Richard Angelo Research Paper

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Richard Angelo Early life of Richard Angelo Serial killer Richard Angelo was born on August 29, 1962, in the West Islip, New York location. He was the only child of Joseph and Alice Angelo. Richard’s parents would be educational teachers, Joseph Angelo would be a high school guidance counselor, and Alice Angelo would teach home economics. As for his childhood, it was great and neighbors described him as a kind child with kind guardians. Richard would graduate from St. John the Baptist Catholic High School in 1980, later he would be at the State University of Stony Brook for two years. After that, he went on to go to the State University at Farmingdale where he was accepted to a two-year nursing program. He was known to be a quiet …show more content…

He graduated successfully in 1985. Richard had no relationships at all with anyone, never married anyone, he had no children, and he was by far a loner. At his trial, his attorneys tried to claim and prove that he had dissociative identity disorder. From what I know it wasn’t treated. Criminal Activity Before his criminal activity, his first job was at County Medical Center in East Meadow. He stayed there for a year then he changed his position to Brunswick Hospital in Amityville, Long Island, then three months he switched to and worked at Good Samaritan Hospital. Richard Angelo made himself well settled and was a very qualified nurse. He was calm and well-suited to working in the graveyard shift under high stress situations in an intensive care unit. He gained trust from people who worked at the hospital and doctors, but for him, it wasn’t. He couldn’t achieve the praise he wanted in life, so …show more content…

One of the nurses responded and took a urine sample from him and analyzed it, which came out positive for Pavulon and Anectine, which those two drugs were never prescribed to Kucich. On that same day, Richard’s home and locker were searched by the police, bottles of both drugs were found and he was then arrested. Bodies of suspected victims dug out their graves and tested them to see if they had the drugs in them. It was shown to be positive for ten of the dead patients. Confession Richard Angelo would later on go to confess to the authorities, and he said to them in a taped interview this, "I wanted to create a situation where I would cause the patient to have some respiratory distress or some problem, and through my intervention or suggested intervention or whatever, come out looking like I knew what I was doing. I had no confidence in myself. I felt very inadequate." He was convicted of multiple offenses of second-degree murder. The Defense at

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