From diabolical doctors to seductive psychopaths, we look at 8 people that seemed innocent that
were actually monsters. 8.
• Family doctor Harold Shipman was well-liked, caring and in high demand in the little town
of Hyde.
• Back when he was studying medicine in the 70s, his teachers were all impressed by
his enthusiasm and intelligence.
About a year out of med school though, Shipman started offing little old ladies with morphine
injections.
Over his 20 year career, he murdered around 250 patients!
Initially, other doctors thought his high death rate was because he was, you know, a
bit shit.
• When he found out he was being investigated, he panicked, forged a patient’s will and
killed her.
When he was charged with murder, his practice was flooded by well-wishing supportive patients.
People liked this guy so much they seriously thought the charges were bullshit.
He was sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences.
He offed himself in jail so his wife would get his life insurance.
Which is probably what he should’ve done back in the 70s instead of offing old ladies…oh
well.
7.
• Beloved nurse and all around lovely lady Jane Toppan was nicknamed ‘Jolly Jane’
because she was just so damn cheerful.
• Her services were highly sought after because of her tenderness and care for her
patients.
But Jane had a dark side too; she loved to experiment with dosing her patients with a
heap of morphine.
Then she’d give them another drug to wake them back up and then more morphine, like
some kind of sick life and death yo-yo.
• Jolly Jane might have never been caught if she hadn’t taken out an entire family.
She poisoned four members of the Davis family over a six weeks period because she owed them
money.
When the cops started questioning her about it she confessed and then just kept confessing.
She murdered at least 31 people, including her own foster sister.
She pleaded insanity and spent the rest of her days in a lunatic asylum but it’s suspected
she was just a great con-artist.
In the asylum she admitted some deaths may have slipped her mind and the number might
be more like 100 but, who knows.
6.
• Louis Lamonica, the pastor of the Hosanna church wandered into the sheriff’s office
one day in 2005.
• Not only was his church suss as fuck, the pastor confessed that he and some other
members had somehow made the terrifying leap to satanism.
The pastor said he was “compelled by satan” to performing satanic rites where animals
were sacrificed and children were molested.
Their meetings went on for almost a decade before the pastor confessed.
• What I don’t get is how a church gets into Satanism.
Who the shit shows up the church bake sale and says, “uhh I know Jesus is our homeboy
and all but you know, Satan sounds kinda cool too.”
If you pulled that shit at my grandma’s church you’d get your ass kicked by a bunch
of dudes with colostomy bags.
5.
• In 1889, in a small town in Iowa, the brutal murders of a civil war veteran John
Elkins and his wife Hatttie caused a panic.
• After discovering the bodies John’s son Wesley took the family buggy to the nearest
neighbor.
Nobody could understand why anyone would want to hurt the couple; they were quiet and had
no enemies.
There was even a $500 reward for information about the strange killings.
When Wesley’s story had some inconsistencies, people started to think he might’ve seen
more than he was letting on, or that he was covering for someone.
• 73 pounds of 11 year old bludgeoned his father and stepmother while his baby sister
slept between them.
The reason for hacking his folks the death: he had too many chores.
So like any rational person he killed them in their sleep.
He spent most of his youth in the prison library and successfully appealed his case after 14
years of imprisonment. 4.
• Don’t let her looks deceive you; this old Russian lady is straight up no good.
68 year old Tamara Samsonova’s first victim was her husband, who she reported missing
a decade before her arrest.
• Police believe her victim count is 10 at least.
Her MO was to drug her victims and then hack them up.
It’s not known when she started eating them though.
Her bizarre journal details how she loves eating the lungs of her victims.
Maybe they took her breath away, so she returned the favour.
Tamara was finally caught when CCTV footage showed her ferrying around a giant stew pot
that had the victim’s head in it.
• So when a little, old Russian woman offers you stew, you say hell to the no.
Actually maybe that’s too harsh, Cannibals are people too, but they’re also fed up
with people.
Get it?
Fed up.
Oh that’s terrible, who writes this stuff?
3.
• Amelia Dyer convinced a horde of single mothers that she was a homely motherly type
that couldn’t have children, but was just dying to adopt.
• Because being a single mother was a social no-no in the 1800s, lots of nurses made an
easy living by finding adoptive families for babes of unwed mothers.
But then a bunch of them figured out they could make even more money if they didn’t
bother to feed the babies, or find homes for them at all.
• In the early years Amelia would let the babies die by starvation and neglect.
It wasn’t until later that she graduated to full blown baby-murder.
Throughout her career it’s estimated Amelia killed as many as 400 infants.
She pleaded insanity but was found sane and super evil.
The little old lady was hanged for her crimes in 1896.
2.
• Yet another medical practitioner in the list is Donald Harvey, former nurse and all
around not-so-nice guy.
• Donald says he started offing patients to ease their pain, then it became just because
they pissed him off.
After the first few victims, he discovered how easy it was to kill indiscriminately without
drawing attention to himself, or arousing suspicion because the patients were already
unwell.
The more they annoyed him the more sadistic he would be.
One victim got a coat hanger in his catheter.
Youch…
• Some victims were smothered, but most were poisoned with arsenic or cyanide in their
food or IV.
Donald claims to have murdered 87 people, but police could only confirm it was anywhere
between 37 and 87 but they’ll never know the true extent of his crimes because he went
undetected for so long.
He eventually pleaded guilty to avoid the death sentence and will be in prison the rest
of his life.
1.
• When one young man was arrested, his friends and co-workers all assumed it was some huge
mistake.
• In school teachers loved him; he was charming, well behaved and courteous.
He wore slacks and collared shirts, sometimes with a tie, when his fellow students were
rocking jeans and t-shirts.
This guy was going places.
This was Ted Bundy; Serial killer, necrophiliac extraordinaire that brutally murdered more
than 30 women.
• While studying psychology he worked at a suicide hotline convincing people not to
kill themselves and he even saved a toddler from drowning.
When Bundy’s name came up as a possible suspect, police ruled him out straight away;
“a clean-cut, all American student, no way.”
But this clean-cut committing 30 murders but admitted there
were more.