Nurse Admits Killing Patients, Police Say
A 23-year-old nurse dubbed the “Black Angel” by her colleagues because of the high death rates in her ward when she had the night shift has confessed to killing dozens of patients by injecting them with tranquilizers, police said.
“Her last such deed was on Feb. 6,” Lt. Col. Attila Petofi said. “She admitted she had done this to between 30 and 40 people, and so far she has identified 19 by name.”
The single woman, identified only as Timea F., joined the hospital staff in 1994. She told police that she began the killings a year ago. Police did not give a motive.
After the Feb. 6 death, Gabor Takacs, director of the Gyula Nyiro hospital in Budapest, the capital, went to police.
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