21 Evil Doctors And Nurses Who Were Also Serial Killers

Published October 21, 2017
Updated March 12, 2024

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

Doctors and nurses have always inspired a strange mix of trust and fear. We give ourselves over to them when we're at our most vulnerable, which in turn makes us uneasy at the thought that they could perhaps exploit that unique position of power.

We allow these people into our most private and defenseless spaces, granting them access to our bodies both inside and out. So we shudder at the idea that their intentions could be anything less than pure.

Perhaps this is why, even among serial killers, those who were doctors and nurses by day chill us to the bone like few others.

Discover some of the most horrifyingly evil doctors and nurses who were serial killers in the gallery above.


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Gabe Paoletti
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Gabe Paoletti is a New York City-based writer and a former Editorial Intern at All That's Interesting. He holds a Bachelor's in English from Fordham University.
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John Kuroski
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Based in Brooklyn, New York, John Kuroski is the editorial director of All That's Interesting. He graduated from New York University with a degree in history, earning a place in the Phi Alpha Theta honor society for history students. An editor at All That's Interesting since 2015, his areas of expertise include modern American history and the ancient Near East. In an editing career spanning 17 years, he previously served as managing editor of Elmore Magazine in New York City for seven years.
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Paoletti, Gabe. "21 Evil Doctors And Nurses Who Were Also Serial Killers." AllThatsInteresting.com, October 21, 2017, https://allthatsinteresting.com/evil-doctors-nurses-serial-killers. Accessed August 26, 2025.