on the surface it sounds kind of realistic. i just simply could not have done these things. that s one of his arguments in the trial. i remember that, he said that. i just simply could not have done these things. i was thinking, no, you did not simply do these things, they were very complicated, very well-thought-out things you did. i think he was just experimenting on people. they were his toys to tinker and toy with. he thought he was superior, had a superior intellect. he just thought we would never convict him. in 1985, a quincy, illinois, judge found dr. swango guilty of poisoning six co-workers there at a paramedic station. the judge in the case called dr. michael swango a danger to society and said he clearly performed evil deeds. i found him guilty. he was a doctor, and he kept telling me how he would never violate his hippocratic oath.
michael swingle was at one point in time a doctor but instead of using his medical license to become a healer, he embarked upon a career as a killer. i think just days before he was to be released on prison for perjury charges, prosecutors were able to indict him for murder. the fbi went to share the news with him and to let tran40 know he had a decision to make. we had the cases together for new york we went out to talk to them and we said we are just here to tell you something and he seemed surprised and we said, what we are here to tell you is that you are smart. you have gotten away with a lot of murders and we may have the murder cases in new york, but we definitely have the murder cases in africa.
now, i didn t think that you could spend time in jail for poisoning people and come out and be a physician. but boy, i was wrong. because that s exactly what he did. it is a chilling violation of trust as a doctor, swango had easy access to both poison and patients. look at this guy. keep your eyes open. don t turn your back on him. i think as long as he was in a medical facility, he was going to kill people. swango injected something into her iv bag. and she felt this intense pain through her body, and she could barely move. my father s death was not natural causes. he was telling us there was a doctor that went by his room every single night, pointing at him saying you re next. this wasn t some mercy killing. he took joy in not just killing folks but telling their families they died. this was a person who was dangerous. he skirted right under the
advantage because he still wanted to practice medicine, and he still wanted to kill people. and that s exactly what he did. michael swango has been a first-year resident, a student fall, in sioux falls for the past five months. he worked in all three hospitals here. but it wasn t until this story aired on the justice file that people began worrying about dr. swango. we got a tip from someone who worked at one of the hospitals. this person recognized him on a show she had watched the night before, was called justice files. it talked about how he had poisoned his co-workers. and she was like, what in the world is this guy doing in our medical residency program and treating patients? this guy could be dangerous. the story on the discovery channel series justice files was actually a repeat.
it to the osu poly. the hospital conducted and irn internal investigation into the death of cindy mcgee and six other suspicious incidents but they said there was no concrete evidence that dr. michael swango was responsible. i think that really could have been the stopping point important swango. he never may have been able to practice medicine again. i think that they just said, we ve got to get him out of here. after the questions arose from the illinois police they opened a criminal investigation with the osu police department. i was pretty sthokd this had been going on and no one knew anything until we got the call from quincy. that was our first knowledge of anything. people were starting to question everything that michael swango has done now in ohio state university. we were getting people who say