Donald Harvey (born in
Butler
County
, Ohio
in 1952) is
an American
serial killer who claims to have murdered 87 people. The official estimates
of the number of people he murdered range anywhere from 36 to 57
deaths. He is a self-professed "
Angel of
Death".
Harvey is currently serving four consecutive
life sentences at the Southern Ohio
Correctional Facility
in Ohio. His
inmate number is A-199449.
History
Dating as
far back as the age of eighteen, Harvey had worked in and around
the medical profession, beginning his
career as an orderly
at the Marymount Hospital in London, Kentucky
. He
later confessed that during the ten month period he worked at this
hospital, he killed at least a dozen patients. Harvey is insistent
that he killed purely out of a sense of empathy for the sufferings
of those who were terminally ill. However, he has also admitted
that many of the killings he committed were due to anger at the
victim .
Harvey is notable for having kept his crimes from coming to light
for over 17 years. The true extent of his crimes may never be
known, since so many were undetected for so long. Harvey is also
notable for having used numerous methods to kill, such as
arsenic;
cyanide;
insulin;
suffocation;
miscellaneous poisons;
morphine; turning
off
ventilators; administration of fluid
tainted with
hepatitis B and/or
HIV (which resulted in a hepatitis infection, but no HIV
infection, and illness rather than death); insertion of a coat
hanger into a
catheter, causing an
abdominal puncture and subsequent
peritonitis. Cyanide and arsenic were his
favorite methods, with Harvey administering them via food,
injection, or IV.
The
majority of Harvey's crimes took place at the Marymount Hospital in London,
Kentucky
, the
Cincinnati
V.A. Medical
Hospital, and Cincinnati's Drake Memorial Hospital. While
working there, Harvey acquired the nickname "The Angel of Death,"
as it was noted that he was present around a number of patients who
later died.
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