Είχε προκαλέσει σάλο το 1987, όταν καταδικάστηκε για τον θάνατο τουλάχιστον 55 ασθενών σε νοσοκομεία του Οχάιο και του Κεντάκι
Επίθεση από άλλον ή άλλους τρόφιμους της φυλακής δέχθηκε ο serial killer του Οχάιο και του Κεντάκι, «Άγγελος του Θανάτου», με αποτέλεσμα να καταλήξει στα τραύματά του δύο ημέρες αργότερα.
Ο Ντόναλντ Χάρβεϊ είχε καταδικαστεί με την ανώτατη δυνατή ποινή, καθώς το 1987 βρέθηκε ένοχος για τη δολοφονία τουλάχιστον 37 ανθρώπων, οι οποίοι ήταν ασθενείς σε νοσοκομεία στις περιοχές του Σινσινάτι και του Λονδίνου, στο Κεντάκι.
Ακολούθως ανέλαβε την ευθύνη για τον θάνατο άλλων 18 ανθρώπων που νοσηλεύονταν στο Ιατρικό Κέντρο Βετεράνων, στο Σινσινάτι.
Όπως είχε δηλώσει την εποχή εκείνη, οι περισσότεροι ήταν βαριά άρρωστοι και ο ίδιος θέλησε να βάλει ένα τέρμα στο μαρτύριο που βίωναν.
Ο 64χρονος «Άγγελος του Θανάτου» βρέθηκε βαριά τραυματισμένος στο κελί του την περασμένη Τρίτη, στις εγκαταστάσεις των φυλακών του Τολέδο και δύο ημέρες μετά, την Πέμπτη, άφησε την τελευταία του πνοή.
Dating as far back as the age of 18, Donald Harvey 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 the hospital, he killed at least a dozen patients. Harvey was insistent that he killed purely out of a sense of empathy for the sufferings of those who were terminally ill. He also admitted that many of the killings he committed were due to anger at the victim.[4] Harvey 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 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); 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, injection, or IV. The majority of Harvey’s crimes took place at the Marymount Hospital (now St. Joseph’s – London) in London, Kentucky, the Cincinnati V.A. Medical Hospital, and Cincinnati’s Drake Memorial Hospital.
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.[5]
Harvey was incarcerated in Toledo Correctional Institution, where he had been admitted on October 26, 1987. His first parole hearing was scheduled for April 2043.[3] On March 28, 2017, authorities reported that Harvey had been found in his cell severely beaten. He died on March 30, 2017.[6]
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Jump up^ “‘Angel of Death’ serial killer Donald Harvey dies after prison attack”. Fox News. March 30, 2017. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
Jump up^ Holmes, Ronald, & Holmes, Stephen. (2009). Serial Murder 3rd ed. Sage Publications, Inc.
^ Jump up to:a b Offender Search Detail – Donald Harvey Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
Jump up^ Interview on Mindhunter, MSNBC, November 30, 2008.
Jump up^ Psychology, Department Of; Elizabeth Sellers; Pannill Hedgecock; Melissa Georges. “Donald Harvey “Angel of Death”; page 4″ (PDF). Radford University. p. 13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 March 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
Jump up^ “Donald Harvey, “Angel of Death” serial killer, dead at 64″. CBS News. 2017-03-30. Retrieved 2017-03-30.