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    Former German Nurse Guilty Of Killing 85 Patients In Serial Murder Case

    Niels Högel admitted to injecting patients with heart drugs so he could try to resuscitate them. He was initially accused in a handful of deaths but was found to have been involved in dozens more.
    by Bill Chappell Jun 06, 2019 2 minutes
    Former nurse Niels Högel was found guilty of killing patients in his care by injecting them with drugs and then trying to resuscitate them. He's seen here in court, awaiting his verdict in Oldenburg, Germany.

    Updated at 1:32 p.m. ET

    Former nurse Niels Högel — who has admitting to giving potentially lethal drugs to patients so he could try to resuscitate them — has been sentenced by a German court to life in prison for murdering 85 people.

    "Your guilt is unimaginable," Oldenburg district court Judge Sebastian Bührmann said as he sentenced Högel, according. "The human mind struggles to take in the sheer scale of these crimes."

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