A nurse who was jailed for the murder of two patients is suspected of killing at least 84 more people, authorities said on Monday, Aug. 28.
The 40-year-old male nurse identified only as Niels H. under German reporting rules was convicted of attempted murder using lethal drug overdoses back in 2006 and 2015 when he worked in a clinic in Germany, BBC reported.
Already serving a life sentence, relatives of the patients who died in the clinic Niels worked at urged police to keep investigating.
If health authorities acted more sharply to any suspicions at the clinic, many of the deaths could have been stopped said Johann Kuehme, police chief in the northwestern city of Oldenburg, ABC reported.
The additional crimes were found when authorities investigated hundreds of former patients found buried in Delmenhorst and nearby Oldenburg. But the number of actual killings could likely be higher because not all victims were buried, some could have been cremated, making it impossible to gather physical evidence, the chief added.
