When John Harvey Swango was born on 19 November 1881, in Novelty, Knox, Missouri, United States, his father, Elijah Swango, was 44 and his mother, Mary Ellen Walters, was 35. The murders Stewart believes Swango committed. He received a National Defense Service Medal and a "Meritorious Mast," a minor commendation.When he returned to Quincy after his discharge, Swango was lean and fit and carried himself with military bearing. He found doctors, nurses, health-care administrators and patients from stage after stage of Swango's career who believed the medical profession had allowed a bad apple into the barrel. Around this time, Swango met Kristin Lynn Kinney, a nurse at Riverside Hospital. Each time, Swango had been the floor intern. Swango was silent. He was the band's first-chair clarinet, as well as its president, and he sang in the glee club. He was charged in absentia with poisonings. Some earned prestigious honors, like Colonel John V. Swango, professor of military science, who was awarded the . Rosenthal and other students found this distasteful, almost as though Swango were celebrating the demise and wanted to call attention to it. Swango rarely changed his murder methods. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. Steve Twedt Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Stewart has produced an extraordinary book. There was a problem getting your location. At the same time, Zimbabwean authorities charged him with poisoning seven patients, five of whom died. But Swango didn't drink alcohol and, despite his close relationship to Wacaser, never attended the parties. Trending. He looked around at the class, then focused on Swango. 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. Federal inmates must serve at least 85 percent of their sentences before being eligible for time off with good behavior, meaning that they likely had only three years to prove Swango was indeed a murderer. Readers who have never heard of physicians ignoring or covering up the wrongdoing of other physicians will probably have trouble accepting "Blind Eye" as fact. Did Stewart know about the case of Swango, another Quincy native, Cashman wondered. Before the FBI could arrest him, he escaped to Zimbabwe and found a job at Mnene Lutheran Mission Hospital, but was once again fired following mysterious deaths of his patients. Meanwhile, the outcry caused by the mother of his dead girlfriend prompted Jordan Cohen, the dean at Stony Brook, to fire him and blacklist him to all US medical institutions. [14] The government used this time to amass a dossier of Swango's crimes. Thomesen's conversation focused on Swango lying on his government application to work at the VA, where he prescribed narcotic medications. There were a few signs that in retrospect seemed strange: Swango's penchant for dressing in military garb, painting his car camouflage olive green, talking about guns a lot, collecting newspaper photographs of automobile accidents, spending more and more time alone, dropping out after two years to join the Marines. We will update Michael Swango's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. It isn't hard to fathom why the death of Georgi Markov might have drawn Swango's attention. He fell in love with a nurse at Riverside Hospital, Kristin Kinney, who strangely began suffering from violent fits of migraines and committed suicide four months later with traces of arsenic in her body. In 1991, Swango legally changed his name to "Daniel J. Adams" and tried to apply for a residency program at Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling, West Virginia. But no one did so.Within their third-year rotations, students can choose areas of specialization. [2], Despite a very poor evaluation in his dean's letter from SIU, Swango gained a surgical internship at Ohio State University Medical Center in 1983, to be followed by a residency in neurosurgery. , Item Weight There is 1 volunteer for this cemetery. In 1989, Swango, now released from prison, found work as a counselor at the state career development center in Newport News, Virginia. By that time, Swango had fled the country. His story was featured in an episode of Justice Files on the Discovery Channel, and he was subsequently fired from Stanford, but he managed to get out of AMAs radar. In the meantime, Swango had sensed that the net was closing in on him. I needed to know when and how he would be caught, and what ultimately happened to him. While he worked in Rhodes Hall at OSU, nurses noticed that apparently healthy patients began dying mysteriously with alarming frequency. In his new book, "Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away With Murder," Stewart traces Swango's career step by step, from Southern Illinois University Medical School to Ohio State University Hospitals to medical-care positions in Quincy; Newport News, Va.; Sioux Falls, S.D. Try again later. He is afraid of his friendshe is afraid of, Acclaimed for her "devastatingly accurate insight" (The New York Times Book Review) into the criminal mind, Ann Rule has chronicled the most fascinating cases of our time in her bestselling Crime, Now available as a three-volume paperback boxed set, E L Jamess. In looking into his background, Stewart learned that Swango, the second of three sons born to Muriel and John Virgil Swango, had made the honor roll every year at a rigorous private high school, winding up as valedictorian. Michael was the second of Muriel and John Virgil Swango's three sons. As a senior, he performed the demanding Mozart clarinet concerto in the band's spring concert, the only student featured as a soloist. [14] In his book Blind Eye, Quincy native James B. Stewart estimated that counting the suspicious deaths at SIU, circumstantial evidence links Swango to 35 suspicious deaths. While all this was happening, VA Office of the Inspector General Criminal Investigator Tom Valery consulted with Charlene Thomesen, a forensic psychiatrist. He later graduated summa cum laude from the University, and was awarded the American Chemical Society Award. This naturally froze Sweeney out of numerous opportunities for clinical experience, and it hardly endeared Swango to fellow students. Share this memorial using social media sites or email. In 1965,. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy, Dr. Death: Life of Serial Killer Michael Swango (Serial Killer True Crime Books), Killer Nurse: The Harrowing True Story of One Woman's Murder Spree in an East Texas, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital. [16] At his sentencing hearing, Swango admitted to causing three murders, lying about his role in causing a fourth death, and lying about his 1985 conviction.[18]. His classmates observed that Swango was completing his entire rounds in less than an hour, sometimes spending what seemed like as little as five minutes with a patient. Oops, something didn't work. Had he not done so, he faced the possibility of the death penalty in both countries. Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations. Knowing that he would likely face the death penalty for his crimes in Zimbabwe, Swango began talks for a plea agreement. "That's just what happens. Swango served in the Marine Corps, graduating from recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego. His fascination with death led him to poison colleagues and kill patients wherever he worked. After two tours in Vietnam in the 1960's, Virgil retired as a colonel, then returned to Vietnam with the Agency for . Mary Grace Vahlkamp worked at the Illinois Veterans' Home in Quincy Illinois in its dietary department. This book is well researched, but this serial killer was so prolific it gets repetitive. Judge Jacob Mishler sentenced him to three consecutive life terms, which he is serving at ADX Florence near Florence, Colorado. A small, private college founded by the Franciscan Brothers in 1860, and still affiliated with the Catholic church, the school had long drawn applicants from students at private Catholic high schools, mostly in Illinois. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Among his classmates, the decision to become a doctor formed a large part of their getting-acquainted conversations. The wedding took place in St. Rose of Lima church in Quincy Illinois. (Richard Kerkering, Muriel's son from a previous marriage, lived with his father.) You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of John Swango (102485290)? Ellen Clegg The Boston Globe Stewart penetrates the hermetically sealed world of medicine. Swango's father was a career United States Army officer who. Swango is finally in prison, having pleaded guilty to lying under oath about his past. There were some titters from other students. Swango's father was a career United States Army officer who served in the Vietnam War, was listed in Who's Who in Government 19721973, and became an alcoholic. There was a problem loading your book clubs. The family suffered from the alcoholic abuse of the father. Joseph Michael Swango was born on October 21, 1954 in Tacoma, Washington to Muriel and John Virgil Swango. When a patient Swango had seen died, he scrawled "DIED" in large capital letters across the person's name. Torture Mom: A Chilling True Story of Confinement, Mutilation and Murder (True Crime), Has it Come to This? However, his work had been so slovenly that OSU pulled its residency offer after his internship ended in June. "As his class valedictorian and a National Merit finalist with high test scores, Swango would have been highly sought after by top colleges and universities all over the country. With his near-perfect grades at the more competitive Millikin and his outstanding high school record, Swango must have been one of the college's top applicants. In each locale, those in charge did little or nothing to monitor Swango's conduct. Born In: Tacoma, Washington, United States, Nick Name: David J. Adams, Michael Kirk, Jack Kirk, Michael Swan, Dr. Death, See the events in life of Michael Swango in Chronological Order, http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/swango-michael-photos.htm, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt6ylDK5fRY. John Virgil Swango used to serve in the Vietnam War of the 1960s. As some classmates described it, it was as though he had done his dissection using a chain saw rather than a scalpel. Please enter your email and password to sign in. Indeed, after Swango's surgery rotation ended, Wacaser hardly ever saw him, and later realized that he knew nothing about Swango's background or personal life, even who his parents were or whether they were alive.During their third year at SIU medical school, students have significantly more contact with patients and are responsible for hundreds of H & P's in the course of the year. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. "Do you think it was just coincidence?" Muriel Swango. During the episode, I made a few errors that I would like to correct here. He was a model student, named to the honor roll every year. In other words, Stewart does the work that hospital administrators and supervising physicians in Ohio, South Dakota, and New York should have done. He died four days later.An autopsy discovered a tiny capsule, about the size of a head of a pin, embedded in Markov's thigh. It was weird, Rosenthal thought. The book was in good conditions when it arrived. By the end of his sophomore year, he was spending more time alone, and his friends and roommate had less and less contact with him. Bob and John were educated at public schools, but largely at the . Failed to delete memorial. James B. Stewart is the author of Heart of a Soldier, the bestselling Blind Eye and Blood Sport, and the blockbuster Den of Thieves. The kids were trained to march in formation, salute the old man, execute military commands. The sedative caused him to lapse into a coma, and Harris died on November 9, 1993. His fascination with death led him to poison colleagues and kill patients wherever he worked. . It was taught by a popular professor, Dr. John Murphy, who was favorably impressed by him.During their third year of SIU's medical school, students undergo a series of rotations, including pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, and surgery. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. And his violation of the antimoonlighting policy was particularly brazen, for the Springfield hospitals the ambulances served were affiliated with SIU and staffed with many SIU residents and professors. We encourage you to research and examine . , ISBN-10 He is a regular contributor to. As evidence of later wrongdoing accumulated in Stewart's files, he found the emerging scenario hard to accept. Swango claimed she suffered heart failure; he had killed her by giving her a potassium injection that stopped her heart. Michael Swango, born on October 21, 1954, was the middle child in a family of six of a US Army officer. [4] Swango graduated from Quincy summa cum laude and was given the American Chemical Society Award. Within the space of a month, six victims were found mutilated, disembowelled, abused and missing vast quantities of blood. Sorry! Swango was lean and muscled at a time when fitness was far from most students' minds. Swango was formally indicted on July 17, 2000 and pleaded not guilty. He participated in a whirlwind of extracurricular activities: he was a class officer, and served on the student council, yearbook, and newspaper staffs.His main interest mirrored his mother's love of music. Michael had excelled at the private Catholic boys' high school he attended in Quincy, Illinois, beginning in 1968. Eventually, the school allowed him to graduate one year after his entering classmates, on condition that he repeat the OB/GYN rotation and complete several assignments in other specialties. Upon his release in 1989, he started working as a counselor at the state career development center in Newport News, Virginia, but was fired after being caught with one of his scrapbooks during work hours. The sentencing judge ordered that Swango not be allowed to prepare or deliver food, or have any involvement in preparing or distributing drugs. In March 1997, he applied for a job at the Royal Hospital in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, using a false rsum. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? On August 23, 1985, Swango was convicted of aggravated battery for poisoning co-workers. He is from United States. Family (2) See also Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro Getting Started | Contributor Zone He fled to Atlanta and took up a job as a chemist, but an FBI warning led his employer to fire him. : The Mysterious, Unsolved Murder of Frank Richardson. Dashing into the hallway between tests seemed perilously close to cheating, though it wasn't expressly forbidden. Growing up, Swango saw little of his father and as a result, was closer to his mother. He abandoned the cadaver and completed his presentation by showing his group pictures from an anatomy text.Swango had few, if any, friends at SIU; his fellow students later realized they knew almost nothing about his past, his family, his education, or his military service. A former Page-One editor at The Wall Street Journal, Stewart won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for his reporting on the stock market crash and insider trading. Failed to report flower. Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout. He was eventually allowed to graduate the following year after completing several assignments on different specialties. He crossed the border to Zambia and subsequently to Namibia, where he found temporary medical work. Some earned prestigious honors, like Colonel John V. Swango, professor of military science, who was awarded the Bronze Star. Upon his return from Vietnam, Swango's father became depressed and was divorced by Muriel. Summers are hot and steamy, and in June 1979, most of the students and faculty members at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale who could get away after graduation had fled, leaving the campus feeling sleepy and underpopulated. Scott McLemee Newsday A remarkable piece of reporting. The facts gathered by Stewart are compelling. In the process, he exposes the arrogance and the fraudulent professional courtesies that allowed Swango to move ahead unchallenged. : One of the first clinical assignments medical students receive is to take histories and perform physicals "H & P's" on hospital patients. "Swangoing," the noun, or "to Swango," the verb, described the practice of racing into the hall and cramming between tests.Swango was notorious not only for his test-taking regimen. Ten to fifteen closed-book tests were given every Saturday morning on the modules that had been covered in classes that week. All photos uploaded successfully, click on the Done button to see the photos in the gallery. The younger Swango enjoyed being at the scene of gruesome diasters as a paramedic, was obsessed with firearms and kept a small arsenal at home, and dwelled on news reports of mass murder, such as the July 1984 shooting spree at a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, California.". Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2019. Hamilton, Business Week Blind Eye is a flat-out horrifying nonfiction profile of Michael SwangoStewart is an excellent writer and reporterThis is a brave and passionate book. Excellent timeline and map of Michael Swangos activities up until 1997, Kristin Lynn Kinney in happier times with Michael Swango, Lt. Col. John Virgil Swango (1914-1982)Source: TCU yearbook, 1965, Source: Christian Brothers Catholic Boys School (Quincy, IL) yearbook, 1972, Aaron Bruce (1822-1906) and Mary Anne (Bruce) Walters (1826-1920) and their children at their home in Edina, Missouri, 1893. Please complete the captcha to let us know you are a real person. As a result of suspicions of the medical director there, Dr. Zishiri, Swango was suspended. Swango then found a job as a laboratory technician for ATICoal in Newport News, now Vanguard Energy, a division of CITA Logistics. Family members linked to this person will appear here. At the time, a unanimous vote was required for a student to be dismissed. Muriel Swango. To escape persecution in Zimbabwe, he pleaded guilty of fraud and was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in July 1998. Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old? Yet the combination of his weird garb, chiseled physique, odd nocturnal habits, "Swangoing," and now the cadaver mishap, made him one of the best-known of the seventy-two members of the class, much talked about and derided at the many class parties and gatherings, from which he was usually absent. In March 1997, he applied for a job at the Royal Hospital in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, using a false rsum. Higher-ups in the medical establishment are more intent on safeguarding the reputation and bottom line of the employing hospital, perhaps at the expense of their patients. Please try your request again later. Failed to remove flower. The nurses soon noticed that patients frequently died mysteriously when he worked as the floor intern in Rhodes Hall at OSU. He crossed the border to Zambia and subsequently to Namibia, where he found temporary medical work. The result, according to Stewart's research, is that Swango may indeed have been involved in at least 60 deaths. Discover Michael Swango's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. He had transformed the hip region of his cadaver into an unrecognizable mess of tangled flesh and bone. Source: Daily News, 22 Aug 1987. The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller. While graduating from recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, Michael Swango went through extensive physical training, which he continued even after returning to college. He saw no action overseas during his service, but his training in the Marines left him with a commitment to physical exercise. Swango's father was a career U.S. Army officer who served in the Vietnam War, was listed in Who's Who in Government 1972-1973, and was troubled by alcoholism. In the surgery rotation, students were assigned in pairs to give oral presentations. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. She contacted a friend of Kinney who was a nurse at Sanford, who in turn alerted Sanford's dean, Robert Talley, to Swango's whereabouts. Swango was cleared by a cursory investigation in 1984. This is a carousel with slides. [2], Swango's lackadaisical approach to his studies caught up with him a month before he was due to graduate, when it was discovered that he had faked checkups during his OB/GYN rotation. In June 1997, he was finally arrested at Chicago-O'Hare International Airport while attempting to move to Saudi Arabia. He assumed the felony conviction would end Swango's medical career. That summer, he enlisted in the Marines, and didn't return for his junior year. Soon, many of the paramedics on staff began noticing that whenever Swango prepared the coffee or brought any food in, several of them usually became violently ill, with no apparent cause. Indeed, some members of his group, who never saw him in the anatomy lab at all, wondered how he was going to make his presentation.What Swango gained in privacy from his unorthodox hours he lost in guidance from faculty and other students. Flowers added to the memorial appear on the bottom of the memorial or here on the Flowers tab. More Criminals Mullah Krekar Dawood Ibrahim Ike Clanton Frank Costello Jean Negulesco Nick Hexum [He]persuasively dissects the medical establishment. He was also a mass serial killer and a talented con artist. "Double-O Swango" meant License to Kill.Copyright 1999 James B. Stewart. Michael Swango's net worth John Virgil Swango was born on August 26, 1914 in Quincy, Illinois, USA. [2][11] Before he resigned, Cohen sent a warning about Swango to all 125 medical schools and all 1,000 teaching hospitals across the U.S., effectively blacklisting Swango from getting a medical residency at any American institution. If a medical school thought it might be interested, then, and only then, would it send a candidate its own application. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. At this time, Swango rented a room in Bulawayo from a widowed woman who subsequently became violently sick after a meal she had prepared for herself and a friend. His work in a hospital as an orderly would also have worked in his favor. "Mike, tell us what's in this picture," he said. Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app. The pair ended up giving their presentation in two discrete sections, which might as well have been separate reports. Many of his classmates had been antiwar protesters. Michael Swango was born in Tacoma, Washington and raised in Quincy, Illinois, the middle child of Muriel and John Virgil Swango. [2], Last edited on 23 February 2023, at 14:51, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, List of serial killers in the United States, List of medical and pseudo-medical serial killers, 2011 Stepping Hill Hospital poisoning incident, Former Doctor Charged in Death of 3 Patients, Man to Admit to Murdering 3 L.I. Source: Marysville Journal Tribune, 20 Aug 1985, This picture accompanied articles after Swango was released from prison , after two years. Demand for doctors was so strong that lucrative careers awaited med school graduates. Buried in Quincy, Illinois, USA. Family (2) Spouse John Virgil Swango (? 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