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Cruel Deception

Documentary

50

Dec 30, 2003

Middle School teacher Donna Boley is overcome with nausea and a tingling feeling in her extremities. The principal finds Donna crawling up the stairs on her hands and knees.

Full Episodes

Season 2, 10 episodes

A classic case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, Genene Jones killed at least 47 patients with the muscle relaxant succinylcholine while working at Bexar Medical Center in Texas.

50m Dec 30, 2003

Dangerous Contact,

Nine hundred children are sent home from school and thousands inoculated during an outbreak in Massachusetts that depletes local supplies of antibiotics and lands four middle school students in the hospital.

50m Dec 30, 2003

An unassuming male nurse from Kentucky comes under scrutiny when hospital officials notice that death is unusually prominent during his work shifts.

50m Dec 30, 2003

Deadly Medicine,

Dr. Harold “Fred” Shipman was known as a dedicated, hardworking and community-minded doctor who spent his life gaining the trust of his patients and the respect of his colleagues.

50m Dec 30, 2003

A Taste of Poison,

Reverend Dwight Moore is at death’s door when he is transferred from his local hospital to Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. With all the expertise and technology of modern medicine at their disposal.

50m Dec 30, 2003

Seeds of Destruction,

In an exclusive Kansas City suburb, cardiologist Mike Farrar is suddenly stricken with a powerful and mysterious stomach illness. The violent and terrifying symptoms are relentless, leaving the man fighting for his life.

50m Dec 30, 2003

Toxic Takeover,

Phil Rouss realizes a lifelong dream when he opens an antique auto restoration business with his long-time friend Steve White. They divide the work – Rouss will restore the cars and Steve will handle the books.

50m Dec 30, 2003

Robert Curley is newly married and is renovating an old home for him and his wife, Joann. He is also an electrician doing repair work in a local chemistry lab. Within weeks of starting the new projects, he becomes violently ill.

50m Dec 30, 2003

Cruel Deception,

Middle School teacher Donna Boley is overcome with nausea and a tingling feeling in her extremities. The principal finds Donna crawling up the stairs on her hands and knees.

50m Dec 30, 2003

When two young children in Idaho are diagnosed with food poisoning, doctors have no idea that within days the situation will get out of control, as two hundred thousand people fall ill in the country’s largest case of single-source food poisoning.

50m Dec 30, 2003