John Bodkin Adams

John Bodkin Adams (21 January 1899 – 4 July 1983) was an Irish-born British physician widely believed to have been a serial killer. He was tried in 1957 for the murder of one of his patients but controversially acquitted, while another charge of murder was withdrawn via a nolle prosequi - an act which the presiding judge described as an 'abuse of process' by the prosecutor Reginald Manningham-Buller. According to Scotland Yard files released in 2003, Adams was suspected in the murders of up to 1

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"Easing the passing of a dying person isn't all that wicked. She wanted to die. That can't be murder. It is impossible to accuse a doctor."

"That was very wrong... I have had God's forgiveness for it."

"I don't want money. What use is it?"

"I don't know what you mean. I don't keep a record."

"Murder... murder... Can you prove it was murder? [...] I didn't think you could prove it was murder. She was dying in any event."

"I will see you in heaven."

"She might be violent."

"Mrs Thomas has promised me her typewriter, I'll take it now."

"The person who told you that doesn't know why I did it."

"An anonymous poem "Adams and Eves" circulated at the time of Adams' arrest finished:"

"A mercenary mercy killer who was prepared to sell death."

"You do realise, doctor, that you have killed her?"