SERIAL KILLER: DR. HAROLD SHIPMAN PRESCRIPTION TO DIE Harold became a doctor to lord power and control over people. Caught and convicted he was the most prolific serial killer in the history of the United Kingdom. After four years in prison he exerted his power one last time.

PODCAST EXCERPT Harold Shipman was born in 1946 in Nottingham, England. He was extremely close to his mother Vera and was devastated when she got lung cancer. He watched the family doctor visit their home and administer his mother morphine to ease her pain. Harold was only seventeen when she passed away. Harold was a medical student attending Leeds University. In his first year, while at a bus stop he spotted a dark haired beauty. Sixteen year-old Primrose. Harold was smitten. Harold began working at a medical centre. By 1977 he was a practicing general practitioner in the city of Hyde. Through it all Primrose stood by his side. But what she didn't know is that her husband who had become arrogant had also developed a sense of superiority over his patients. He had the power to decide when they would die.