About this season
The stories of some of the most prolific murderers and serial killers to walk hospital grounds across the globe. Often referred to as the ‘angels of the ward’ experts examine what turned these caregivers into killers.
Episodes (10)
1. Beverley Allitt
Aired 12 October 2016
The series begins by examining the case of Allitt, a nurse on the children's ward of a hospital in Lincolnshire. She poisoned a string of young patients under her care over the course of 59 days in 1991, murdering four.
2. Benjamin Geen
Aired 19 October 2016
Benjamin Geen worked as a nurse at Horton General Hospital in Banbury, Oxfordshire. In 2006 he was tried and convicted of murdering two patients and causing GBH to 15 others but has always maintained his innocence.
3. Genene Jones
Aired 26 October 2016
Genene Jones worked in the paediatric intensive care unit of a Texas hospital.
4. Daniela Poggiali
Aired 2 November 2016
Police were called in after a suspicious number of patients died while in Daniela Poggiali's care.
5. Stephan Letter
Aired 9 November 2016
The chilling story of German nurse Stephan Letter, who was tried for the murders of 29 patients at a clinic in the Bavarian town of Sonthofen.
6. Kimberley Clark Saenz
Aired 16 November 2016
Dialysis nurse Kimberley Clark Saenz poisoned patients by injecting bleach into their bloodstream.
7. Niels H
Aired 23 November 2016
Real crime. Chilling series looking at nurses who kill their patients. Niels H adminstered lethal doses of drugs to patients in order to later 'show off' his resuscitation skills.
8. Colin Norris
Aired 30 November 2016
Real crime. Chilling series looking at nurses who kill their patients. Colin Norris targeted elderly patients by adminstering them unnecessary doses of insulin.
9. Victorino Chua
Aired 7 December 2016
The case of Filipino nurse Victorino Chua, who secured a job at Stepping Hill Hospital, Manchester, and began to inject insulin into saline bags of 44-year-old Tracy Warden and 83-year-old Alfred Weaver.
10. Charles Cullen
Aired 14 December 2016
Charles Cullen was a nurse that is believed to have killed over 300 patients. Experts analyse the actions and motive of this insidious serial killer.