Two days after brutal beating, serial killer Donald Harvey dies in prison

Описание: CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The man charged with dozens of killings in Ohio and Kentucky hospitals has died a violent death in a Toledo prison.

64-year-old Donald Harvey died Thursday morning, March 30, from injuries he suffered in a brutal beating. He was found in his cell Tuesday afternoon.

Harvey was serving multiple life sentences after pleading guilty to 24 murders at Cincinnati’s Drake Hospital in 1987. The so-called “Angel of Death” poisoned and suffocated severely sick and injured patients and claimed them as “mercy killings.”

“This Angel of Death nonsense is just total bull,” said Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney Joe Deters who was an assistant prosecutor in 1987. “He was a very evil person. I don’t have any compassion that he was beaten to death,” Deters told Local 12 Wednesday morning. “He placed himself in that position. I really don’t have much compassion for him. I said it back then and I say it today, if he ever got back out he would have continued to kill people. I mean he just enjoyed doing it.”

In addition to the Ohio murders, Harvey also pled guilty to nine hospital killings in southern Kentucky. He claimed to have killed dozens more.

On September 20, 1986, Harvey slipped cyanide into the gastric tube of Clayborn Kendrick who was recovering from a head injury at Drake Hospital.

“He left a journal and he explained that he murdered my dad to help my mother,” said Kendrick’s daughter Kathy Young. “My mother went to Hawaii to visit my cousin and he put off murdering my dad at his intended date because he wanted her to go and have a vacation. A warped mind.”

Harvey had a boyish manner and was soft-spoken but could recall each murder in fine detail. The killings went undetected until a medical examiner smelled cyanide during the autopsy of a patient who had died at Drake Hospital.

“Am I glad he’s gone?” Young asked herself. “Not really. My dad is gone. The other people are gone. This is going to bring up a lot of anger for some. Sadness for some. They have to go through all this again.”