So My Dad Went to School with a Serial Killer

Hey my peeps!!!! So some random info I found out this weekend was that my dad actually went to school with a serial killer, Dr. Christopher Duntsch. Turns out that during 1990 my dad played football defense with Duntsch at Millsaps College which is not cool, but I thought it kinda was. Hehehe. 

Ah hem! *Clears throat*

Now let me tell y’all about the killer who played football with my dad. 

Christopher Duntsch also known as ‘Dr. Death’ – He was very charismatic, whose charm made people feel comfortable with him and safe. Little did they know he didn’t really care about them at all. 

Some important background information that will tie into the story later is that Dr. Duntsch was a man who had a problem abusing drugs and alcohol. The drugs he was caught using were cocaine, LSDs and certain prescription drugs. 

Dr. Death ended up going to three different colleges first Millsaps, then Colorado State University, and finally the University of Memphis where he got his medical degree and completed a neurosurgery residency & fellowship. However a little info on that was the normal amount of surgical cases in a neuro residency is around 1,600, yet Dr. Death reportedly noted performing fewer than 100. The only reason he appeared to be an outstanding candidate for hospitals was the fact that he LIED on his resume like a lot!

Ok moving forward– so Dr. Death somehow ended up working at 4 hospitals in Texas over the span of 2 years. Also in that time he worked on 38 patients where 33 ended up paralyzed or crippled and 2 died. Most of the time he was operating he was noted as having childish behavior and most likely being under the influence. One nurse noted that during one operation his eyes seemed bigger than normal and it appeared that he didn’t blink (which could be wrong but hey – i tell y’all anyway). Another nasty report was that he seemed to not change his scrubs because there was a hole in one of his pairs of scrubs that continued to appear for 3 consecutive days. Like EWWWWWWWWW! There was even an email he sent to his mistress while under the influence of cocaine that said “What I am being is what I am, one of kind, a mother fucker stone cold killer that can buy or own or steal or ruin or build whatever he wants [sic].” (from Texas District & County Attorneys Association)

In the end Dr. Death was only brought to justice after fellow doctors recognized his negligence and criminal intentions, and they reported him first to the medical board of Texas than to the authorities. 

WARNING: So for this last bit I’m gonna tell y’all about one of his ‘signature moves’ warning though this might be kinda graphic and unsetting. 

In December 2012 one patient of Dr. Death, Jacqueline (Jackie) Troy, sadly woke up after her surgery without the ability to speak or breathe leaving her on a ventilator, feeding tube and needing multiple more surgeries to even survive. This was all a result of Dr. Death opened her up from the front of her neck and when he did he pinned her esophagus beneath surgical instruments damaging them along with punctured her trachea and severing her vocal cords. Mind you the only thing he was meant to do was a cervical spinal fusion which was supposed to help fix her neck and back pain. Y’all this was supposed to be a simple easy procedure that ended in Jackie almost losing her life. He later did this to another patient, Jeff Glidewell, in June of 2013; where he cut a hole in his esophagus and damaged his vocal cords as well cutting a major artery in his neck. The only way Glidewell survived is because of the hospital staff in the room physically removing Dr. Death from his patient and sewed Glidewell back up. Little did they know Dr. Death left pieces of surgical sponge in this patient’s neck that caused sepsis to be born that almost ended Gladewell’s life. 

Ok peeps that is enough of some of Dr. Death’s crimes. I hope you enjoyed and found this as interesting as I did. Peace and Love.