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Italian Nurse Kills 38 ‘Annoying’ Patients

Christian Datoc Senior White House Correspondent
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A nurse was arrested this weekend for allegedly killing several patients in an Italian hospital, The Independent reports.

Daniela Poggiali, 42, was brought into custody after the autopsy report on one of her former patients revealed a lethal amount of potassium in her system which led to cardiac arrest. A brief investigation has also linked Poggiali to 37 other patient deaths at Umberto I Hospital in Lugo.

According to Alessandron Mancini, the lead prosecutor, Poggiali appeared “unperturbed” upon her arrest.

The investigators have stated that all of the potential victims were “annoying patients with pushy relatives,” and it would appear that Poggiali ended the lives of these patients not out of empathy, but out of pure spite.

Colleagues mention that Poggiali had offered to deal with unruly patients on multiple occasions, even stooping so low as giving patients extra doses of laxatives at the end of her shift.

Additionally, officials found several selfies depicting Poggiali giving a “thumbs up” over dead bodies in hospital beds. “In all my professional years of seeing shocking photos, there have been few like these,” stated Mancini.

Unfortunately, it will be difficult to determine how many patients Poggiali killed; potassium chlorate — the nurse’s preferred murder cocktail — is nearly impossible to distinguish from normal potassium levels after it enters the bloodstream.