NURSE CONFESSES TO KILLING 100 PATIENTS

BERLIN Niels Hoegel, a 41-year old former German nurse, confessed on Tuesday to one of Europe’s most gruesome mass murder cases since the Second World War and admitted to killing 100 patients between 2000 and 2005.

Hoegel, pictured, had already been sentenced to life in prison after being charged with at least six murders and several more attempts. But prosecutors pushed for a new trial after details indicated that Hoegel may have killed 100 more victims, injecting them with deadly drugs such as lidocaine and calcium chloride, according to prosecutors who said Hoegel acted out of “boredom.”

The death toll may be even higher because some victims — ages between 34 and 96 — were cremated. More than 130 other bodies were exhumed during the investigation.

As his trial got underway on Tuesday, Hoegel admitted that the accusations were largely correct. “That’s the way it is,” he said.