Doctors are supposed to save lives, or at least make them better. But Dr. Harold Shipman wanted more. Rather than the satisfaction he could have derived from extending lives, he craved the power that comes with knowing he was snuffing them out.
Shipman is the British physician who was recently found guilty of murdering 15 of his female patients, all middle aged or elderly, by injecting them with deadly doses of morphine. The speculation is that he may have killed 150 women, maybe more, and there are reports that he might have started targeting his patients 25 years ago.