For years, Dr. Harold Shipman seemed like a respected and caring doctor in the quiet English town of Hyde, Cheshire. He lived there for about 20 years and was especially valued by his elderly patients, as he often visited them in their homes. “People trusted him unconditionally,” Father Dennis Maher of St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Hyde told PEOPLE in 2003. According to him, one of Shipman’s favorite phrases was: “Don’t you trust me? I’m a docto…
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For years, Dr. Harold Shipman seemed like a respected and caring doctor in the quiet English town of Hyde, Cheshire. He lived there for about 20 years and was especially valued by his elderly patients, as he often visited them in their homes. “People trusted him unconditionally,” Father Dennis Maher of St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Hyde told PEOPLE in 2003. According to him, one of Shipman’s favorite phrases was: “Don’t you trust me? I’m a docto…