An Italian nurse was allegedly so annoyed by some of her patients that she decided to kill them, an Italian newspaper reported, according to the New York Daily News.
Daniela Poggiali was arrested last week for the deaths of at least 38 patients at Lugo hospital, where police said she killed them with lethal doses of potassium chloride if she thought the patient or their families demanded too much of her time, the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported.
The 42-year-old nurse also gave other patients mild sedatives so they would leave her alone. As for the ones she allegedly killed, Poggiali took pictures with the corpses and posted them online, police said according to the Daily News' translation.
"Brrr...mmm...life and death...mmmmmm," reads the caption for one deadly photo she allegedly took.
Another picture shows Poggiali giving a thumbs-up next to a dead patient.
Authorities caught on to the nurse in April when a 78-year-old patient of hers suddenly died after being admitted to the Italian hospital for a non-life-threatening illness. Medical tests revealed she had a deadly dose of potassium chloride in her system.
Police later probed the nurse's history and determined that 38 out of 83 patients died on her watch during the first quarter of this year, according to the Daily News. The average number of deaths for other nurses during the same period was 10.
Poggiali posed for pictures with some of the patients moments after their deaths, investigators said.
"Poggiali was particularly euphoric and asked me to take a photo next to the corpse," one of Poggiali's colleagues said according to the Daily News. "I was afraid and intimidated."
