Is there a profile of the typical healthcare serial killer that has any real meaning to investigators?
The profile consists of the most trustworthy and intelligent nurse on staff, like Gilbert was-someone who is, on paper, the least likely to be involved. There’s also the anti-social person, the outcast, the person who keeps to him- or herself. Most are generally well-liked, highly motivated and successful-at home, at work, on a social level. Most of these killers have thought out their crimes for a long period of time. Premeditation is ubiquitous in a majority of these cases. These types of serial killers are waiting for the perfect time to start killing. It is the vocation that supports the crime. A tremendous amount of trust is placed in the hands of a nurse-and rightly so. We put our lives in their hands. But things can happen. If a nurse puts the decimal point in the wrong place on a computerized IV machine, a patient could easily end up dead. It’s happened before. The nurse who is prone to criminal behavior might choose her vocation carefully in the same way a pedophile might choo
