Christine Malèvre was praised for her actions, initially. The courageous nurse was a "champion of euthanasia" who had faced down her conscience and made the difficult choice to help end the suffering of patients who were elderly or terminally ill. She was thanked by the relatives of her patients and even the Health Minister himself – but this "angel of mercy" was eventually accused of being a serial killer...This saintly nurse was revealed to be anything but when her case went to trial. She wasn't doing the right thing by putting her patients out of their misery, the court determined – instead, she was a deranged megalomaniac who found illness and death to be morbidly fascinating.