Nurses Who Kill

All Episodes 2016 - 2019

  • 2018-01-10T00:00:00Zs at 2018-01-10T00:00:00Z on Really
  • 2016-10-11T23:00:00Z
  • 44m
  • 23h (30 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Firstlook TV
  • Documentary
The stories of some of the most prolific murderers and serial killers to walk hospital grounds across the globe. Often referred to as the ‘angels of the ward’ experts examine what turned these caregivers into killers.

30 episodes

Series Premiere

2016-10-11T23:00:00Z

1x01 Beverley Allitt

Series Premiere

1x01 Beverley Allitt

  • 2016-10-11T23:00:00Z43m

The series begins by examining the case of Allitt, a nurse on the children's ward of a hospital in Lincolnshire. She poisoned a string of young patients under her care over the course of 59 days in 1991, murdering four.

2016-10-18T23:00:00Z

1x02 Benjamin Geen

1x02 Benjamin Geen

  • 2016-10-18T23:00:00Z42m

Benjamin Geen worked as a nurse at Horton General Hospital in Banbury, Oxfordshire. In 2006 he was tried and convicted of murdering two patients and causing GBH to 15 others but has always maintained his innocence.

2016-10-25T23:00:00Z

1x03 Genene Jones

1x03 Genene Jones

  • 2016-10-25T23:00:00Z1h

Genene Jones worked in the paediatric intensive care unit of a Texas hospital.

2016-11-02T00:00:00Z

1x04 Daniela Poggiali

1x04 Daniela Poggiali

  • 2016-11-02T00:00:00Z1h

Police were called in after a suspicious number of patients died while in Daniela Poggiali's care.

2016-11-09T00:00:00Z

1x05 Stephan Letter

1x05 Stephan Letter

  • 2016-11-09T00:00:00Z45m

The chilling story of German nurse Stephan Letter, who was tried for the murders of 29 patients at a clinic in the Bavarian town of Sonthofen.

2016-11-16T00:00:00Z

1x06 Kimberley Clark Saenz

1x06 Kimberley Clark Saenz

  • 2016-11-16T00:00:00Z1h

Dialysis nurse Kimberley Clark Saenz poisoned patients by injecting bleach into their bloodstream.

2016-11-23T00:00:00Z

1x07 Niels H

1x07 Niels H

  • 2016-11-23T00:00:00Z44m

Real crime. Chilling series looking at nurses who kill their patients. Niels H adminstered lethal doses of drugs to patients in order to later 'show off' his resuscitation skills.

2016-11-30T00:00:00Z

1x08 Colin Norris

1x08 Colin Norris

  • 2016-11-30T00:00:00Z45m

Real crime. Chilling series looking at nurses who kill their patients. Colin Norris targeted elderly patients by adminstering them unnecessary doses of insulin.

2016-12-07T00:00:00Z

1x09 Victorino Chua

1x09 Victorino Chua

  • 2016-12-07T00:00:00Z44m

The case of Filipino nurse Victorino Chua, who secured a job at Stepping Hill Hospital, Manchester, and began to inject insulin into saline bags of 44-year-old Tracy Warden and 83-year-old Alfred Weaver.

Season Finale

2016-12-14T00:00:00Z

1x10 Charles Cullen

Season Finale

1x10 Charles Cullen

  • 2016-12-14T00:00:00Z1h

Charles Cullen was a nurse that is believed to have killed over 300 patients. Experts analyse the actions and motive of this insidious serial killer.

Season Premiere

2018-04-16T23:00:00Z

2x01 Malcolm Webster

Season Premiere

2x01 Malcolm Webster

  • 2018-04-16T23:00:00Z45m

Nurse Malcolm Webster was convicted for the murder of his first wife, Claire Morris. For 17 years it was believed to be an accident; until he staged another 'road accident' in New Zealand, involving his second wife, Felicity Drumm.

2018-04-23T23:00:00Z

2x02 Anne Grigg-Booth

2x02 Anne Grigg-Booth

  • 2018-04-23T23:00:00Z44m

Anne Grigg-Booth, who was responsible for administering painkilling injections to patients, was a heavy drinker with a passion for drugs. We hear from the doctor that Grigg-Booth's team lined up as an expert witness in her defence. He was never to be called; Nurse Grigg-Booth killed herself.

2018-04-30T23:00:00Z

2x03 Efren Saldivar

2x03 Efren Saldivar

  • 2018-04-30T23:00:00Z44m

Efren Saldivar confessed to killing 40 to 50 patients over an eight-year period. Quickly christened an "Angel of Death," he targeted patients who were already near death. Statistical analysis indicates that the total number of murders committed by Saldivar could be as high as 200, but the bodies were cremated after death long before he owned up to his deeds on the wards.

2018-05-07T23:00:00Z

2x04 Megan Haines

2x04 Megan Haines

  • 2018-05-07T23:00:00Z44m

Megan Haines, South African immigrant and mother of a dangerous and disaffected son, carries out a murderous rampage against the elderly in the quiet coastal town of Ballina, New South Wales.

2018-05-14T23:00:00Z

2x05 Jeannie Miata

2x05 Jeannie Miata

  • 2018-05-14T23:00:00Z44m

Jeannie Miata was convicted of murdering a 68-year-old Texas woman with a lethal dose of insulin in 2002. Inside prison, journalist Carolyn Canville asks her why she did it.

2018-05-21T23:00:00Z

2x06 Roger Dean

2x06 Roger Dean

  • 2018-05-21T23:00:00Z44m

On November 18, 2011, Roger Dean, a nurse at Quakers Hill Nursing Home in Sydney, Australia murdered 11 elderly residents after setting fire to the facility as they slept in a bid to hide evidence of his theft of painkillers.

2018-05-28T23:00:00Z

2x07 Vickie Dawn Jackson

2x07 Vickie Dawn Jackson

  • 2018-05-28T23:00:00Z45m

Vickie Dawn Jackson was described as sweet and 'gone to fat' by locals in her small Texas town. Why did Vickie kill off the friends and relatives of those whom she knew in Nocona, Texas? Texas journalist Skip Hollandsworth spent time with Nurse Jackson at her Texas jail and reveals the truth about a remarkable, and evil, woman.

2018-06-04T23:00:00Z

2x08 Garry Davis

2x08 Garry Davis

  • 2018-06-04T23:00:00Z43m

Gary Davis told his Facebook friends that 'I hate old people' and days before two patients in his care were found dead, he predicted they would die. Those facts were enough to put him in the frame as a doctor became convinced that foul play was responsible for their. Rob Kaplan, a Forensic Psychiatrist from a Sydney University offers a unique insight into health serial-killers.

2018-06-11T23:00:00Z

2x09 Elizabeth Wettlaufer

2x09 Elizabeth Wettlaufer

  • 2018-06-11T23:00:00Z44m

Wettlaufer, 49, of Ontario, intentionally administered fatal doses of drugs to her victims, aged 75 to 96, between 2007 and 2014. After killing, she would post some of her dozens of verses. Wettlaufer's victims included five women and three men - all of whom were patients at Caressant Care nursing homes in Ontario, where Wettlaufer had worked.

Season Finale

2018-06-18T23:00:00Z

2x10 Donald Harvey

Season Finale

2x10 Donald Harvey

  • 2018-06-18T23:00:00Z44m

'Angel of Death' Donald Harvey is believed to have murdered nearly 60 patients, often by administering arsenic and cyanide, in a 20-year killing spree.

Season Premiere

2019-07-31T23:00:00Z

3x01 Karen Pedley

Season Premiere

3x01 Karen Pedley

  • 2019-07-31T23:00:00Z44m

The case of care home worker Karen Pedley, who was given 14 life sentences in 2016 and found guilty of killing a 96-year-old resident by setting fire to her room.

2019-08-07T23:00:00Z

3x02 Sandra Weir

3x02 Sandra Weir

  • 2019-08-07T23:00:00Z44m

The story of Sandra Weir, who acted as a carer for her elderly neighbour. But she was stealing from the pensioner to fund her drug addiction, leading to a tragic confrontation.

2019-08-14T23:00:00Z

3x03 Paul Novak

3x03 Paul Novak

  • 2019-08-14T23:00:00Z43m

The case of New York paramedic Paul Novak, who boasted of committing the perfect murder after the dust had settled on the death of his first wife Catherine.

2019-08-21T23:00:00Z

3x04 Thomas Dunkley

3x04 Thomas Dunkley

  • 2019-08-21T23:00:00Z44m

The case of carer Thomas Dunkley, who aided boxer Shaun 'The Guv'nor' Cummins after he became paralysed, and later killed and dismembered his patient.

2019-08-28T23:00:00Z

3x05 Beverley James

3x05 Beverley James

  • 2019-08-28T23:00:00Z43m

The story of debt-ridden mother-of-three and night-time sex worker Beverley James. By day, she was meant to care for Harriet Davison, a frail woman she beat to death.

2019-09-04T23:00:00Z

3x06 Thelma Purchase

3x06 Thelma Purchase

  • 2019-09-04T23:00:00Z44m

Care worker Thelma Purchase plotted with her son and a friend to murder disabled Greg Baker who Purchase once worked for. She knew he couldn't defend himself and she stood to be a beneficiary in his will.

2019-09-11T23:00:00Z

3x07 Chaz Higgs

3x07 Chaz Higgs

  • 2019-09-11T23:00:00Z43m

The murder of politician Kathy Augustine, who died after being given paralysing drug succinylcholine by her husband Chaz Higgs, a professional nurse.

2019-09-18T23:00:00Z

3x08 Bunthawee Rimmer

3x08 Bunthawee Rimmer

  • 2019-09-18T23:00:00Z44m

The case of care worker Bunthawee Rimmer, who enjoyed a comfortable lifestyle as a live-in carer to Paul Norfolk. When she was made the main beneficiary in Paul's will, Rimmer stood to inherit almost £350,000 and resorted to a hammer attack to ensure he would not change his mind.

2019-09-25T23:00:00Z

3x09 Marie Whiston

3x09 Marie Whiston

  • 2019-09-25T23:00:00Z43m

When an autopsy revealed high levels of insulin in Eric Lloyd's body, police realised his widow, nurse Marie Whiston, had been using her medical skills not to care but to kill.

Season Finale

2019-10-02T23:00:00Z

3x10 Alison Firth

Season Finale

3x10 Alison Firth

  • 2019-10-02T23:00:00Z44m

When Alice Grant died it was sad, but not unexpected. The 84-year-old needed round-the-clock care from her nurse Alison Firth. What nobody expected was how much Firth would resent the extra care her vulnerable patient required, or what lengths the lazy nurse would go to in order to avoid the work.

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