Photo: DPAA German male nurse jailed for life two years ago for killing two patients with lethal drug overdoses murdered at least 90 patients in total, police said on Monday, calling it post-war Germany's worst killing spree. Niels Hoegel, 40, was jailed in February 2015 for two murders and several attempted murders of intensive-care patients at the Delmenhorst hospital near the northern city of Bremen. Police said on Monday that investigators exhuming and analyzing more bodies had since found evidence of scores of additional murders. The grisly case dates back to 2005, when a colleague witnessed the nurse injecting a patient at the Delmenhorst hospital. The authorities exhumed several patients' bodies and detected traces of the drug in five of them, declaring it either the definitive or possible contributing cause.

Source: The Local August 28, 2017 08:56 UTC