1. Donald Harvey was an American serial killer who claimed to have murdered 87 people, though he has 37 confirmed victims.
20 Facts About Donald Harvey
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Donald Harvey was able to do this during his time as a hospital orderly.
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Donald Harvey was born in Hamilton, Ohio on April 15,1952, the oldest of three children born to Ray and Goldie Harvey.
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Donald Harvey was raised in the tiny Appalachian town of Booneville, Kentucky, where his parents were struggling tobacco farmers and members of the local Baptist church.
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Donald Harvey dropped out of school in the ninth grade, but he earned a correspondence school GED in 1968.
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Donald Harvey began working in hospitals at the age of 18 as an orderly at the Marymount Hospital in London, Kentucky.
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Donald Harvey later confessed that during the ten-month period he worked at the hospital, he killed at least a dozen patients.
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Donald Harvey was insistent that he killed purely out of a sense of empathy for the suffering of those who were terminally ill, but admitted that many of the killings were committed due to anger at the victims.
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Donald Harvey's victims ranged from middle age to elderly and were unusually broad in range, including men and women of various races, ethnicities and backgrounds.
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Cyanide and arsenic were his most-used methods, with Donald Harvey administering them via food or injections.
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Donald Harvey did not limit his victims to helpless hospital patients.
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Donald Harvey became a person of interest when investigators learned he had been forced to resign from the Cincinnati VA hospital after he was caught stealing body parts for occult rituals.
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Not wanting to chance that he would be acquitted, the nurses contacted Minarcin and told him that there was evidence Donald Harvey killed at least ten more people.
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Donald Harvey had been able to stay under the radar in part because he worked in an area of Drake where patients were not expected to survive.
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When Donald Harvey's court-appointed lawyer, Bill Whalen, was briefed in advance about Minarcin's findings, he immediately asked Donald Harvey if he had killed anyone else.
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Donald Harvey replied that by his "estimate," he had killed as many as 70 people.
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Donald Harvey was sentenced to life plus 20 years, to run concurrently with the Ohio sentence.
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Donald Harvey was admitted to the Ohio prison system on October 26,1987.
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On March 28,2017, Donald Harvey was found in his cell severely beaten.
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Donald Harvey died two days later, on March 30,2017.