Evil Beyond Belief

The True Story of Harold Shipman, Britain's most prolific serial killer

Wensley Clarkson

• Publisher: John Blake
• Year: 2015
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781782192602
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

This is the shocking story of a doctor who was addicted to murder: a man who wickedly abused the trust of his patients with horrifying results.

He was a pillar of the community: attentive, kind, never too busy to chat. Yet behind this charming facade lay Britain's most prolific serial killer, with at least 200 victims. Small, bespectacled Dr Shipman was making house calls - and then committing murder with bloodcurdling expertise and professionalism. He saw himself as playing God.

This sensational book looks behind the man and reveals how, throughout his 25-year campaign of evil, Shipman continued to be a doting husband and father, trusted and adored by the majority of his patients. Evil Beyond Belief looks at how he was able to get away with murder for so long and - most important of all - why he was driven by a twisted, insatiable lust for death. It also looks at the events leading up to Shipman's suicide and examines the effect that this dramatic event had on the families of his numerous victims.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Author’s Note
• Preface
• Prologue
• Chapter One: Mummy’S Boy
• Chapter Two: Lessons In Loss
• Chapter Three: A Clandestine Marriage
• Chapter Four: The Pressure Builds
• Chapter Five: Pillar Of The Community
• Chapter Six: A Taste For Death
• Chapter Seven: A Tarnished Reputation
• Chapter Eight: Another New Start
• Chapter Nine: Private Grief, Public Saint
• Chapter Ten: Permanent Denial
• Chapter eleven: The Angel Of Death
• Chapter Twelve: Dangerous Liaisons
• Chapter Thirteen:A MODEL FAMILY
• Chapter Fourteen: Unhinged Minds
• Chapter Fifteen: Covering The Tracks
• Chapter Sixteen: The Net Closes In
• Chapter Seventeen: Caught In A Web Of Deceit
• Chapter Eighteen: The Victims Speak Again
• Chapter Nineteen: The Prison Doctor
• Chapter Twenty: Tried And Tested
• Chapter Twenty-one: Under Oath
• Chapter Twenty-two: Defending Himself
• Chapter Twenty-three: Justice Prevails
• Chapter Twenty-four: Life, After Death
• Chapter Twenty-five: Suicide Watch
• Chapter Twenty-six: The Death Toll Rises
• Chapter Twenty-seven: Establishing Fact From Fiction
• Chapter Twenty-eight: Struggling On – The Living Victims
• Chapter Twenty-nine: Too Little Too Late
• Chapter Thirty: Self Medication
• Postscript
• Epilogue
• Fred Shipman – a Career in Murder
• Notes of Gratitude