KILLER NURSE PICKED VICTIMS AT RANDOM OUT OF ‘BOREDOM’
BERLIN ,( HINDU STAN TIMES )04 JUNE 2019 - The man accused of being post-war Germany’s most prolific serial killer was known to colleagues as a “nice guy” who did little to arouse suspicion until well into his murder spree.
With his verdict expected Thursday, prosecutors say Niels Hoegel, 42, a heavy-set, second-generation caregiver, was drunk on power over his ailing patients, whom he picked off at random out of “boredom”.
Hoegel has admitted to injecting patients with drugs that cause heart failure or circulatory collapse so he could then try to revive them and, when successful, shine as a saviour before his medical peers and superiors. The dangerous game left at least around 100 patients dead, according to the charges against him. However, police say the actual number could be more than 200.
The current trial is Hoegel’s third since 2015 related to the deaths at clinics where he worked. Hoegel has admitted to committing 43 murders with certainty but said he had serious memory gaps in dozens of other instances.