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The First Man Ever to Use Insulin as a Murder Weapon

William Dale Archerd was born on May 5th, 1912. He came into the world in Dardanelle, Arkansas, United States. 

Archerd was labeled as an American serial killer who killed three people with insulin injections from 1956 to 1966 in California. 

It is said that he was the first to be convicted of the use of insulin as a murder weapon in the United States and it is theorized in three more cases. 

William early life consisted of him being interested in medicine but did not have the discipline to be a doctor that dealt with medicine nor had the money to go through college.

He did work in a mental hospital from 1940 through 1941 as an assistant where patients were treated with insulin shock therapies. 

I would assume this is where he got his love of insulin came in and gave him the idea to want to experiment on his victims.

During 1950, Archerd was convicted to five years on probation for possession of morphine in San Francisco. 

As time went on he was parole was revoked, he escaped prison and was arrested again, put in San Quentin Prison, and was released again.

At this point, I do not understand how we was released after everything that went down but then again, some people may change? 

Archerd was arrested in July of 1967, in Los Angeles for a threefold murder. 

He was convicted for killing Zella Archerd which was his fourth wife and was two months after their wedding. 

Then he killed Burney Archerd who was his nephew, Mary Brinker Arden who was his seventh wife. 

Honestly how many wives does man need to have at this point. To have seven wives is too many people to be married to. 

Anyway the timeline of these killings were: Zella in 1956, Burney in 1961, Mary in 1966. 

Archerd had other suspected victims and they all had symptoms of hypoglycemia. 

He was sentenced to death on March 6, 1968, for the three murder cases.  

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