Germany's most profilic Serial Killer Nurse picked victims at random out of ‘boredom’, killed more than 100 patients

June 4,2019:

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 stated that 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.

Dangerous game left at least around 100 patients dead, according to the charges against him.

Police state that actual number could be more than 200.

Current trial is Hoegel’s third since 2015 related to the deaths at clinics where he worked.

He was found guilty in two earlier trials and sentenced to 15 years in prison, but investigators pressed on with toxicology tests on dozens more exhumed bodies.

Hoegel has admitted to committing 43 murders with certainty but stated that he had serious memory gaps in dozens of other instances.

He offered his victims’ families an apology during extensive testimony.

Source HT