I just learned about a truly remarkable case in which a doctor apparently wrote a paper about a serial killer who murdered her five children - without realizing what had happened. It's an old case, but it doesn't seem to be widely known today. The paper is called
Prolonged apnea and the sudden infant death syndrome: clinical and laboratory observations
and it was written in 1972 by Dr Alfred Steinschneider of Syracuse, New York. In this paper, Steinschneider described the case of a woman, "Mrs H", who had already lost three children, ostensibly to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Dr Steinschneider describes how two additional children from the "H" family were studied in his sleep laboratory in an effort to determine whether sleep apnea was a risk factor for SIDS. Both children did show apnea in the lab, and both died shortly after being discharged from the clinic back home ...
