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Donald Harvey was born on 15 April, 1952 in Hamilton, Ohio, U.S., is an American serial killer (1952–2017). Discover Donald Harvey's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

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Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 15 April, 1952
Birthday 15 April
Birthplace Hamilton, Ohio, U.S.
Date of death 2017
Died Place Toledo, Ohio, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1952

Donald Harvey (April 15, 1952 – March 30, 2017) was an American serial killer who claimed to have murdered 87 people, though official estimates are between 37 and 47 victims.

He was able to do this during his time as a hospital orderly.

Donald Harvey was born in Hamilton, Ohio on April 15, 1952, the oldest of three children born to Ray and Goldie Harvey.

He was raised in the tiny Appalachian town of Booneville, Kentucky, where his parents were struggling tobacco farmers and members of the local Baptist church.

From the ages of five to eighteen, Harvey was sexually molested by both an uncle and a neighbor, but he told no one except his sister, and only after the abuse ended.

1968

Harvey dropped out of school in the ninth grade, but he earned a correspondence school GED in 1968.

1970

His spree took place between 1970 and 1987.

Harvey claimed to have begun killing to "ease the pain" of patients—mostly cardiac patients—by smothering them with their pillows.

However, he gradually grew to enjoy killing and became a self-described "angel of death."

At the time of his death, Harvey was serving 28 life sentences at the Toledo Correctional Institution in Toledo, Ohio, having pled guilty to murder charges to avoid execution.

1971

After an arrest for burglary in March 1971, Harvey enlisted in the United States Air Force, but was discharged after nine months due to two suicide attempts; after these nervous breakdowns, he came to terms with his homosexuality.

Harvey began working in hospitals at the age of 18.

His first medical job was as an orderly at the Marymount Hospital in London, Kentucky.

He later confessed that during the ten-month period he worked at the hospital, he killed at least a dozen patients.

His second victim was killed in the room with Danny George, a twelve-year-old child.

Harvey was insistent that he killed purely out of a sense of empathy for the suffering of those who were terminally ill, but also admitted that many of the killings were committed due to anger at the victims.

His victims ranged from middle age to elderly and were unusually broad in range, including men and women of various races, ethnicities and backgrounds.

The only thing they had in common was that they were all cardiac patients.

The full extent of Harvey's crimes may never be known since so many were undetected for so long.

He did not use any particular modus operandi and used many methods to kill his victims, 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), and insertion of a coat hanger into a catheter, causing an abdominal puncture and subsequent peritonitis.

Cyanide and arsenic were his most-used methods, with Harvey administering them via food or injections.

The majority of Harvey's crimes took place at the Marymount Hospital, the Cincinnati V.A. Medical Hospital, and Cincinnati's Drake Memorial Hospital.

At various times, he worked as an orderly or an autopsy assistant.

Harvey did not limit his victims to helpless hospital patients.

When he suspected his lover and roommate Carl Hoeweler of infidelity, he poisoned Hoeweler's food with arsenic so he would be too ill to leave their apartment.

He poisoned two of his neighbors—sickening one, Diane Alexander, by putting hepatitis serum in her drink, and killing the other, Helen Metzger, by putting arsenic in her pie.

He also killed Hoeweler's father Henry with arsenic.

1987

After keeping his crimes hidden for seventeen years, Harvey slipped in March 1987.

An autopsy on John Powell, who had died abruptly after spending several months on life support following a motorcycle accident, revealed large amounts of cyanide in his system.

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.

At the time, most hospitals did not vet orderlies as closely as doctors or nurses.

When they brought Harvey in for questioning, he confessed to Powell's murder, claiming he had euthanized him with cyanide.

Pat Minarcin, then an anchor at Cincinnati station WCPO-TV, found it unlikely that someone who had spent almost two decades caring for patients could suddenly kill one without having killed before.

During his report on the night of Harvey's arrest, Minarcin asked on-air if there had been any other deaths.

It was soon revealed that several nurses at Drake had raised concerns with administrators upon noticing a spike in deaths while Harvey was employed there, but they had been ordered to keep quiet.

Not wanting to chance that he would be acquitted, the nurses contacted Minarcin and told him that there was evidence Harvey killed at least ten more people.

Over the next several months, Minarcin investigated the suspicious deaths and amassed enough evidence to air a half-hour special report detailing evidence that linked Harvey to at least 24 murders in a four-year period.

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.

When Harvey's court-appointed lawyer, Bill Whalen, was briefed in advance about Minarcin's findings, he immediately asked Harvey if he had killed anyone else.

Harvey replied that by his "estimate," he had killed as many as 70 people.