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  1. He called Richard Thomesen, who was stationed in the DEA's Manhattan field office to discuss the case. Thomesen's conversation focused on Swango lying on his government application to work at the VA, where he prescribed narcotic medications.

  2. Nov 16, 1997 · In 1985, the Judge had presided over the trial of a young Quincy doctor named Michael Swango, who was convicted of poisoning five co-workers at Quincy’s Blessing Hospital. The victims, who had...

    • Michael Swango's Early History with Poisonings
    • What Made Michael Swango Kill?
    • 'A Perfect Storm'

    In October 1984, Dick Harp’s boss, OSU police chief Pete Herdt, asked him to look into Swango’s history at Ohio State Medical Center. The department had received a call from police in Quincy, Illinois, where Swango was under investigation for a series of bizarre, though nonfatal, poisonings at his workplace, a medical transport company. The police ...

    In his first letter, Swango dangled a hint about his personal development that Harp-Yanka would pursue in subsequent letters. The relationship with an older woman intrigued Harp-Yanka. Neither her religion nor her psychological training allowed her to believe a person could be entirely evil, although some might have a genetic propensity to sociopat...

    The correspondence continues, but more time elapses between letters. Three years after her first letter to Swango, Harp-Yanka no longer believes that he will reveal to her the key to his psychopathology. But she says her clinical self is at peace with her conclusion that a “perfect storm” of factors, some of which she’s read about and some of which...

    • Suzanne Goldsmith
  3. 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.

    • Suzanne Goldsmith
  4. Nov 6, 2018 · Michael Swango, who was convicted of killing veterans on Long Island, was investigated by Bruce Sackman, who wrote a book about that and other cases.

    • Carlotta Mohamed
  5. Jan 1, 2001 · Dr. Michael Swango MD grew up as the son of a career military man, Virgil, & the family made 16 moves to follow him. Michael as a youth seemed nearly obsessed by guns, car crashes, thrillers, true crime, poison. And as an adult, the Waco cult and fire, serial killers. Upon Virgil's death, his wife discovered a violent death news clippings ...

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  7. Michael Swango. In 2000, a doctor was convicted in two separate cases of murdering his patients. Three in a Veterans Hospital in New York and one young woman when he was an intern in Ohio State University Hospital.

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