about his age to cover up his past life. “For his part, Swango said he, too, was twenty seven years old
in reality, he was now forty” Stewart, 1986: 228. Michael Swango needed a lawyer to clear his name from his crime. He
lied that he had been summarily suspended by the provincial minister of health with unclear reason. He said that he was not guilty about the death of his patients.
“All he knew, he said, was that he was accused of having given some patients injection that caused “ill effect”, and that he was being unfairly blamed for the
death of a few patients who had died of natural causes” Stewart, 1986:245.
6. Cruel
The sixth characteristic of the psychopaths are cruel. Cruel is the personality of psychopath when psychopaths tend to break the rules and
expectations of society. Psychopaths have no conscience. Psychopaths look their self as superior people in their own rule.
Michael Swango broke the rules around him. He was abusing his role as a doctor. The patients hoped that they would get recovery from Michael Swango as
a doctor, but preyed on the trust and hopes of sick and helpless people. He had not conscience because he could torture and killed people around him. He often
fantasizes about violence and disasters. He had exhilaration at his own superiority and contempt for his victims when he successfully put something over on another.
On February 6, Anne reported to Rhodes for the morning shift, and assigned to a neurosurgery patient in room
968, the Barrick‟s room. She had been admitted to the hospital on January 17. She had fallen and hit her head at home ten
days earlier and suffered a cerebral hematoma. On January 31, the nurse named
Deborah had given breakfast to her and assessed her condition. At 9:45 A.M, Michael Swango came to Barrick room. It was not the time to check the patients.
Actually, Michael Swango had time to check her at 6:30 A.M. Michael Swango ordered Deborah to get out from the room. Twenty minutes later, Barrick was
barely stopping breath and her skin became blue. Dr
Swango had come into Barrick‟s room and told Deborah, “I‟m going to check on her.” Deborah though this was peculiar, since doctors rounded at
6:30 A.M. and rarely returned unless there was a specific problem. In such cases, it was the attending physician, not an intern by himself, who would
call on the patient. But Deborah gave the matter little though. She left Swango alone in the room with Barrick. About twenty minutes later,
Deborah returned to check on Barrick. Swango was gone. Barrick was now reclining and seemed to be asleep. Barrick was barely breathing. Her
skin was taking on a bluish cast, a sign of imminent death from respiratory Stewart, 1986: 61.
There were two patients in room 900, Cooper and Utz. They had the same
room for twelve days. At 9 P.M on February 7, an Ohio State nursing student, Beery, came in to room 900 and she was shocked to see Michael Swango there.
Cooper had requested more pain medication and asked Utz to hold the call button down for her because she could not reach it and Michael Swango accepted a
respond to the call. Beery continued to check the other patients and leaved Michael Swango in the room 900. No more two minutes, Beery heard the
screamed from Utz, she run to the room 900 and shocked she found Cooper was turning blue and had stopped breathing after Michael Swango gave the injection
to her. He was standing at Cooper‟s bedside, only about three feet from Beery,
and the student noticed that he was adding something to Cooper‟s intravenous tube by inserting a syringe. “Her line must have clotted off”
was her only thought; she assumed Swango was clearing a blockage. Beery stepped outside to enter data on Utz‟s chart. She was running late,
and ready to move on to her next patient when, no more than two minutes later, she heard Utz call out, “Are you all right, Mrs Cooper?” Then Beery
heard a violent rattling of bed rails, followed by Utz‟s screams. She rushed into the room. Utz cried out, “There‟s something wrong” Cooper was
turning blue and had stopped breathing Stewart, 1986: 65. Michael Swango had often mentioned to the other residents how much he
loved fried chicken, and one night he offered to buy Kentucky Fried Chicken for the residents. Michael Swango wanted to get separated box with other. Three
hours after they ate that fried chicken, they felt violently ill with fever, nausea, and vomiting in their masks and stuff, but Michael Swango did not although he
ate friend chicken with them. Thomas Vara, the senior resident said that would be fine, but suggested,
“Instead of getting separate boxes, why don‟t you get a big bucket for all of us to eat?” “No, no,” Swango said. “Let‟s keep it separate.” He insisted
on taking everyone‟s chicken and drink order. He returned with the orders about 5 P.M. “its extra spicy chicken, “Swango told Ed Hashimoto, one of
the residents, as he gave him his food. That was news to Hashimoto. He knew that Kentucky Fried offered
“extra crispy” chicken, but he‟d never heard of „extra spicy”. Vara, Hashimoto, and a third resident, Douglas
Hess, ate the chicken. About three hours later, all there fell violently ill, with fever, nausea and vomiting that lasted over a week Stewart 1986: 85-
86. The writer can conclude that Michael Swango is psychopath because he is
anti-social, has lack of empathy, has lack of self-control, has great desire to monopolize, deceiver, and cruel.
B. The Factor that Make Michael Swango become a Psychopath
