Michael Swango

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I am rewatching this segment, and despite the "extra spicy chicken" line, I'm beyond outraged at the hospital not immediately calling the police and firing Michael Swango when patients started dying. He was a substandard physician, and it should not have taken the death of even one patient, Rena Cooper, before the hospital looked into him. And then...they did nothing when the bodies piled up.

I've witnessed what happens with medical errors and how easily they happen. And these were no mere medical errors, these were deliberate. That hospital should be ashamed of itself.

[Perhaps It's You]

"CHICKEEEN!!" I always thought it was funny the way the actor delivered that line��

[DALLASTEXAN!!]

still remember the first time I watched this segment. I was in complete disbelief. swango is scarier than satan.

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Originally Posted by DALLASTEXAN!!

still remember the first time I watched this segment. I was in complete disbelief. swango is scarier than satan.

And allowed to keep operating until he was finally caught...

[mikewho]

Ive been to one of the hospitals he worked at many times. It's eerie and I think about the stuff he did each time I've been there.

Sad thay someone can be that mean to others

[XCalibur]

Originally Posted by DALLASTEXAN!!

still remember the first time I watched this segment. I was in complete disbelief. swango is scarier than satan.

Yeah, can't remember the number of deaths linked to him, but I'd say he qualifies as a pretty nasty serial killer.

Crazy thing is though, the Unsolved Mysteries segment seems to suggest that the mysterious deaths and attacks started after he got the news he was going to flunk out of med school. Disappointing as I'm sure that was, its hard to believe it could start a murder spree. Serial killers have been known to start off with being wronged somehow. Ted Bundy got dumped by a woman, even when he got her back then he dumped her as revenge it still wasn't enough. Thein it coincided with the start of his murder spree. Though it seems like most people who research his case say he started killing earlier and he himself hinted that he did, so far as I know no murders prior to 1974 have been conclusively linked to him.

In Michael Swango's case, the segment did not really get into his childhood or background prior to entering med school but I definitely would have been curious to know if he was doing anything like this before hand. Crazy to think that one simple wrong can lead to someone trying to murder half the planet but it does happen.