Medical Murders

It takes a certain type of evil to poison a person, but a far greater kind to do it repeatedly, and to one's own wife nonetheless. It wasn't that Dr. Pritchard loathed the woman he married. She simply...

3 Nov 202149min

In May 1863, a young woman's charred remains were found resting in the surgical chair of a surgeon's home office. Whispers flew about town, claiming that Dr. William Pritchard had torched his own prac...

27 Okt 202147min

Fatigue, nausea, and cramping are all symptoms that dialysis patients regularly face, as they rely on their medical professionals to do the work that their kidneys once did. But in 2008, at a clinic i...

20 Okt 202148min

When malpractice occurs, justice often lies with the hospitals who hired the malicious professional in the first place. But it was all too easy for Texas institutions to turn a blind eye to Dr. Christ...

13 Okt 202152min

When Dr. Christopher Duntsch was ousted from the biotech startup he co-founded, he pursued a new career in medicine as a spinal surgeon. He was inexperienced, inept, and arrogant — but his charm secur...

6 Okt 202151min

In 1986, Donald Harvey began a new job at a hospital in Ohio, where he moved from suffocating patients to poisoning them in lethal experiments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.c...

29 Sep 202151min

Donald Harvey was a hospital orderly in Kentucky and Ohio who killed dozens of patients in the 1970s. He was also a neo-Nazi who learned witchcraft, and would regularly summon a spirit he called Dunca...

22 Sep 202153min

In the late 1980s and early ‘90s, a young respiratory therapist made medicine his whole life. But the extra shifts and multiple jobs started taking a toll — and it wasn’t long before rumors began circ...

15 Sep 202149min