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The Pillow That Smothered an Old Man and Unleased a Serial Killer
An orderly at a Cincinnati hospital smothers a patient and toxicology finds cyanide-how did that lead to a string of hospital murders tied to one man?
The Pillow That Smothered an Old Man and Unleased a Serial Killer
In this episode, we follow the case that began with cyanide in a dying man's blood and expanded into a decades-long trail across hospitals. It covers Donald Harvey's work history, the patterns nurses noticed, and the institutional blind spots that let deaths go unexamined-what connected the deaths and who finally followed the thread?
Person: Donald Harvey
Date: April 15, 1952…
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