I hope you will forgive a macabre thread. Listening the radio this am about Radovan Karadzic. I did not realise he had some sort of medical training. Wiki states he studied medicine and psychiatry though not entirely clear if he was a fully qualified doctor. Made me wonder about bad people who happen to be medics. Not a very common occurrence and interesting because medics are usually fairly high on the list of people trusted by the UK population (with politicians and journalists near the bottom - sorry David McIntyre!). In the UK, we had Harold Shipman but if Karadzic convicted of genocide then I guess he trumps Shipman in terms of numbers. Different circumstances of course in that Shipman was personally responsible for all those deaths. Perhaps the most infamous of all, Josef Mengele, the Nazi 'Angel of Death'. Any other examples people are aware of from across the world.?
And there was me thinking this might have been an interesting thread! . Another lesson learnt in the tapestry of life.
Sam Sheppard was an American physician at the center of one of the most sensationalized court cases in modern American history. Sam Sheppard was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1923. In 1954, Sheppard’s wife Marilyn was found murdered in their home. Sheppard was convicted of the killing and sentenced to life in prison, but he maintained his innocence throughout the trial and during his incarceration. After a lengthy appeals process, in 1964 he was released from prison, and during a 1966 retrial, he was found not guilty. Afterward, Sheppard turned to alcohol and died of liver failure on April 6, 1970. The 1963 television series The Fugitive and the 1993 movie of the same name were inspired by Sheppard’s case
Well I never knew that. Thank you. Interesting. Love that movie with Harrison Ford and used to watch the series as a kid - probably in black and white!
The terrorists that tried to blow up a London nightclub and Glasgow airport in 2007 were doctors. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...found-guilty-of-terror-attack-on-airport.html
The Doctors at Glasgow Airport worked on the same ward as my wife, and the whole nursing team were called in by MI5 for questioning....
Yes - said one of them was really nice, often talked about his wife and children back in Iraq, and was really chatty. The other one was a bit more subdued. All the computers from the ward were seized, and each member of staff questioned at length about their interations with the pair of them. Quite disturbing when something that close to home happens. At least we had John Smeaton to save the day.....
He is a fascinating and terrifying figure, not a real qualified doctor though, as far I remember. Highly recommend The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson's excellent interweaving of Holmes' story and the Chicago World Fair.
It's worrying that someone in such a professional and trustworthy capacity has the compulsion to carry out such a heinous act. Despite displaying an air of ordinariness.
