Suspected Serial Killers
- John Bodkin Adams murder case, physician suspected of being a serial killer, England. One alleged victim, Gertrude Hullett, was found to have committed suicide at the inquest in 1956, but Dr. Adams was indicted for her murder the following year. The case was then dropped by the prosecution via a nolle prosequi, an action described by the judge as an "abuse of process."
Read more about this topic: List Of Unsolved Deaths
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“Much suspected of me,
Nothing proved can be,
Quoth Elizabeth, prisoner.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
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