Arnfinn Nesset
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Arnfinn Nesset (born in 1944 in Norway) was convicted in 1983 of poisoning 22 patients with Curacit, a muscle relaxing drug, at a Geriatric institution in Orkdal, Norway where he worked as a nurse. During the investigations he claimed to have killed several more over many years both at this and other institutions where he had previously worked.
Curacit becomes increasingly difficult to trace in a corpse as time passes. Consequently, the earliest murders Nesset confessed to having committed were impossible to investigate.
Nesset was sentenced to 21 years in prison; the maximum punishment possible by Norwegian law. He was released in 2004 on grounds of good behaviour after serving 12 years of the sentence.
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- Herbert G Kinnell (2000-12-23). "Serial homicide by doctors: Shipman in perspective" (PDF). British Medical Journal 321 (7276): 1594–1597.
