Nurse strangles man hired to kill her
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When Susan Kuhnhausen returned home from work one day earlier this month, she encountered an intruder wielding a claw hammer. After a struggle, the 51-year-old nurse fended off her attacker by strangling him with her bare hands.
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A killer who sat on his unconscious victim and headbutted him as he lay dying is branded "pure evil".
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A nurse returning from work discovered an intruder armed with a hammer in her home and strangled him with her bare hands, police said.
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A nurse is jailed for 11 years for setting out to murder his ex-girlfriend after she broke up with him.
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A doctor charged with killing a patient in the UK was about to take part in surgery when she was arrested in the US.
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A former nurse admitted Thursday to his 17th on-the-job murder, telling a judge he killed a retired steel worker with an overdose of heart medication.
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A former nurse was sentenced Thursday to life in prison on charges that she killed 10 hospital patients with drug injections because she found them too demanding.
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A former hospital nurse pleaded no contest Tuesday to killing 10 patients nearly six years ago by injecting them with a drug used to temporarily halt breathing.
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Police hunted Wednesday for a man who entered a psychologist's office with a bag of knives and a meat cleaver, hacking her to death so savagely that blood spattered the walls and floor and the entire room was torn apart.
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Police arrest a man over the grisly murders of two nurses in a psychiatric hospital in south-west France.
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Nurses are not given enough help and support from their bosses in dealing with violent patients, researchers say.
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CAMP PENDLETON, California  - A U.S. Navy medic admitted on Friday taking part in the kidnap of an Iraqi civilian killed by his squad and said the execution-style murder was prompted by his patrol leader's anger at the release of a suspected "terrorist" from Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
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TOKYO - A male patient suffering from liver cancer stabbed two other male patients to death and seriously injured an assistant nurse at a Tokyo hospital Monday morning.
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Authorities said a prison inmate out for a medical appointment wrested a gun from a corrections officer and killed him Monday, then led police on a high-speed chase in a stolen sport utility vehicle before his capture at a fast-food restaurant.
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Two inmates working in prison field overpowered a guard Monday and ran her over in a stolen pickup truck, killing the woman as they fled, prison officials said.
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The nurse who admitted killing up to 40 patients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania pleaded guilty Wednesday to six murders and three attempted murders.
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A man armed with a suitcase full of knives fatally stabbed and slashed a well-known psychologist in her office.