Michael Swango was a former physician sentenced to serve four life sentences in a federal prison for intentionally killing an estimated sixty patients under his care over a sixteen-year period. Swango is said to have commenced this notorious serial killing spree in 1983, the year he began his internship at the Ohio State University Hospital after graduating from the Illinois University Medical School. Just shortly after Swango became a resident, a nineteen-year-old gymnast, Cynthia McGee, was admitted to the Ohio State University Hospital for injuries that she received as the result of a bicycle accident. During that hospital stay Swango gave McGee an overdose of potassium which caused her to go into cardiac arrest and die. Although McGee's death was suspicious, it was not until approximately seventeen years later that Swango, the man who committed the crime, was held responsible in a court of law.

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