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John Bodkin Adams—Eastbourne

Birth

John Bodkin Adams, born January 21st 1899 in Eastbourne, England, was suspected of the murder of at least two people.

Scandal

John Bodkin Adams arrested for the murder of two patients in Eastbourne, Great Britain.

Work

Suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams, lived in Coleraine (in the Mountsandle area) from 1911 to 1916 and attended the Coleraine Academical Institution. He became a general practitioner and worked in Eastbourne from 1922. He was charged in 1957 with the murder of 2 patients but was acquitted. He was, however, suspected of causing the death of 163 other patients.[7]

John Bodkin Adams, a general practitioner at Eastbourne, stood trial and was acquitted, in 1957, of administering a fatal drug dose to an affluent elderly patient.

He died in 1983. John Adams was a general practitioner in Eastbourne. Starting in 1946, Adams had been favoured over one-hundred times in the wills of his patients, some of who died under suspicious circumstances.