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I'm Lacey, and I'm Ashley, and this is United States of Murder.

This week we're in Oregon discussing the Oregon State Hospital incident.

Then we'll talk about the pig farmer killer.

So buckle up and join us on this dark and twisted ride through the Beaver State.

November 18th, 1942, Mickey McKillop was a cook at the Oregon State Hospital.

So the Oregon State Hospital is a public mental health facility for psychiatric patients.

He and George, his sous chef, are making dinner for the 500 patients.

They're the only two cooks.

So once the United States entered the war, they're super understaffed, like a lot of places, because people are

leaving their jobs. They're volunteering for the military. So the hospital started asking

patients who were trustworthy to help them in the kitchen because they didn't, they were short-staffed.

So that's how Georgeorge got there he was brought

there by his parents to help with his epilepsy he had seizures and things and his parents probably

thought that it was mental health related back then yeah yeah because it the 1940s, and they didn't know a lot about the disease at the time.

So the staff psychiatrist diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia, and he was admitted for life.

Oh, man.

It was very sad. He didn't have anything close to that, and Mickey felt admitted for life. Oh, man. It was very sad.

He didn't have anything close to that.

And Mickey felt sorry for him.

He was clearly not a paranoid schizophrenic.

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