Dorothy Jean Vandenburg, 78, died on January 7, 2001, at Nocona General Hospital in Texas. Her death was later linked to a cluster of unusual fatalities at the hospital between December 2000 and February 2001 that investigators connected to overdoses of the muscle relaxant Mivacron.

Investigators found discrepancies in the hospital’s Mivacron inventory and identified injections of the drug administered by Vickie Dawn Jackson, a licensed vocational nurse at the facility. Authorities including the Texas Rangers and the FBI opened a criminal investigation and exhumations and forensic testing were used to establish cause of death for multiple patients.

Vandenburg’s death was part of a pattern that alarmed the community and raised questions about patient safety in medical settings. If anyone knew Dorothy Jean Vandenburg, her condition at the hospital, or saw anything unusual at Nocona General Hospital during that period, please share information with the thread.