Michael Swango Case Study

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RUNNING HEAD: MICHAEL SWANGO: CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION Michael Swango Crime Investigation Hamoud Almutairi CJ 2201 Nov 1st Abstract This research is about Michael Swango who was a serial killer and a doctor by profession and killed his patients and co-workers by giving them poison and arsenic. He was convicted for this crime several times and served some time in prison as well. Many nurses and co-workers launched complaints against him that he was poisoning them and the patients and was imprisoned for five years when he was found possessing arsenic. Later he forged documents to get jobs and also killed a lot of people during this time, after this he was first charged with defrauding the government and imprisoned for three and a He was the valedictorian of his school and college and was involved in a lot of extracurricular activities. After graduation, he matriculated to a medical school at Southern Illinois University of Medicine, and that is from where the trouble started. It was viewed that instead of concentrating on his studies, Swango preferred to work as an ambulance attendant. It was noted that he was fascinated with dying people. all of his patients ended up with life-threatening emergencies and many of them died, but no one gave much attention to So many crimes take place that not everyone can be punished. But if all the innocent people are secured so it would be difficult to do criminal acts (Adams, 2004). Every day thousands of crimes take place and the law protects the innocents and punishes the guilty person. If the people are protected really well so no law can be broken. However, some laws are broken in such a way that it takes a lot of time for authorities to find out regarding them and then investigating them is a big problem. Four techniques are used to investigate a

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