Niels Hoegel

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 today.

A German nurse believed to be the most prolific serial killer in the country's post-war history was handed a life sentence Thursday for killing 85 patients in his care.

Former German hospital nurse Niels Hoegel has claimed to have killed around 100 of his patients with drug overdoses, which would make him one of the world's most prolific serial killers in recent history.

For Niels Hoegel, it was all a game, it seemed - a life-or-death game.

A German former hospital nurse who has admitted to killing more than 100 patients in his care apologised Thursday to victims' grieving relatives.

A German former nurse accused of killing 100 patients in his care admitted Tuesday to the murders on the opening day of his trial.

Niels Hoegel's deadly drugs of choice were ajmaline, lidocaine and calcium chloride - medications that he would administer to send his patients into arrhythmia, or force their blood pressure to crash to dangerously low levels.

A male nurse jailed for life two years ago for killing two hospital patients with lethal drug overdoses murdered at least 90 patients in total, and possibly twice as many, police said today, calling it post-war Germany's worst killing spree.

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 today.

A German nurse believed to be the most prolific serial killer in the country's post-war history was handed a life sentence Thursday for killing 85 patients in his care.

Former German hospital nurse Niels Hoegel has claimed to have killed around 100 of his patients with drug overdoses, which would make him one of the world's most prolific serial killers in recent history.

For Niels Hoegel, it was all a game, it seemed - a life-or-death game.

A German former hospital nurse who has admitted to killing more than 100 patients in his care apologised Thursday to victims' grieving relatives.

A German former nurse accused of killing 100 patients in his care admitted Tuesday to the murders on the opening day of his trial.

Niels Hoegel's deadly drugs of choice were ajmaline, lidocaine and calcium chloride - medications that he would administer to send his patients into arrhythmia, or force their blood pressure to crash to dangerously low levels.

A male nurse jailed for life two years ago for killing two hospital patients with lethal drug overdoses murdered at least 90 patients in total, and possibly twice as many, police said today, calling it post-war Germany's worst killing spree.