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They searched for her, only to find her legs poking out of the caramel.

These "angels of death," both evil doctors and evil nurses, took lives when they were supposed to be saving them.

What you might not know is that The Green Man, also known as Charlie No-Face, was a real person — a Pennsylvania man named Raymond Robinson.