Milton Bryant Sasser was a 91-year-old patient who died at Marymount Hospital in London, Kentucky, on March 14, 1971. Contemporary accounts now attribute his death to an intentional overdose of morphine administered while Donald Harvey worked at the hospital as an orderly. One chronology says Harvey obtained the morphine from medication kept at the nurses’ station and gave an excessive dose to Sasser.

Sasser’s death was not recognized as a homicide in 1971, and no arrest was made at the time. Harvey left Marymount in 1971 and continued working in medical facilities elsewhere; his crimes only came to light after a 1987 investigation in Cincinnati led to his apprehension and later confessions. Prosecutors in Laurel County subsequently charged and convicted Harvey for multiple Marymount deaths; he pleaded guilty in November 1987 to eight murders and one manslaughter count involving nine patients.

If anyone knew Milton Sasser or worked at Marymount around 1970–1971, does anything about his care or that period stand out to you?