Luina Schidlowski was an 87-year-old white woman who died in Los Angeles County on January 22, 1997. Her death was later linked to a series of suspicious fatalities at Glendale Adventist Medical Center where she had been a patient.

Exhumation and toxicology testing found the muscle relaxant Pavulon in her system. Investigators determined the drug had not been administered as part of legitimate treatment. Authorities tied Schidlowski’s death to actions by Efren Saldivar, a former respiratory therapist at the hospital, who prosecutors alleged injected Pavulon into several elderly patients without providing artificial respiratory support, causing asphyxiation.

Saldivar was charged in the case; prosecutors said six elderly patients died and one patient survived an attempted killing and later testified. Saldivar later entered a guilty plea to six counts of murder and one count of attempted murder and received six consecutive life sentences without parole.