posted on July 19, 2002 09:28:15 AM new
A British doctor was convicted in 2000 of killing 15 of his patients by heroin injection. This was not a case of overzealous pain management. Many of these people were not seriously ill. He was sentenced to 15 life terms. He is now suspected of killing as many as 260 more people out of a total of 494 who died while under his "care" between 1974-1998. He is now considered to be the worst serial killer in British history.
