Thu, Nov 13, 2003
A classic case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, Genene Jones killed at least 47 patients with the muscle relaxant succinylcholine while working at Bexar Medical Center in Texas. She loved creating emergencies, the excitement of a "code blue" and especially the reactions of family members when told of the death of a loved one.
Mon, Dec 15, 2003
Nine hundred children are sent home from school and thousands inoculated during an outbreak in Massachusetts that depletes local supplies of antibiotics and lands four middle school students in the hospital. Ten-year-old Kayla St. Pierre spends ten days in critical care and loses all of her fingers and both legs to the disease.
Thu, Feb 5, 2004
Dr. Harold "Fred" Shipman was known as a dedicated, hardworking and community-minded doctor who spent his life gaining the trust of his patients and the respect of his colleagues. And for 25 years, nobody suspected that the town doctor was amassing a death toll that would make him one of history's most prolific serial killers.
Sun, Feb 29, 2004
Reverend Dwight Moore is at death's door when he is transferred from his local hospital to Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. With all the expertise and technology of modern medicine at their disposal, doctors are still unable to find of the cause of Moore's symptoms, which include stomach pain, numbness, and hallucinations.
Tue, May 11, 2004
In an exclusive Kansas City suburb, cardiologist Mike Farrar is suddenly stricken with a powerful and mysterious stomach illness. The violent and terrifying symptoms are relentless, leaving the man fighting for his life. Mike's doctors fight to save him, but they struggle to find the source of the disease that is making him waste away before their eyes.
Sun, May 23, 2004
Phil Rouss realizes a lifelong dream when he opens an antique auto restoration business with his long-time friend Steve White. They divide the work - Rouss will restore the cars and Steve will handle the books. The business is an immediate success, but within weeks Rouss is struck down with a mysterious illness.
Wed, Jul 14, 2004
Robert Curley is newly married and is renovating an old home for he and his wife, Joann. He is also an electrician doing repair work in a local chemistry lab. Within weeks of starting the new projects he becomes violently ill. His feet and hands tingle for no apparent reason. Doctors diagnosis his ailment and send him home with medication, but that doesn't work.
Tue, Aug 10, 2004
School teacher Donna Boley of St. Louis, Missouri, has suffered flu-like symptoms for months. Then one day she's rushed to the hospital with general organ failure. Within days, she's paralyzed from the neck down. Her faithful husband visits her daily and always brings her favorite milkshake. After a battery of tests, a heavy-metals test shows astronomical levels of arsenic in her urine. Then a hair test shows that she's been poisoned over a series of months, with the amount of poison increasing monthly. Precisely because Donna lives in a family of four and she is the only family member with symptoms, investigators suspect foul play. But who would want her dead? Using a letter board and the blinking of her eyes, Mrs. Boley tells investigators that she suspects her husband Jim.