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onald Harvey killed so many people he couldn't remember the
names of some of his victims or the circumstances of their

lealhs,
Donald hailed from the

Creck. His family was impoverished, as were most of

tiny ‘ Kentucky crossreads of Island
the inhabi-

tants of the ramshackle clapboard houses which bordered the

ereck,

Although he was an
honors student, Donald
dropped out of sehool in
Grade 8 and made his way
to London, about 35 miles,
from his home. In Londan,

ted his grandfather,

as confined to Mary.
nt Hospital. Donald

nthratled wi

WH almosphere

ade up his mind to follow
a-eareer which would allow him to work
in a medical institution, When he tumed
18, he secured a job at Marymount as a
hospital altendant.

It was while employed at the hospital
that Donald had his first scrape with the
law. He stole money from a nelghbor's
apartment and, that same evening, set
fire to another apartment. It turned out
to be quite a night for Donald, He was
arrested, but released to the custody of
his parents.

Donald's father urged him to join the
armed forces. The wayward son did as
he was told. He enlisted in the Air Force
and was stalioncd at a base near San
Francisco, Donatd found himself drawn
to Frisco's night life, particularly the
homosexual scene. After he took two
drug overdoses, the Air Force washed
their hands of Donald Harvey.

Our boy then went to work for several
hospitals and, for a time, worked at the
Cincinnali Veterans Administration
Medical Centre as un autopsy assis-
tant in the morgue. In 1983, he was
transferred to other dutics in the same
institution.

Around this lime, Donald met and fell
in love with cosmetologist Carl
Hoeweler. The two men commenced an
affair which would last for years,
although Donald often frequented homo-
sexual hangouls for one night stands.
His promiscuity precipitated arguments
between the lovers. Donald felt that
Carl should be punished for being angry
with him, He decided to make his lover
sick by feeding him small quantities of
arsenic.

Carl didn’t understand what was hap-
pening to him. He visited several doc-
tors and underwent a scrics of tests, but
was never properly diagnosed. All the
while, Donald: posed~2s~a: caring and

elped nurse Carl

‘Cart, who @ é Small apartment
building where he and Donald lived, had
as a tenant one Helen Melzger. Helen

was forever complaining about repairs
to her apartment which were neglected.
Donatd didn’t like the way she annoyed
Carl. One day, he slipped a bit of
arsenic into her pie. Helen was rushed
to Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati, where
she dicd. Her friend Donald Harvey was
one of her pallbearers. .

Donald had an argument with Carl's
father. He ended all disagreements by
putting arsenic in Henry Hoeweler's
udding. The 82-year-old gentleman died
fh Providence Hospital.

When Edgar Wilson, an 81-year-old
tenant of Carl's, became a nuisance,
Donald took offense. He killed the old
man with a large dose of arsenic. Wil-
son’s death was attributed to kidney fail-
ure, The serics of deaths continucd.
James Peluso was sent to his great
teward because of a minor disagree-
ment.

Donald and Carl continucd their
love/hate relationship. In July, 1985,
when Donald fost his job at the Veterans
Administration Hospital, he accused
Carl of setting him up. When Carl was
arrested and charged with public inde-
cency, he blamed Donald for inform-
ing the police on him. It was ail too
much. Donald and Carl agreed to dis-
agree. The pair broke up.

In_ 1886, Donald was successful in
obtaining a job as a nurse’s aide at
Drake Memorial, one of Cincinnati's
most prestigious hospitals. The instilu-
tion's patients consist of the chronically
iN and long term care patients who are
confined to bed or wheelchairs. It was at
Drake that the first hint of Donald Har-
yey fascination with paison came to
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eral Electric plant in Cincinnati. One hot
day in the summer, he took his motor-
cycle for a spin. The 44-year-old father
of three teenaged children lost control of
his bike, was thrown in the air and
landed on his head. Near death, Powell
was rushed to Drake Memorial. Doc-

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had ‘suffered!severe brain damage and vey. Next morning, an autopsy was per-
remained in a deep coms for several -

Qn March 7, 1987, Powell was found

'NURSE’S AIDE MURDERED AT LEAST 5

dead in bed by nurse’s aide Donaid Mar-

formed. Deputy Coroner Dr. Lee
man recognized the acrid odor of
cyanide, the same smell which fiction

writers. describe. as that of bitter
atmonds, ‘Tests were conducted which
confirmed Dir. Lehman's suspicions,
Lethal doses of cyanide were found In
tho stomach’ and Yiood, When an indo-
endent laboratory: sorraborated the

Indings, pollce were not .
The massive! Investigation which fol-
terrogation of more

those asked,

cooperate,

Harvey, the nurse's alde who had found

Powell dead in his bed. ne

became the malin suspect In Powell's

murder. But there would be more —
more,

When. they were made aware of the
grave suspicion cast on Donald Harvey,
other hospital employees came forwar
with Information that the suspected man
‘ays seemed to be around when
ents died. They urged the adminis-
tration. to expand the Investigation to
lude these other deaths. Hospital
esitant to admit that
iller in their midst.

hen authoritics neglected to act,
several nurses contacted TV news
Pat ‘in, who

horities were

tely started investigating thelr allega~
tlons. Two months inter. Minarcin had
enough to air a half-hour special expos-
Ing the questionable deaths.

The TV. program was a sensation.
Within a day of the broadcast, an. offi-
clat investigation was under way. Don-
ald Harvey retained a lawyer, who con-
tacted police, advising them that his
client might have Information about
additional deaths, A deal was struck.
Donald would teil all and plead guilty to
those murders which took lace at
Drake Memoria! in return for the State's
promise not to seck the death penalty.

Authoritics accepted the deal in order
to clear up several suspicious deaths.
Initially, they didn't realize the Pan-
dora's box they were opening.

Donald was a veritable killing
machine, He pleaded guilty and gave
detailed confessions concerning 24 mur-
ders, 21 of which took place at Drake
Memorial. He was given 21 sentences of
20 years to life to run concurrently and

three similar sentences to run consecuti-
vely.

Donald admitted that not all of his
victims died. He pleaded guilty to
several charges of attempted murder.
For these offenses, he was sentenced to
seven to 25 years in prison.

Donald wasn’t through spinning his
narrative of death. He had operated
across two states for over 16 years. It is
generally agreed that he murdered a
total of 57 hospital patients and an
unknown number of acquaintances,
While confessing, he usually tried te
paint himself as an angel of mercy who
terminated the lives of the elderly and
infirm. No one believed that Donald
Harvey had one ounce of mercy his
makeup.

In all, his sentences add up to 2,225
years imprisonment. Because s0-many
of the sentences run concurrently, he
will eligible for parole in 60 years, when
he will be 95 years of age.

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Health professionals have rights too! —

}! Dear Ann Landers: I am a
jregistercd nurse working in an
jintensiye care unit. I love my job
and I want to be a nurse for the
{rest of my life, This Ictter is a plea
yfor my safety as well as that of my
husband and family.

Yesterday, while handling
blood and other secretions, I acci-
{dentally stuck myself with a dirty
needle. The only reason it hap-
pened is that I was being cautious
and wearing rubber gloves. the
hub of the needle stuck to the
glove, then turned and stuck
j Seply. into my index finger.

The next hour and a half was

spent getting the doctor to come
into the hospital and obtain con-
sent from the patient's family to
do an HIV test on him. This family
consented. They could have
refused. The results of the test are
confidential, which means they
will not reveal the results to me
; even if it is positive.
No consent is necessary for the
§ hepatitis screen, for which I have
already been immunized, nor is
consent necessary for any other
\lab test, I do not want to hear
tabout gay rights because AIDS is
} no longer a gay disease. It is a fatal
| infection that is spreading through-
| out the general population. I have
{mo fear of caring for AIDS
‘ patients. I do feel, however, that I
‘have a right to know if a patient
{ I'm looking after has AIDS.

Am I being unreasonable? My
supervisor thinks so. What do you
think? Right now I'm plenty upset.
— RN. inIowa ‘

Dear Iowa R.N.: I have said
this in the column before and I
have no hesitation about saying it
again. I believe health profession-
als who serve patients have the

and only the clothes on his back,
is not important. The point-is that

be was coming home to New Jer- |

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It took my son two wecks to
get here. Naturally, I was curious
and asked him low he survived

with no money and no food. He -

said it was no problem. H
how some of th x

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right to know if those patients have
AIDS. Their instructions are to
take precautions and assume that
every patient is infected, but in
instances where the patient knows
that he is infected, he should have
the decency to tell the nurses, doc-
tors, dentists, and others who take
care of him. Since you had direct
contact with this patient's bodily
fluids, you certainly are entitled to
know if he is HIV positive.

Dear Ann Landers: I would
like to tell about some of the good
people in this world. We hear so
much about the others.

‘What my 16-year-old son was
doing in Maine, or why he was
there with his bicycle, no money

he met along the way invited him
to spend the night in their homes
and gave him dinner and break-
fast. The rest of the time when he
was hungry, he would approach a
Stranger and ask for a loan to get
food. The people who gave him
money ranged in age from 25 to
40 — both sexes, Whenever any-
one gave him money, he wrote
down their names and addressed
and the amount.

To back up his incredible story,
he handed me the picce of paper
with the names, addressed and
number son it and said, “These
were the people who loaned my
money. Will you please send them
a check?" OF course, I mailed the
checks out that same day.

Isn’t it good to know there are
such people in the world? — A
Grateful Father in N.J. j

Dear N.J.: What a nice story.’
I’ve always believed there are
many more good people in the
world than bad, and if given/a
chance, they'll prove it. That
for the evidence. (P.S. Your son

» Must have an honest face and a ton
of cham.)

Dear Ann Landers: Choking
and suffocation are two of the most
common causes of preventable
death in children under 1 year of .
age. According to the textbook of
Pediatric Basic Life Support from ,
the American Heart Association
and the American Academy of
Pediatrics, one of the most com-
mon causes pf choking and suffo-
cation is giving‘formula, milk or
juice to an infant who is lying
down, /

Tam writing to you because I
am distressed by the number of
parent s I see propping up baby
bottles in restaurants, grocery
stores and malls, The babies are
lying in a stroller with a bottle

* propped up on a blanket or a jacket
80 the parents can continue to shop
or eat a meal without being inter-
rupted.

/ One of the lessons taught in the
pediatric CPR course is that in the
event of choking and suffocation,
jthe victim is not able to make
noise. A distinct advantage of
breast-feeding is that it ensures the
mother will take to sit and feed her
baby. For the mother who chooses
to bottle-feed her infant, I hope she
will take the time to sit and hold
the little one during feedings.
Besides the safety factor, holding
and cuddling is very good for the
baby’s developement and self-

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themost peculiarthings
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Proof that true stories are
weirder than made-up
stories.

In a two-day period in New
York City recently, a homeless
man, a train maintenance worker,

he

and a dog were killed on the sub-
way tracks, Ninety people tele-
phoned the Transit Authority to
express concem about the dog, but
only three called about the worker
and no one about the homeless
man,
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— As a result of seizing assets
of ailed banks, the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corp. assumed owner-
ship last year of, among other
things, the negative to a never-
released, 1985 film starring
unknowns Charlie Sheen and
Laura Dem, the largest cemetery
of former slaves in the United
States, and 8000 units of Brahma
bull semen.

— Because of a month-long
hiring freeze in Maryland last

September and a heart attack suf-

red by a staff

fate’s Anatomy | vas, (
to one person, Ronald S. W:
Cadavers started piling up, creat-
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the state provided emergency
relief.
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Department's annual report you
the president and Congress last
year, Sawyer Air Force Base
(located in Michigan) is shown in
Wisconsin, and the upper peninsu-
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— Anthony Senecal, mayor of
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lands, Calif., recommended crimi-
nal charges against F. Douglas
McDaniel, 69, a state appeals
court judge. Two months earlicr,
while watching “Pretty Woman”
in a Twin Peaks, Calif., theater, he
became incensed that two kids
were ling and allegedly hit

checks and doubted his system
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all our bums.”
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ently been used to pur-
e, among other things, a
funeral, 32 onces of the illegal
drug PCP, prostitution services
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