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Apr 2021
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“Angel of Death” Beverley Allitt Pt. 1

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In a London hospital in the 1990s, nurses tended to the patients of Ward Four unaware that there was a murderer in their midst. But a suspicious rise in fatalities revealed a harrowing truth: someone among them was killing children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 
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