By Boluwatife Ezekiel Olaleye
German police and prosecutors have revealed that German nurse, Niels Hoegel, who is serving a life sentence in prison for murdering six patients may have killed 84 more, making him one of the worst ever serial killers the country has ever seen.
Niels Hoegel, 40, was jailed in 2015 after being convicted of killing six people.
Authorities
have subsequently investigated hundreds of deaths, which included
exhuming bodies of former patients in the clinics where Hoegel worked in
Delmenhorst and Oldenburg in northwest Germany.
Police
told CNN they believe Hoegel killed 36 patients in Oldenburg between
1999 and 2001, and another 48 people from the hospital in Delmenhorst.
Police
say the number of victims may be even higher but the final number may
never be known as some possible victims were cremated.
In
past hearings, Hoegel admitted to injecting patients with a drug that
can cause heart failure or circulatory collapse so he could then try to
revive them, French news agency AFP reported.
He said he felt euphoric when he managed to bring a patient back to life, and devastated when he failed, AFP said.
Johann
Kuehme, the Oldenburg police chief, told journalists at a press
conference Monday that the number of victims had left authorities
"speechless."
"The
killings could have been prevented if the people responsible at the time
-- and I stress at the time -- particularly at the Oldenburg clinic but
also later on in Delmenhorst hadn't hesitated to alert authorities, for
example the state prosecution," he said.
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