He called Richard Thomesen, who was stationed in the DEA's Manhattan field office to discuss the case. is alive and well, currently serving a 42 . Thats where we arrested him.. Patients there soon began dying under odd circumstances. So Sackman and his partner headed up to Northport to see what was going on. License to Kill: Dr. Joseph Michael Swango's Disturbing 'House of Horrors', License to Kill: Pregnant Patient Accuses Dr. Joseph Michael Swango, License to Kill Bonus: Visiting Serial Killer Michael Swango. Then he also had the chance to work alone, to draw that curtain around himself and the victim, Sackman said. Michael Swango was found atop a car in the midst of a horrible accident, he was trying to take pictures of the victims who were still inside the car. Such was the case for the patients of infamous physician and serial killer Michael Swango. What's life like in Supermax prison? | CNN Dr. Death Part 1: A License to Kill: Directed by Brett Kelly. I almost didnt believe this call. Dr. Michael Swango is now serving three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole at ADX Florence federal prison in Colorado for the death of four of his patients, though many . Swango seemed to always be on duty whenever these incidents occurred. Michael Swango - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday. They feared that if they could not find enough evidence to convict Swango, he was likely to kill again. The End: Michael Swango meets his fate. [1], While all this was happening, Tom Valery, chief investigator for the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), consulted with Charlene Thomesen, a forensic psychiatrist. Jack Smith. How could this guy have passed background investigations and have a position to treat our nations heroes? With patients, he sometimes used poisons as well, but usually, he administered an overdose of whichever drug the patient had been prescribed, or wrote unnecessary prescriptions for dangerous drugs.[1]. [1]:28, Swango displayed troubling behavior during his time at SIU. Barely noticed at the time, many of Swango's assigned patients ended up "coding", or suffering life-threatening emergencies, with at least five of them dying. Despite suspicious stories, there is no hard evidence. Again using forgeries, Swango is hired as a psychiatry resident at State University of New York at Stony Brook. Swango rarely changed his murder methods. Ive heard and Ive read and weve discussed that it was somewhere in the vicinity of 60 people. Regardless of the allegations against Swango, several OSU doctors wrote him letters of recommendation for his application for a medical license. Without them we would never have known about it. Eventually he fled as far as Africa, but a return trip to the United States gave law enforcement the chance they needed to collar him, and thus his final downfall began. He is thankful for the help his colleagues provided as they studied the case. He also appealed to the authorities at Mpilo Hospital, Bulawayo, to allow him in the interim to continue working voluntarily there; however, this was opposed by Abdollah Mesbah, a surgical resident, who had often found him snooping around mysteriously in the wards and in the intensive care unit (ICU) even when not on call. [17] Palmera formed his strong political opinions while teaching economics at the Popular University of Cesar and helped create the socialist organization known as Los Indipendientes. By making a deal with prosecutors, he was spared the death penalty, and the government of Zimbabwe agreed not to seek his extradition and pursue charges against him. Michael Swango was sentenced to three life terms for his heinous crimes. Swango seemed to be obsessed with violence and kept scrapbooks of newspaper clippings of disasters, accidents, crime scenes and other incidents, according toThe Columbus Dispatchnewspaper.