True Crime Friday: Walter Freeman II, the Lobotomy Serial Killer
Walter Freeman II was a neurologist who popularized transorbital lobotomy in the 1940s and 1950. Walter Freeman performed over four thousand lobotomies. He is most famous for the lobotomy performed on Rosemary Kennedy. During his time practicing medicine, he was considered a pioneer of practice. He is now considered a serial killer because those lobotomies made people zombies, he butchered them, incapacitated some and he killed a great number of patients. He performed or supervised thousands of lobotomies, often traveling across the United States in a van he called the Lobotimobile. Walter Freeman is now considered a serial killer to the medical community and to society. The Early Childhood of Walter Freeman, II Walter J. Freeman was born on November 14, 1895. He lived with this parents and grandfather William Williams Keen a well-known surgeon in the Civil War. His father was also a very successful doctor. Freeman attended Yale University where he graduated. He then enrolled at the U...
