Robert George Clements

Dr Robert George Clements was a physician and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Life
In 1947 he murdered his fourth wife, Amy Victoria Burnett - the daughter of a wealthy industrialist - with morphine in order to inherit her money. Both he and the doctor he called to examine his dying fourth wife diagnosed myeloid leukaemia, which was confirmed by a botched post-mortem. The doctor who carried this out, Dr James Houston, later committed suicide.

When the police came to arrest Clements they found that he too had committed suicide, leaving a note:


 * "To Whom It May Concern: I can no longer tolerate the diabolical insults to which I have been recently exposed."