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BERLIN (AP) — A male nurse who was convicted of killing patients in Germany with overdoses of heart medication is now believed to have killed at least 86 people — and the true scale of the killings could be even larger, investigators said Monday. Many of the deaths could have been prevented if health authorities had acted more quickly on their suspicions, said Johann Kuehme, police chief in the northwestern city of Oldenburg.

NJ 'Angel of Death' Admits 5 More Murders * Cullen Now Has Confessed to 29 Murders Jun 27, 2005 10:36 am US/Eastern FLEMINGTON, N.J. (AP) Killer nurse Charles Cullen on Monday admitted murdering five patients while he was working at Hunterdon Medical Center, bringing to 29 the victims whom the state's worst serial killer has confessed to slaying in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Cullen pleaded guilty to the murders in state Superior Court. He also has acknowledged trying to kill five patients during more than a decade in hospitals and nursing facilities in the two states. He has told investigators...