McGray operated across Canada over more than a decade, and the convictions account for only part of what he claims is a larger body of killings — claims serious enough that police across the country reopened cold case files in response. What distinguishes his case is not only the geographic spread and the apparent randomness of his victims, but the institutional failures threaded throughout: murders committed during a prison weekend pass, a cellmate killed in medium security, and an innocent man who spent seventeen years imprisoned for one of McGray's suspected crimes.

A trained surgeon who entered the SS early and rose through its medical hierarchy, Stumpfegger's career traces the arc of how professional credentials were subordinated to institutional atrocity — from experimental surgeries on concentration camp prisoners at Ravensbrück to his final posting inside the Führerbunker. He was present at the end, distributing cyanide capsules and, by some accounts, assisting in the killing of the Goebbels children before fleeing through the ruins of Berlin with Bormann. His remains, identified by skeletal analysis and composite photography decades later, suggested he bit down on a cyanide capsule rather than face capture — the same method he had helped supply to others.