Kathryn Maxwell, an 85-year-old resident of the Kearsley Home nursing facility in Philadelphia, was found dead in her room on February 12, 1983. Her death was first attributed to natural causes and her body was donated to the University of Pennsylvania medical school. After other suspicious deaths at the same facility, authorities exhumed Maxwell’s remains. An autopsy showed she had been suffocated and sexually assaulted.

The investigation identified a former kitchen worker at the Kearsley Home, 24-year-old Anthony Joyner, who confessed to entering Maxwell’s room after midnight through a cellar door, raping her and suffocating her with a pillow so she would not recognize him. He admitted to similar attacks on other elderly female residents, using his familiarity with the facility to move about unnoticed. Joyner was convicted in connection with six rapes and murders of women aged 83 to 92 at the Kearsley Home between January and July 1983 and was sentenced to life without parole.

Did anyone ever know Kathryn Maxwell at the Kearsley Home or have memories of staff or security practices there during early 1983?