think, this has to be some kind of a monster. but that s not how he comes across. the crime did not fit the person in front of you. when the report came up and think they put a picture up of mike and said he was accused of poisoning his co-workers, you could have knocked me over with a feather. because i couldn t believe it. the staff at all three medical centers where dr. michael swango worked were shocked. no one was more surprised than his fiancee, a nurse named kristin kinney, also known as k.k. k.k. worked with us. and she also didn t believe it. she just said, not the mike i know. i thought he was guilty going in. and then during the interview, i had doubts. and by the end of it, i was thinking, maybe he didn t do it.
all of it? i drank half of it and in bed three days. we documented everything we had. we sent it over to the states attorneys office and we went from there to the arrest situation. the paramedics and the police set up a trap to get dr. michael swango to show up at a location where he could be arrested without incident. they got the help of the county coroner wayne johnson to help bring him in. mike was dying to become a deputy coroner. he wanted to be in the coroner s office and how they got him in after they got the warrant, they called him to get a picture taken for i.d. and that s when he was arrested. we wanted to search his
hospital during the time that he worked there. i go up to the hospital, people were talking. this doctor has been here, been injecting people. his syringes were always loaded, and before they knew it, the patient was either dead or their jaws locked. by that time, i think i had heard enough to understand that this doctor from america was up to no good. the u.s. team included forensic pathologist dr. michael baden. he was looking for poison in several of swango s possible victims. we had hired local grave diggers, we would transfer the bodies where dr. michael baden would do autopsies. we were able to talk to a live witness. there were two or three cases where there were people who experienced some sort of intense pain right after he injected them with something. there was this rush of
favored him. he was the only child of of the 3 sent to a private school. he was very bright. valedictorian high school class. he was considered pretty much the star of the family. he really was quite and excellent musician. when he first went to college it was in music gifted with a clarinet, he had a music scholarship. mike was just a normal guy. he was pretty straight laced but he was easley agitated. people would just kid him all the time. and of course, rooming with him, i would hear about it. and there would be times where he would be absolutely lit. he would pace the floor. you know, and i would say you know, you just got to let that go. but swango did not take slight very well because
ever suspected it. investigator is believed that every person around michael swango could have been a potential target . like in the case of his former fiancc, kristin kinney, known as kk. shortly after she and michael swango left south dakota, they broke up and she committed suicide. i got a phone call from my charge nurse at the hospital and she said kk killed herself. and i just burst into tears. select the family kept a lock of her hair and we had that tested. it was loaded with arsenic. he had been poisoning her for quite some time also. at the very least, he seems to be a sick man. at the very most, he is the epitome of evil. he was sentenced to life in