; I believe he genuinely thought he was saving these people. If he lived his early life watching his mother in pain and agony and when he would come home from school while his mother was waiting for the GP for the morphine dose. Even stated she looked forward to that release from the pain. Maybe he picked that up as he finally felt like she was at ease when she passed.Maybe he thought those morphine doses for those elderly women leading such lonely/painful lives, he'd be the saving dose for them that he saw the GP so long ago that "saved" his mother from the pain. Wild thought.

[@AuralAttack]

Exactly my thoughts about him... I don't really think he set out to be a mass murderer, can't imagine how watching your own mother slowly die as you're growing up would feel... I think he kinda saw his mother in these elderly women and thought he was probably helping them... though think he kinda got used to it and it got out of hand and he started ripping them off eventually thinking nothing of it

[@zeddeka]

So many theories. But it must be said that many of his victims had absolutely nothing wrong with them - he seems to have visited many as a social calls. There's also been some discussion recently about how some of his earlier victims were actually children, and that he only moved on to older people because it was easier to get away with. Fewer people will question the death of the elderly.

[@briandelaney9710]

That would make sense if all his patients were in acute pain but they often weren’t. A lot of them were in perfect health

[@cynthiasmith409]

I totally agree - it's not a wild thought - I think you hit the nail on the head Bethany. He just wanted to relieve them from their pain - whether it be emotional or physical. He obviously could not stand to see someone in pain. The fact that he killed is still wrong, but one can understand why he did it.

[@debratansey6074]

​@@cynthiasmith409 except most of them were quite healthy and living full and happy lives in the community and with their families

[@SkeeterMcTavish]

I've seen enough serial killer documentaries to know one thing: they ALL have the most messed up issues with their mothers.

[@pointerish]

Only the ones tha have been caught. Many of these guys roam the streets with happy childhoods and "normal" adult lives.

[@irenedavo3768]

Scary

[@lochlainnmacneill2870]

Poor mothers always get blamed for giving birth to nutters.

[@chilliecheesecake]

They don't learn it from nowhere. Lots of serial killers have had uniquely unhealthy relationships with their moms. 🙄

[@dark_Stout]

This man woke up one day with more murders on his belt then all murders in my city in the last 100 years 😥

[@tgrice601]

Crazy how he use the same medicine his mom used in her final months battling her illness. But he obviously had a God complex and felt like he could end their suffering. I wonder how it would’ve end up if he had not forged the lady will he probably would’ve killed off the whole village before he was caught

[@suahcoco9685]

I believe he was evil enough to kill his own mother

[@jonvincentmusic]

He didn't have the means to kill his mother. He was a child when she died of cancer: something that he personally witnessed. Didn't you even watch the video?

[@benwass5209]

@@jonvincentmusic he was 17 when she died, he could have

[@Golden.dragon7]

If there’s a bright side to it, at least they went out in a peaceful and painless way 😔

[@javiermayfield2719]

He killed himself in jail he hung himself

[@zebontheweb]

I’ll tell you: if he was BORN to KILL... then I DIED to LIVE.

[@Tina06019]

Nowadays we have very cumbersome, but completely necessary, regulatory AND physical control in access to every dose of opioid medication needed for patients in hospice care.

[@kreipflagra3116]

Still doesn't stop old ppl who never grew up from crying "Why do I have to do that? Why do I have to wait? I don't understand it and don't plan to, so everyone else is wrong"

[@christineh.dietrich2929]

One of his victims was my cousin's mom. So surreal.

[@juicyg1]

You mother or fathers sister?

[@MartialEnlighten]

If I've learned anything from these cases, there are always more than the number they give you. Many songs unsung. Many stories untold.

[@Goawayplz666]

I like documentarys because they are always interesting and you learn a lot from them

[@CashelOConnolly]

Max the furry well they don’t teach you how spell! It’s spelt Documentaries

[@Goawayplz666]

Well you don't have to be rude about it and that is what my keyboard autocorrect it to

[@bigcherrypoppin1003]

i like your positive out look on things max

[@Goawayplz666]

bigcherry poppin thx

[@bucci9938]

Yes, me too

[@DeyvsonMoutinhoCaliman]

Running is good for sad anxiety, so it might be the opposite. Few things give so much energy than an anxiety attack, after a fiance left me I ran so much I came from being able to run only 50 meters to be able to run up to 7 kilometers in a higher speed, or double that in a low speed.

[@lamotta00]

Wanking is also good!

[@hyacinth1320]

They ALWAYS fit in. That's literally what they do. Furthermore, his father is never mentioned. Was he absent?

[@darrenwoodard1253]

Master Adjuster Everything I said is supported by science. What you mentioned in India is completely different from the “inoculation” people receive today...

[@darrenwoodard1253]

That being said, enjoy your inoculations. I hope you didn’t receive the HPV vaccine, and your children if/when you have them aren’t negatively effected by the unnecessary vaccine cocktails they’ll receive due to your, irresponsibility.

[@অরুণাভদাস]

Harold Shipman's medical licence should have been cancelled in 1976, when he was first caught in a drug addiction case. Overdoses of narcotic drugs can permanently alter the ways we think and adversely change our perspectives and attitudes, and my hunch is that too played a role. Being a mama's boy or an introvert does not necessarily make a seemingly ordinary child into a brutal psychopath; drugs, however, can.

[@roseanncampbell3168]

@@অরুণাভদাস he wasn't on drugs when he killed the little girl in hospital. He was just an evil man end of

[@tomallan7270]

How did he fool everybody for so long ? Because he knew they were all fools . Without that self confidence, he could not have continued . Nobody caught him . He just got careless ...once.

[@irenedavo3768]

Scary

[@רינת-צ2צ]

They were unknowledged and probably, just didnt care enough to try and find out the truth.

[@zeddeka]

The description of his early life sounds incredibly familiar. A boy who was built up and pressurised to be this exceptional success by his mother, and imbued with a sense of self entitlement and narcissism but also resentment at the pressure put on him. Suddenly he gets to a bigger school and finds that others are much clever than him. It leads to a deep sense of indignation and sense of "unfairness" like they've been robbed of something and are entitled to do whatever they want to get that sense of power back. They feel that they can then do what they want. They perceive that life hasn't been fair to them, so why should they be fair to anybody else? They say that all serial killers are striking out at some fragment of their parents and parenting and it seems there may also have been some deep underlying anger at the pressure his mother put him under to succeed.

[@irenedavo3768]

Scary

[@gabe-po9yi]

You bring up a good point about Shipman feeling like he was ‘robbed’. I think a lot, possibly even most serial killers view themselves as victims and feel entitled to exact revenge on society in whatever way they wish.

[@רינת-צ2צ]

Possible, yet not every stressed out, or abused child, becomes a murderer. Most- don't.

[@zeddeka]

​@@רינת-צ2צof course. They say that "nature loads the gun but nurture pulls the trigger" so there has to have been something wrong with his genetics or pgysiology. The university of Glasgow recently published a study into serial killers, stating that in their view, serial killers often had two or more of the following traits: autism, Psychosocial stress in their formative years, a head injury. They said that they believed Shipman showed clear autistic traits in his general behaviour, and of course there was the trauma of his mother.

[@d.silver7673]

41:01 to 42:18 I just want to tell this guy. “This man is a killer. He was playing a role watching you die from any death causing way other than him killing you is not what he wants. He wants you to die at his hand if anything so if he did want to kill you potentially in the future he would have to keep you alive now. But you don’t really fit he’s victims profile so honestly he kept you alive to play his role as a ‘good doctor’ he truly didn’t care about you. If anything he used what could have happened to you if he didn’t save you as a way to try and make himself look like a “good doctor” for one last time. I’m happy you’re alive but don’t try and reward this man for what he has done. Saving one life does not account for the 200+ he murdered for no reason other than he could, he wanted to so he did.

[@irenedavo3768]

Scary

[@arneldeleon3060]

Brits are so polite that even when referring to this monster they make it sound like he WAS a good guy.

[@paulheap1982]

You know knotting about British then.

[@summersys]

It is good to be cautious and seek out second and third opinions when it comes to serious diagnosis and recommended surgeries.

[@רינת-צ2צ]

Yes, and even more importantly, to pre educate yourself of the way ppl desguise their disorders , especially, narcs and psychopats.

[@danieldetweiler1259]

i had read a couple of biographies on harold "dr.death" shipman, he's usually kinda overlooked as a serial killer despite having a long list of victims, i also wondered where the sexual component/aspect you'd expect to find/see in other cases of serial murder. Maybe this is where the drugs came into play? as he was using _a lot_ of pethidine and diamorphine (pharm quality heroin) and was an addict through n through. I'm sure this didn't help out his situation. What has always stuck out for myself when reading these crimes was how he managed to skate his way through all the high numbers of his patients dying not just on his patient roster but dying _inside_ his clinic not once or twice but multiple times, add the forged insurance documents & perscriptions and its a wonder onto its own that someone didn't see all these markers ....

[@ebonyeyed08ti]

He's actually the most famous killer

[@zeddeka]

One of the UK's most well known criminal psychiatrists once said that, in his experience, virtually all serial killers are striking out at some fragment of their parents when they kill. It's underlying rage at one or both of their parents. The notorious serial killer, Robert Maudsley, said that if he had simply killed his parents (who had abused him terribly) then he wouldn't have killed anyone else.

[@irenedavo3768]

Scary

[@pamelaa.mankowski212]

The devil never comes as himself..had he would not have gotten away with so many damn. Murders !

[@theneurodivergentone]

‘The man he saved did not have a sickness, well not in the clinical sense’ 😂

[@jacquelinekezema2907]

When the lawyer said people don’t just die from a heart attack Sitting up looking peaceful That’s not true my grandfather died from a heart attack sitting on a bench no one knew until my grandma found him. And my girl friend her mother died the same way in a chair watching a hockey game. So not sure about her statement. But obviously this doctor was a serial killer’

[@hamzaabbasi6114]

​@@jacquelinekezema2907 maybe they both were the patient of Dr shipman😄

[@afunnyusername5599]

"Endorphins are 100 sometimes 1000 times stronger than heroin" This may be scientifically true, but in reality going for a jog just doesn't scratch the itch in any way comparable to chasing the dragon. People don't lose their families and give BJs for pocket change to buy running shoes. The comparison is broken.

[@serenity2655]

Alrighty then. That puts it plain and clear.

[@jonvincentmusic]

I found the constant inference that his mother was to blame very annoying and insulting to the memory of someone who is not here to defend her actions. It's not as though he came from an abusive background, like many murderers often have. By all accounts, his mother just wanted him to be the one child from her family who would make something of himself, maybe earn a good salary and rise above the depressing middle-England council slums he came from. Is that a really bad thing for a mother to want for her child?

[@רינת-צ2צ]

Many killers, have no abusive background at all.

[@revolutionaryleader9615]

Minute 34:03 their last word would've been thank you doctor, that's heart breaking. 😥😥

[@irenedavo3768]

How sad

[@רינת-צ2צ]

It probably felt as a joke for him :/ crazy and sick.

[@adamparker5852]

He treated me several times when I was very young. My father said he seemed like a good (intelligent) Dr

[@michaelmummery5302]

11 likes are serial killers this man is a pathetic excuse for a human

[@yvonnemariedonaghey5557]

I honestly believe he didn't have bad intentions when killing those patients.

[@kennyryan625]

Your father was very naive then 😂

[@mawilliams777]

@@yvonnemariedonaghey5557 what? Like getting them to change their wills beforehand? Take your rose tinted sunglasses off indoors! Ffs

[@mawilliams777]

@@yvonnemariedonaghey5557 what? Like getting them to change their wills beforehand? Take your rose tinted sunglasses off indoors! Ffs

[@Bigbaymonstermare]

8:57 Am I missing something? I can only see four toes on each foot! 😂😂

[@h2oquality2010]

WTH!

[@urosnestorov9546]

It's because fifth fingers on both foots are pushed by the biggest(thumb),you just need to look at the picture again.

[@naomieadair5635]

... or Maybe he used morphine bc his mother was administered that same drug when she was dying.

[@Blake1720]

But to a lethal level?

[@conniethecactus5148]

Well! What an education. I've watched every documentary on Shipman plus the excellent film with James Bolam. In the last 24 hours I've learned a bit more about psychopaths. (My original topic of interest, as I've been infested with the damn things all of my life...including my mother..) It seems his mother had 'total' control over his life, who he played with, mixed with, even probably his thoughts & feelings; also over what he should do with his life. Without apportioning blame, it seems to me that a child will only be able to take so much control, before they..kind of..'break,'..emotionally. I think he broke long before she died and that he may have been utterly relieved to see her go, altho with mixed feelings. All he could do was to 'act' then...because HE had already ceased to exist. Like a zombie walking. So, in trying to become the 'perfect' person she wanted him to be, he wore the 'perfect' mask. When it got too much, off came the mask & someone had to be killed, someone, usually old, female..like his mother. Broken people break other people, if they can. It's all they have. They despise those of us that managed, (just,) to stay unbroken as they are jealous and want to complete the job on us to destroy us as they have been destroyed. Be vigilant for red-flags folks.

[@zeddeka]

One of the UK's most well known criminal psychiatrists once said that, in his experience, virtually all serial killers are striking out at some fragment of their parents when they kill. It's underlying rage at one or both of their parents. The notorious serial killer, Robert Maudsley, said that if he had simply killed his parents (who had abused him terribly) then he wouldn't have killed anyone else.

[@irenedavo3768]

Scary

[@peterhoward492]

His mother received "increasing" doses of morphine

[@marccarter1350]

He loved giving out Morphine based products. As a Heroin user back then, he would have had been my number one choice of a doctor 😃

[@nataliejones9497]

marc carter oh Jesus 😆😂. Well done on no longer using! X

[@derekwilson8898]

I was thinking the same thing, he could have me on 100 DFS a day LOL

[@serenity2655]

And then we wouldn't have your wonderful comment because you'd be dead.

[@jackhadroom4540]

Why did he use a manual typewriter in 1998? That is truly bizarre.

[@thenellierose]

34:28 I'm not saying using morphine wasn't dumb, it was, but after getting away with over 200 murders, I'd suspect the greater problem was how dumb other people were.

[@BrionyDavid]

At no point during his interview did Tony Fleming blink.

[@junesilvermanb2979]

Harold Frederick Shipman (14 January 1946 - 13 January 2004), known to acquaintances as Fred Shipman, was an English general practitioner who is considered the most prolific serial killer in modern history, with an estimated 250 victims. On 31 January 2000, Shipman was found guilty of the murder of fifteen patients under his care. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, with the recommendation that he never be released. Shipman killed himself by hanging, in his cell at HM Prison Wakefield, West Yorkshire on 13 January 2004, a day before his 58th birthday.

[@BenKellyMusic92]

I think in his mind, he was ending his mother's suffering over and over again.

[@davidkeenan5642]

I can't accept that, too many of his victims were in good health and not suffering. He was an arrogant narcissist.

[@julesc7254]

I remember this being on the news etc This so called doctor managed to get away with so much Slow justice sadly

[@irenedavo3768]

Scary

[@dionnefrancis5249]

Perhaps he was working with funeral homes.

[@sr5242]

He definitely lost his looks.

[@racheldemain1940]

Didn't think he was that God looking anyway. His wife let herself go though!

[@hope_elizabeth_rose]

Rachel Demain good*

[@steve82018201]

Don’t ever go to police or a government paid person to prove anything. They are more interested in people that are doing something slightly against the law, and in most cases shouldn’t be. Quota issues.

[@timmyfunster139IQ]

Narrator doing his best Anthony Hopkins impression