Shipman’s murder weapon of choice was lethal injections of diamorphine (the pharmaceutical name for heroin) to his patients (Queiro, 2014). Shipman’s murder weapon of choice went undetected for so many years because he tactically used being a well-liked family physician as his cover. He would also change the medical records in his patient’s charts as well as in the computer to show illnesses that the patients did not have that would support the cause of death of his patients. Another tactic that Shipman used that helped him go undetected for over two decades was that he targeted elderly women who lived alone and with little family (The Forensic Outreach Team, 2016). Being a family physician, he gained the trust of the women and their families
