Leon Nelson was a 64-year-old patient at Drake Memorial Hospital in Cincinnati who died by suffocation in April 1986. Later accounts say Nelson was smothered with a wet plastic garbage-bag liner.

Nelson’s death occurred during a period when Harvey was killing patients at Drake using several methods, including cyanide, arsenic, other poisons and suffocation. Nelson was included among the victims in Harvey’s August 1987 guilty pleas, which linked him to numerous Drake deaths; no separate accomplice has been identified in Nelson’s case.

Nelson’s killing was initially hidden among other hospital deaths and only became part of a broader homicide investigation after an autopsy in March 1987 detected cyanide in another patient. Does anyone have memories or information about Drake Memorial Hospital during 1986 that could shed light on Nelson or other patients from that period?