German serial killer nurse charged with 97 new murders

BERLIN - A German male nurse serving a life term for killing six hospital patients with lethal drugs out of "boredom" will face trial for another 97 murders, prosecutors said on Monday.

The third trial of Niels Hoegel, 41, accused of being the worst serial killer in German postwar history, was expected to start later this year, a court spokesman in the northern city of Oldenburg said.

Hoegel has admitted to injecting patients with drugs that cause heart failure or circulatory collapse so he could then try to revive them and, when successful, shine as a savior before his medical peers and superiors.