• John Bodkin Adams (21 January 1899 – 4 July 1983) was a British general practitioner, convicted fraudster, and suspected serial killer. Between 1946 and...
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  • killings. A famous case involving proxy murder was that of John Bodkin Adams. John Bodkin Adams was an Irish physician who was investigated from 1946 to...
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  • expert witness for the defence in the trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams. His daughter, Harriet Harman, is a senior Labour Party politician...
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  • serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams for the murder of two elderly widows in Eastbourne, Edith Alice Morrell and Gertrude Hullett. Adams was acquitted on...
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  • close friend, and probable lover of the suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams. Gwynne's father, James Eglinton Anderson Gwynne (1832–1915), had...
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  • regarding suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams. Hoskins was the only reporter with a national paper to support Adams when arrested in 1956, while the...
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  • case he had presided over, the 1957 trial of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams. Devlin was involved in the debate about homosexuality in British...
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    bemegride 7. Bemegride was the drug which suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams who failed to prescribe correctly to his patient Gertrude Hullett...
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  • Dr John Bodkin Adams. London: Elliott & Thompson. ISBN 1-904027-19-9. Two Men Were Acquitted: The trial and acquittal of Doctor John Bodkin Adams, Secker...
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  • quartered for the murder of his brother John James Bodkin (1801–1882), Irish Whig politician John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983), Irish general practitioner...
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  • in the John Bodkin Adams affair. On 8 November 1956, the Attorney-General Reginald Manningham-Buller handed the Scotland Yard report into Adams' activities...
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  • played an interesting but minor part in the aftermath of the John Bodkin Adams trial. Adams, a doctor, was suspected of being a serial killer but was controversially...
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    fifty-five, occurred in the presence of the suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams. He was born in the parish of St George in the East, Stepney, London...
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  • shared at the time by Lord Denning. During the committal hearing of John Bodkin Adams on a charge of murder in January 1957, Goddard was seen dining with...
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  • notable for his work on the cases of serial killer John Christie and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams. Camps was born in Teddington, Middlesex, the...
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    murder trials. For example, the doctor and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams was charged for the murder of Edith Alice Morrell, but the deaths...
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    have "properly" eased the suffering of the patient. The defendant, John Bodkin Adams, was a doctor who was tried on one count of murder by "easing the...
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  • ethical and practical issues it raises. Suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams claimed that his patient Edith Alice Morrell—whose murder he was tried...
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  • Bounty John Adams (glassmaker) (1823–1886), pioneer glass manufacturer John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983), British physician and suspected serial killer John Frank...
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  • defendant did not give evidence. When, during his trial for murder, Dr John Bodkin Adams decided, on the advice of his lawyer, not to give evidence, the prosecution...
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    pair skater and coach John Arthur Ackroyd (died 2016), American murderer John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983), British criminal John Patrick Addis (1950–2006)...
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  • England, and patient of Dr John Bodkin Adams. Although Adams was acquitted in 1957 of her murder, the question of Adams' role in Morrell's death excited...
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    of 1956, the town came to national and worldwide attention, when John Bodkin Adams, a general practitioner serving the town's wealthier patients, was...
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  • Incomes Commission. He first came to prominence when he defended Dr John Bodkin Adams in 1957 on a charge of the murder of Mrs Edith Alice Morrell, the...
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  • 215 patients; he is suspected of having murdered 250 people. Dr. John Bodkin Adams, meanwhile, though acquitted in 1957 of the murder of one patient...
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    of Devonshire, who died in the presence of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams. The duke was Lady Dorothy's brother, and it is thought the police...
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  • black widow Anna Marie Hahn (d. 1938), American serial killer Dr. John Bodkin Adams, British doctor acquitted in 1957 but suspected of killing 163 patients...
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  • was jailed Charles Cullen Euthanasia Malmö Östra hospital murders John Bodkin Adams Leonard Arthur Kristen Gilbert Harold Shipman Dorothea Waddingham...
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  • high-profile cases, such as the prosecutions of suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams and pop star Mick Jagger, and the defence of Timothy Evans. Morris...
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  • many cases but most famously on that of suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams in 1956. Hallworth was very close to the main investigating officer...
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