The mysterious deaths at Ann Arbor

by Robert K. Wilcox

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0445040300
• ISBN13: 9780445040304
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Popular Library
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Mysterious Deaths at Ann Arbor

Since my uncle was one of the men involved in this case and was instrumental in the conviction of these nurses, I found this book to be very factual and a lucid account of the horror our family found itself to be living. Mr. Wilcox is a skilled researcher and a compassionate historian. For obvious reasons, I choose to use a pen name as these nurses were deported and their whereabouts are unknown at this time.

Wow, what a story!

I ran into this book in a used book store and it blew me away. I never heard of these murders or the fact that they were probably the most murders in a hospital ever. Perhaps 100 people were poisoned but only a handful were chosen by the authorities to bring to trial. Robert Wilcox does a terrific job setting the scene and then taking the reader chillingly through murders that will make anyone reading the book think twice before checking into a hospital again no matter what the ailment. In the summer of 1975, someone began poisoning patients in the Ann Arbor Veterans Hospital, Ann Arbor Michgan. It was used as a teaching hospital by the University of Michigan and was staffed mostly by young student doctors who didn't know that something terrible was happening. But finally, after numerous respiratory arrests per night, they decided to confront their supervisors. The supervisors kept telling them it was something in the air conditioning and not to worry. Finally, the attackers struck in the ICU with the supervisors making rounds. The hospital was shut down and the FBI brought in. The method of attack was hideous enough. Patients were given shots through their IV. The poison was Pavulon, a muscle relaxer which would shut down all muscle movement, including breathing, but not consciousness. The victim was paralyzed and couldn't lift a finger or shout out for help. If not found in a minute or two, they'd suffocate. This book tells the fascinating investigation leading to the arrest of two nurses in the hospital. The first hypnotism of a witness in FBI annals is involved. The nurses, both Filipinos, are convicted but then the conviction is overturned. No one can be sure whether they did it or not which means the killer or killers could still be doing it elsewhere.