15 - Harold Shipman: Medical Murders (Part Two) - a podcast by Mens Rea: A true crime podcast

In the second and final episode of the story of Harold Shipman, we find out how the police went about investigating his murders. A suspicious will led to questions regarding prominent citizen, Kathleen Grundy's death and the exhumation of her body. A local doctor had become suspicious of the sheer amount of cremations being performed at Shipman's Surgery, and so, these taken together, an investigation into recent deaths of Shipman's patients was launched. Soon, 12 women's bodies had been exhumed.



This week, we find out a little about these women, the investigation of the police, Shipman's lengthy trial, and the public inquiry that followed.







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Podcast Promos: All Crime No Cattle  and Blood on the Rocks







Theme Music:

Quinn’s Song: The Dance Begins by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/







Sources:

Brian Whittle and Jean Ritchie, Harold Shipman: A prescription for murder (London: Sphere Books, 2004) Purchase here



"Shipman compensation could run into millions" in Irish Examiner https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/shipman-compensation-could-run-into-millions-6136.html 9 March 2001 



Caroline Mortimer “Harold Shipman timed suicide to ensure his wife got £100k pension pay out” http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/harold-shipman-timed-suicide-to-ensure-his-wife-got-100k-pension-pay-out-a6943316.html 20 March 2016 



The Shipman Inquiry website, http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090808155005/http://www.the-shipman-inquiry.org.uk/home.asp