#116 - Spooky-Season: Niels Högel & Why Killers kill

Welcome to our second episode of this month’s Spooky-Season. In this week’s episode, I will be telling you about Serial Killers & even more about one in particular. One, who has worked as a nurse, in an environment, where people should be helped & supported. But it is also an environment in which it is common for people to pass away & so unusual deaths don’t always get noticed immediately.

Niels Högel is a sad & horrifying exception of how a nurse should care for their patients. He is a killer from the region Lower Saxony in the North of Germany, who is responsible for ending hundreds of his patients’ lives between 2000 & 2005. Sadly, he could have been stopped & many people could have been saved. But why wasn’t he? And why did he do, what he did?

And why do Serial Killers kill? What goes on in the minds of people who again & again take people’s lives? It is trauma? Are they all psychopaths?

Answers to these & many more questions will be part of today’s episode. Answers, that will give us more clarity & hopefully give us an understanding to be able to spot the signs of someone who hurts others & to find the words & the courage to speak up when necessary - because that’s what didn’t happen in Högel’s case.

TW: This episode contains topic that can be disturbing, triggering, upsetting & includes visual descriptions of violence, blood, murder & death. Please look after yourself.

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