Former German hospital nurse Niels Hoegel, who was handed a life sentence Thursday for murdering 85 patients in his care, is believed to be the most prolific serial killer in the country’s post-war ...

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New York's most prolific known serial killer offered some theories about the identity of the state's most recent serial killer today, as news broke that the culprit had reportedly confessed to the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Serial killer Rex Heuermann is finally going to hell. It comes in the form of one of New York state's oldest prisons, a bleak ...

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Former German hospital nurse Niels Hoegel has claimed to have killed around 100 of his patients with drug overdoses, which would make him one of the world's most prolific serial killers in recent ...