A nurse suspected of murdering 13 patients in a Tuscan hospital in 2014 and 2015 has been arrested, Italian police say.
Dubbed “the hospital ward killer”, the woman is thought to have committed over a dozen murders while employed as a nurse in the intensive care and anesthesia wards of a hospital in the seaside town of Piombino, Tuscany.
Italy’s para-military police, the Carabinieri, are believed to have made the arrest on Wednesday.
A police statement on Thursday said that the nurse’s alleged victims had “various pathologies” but no other details were given, reports Reuters.
This case follows the 2014 arrest of Italian nurse Daniela Poggiali, 41, who was suspected of killing 38 patients.
Italian officials claimed Poggiali’s crimes were driven by the ‘challenge’ and ‘pleasure’ she derived from murdering people in her care whom she deemed annoying or pushy.
