Dr Shipman
After carefully researching Dr. Shipman’s character, in my opinion, I believe Dr. Shipman’s motive to killing his patients was growing up watching his mother’s doctor make house calls and treating her illness with morphine. Dr. Shipman’s mom died a slow and painful death of cancer. (Morris, 2001) On the night of her death, Dr. Shipman ran miles through the streets of Nottingham in the pouring rain, tears streaming down his face. (Morris, 2001) Dr. Shipman pursues becoming a doctor; nevertheless, he was fascinated with the effects of the morphine when he would see how high his mother, would be. Who knows what was going through Dr. Shipman’s mind as a teenager watching his mother die by the hands of a doctor? Dr. Shipman probably through that
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I believe what trigger Dr. Shipman’s criminal activity was his patients tended to live longer than his mother, so he began to up the dosage of morphine on his patients. Therefore, to keep a toxicological analysis from performing an autopsy on his patients, Dr. Shipman would request that his patients be cremated. “A forensic autopsy usually emphasizes external and internal findings while developing meaningful forensic correlations between sustained injuries and crime scene” (Saferstein, 2015, p. 101). Nevertheless, a forensic pathologist determines the cause of an undetermined or unexpected death. (Saferstein, 2015) The cause of death determination; however, involves not just an autopsy; nonetheless, the history of death, witness statements, relevant medical records, and any scene investigation, all which constitute the surrounding circumstances of death. (Saferstein, 2015) Dr. Shipman made it clear that autopsies were not necessary so; therefore, this concluded the determination of some of his patient’s death. Dr. Shipman forges medical records; therefore, the history of his patient’s death was undetected. If there is no scene, there is no investigation, and this is how Dr. Shipman constituted the surrounding circumstances of cremation to the majority of his patients. The protection of the body and the overall crime scene is critical. However, there was no crime scene due to cremation of Dr. Shipman’s
I believe what trigger Dr. Shipman’s criminal activity was his patients tended to live longer than his mother, so he began to up the dosage of morphine on his patients. Therefore, to keep a toxicological analysis from performing an autopsy on his patients, Dr. Shipman would request that his patients be cremated. “A forensic autopsy usually emphasizes external and internal findings while developing meaningful forensic correlations between sustained injuries and crime scene” (Saferstein, 2015, p. 101). Nevertheless, a forensic pathologist determines the cause of an undetermined or unexpected death. (Saferstein, 2015) The cause of death determination; however, involves not just an autopsy; nonetheless, the history of death, witness statements, relevant medical records, and any scene investigation, all which constitute the surrounding circumstances of death. (Saferstein, 2015) Dr. Shipman made it clear that autopsies were not necessary so; therefore, this concluded the determination of some of his patient’s death. Dr. Shipman forges medical records; therefore, the history of his patient’s death was undetected. If there is no scene, there is no investigation, and this is how Dr. Shipman constituted the surrounding circumstances of cremation to the majority of his patients. The protection of the body and the overall crime scene is critical. However, there was no crime scene due to cremation of Dr. Shipman’s