The nurse has already been sentenced for killing six patients by injecting them with drugs and then trying to revive them. If convicted, Niels Högel will be one of the most prolific serial killers in German history.
Convicted serial killer Niels Högel was charged with 97 further counts of murder in the northern German city of Oldenburg on Monday. The former nurse is already serving jail time for murdering other patients.
In court, Niels has admitted to acting “out of boredom” and to impress his colleagues — by giving patients medicine to cause heart failure or circulatory collapse and then trying to revive them.
Police investigator Arne Schmidt called the killings “unique in the history of the German republic.”
Initially convicted of attempted murder in hospitals in Oldenburg and the nearby city of Delmenhorst, Högel’s subsequent statements to a psychologist about 30 killings prompted authorities to exhume scores of bodies buried between 1999 and 2005 and test them for the killer’s drug cocktails.
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