ABSTRACT
The nurse Lucia de B.1 was convicted by the Court of Appeal2 in The Hague, The Netherlands, for seven murders and three attempted murders, with the penalty of life imprisonment. This conviction is backed by the Supreme Court of The Netherlands to the present day. She had been charged by the prosecution with 13 murders and four attempted murders. The police examined a total of some 30 allegedly suspicious cases. Yet there was little evidence apart from the fact that at the hospital where it all started, quite a number of resuscitations happened during the nurse’s shifts. Then, after one more resuscitation, it was felt that all this could not be just a coincidence.
