A German male nurse serving a life term for killing six hospital patients with lethal drugs out of "boredom" will face trial for another 97 murders, prosecutors said Monday. The third trial of Niels ...

The murder spree of patients aged between 34 to 96 took place between 2000 and 2005 before he was finally caught in the act. Germany’s most prolific serial killer in the country’s post-war history has ...

One of Germany’s most prolific serial killers was handed his second life sentence Thursday after he was found guilty of killing 85 patients he treated while working as a nurse in Oldenburg. Niels ...

Peter Kürten, aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf or the “Düsseldorf Monster,” was a German serial killer who operated in the city of Düsseldorf. Along with taking the lives of people, he even used to ...

Convicted serial killer Niels Högel was charged with 97 further counts of murder in the northern German city of Oldenburg on Monday. The former nurse is already serving jail time for murdering other ...

A German serial killer nurse was jailed for life on Thursday for the murder of 85 patients in his care, according to a statement from a court in the northwest city of Oldenburg. A German serial killer ...

The 42-year-old murdered patients selected at random with lethal injections between 2000 and 2005, when he was caught in the act. A German nurse believed to be the most prolific serial killer in the ...

BERLIN -- A former nurse who liked to put patients into cardiac arrest because he enjoyed the feeling of being able to resuscitate them was convicted Thursday of 85 counts of murder, making him what ...

A German nurse serving a life sentence for murdering two patients is suspected of killing another 97 people by lethal injection. If convicted, Niels Högel would become Germany's most deadly serial ...

A German "serial killer" confessed after nearly 20 years on the run to murdering three boys, police said Friday as they attempted to link him to further slayings in France and the Netherlands. The ...

Germany's most prolific serial killer in the country's post-war history has appealed his life sentence for 85 murders, a district court said Tuesday. Former nurse Nils Hoegel, 42, was convicted last ...