German Nurse Convicted of Murdering 10 Patients and Attempting to Kill 27 Others May Be Linked to 100 More Deaths By Chris Spargo

In November 2025, a nurse in Germany was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murdering 10 patients and attempting to murder 27 others.

Those deaths all occurred between December 2023 and May 2024 at the Rhein-Maas hospital in Würselen, a town located 50 miles west of Bonn near the country’s border with the Netherlands.

The chief public prosecutor in the nearby city of Aachen, Katja Schlenkermann-Pitts, is now telling the BBC that there may be other victims — as many as 100.

In her interview with the outlet, the prosecutor said that “a correspondingly high number of suspicious cases” were currently being examined and a number of bodies exhumed so that autopsies could be performed.

Prosecutors alleged during the trial that the nurse had killed his victims by administering large doses of sedatives and painkillers while working the night shift, often targeting patients who were seriously ill.

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The nurse had worked at the hospital since 2020, and according to the BBC, the cases which are being reexamined are largely from before that period.

Around 60 bodies are set to be exhumed as part of this new inquiry, and while that process is underway authorities are still awaiting autopsy reports for others.

A separate inquiry was launched by prosecutors in Cologne, where the nurse had also previously worked, according to the outlet.

It’s unclear whether prosecutors plan to file additional charges against the man, who continues to maintain his innocence.

He has claimed that he did not realize he was administering fatal doses of medication to his patients — a claim that was rejected by hospital administrators, police, prosecutors and a jury of his peers.