Nurse Murdered 38 patients for pleasure

Italian nurse Daniela Poggiali, 41, has been arrested on suspicion of killing 38 patients and investigators claim she treated the murders as challenges and for pleasure.

According to  NYTimes:

Daniela Poggiali, 41, was held after doctors at the hospital where she worked in Lugo, noticed that 38 patients had died during her night shifts over a three-month period. The average number of deaths for other nurses during the same period was ten. Ms Poggiali allegedly targeted patients she considered annoying, or who were visited by 'pushy relatives.' 

Police started the investigation following the death of Rosa Calderoni, 78, in April, who was recovering from a broken femur and was admitted to the hospital feeling dizzy.

Investigators say that during a post-mortem examination doctors found high traces of potassium chloride, which vanishes after 48 hours, making it hard to detect. It was also found in a drip investigators believe the nurse was using.

She put pressure on one nurse to take photos of her standing over a patient who had just died. 'She appears euphoric in the photo, next to someone she may have just killed,' said Mr Mancini.

Posting the photo online, Poggiali captioned it: 'Mm... Life and Death.'

'The photos reveal an unbearable cruelty that I have not seen in 30 years on the job,' said Mr Mancini.

 * Someone please tell me what kind of pleasure does one derive from killing another human?!? SMH Very soon they will say she was mentally unstable or suffered some kind of abuse in her childhood which led to this.