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The Nurse Who Lived With a Killer
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Tonight’s chilling new Channel 5 documentary uncovers the terrifying true story of nurse Delia Balmer, who unknowingly lived with serial killer John Sweeney—the “Canal Killer”—before he trapped her in 1994 with a gun and knife. His reign of horror began in the early 90s, marked by the discovery of Melissa Halstead’s remains in a Rotterdam canal, and later Paula Fields’ dismembered body in London’s Regent Canal. Sweeney’s arrest in 2001 came after attacking Delia, and it was his disturbing drawings and poems that finally connected him to the murders. Now serving multiple life sentences, he’s never revealed where he hid his victims’ heads—leaving authorities still searching for other possible victims across Europe. The judge called his crimes “terrible, wicked,” especially for the brutal mutilations.
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