Investigation puts killer doctor's toll at 215 patients

Saturday, July 20, 2002

LONDON -- Dr. Harold Shipman, the once-beloved family doctor who is serving 15 life sentences for killing patients, murdered at least 200 more, a judge announced Friday, after a yearlong investigation to try to determine how many of the people who died in his care were killed.

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