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🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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0:00.0 | There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-racement-office. |
0:03.9 | We have a weird... |
0:05.8 | ...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion. |
0:09.4 | On April 15, 1952, a man was born who would quickly find himself unemployed and spending all of his time in a hospital with a sick family member. It was there |
0:23.1 | that a nun, innocently enough, offered this down on his luck man a job at the hospital as an |
0:28.7 | orderly. What she couldn't have known, what he didn't even know at the time, was that she just |
0:34.0 | offered a job to a future angel of death. So if you like your coffee hot, |
0:38.8 | but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. |
0:46.9 | Donald Harvey was born on April 15, 1952 in Butler County, Ohio. He was a clean-cut kid, but was later described as a loner and a teacher's pet. |
0:57.5 | When he was in ninth grade, he dropped out of school, not because he had bad grades, |
1:02.3 | but because he was bored with the daily routine of school. |
1:06.0 | After working in a factory for a number of years, he got a call from his mother who asked him to move to London, Kentucky to take care of an ailing grandfather who was in the hospital. |
1:15.6 | He spent so much time there that he became a familiar face to the officials, especially |
1:20.6 | the nuns, one of which offered him a job as an orderly when he was just 18 years old. |
1:26.6 | It didn't seem to matter to her that he didn't have a an orderly when he was just 18 years old. |
1:30.2 | It didn't seem to matter to her that he didn't have a diploma. |
1:35.2 | And since he was unemployed at the moment, he agreed and started working that next day. |
1:40.4 | Part of his duties were to change bedpans, insert catheters, and pass out medications, |
1:44.7 | meaning he spent a great deal of time alone with these patients. |
1:48.3 | His first few weeks seemed to go off without a hitch. |
1:52.9 | But it wasn't long before patients started dying on Donald's watch. |
1:58.4 | He later described the first murder as a stroke victim who had rubbed feces on his face, |
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