Shipman's evil deeds were exposed in 1998. Ms Grandi, the widow of the former mayor of Hyde, has always been a patient of shipman. In July of that year, Grandi suddenly changed his will and changed the beneficiary to shipman. Two weeks later, Grandi died mysteriously. Her daughter Angela was suspicious of this and reported it to the police.

The old lady of Groudi, a widow of 8 1 year old, was in good health before her death. In the words of her daughter Angela Woodford, "My mother is full of energy." For a long time, Mrs. Groudi has been an old patient of Dr. shipman and has great trust in the latter. When Dr. shipman's private clinic just opened, the old lady came to "pay tribute". But without any warning, the old lady suddenly died in her apartment in Manchester Hyde. On that day, she had planned to go to a nearby rehabilitation club for the elderly to provide voluntary service for the meals of other elderly people, which shocked her family.

On the same day that the old lady died, a lawyer near her home received a newly signed will. According to this new will, all the property of the old lady, estimated at 800,000 pounds, was given to Dr. shipman. Angela Woodford, the daughter of the old lady Groudi, questioned the authenticity of this will.

The old lady's daughter, Ms. Woodford, is a lawyer herself. She learned the news of her mother's death from a phone call from the police station that day, so she immediately dialed the telephone of Dr. shipman's clinic. It was Prinrose, the wife of Dr. shipman, who answered the phone. Dr shipman is in surgery, and then she goes to tell him. After a while, Dr. shipman called back and told her that an autopsy was unnecessary because he had seen the old lady shortly before her death.

Ms Woodford didn't feel anything at that time, but a few days later, when she contacted Hyde Law Firm, which kept her mother's will, her heart was full of doubts. She is a professional lawyer, and examining wills is her old job. She clearly remembers that the original will of her mother was sent to the law firm on 1986. Something must have gone wrong, she thought. "The signature of the will is very strange ..."

Woodford stated in court, "My mother is an extremely serious and meticulous person. She was a professional secretary before her death. The poor printing on that will is really unbelievable. The signature on it is also very strange. My mother's signature was never this big. In addition, it is incredible that an old lady will donate all her inheritance to her doctor. "

What makes people suspicious is that the will says nothing about another property owned by the old lady. Woodford contacted the police after consulting two witnesses when his mother signed the will.

In Dr. shipman's clinic, the police found a "brother" typewriter, and the printed effect was exactly the same as the handwriting on the mysterious will! This excited the police. The police then dug up Groudi's body. When the police examined her body, they found that there was still enough morphine left in her body.

However, when the detective asked shipman about the murder of the 8 1 year-old lady, Mrs. Grudi, Dr. harold shipman made a futile confession in court and denied all the charges against him. He told Woodford that her mother, Mrs. Grudi, had been suffering from chest pain for a long time and was dying. He even called the old lady an addict.

What the police never expected was that as soon as the details of shipman's crime were published in the newspaper, the police officers in charge of investigating the case received a large number of phone reports every day, saying that many elderly people, especially elderly women, died of the same symptoms, and the doctors of these deceased were also shipman. As a result, a murder case quickly evolved into a series of murders, and the police found that the deaths of hundreds of patients during Dr. shipman's medical practice were suspicious. Some coffins of the dead were opened and traces of heroin were found on them.

1999101On 5 October, Manchester police prosecuted 15 homicide cases with the most conclusive criminal evidence. The case was tried for three months, and finally on June 365438+1October 3 1 day, 2000, the jury found 15 guilty of murder and sentenced shipman to life imprisonment. The judge suggested that he should never be released. Two years later, British Home Secretary David Blunkett accepted the judge's advice.

The families of the victims who have not been tried by the court think that they have not been treated fairly, and they demand that the government continue to investigate the case to ensure that the truth is revealed to the world. On July 19, 2002, the investigation team officially released the first-stage investigation report, which pointed out that in addition to the 15 murders already decided by the court, at least 200 patients were killed by shipman. As a result, shipman became the biggest murderer in Britain and even in the world, and was called "Doctor of Death". According to the report, among the 2 15 victims, there were 1 woman and 44 men, of whom the oldest was a 93-year-old woman and the youngest was a 4 1 year-old middle-aged man. The report also said that shipman killed the patient for the first time in March 1975. Shipman usually injects heroin into a patient, and then changes the patient's computer records, so that others will not doubt the patient's death. The investigation found that shipman could easily obtain a large amount of heroin by using his doctor's identity. According to statistics, in recent 20 years, shipman has murdered at least one person every month on average, and his patient mortality rate is as high as 20%, while the average patient mortality rate of British doctors is only 0.8%. Many patients killed by shipman were neighbors or acquaintances, and six people actually lived in the same street.