Nurse Serial Killer

They were trusted nurses—daughters, mothers, veterans themselves. Behind their calm smiles and steady hands, death moved quietly through the hospital halls. Kristen Gilbert and Reta Mays worked decades apart in two different states, yet their crimes were mirror images of betrayal. Each used the same access, the same authority, and the same mask of compassion to murder those who trusted them most: American veterans. In Angels of Death, investigative author Elliot Christopher reconstructs the parallel stories of two women who turned healing into horror—and exposes how a vast institution ...

This New York Times bestselling book is the mesmerizing basis for the movie starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain that takes you inside the mind of America's most prolific serial killer, whose 16-year long "nursing" career left hundreds dead. “The best book(s) I read this year” (top...

Written by the forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI profiles and catches serial killers, this thought-provoking book takes an intimate look at the creation of the Behavioral Science Unit–the inspiration for Hulu’s Mastermind documentary. In the 1970s, the FBI created the...

SLASHED: THE UNFORGETTABLE TRUE STORY THAT HAUNTED A GENERATION On a sweltering July night in 1966, Chicago’s South Side descended into madness. Eight young student nurses—each with a dream, a future, and a purpose—were bound, brutalized, and murdered inside their shared townhouse. The man responsible, Richard Speck, would become one of the most infamous names in American criminal history. The nation would never be the same. “The night Chicago screamed” was more than a headline—it was the night America lost its innocence. THE KILLER WHO CHANGED AMERICA FOREVER Richard Speck ...

When Care Decides is a meticulously researched true-crime narrative that examines how trust, authority, and institutional silence enabled one of history’s most disturbing medical crimes. Through the life of Jane Toppan, a nurse who killed her patients while acting in the name of care, this book exposes the systems that failed to see — and the quiet decisions that proved fatal. Written with restraint and insight, When Care Decides is not a story about madness, but about what happens when care is given the power to choose.

In the early hours of March 2015, the police receive a call from a nurse at a provincial Danish hospital. She suspects her colleague is deliberately killing patients and fears that it has just happened again. Soon, several witnesses reveal that they too suspect the same nurse of poisoning patients; some have been harboring their suspicion for years… so why has no one done anything about it before? And now that those patients’ bodies have long been cremated, where is the evidence?

Some houses keep secrets. This one keeps bodies. Desperate for work and running out of options, nurse Emma Rothwell accepts a position too good to refuse: six months at an isolated Victorian mansion caring for an elderly woman. The pay is extraordinary. The location is remote. And the Winthrop family has secrets that have festered for nearly fifty years. Helena Winthrop is dying, but not from old age. Someone in the house is slowly poisoning her—and they're using Emma to do it. As Emma fights to keep her patient alive, she uncovers the truth about Sarah Kehoe, a sixteen-year-old girl who ...

They're not detectives. Or are they? Two travel nurses work together with local police to find out who's murdering young blonde women in this coastal North Carolina town that's just been ravaged by a hurricane. Having survived a devastating hurricane on the east coast of the United States, and solving the mystery of missing and murdered travel nurses, Piper Quinn and Jeannie Hatcher are reluctant to leave their summer home after their travel assignment is complete. Adventures await them on other assignments, but they decide to stay on Oak Island to help the people devastated by the storm. ...

Updated with dramatic developments and new murder charges, filed in the coldest of cold cases, to keep a serial baby-killer behind bars. This tale is every parent's worst nightmare: the horrifying account of a Texas nurse who killed children under her care, and the hospital that covered it up.

It was meant to be Caitlin's perfect summer, but betrayed by her best friend and her boyfriend, she finds herself hitchhiking home alone, heartbroken, and penniless. When a smiling family pulls up on the roadside to help her on her way, she's relieved at first - they seem friendly, normal. And when they offer her a warm bed in their cottage for the night, she's grateful - it's not safe for young women travelling alone in the dark, and she's in no rush to get home, where she knows a grave secret is due to blow her family apart.

In 1895, elderly patients were quietly dying one by one, yet no one sounded the alarm – until an entirely family passed away. All had been in the care of nurse Jane Toppan and suspicions hit the roof. Dilated pupils, feverish bodies, and erratic rambling left doctors baffled, but these weren’t the signs of illness. They were the marks of something far more sinister. Toppan manipulated her patients' dosages, watching them drift between life and death. For her, each fatal dose was not a crime, but a twisted act of mercy—a dark salvation from suffering.

Medics and carers hold the lives of their patients in the balance. They see us at our most vulnerable, and we trust them utterly. Yet there are those who abuse this trust in the medical profession, and take advantage of their position to commit the most hideous crimes. In this gripping account, listeners can discover the chilling stories of these cold-hearted killers.

The tea is warm, the smile is kind — and the poison is already working. When Nurse Brenda Glenford inherits her aunt’s flat and a strange silver pendant, she steps into a legacy steeped in silence, shadows, and death. At Ashmere Hospital, she becomes a comforting presence — calm, attentive, beloved by patients. But beneath the surface, something ancient is whispering to her. Something that remembers every death. Something that urges her to kill again. Poison is her method. Tea is her ritual. And murder is the mercy she believes she offers. As her past blurs with another woman's dark ...

She’ll offer you tea with a smile. You won’t taste the poison until it’s far too late. At Ashmere Hospital, Nurse Brenda Glenford is known for her calm hands, gentle words, and flawless tea. But behind her tidy apron and soothing voice lies a mind as sharp as any scalpel — and far more dangerous. When Lucy Trent, a new filing assistant, arrives with polite smiles and quiet questions, Brenda begins to sense trouble. Lucy’s curiosity is no accident. She’s been digging into the mysterious deaths at Ashmere… and into Brenda’s shadowy past. As their tea-time friendship deepens, ...

If you've ever wondered if the fairy tales and nursery rhymes you grew up on have any connection to actual events, this book may hold the answers you seek. This exploration of twenty-five children's favorites and their possible origins takes a closer look at such classics as Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, The Snow Queen, Jack Be Nimble, Little Jack Horner, Bluebeard and many others. While some of their histories are as pure as the driven snow, others are downright horrific. So, if you're ready to pull back the curtain on a world that is not ...