Doris Nally was a 65-year-old White patient who died at Daniel Drake Memorial Hospital in Cincinnati on May 2, 1986. At the time her death passed without public recognition as a homicide. Later investigation attributed her death to cyanide placed in her apple juice by Donald Harvey, an orderly employed at Drake who would be identified as a serial killer responsible for numerous patient deaths by poisoning, suffocation and other means.

Harvey began working at Drake in February 1986, and Nally’s poisoning occurred during an especially concentrated series of killings there. Her case was linked to a broader probe after a March 1987 autopsy on another patient, John Powell, revealed cyanide; Harvey confessed to poisoning Powell, was arrested in April 1987, and subsequently admitted to many hospital murders. In early 1988 he was indicted in Hamilton County for three additional aggravated murders, including Nally’s, and Ohio conviction records show related aggravated-murder convictions with an effective date of February 19, 1988.

Nally’s death was ultimately attributed to Harvey alone; investigators found no indication of a second suspect. Does anyone have memories of Nally, her family, or her time at Daniel Drake Memorial Hospital that could add context to her case?