Carl Hoeweler of Cincinnati survived poisoning attempts by Donald Harvey, a hospital orderly later implicated in numerous patient deaths. Hoeweler and Harvey were long-term partners beginning in the early 1980s; according to Harvey’s own statements, he repeatedly gave Carl small doses of arsenic because he believed Carl was unfaithful. Carl was poisoned again in 1986 and became severely ill, requiring hospitalization, but he survived those attacks.

Harvey’s crimes extended beyond Carl: on May 1, 1983 Harvey admitted to poisoning Carl’s father, 82-year-old Henry Hoeweler, at Providence Hospital by lacing pudding with arsenic; Henry died that night. Harvey also attempted to poison Carl’s mother, Margaret Hoeweler, over the following year, but she survived. Harvey later confessed to dozens of murders and pleaded guilty in August 1987 to multiple counts of aggravated murder.

Carl died on August 4, 2015, at age 74; his obituary notes a long career as a hairdresser and owner of Carl’s Coiffures in Mt. Airy. Does anyone who knew Carl or the Hoeweler family have additional details about his life or those events?