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1. This offender was known as a reclusive individual who seldom spoke to his
neighbors. His co-workers knew him as a man with a quick temper who sometimes
threw medical charts and slammed his fist on counters or walls when summoned by
patients. Patients were known to refuse meds because of their aversion to him.
a. Wayne Bleyle
b. John Riems
c. Harold Shipman
d. Donald Harvey
6. In their study of 90 cases of serial murder, Yorker, et al., found that 86 percent of
their cases involved nursing personnel and that women were involved in ____ percent
of the cases.
a. 82
b. Less than 30
c. 55
d. 49
10. What are healthcare providers who murder often diagnosed with?
a. bipolar disorder
b. major depressive disorder
c. body dysmorphic disorder
d. Munchausen syndrome
12. How did the Third Reich refer to children with defective genes?
a. useless citizens
b. white inferiority
c. white liars
d. useless eaters
13. This killer managed to avoid punishment and was even awarded prestigious honors
for his research. He became an expert on the pathology of mental illness and, after the
war, lectured and became an expert court witness in thousands of criminal cases.
a. Charles Cullen
b. Wayne Bleyle
c. Efren Saldivar
d. Heinrich Gross
14. The Yorker study found that most healthcare providers who committed murders
came from which states?
a. Illinois, Kentucky, and Florida
b. California, Hawaii, Florida, and Georgia
c. New York, Alabama, California, and Illinois
d. California, Texas, Michigan, and Florida
18. Charles Cullen confessed to the murders of how many patients over a period of 16
years?
a. 40
b. 13
c. 2
d. over 20
19. At the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children in Ontario, Canada, dozens of infants were
believed to have been killed with overdoses of what drug?
a. pavulon
b. succinylcholine chloride
c. morphine
d. digoxin
21. This offender was a respiratory therapist for nine years. He confessed to killing
dozens of terminally ill patients over 10 years. He claimed to be an “angel of death” who
had killed as many as 200 victims.
a. Charles Cullen
b. Efren Saldivar
c. Donald Harvey
d. George Clooney
22. Why are offenders who kill in hospitals and nursing homes not easy to identify?
a. They do not attract media attention.
b. They are loud killers who go about performing their tasks poorly.
c. They are unfriendly and cold.
d. They are outwardly dispassionate.
23. Why do hospitals and nursing homes fall prey to healthcare killers, even after they
have been terminated from a previous job?
a. They tend to be charming and good-looking.
b. Their references are seldom checked.
c. Hospital and nursing-home administrators are lazy.
d. The job isn't that important.
24. This "angel of death" started killing when he/she turned 18 and began working as a
nurse's aide at Mary Mount Hospital in Laurel County, Kentucky. He/she first killed an
aunt, then committed what he/she referred to as "accidental homicides," followed by 10
or more patient deaths.
a. Kristen Gilbert
b. Dolores Claiborne
c. Filipina Narciso
d. Donald Harvey
25. After Donald Harvey was arrested, what was found among his possessions?
a. a letter to one of the victims expressing his remorse
b. a list of victims yet to be killed
c. pictures of all his victims
d. a Bible with passages about murder underlined
26. Kristen Gilbert is believed to have injected her patients with large doses of this drug,
causing their hearts to beat rapidly and uncontrollably.
a. adrenaline
b. digoxin
c. morphine
d. potassium chloride
28. This drug was used by Genene Jones in the murder of 15-month-old Chelsea
McClellan.
a. potassium chloride
b. adrenaline
c. cyanide
d. succinylcholine
30. Which is not a red flag that may signal suspicious activity in hospitals, hospices, and
nursing homes?
a. The family was at the patient's bedside at the time of death.
b. Fellow employees often report allegations to investigators, not management.
c. There are no eyewitness to the crime.
d. The weapon of choice is usually a sudden death chemical readily available on the
ward and often considered non-detectable or not checked at autopsy.
TRUE/FALSE
1. Every year in the United States, about 80,000 persons die in hospitals unrelated to
the reasons for which they entered hospital care.
2. The most prolific, documented serial killer ever in all of Europe is Heinrich Gross.
3. According to the Yorker study, nurse's aides were more likely to suffocate, use
poisons, or administer oral medications.
4. Killers who work in the health care industry are seldom lust killers.
COMPLETION
1. In some cases, suspicions are aroused because patients suffer multiple _____ and
the resuscitation rate is unusually high.
2. One investigator described _____ as "...the dullest serial killer I have ever met."
3. Often _____ are not performed when a death occurs under the care of an attending
physician.
ESSAY
1. Why was Harold Shipman the most prolific documented serial killer in Europe? In
your opinion, what factors made this possible?
REF: 218
2. Discuss reasons that Yorker, et al., excluded authentic euthanasia from their study.
Test Bank for Serial Murderers and Their Victims, 7th Edition Eric W. Hickey
REF: 219
3. Analyze why, at one time, healthcare providers who killed their patients were
excluded from being classified as serial killers.
REF: 225