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Mar 29, 2022 · Michael Swango is a convicted serial killer who used his position as a medical student, paramedic and later as a physician to poison colleagues and patients. He's serving three life sentences at the country's only supermax federal penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.
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Sep 26, 2024 · Explore Michael Swango's crimes: 'Doctor Death' who poisoned 60+ patients in US and Zimbabwe. Uncover his medical career, global killings, and life sentence.
Michael Joseph Swango (born James Michael Swango, [1] October 21, 1954) is an American serial killer and physician who is estimated to have been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues in the United States and Zimbabwe, although he admitted to causing only four deaths.
Nov 16, 1997 · Michael Swango is a convicted poisoner and a doctor whose patients keep dying. Why have hospitals around the country repeatedly put people under his care?
- Who Is Dr. Michael Swango?
- What Happened to Dr. Swango's Patients and co-workers?
- Is Dr. Michael Swango Still Alive?
Joseph Michael Swango was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1954. The second of three children, he grew up in Quincy, Illinois. His father was a prominent U.S. Army officer and Vietnam War veteran, who allegedly bragged about his combat kills and suffered from alcoholism, according to the New York Post. Swango was an exemplary student and high school ...
A nurse would later tell police she saw Swango injecting an unknown substance into a patient’s IV right before they stopped breathing, according to the Los Angeles Times. In 1984, Swango claimed he discovered the dead body of patient Ricky DeLong, 21, while performing his rounds. An autopsy would later reveal that a ball of gauze had been placed do...
On Sept. 6, 2000, Michael Swango pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, according to the Associated Press. By making a deal with prosecutors, he was spared the death penalty, and the government of Zimbabwe agreed not to seek his extradition and pursue charges...
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Sep 24, 2024 · Discover the chilling story of Michael Swango, a physician who became a serial killer, poisoning 60+ patients across the US and Africa. Explore how he betrayed medical trust for decades.
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Sep 6, 2000 · Michael Swango, former physician who authorities say poisoned patients from Ohio to Zimbabwe but continued to find medical jobs, will plead guilty in federal court to charges that he killed...
