Medical Murders

In the 1950s, Australia’s rising star in psychiatry was the young, charismatic Harry Bailey. He would go on to champion the deeply controversial and dangerous Deep Sleep Therapy, where patients were p...

11 Maj 202249min

By 1991, a court had blocked Dr. Kevorkian from helping patients end their lives. So he started meeting them in secret. Nearly a decade later, he took it a step further. Assisting suicides led to the ...

4 Maj 202252min

In the 1980s and ‘90s, Dr. Jack Kevorkian pushed the ethical limits of healthcare with his controversial ideas around death and suffering. What he believed in most was a patient’s right to die with th...

27 Apr 202249min

In New York, a wealthy medical student prescribed his young wife morphine to help with her chronic headaches. Only, the pills contained a lethal dose. When 19-year-old Helen Potts died, her husband’s ...

13 Apr 202251min

A South African doctor living in New Zealand meticulously poisoned his wife until she died. Colin Bouwer had money, freedom, and several mistresses. So why did he resort to murder? Learn more about yo...

6 Apr 202253min

As the days count down to Hale-Bopp’s arrival, 39 people prepare for ascension. They’d abandoned their old lives, embraced a new ideology, weathered the death of a beloved leader… and finally, made th...

31 Mars 202245min

The group’s belief system had never been infallible. There had been adjustments along the way; revisions meant to keep the wheels turning whenever prophecies didn’t manifest. But then, in 1985, Bonnie...

30 Mars 202238min

1976 was a turning point for Heaven’s Gate. The spaceship that was promised had not arrived. Members were defecting. Nettles and Applewhite gathered their truest believers in Wyoming and made it clear...

29 Mars 202239min