
Murder Rounds: True Crime from Inside Medicine
The Second Signature: Harold Shipman
<p >In Britain, burial takes one doctor's signature. Cremation takes two β because cremation destroys the evidence, so the law asks a second, independent doctor to look first.</p> <p >In March 1998, a GP in Hyde noticed her practice was being asked to countersign an unusual number of those forms for one particular doctor down the road. Elderly women, living alone, found dead at home. Cause of death: old age.</p> <p >Linda Reynolds had no bodies and no toxicology. She went to the coroner anyway. The police closed the investigation on 17 April 1998. A High Court judge later found, in a re...






