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Arnfinn Nesset (born 25 October 1936) is a Norwegian former nurse, nursing home manager, and a convicted
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. His crimes include the murders of at least 22 people, as well as attempted murder, document forgery, and
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. He may have murdered up to 138 people. In 1983, he was convicted of poisoning 22 patients and sentenced to 21 years in prison. He served 12 years and 10 years of supervision and is thought to be living under an assumed name.


Early life

Nesset was born in
Trøndelag Trøndelag (; or is a county and coextensive with the Trøndelag region (also known as ''Midt-Norge'' or ''Midt-Noreg,'' "Mid-Norway") in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County (); in 1804 the county was ...
in 1936 out of wedlock and raised by his mother, living with her throughout his upbringing and adulthood at her childhood home. His father was absent from his life and never established contact with him. He was educated as a
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before being hired in 1977 as a head nurse at a larger
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in
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,
Sør-Trøndelag Sør-Trøndelag (; ) was a Counties of Norway, county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Nord-Trøndelag () county as well as the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, and Hedmark. ...
.


Crimes

During the summer and autumn of 1981, a series of suspicious deaths were uncovered at the Orkdal nursing home that Nesset managed. When questioned by police, Nesset initially confessed to the murders of 27 patients, whom he claimed to have killed by injecting them with
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, a drug to paralyze muscles. He was charged with 25 counts of homicide but later retracted his confession and denied all charges for the rest of his five-month trial.


Trial

Nesset was convicted in March 1983 of poisoning 22 patients with
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He was also convicted of one count of attempted murder and acquitted on two other counts. Nesset may have killed as many as 138 of his patients. He was sentenced to 21 years in prison, the maximum term then available under Norwegian law, to be followed by ten years of preventative detention. However, he was released after 12 years for good behaviour and 10 years of supervision. He is now reported to be living in an undisclosed location under an assumed name. The chief prosecutor at his trial, Olaf Jakhelln described Nesset as "an ambitious man, who wanted complete control over life and death f his victims"


See also

* Anders Hansson, a nursing aid who committed similar murders at a nursing home in
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References

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