James T. Woods was 65 when he died at Daniel Drake Memorial Hospital in Cincinnati on July 25, 1986, after cyanide was administered through his gastric tube. At the time his death occurred amid a series of patient deaths that did not immediately flag a crime because many victims were seriously ill or vulnerable and their deaths could be mistaken for natural causes.

The pattern of poisonings was later linked to hospital orderly and nurse’s aide Donald Harvey, who had access to patients, feeding tubes and medical supplies. Woods’s killing was identified during a broader investigation that began after another patient’s autopsy in March 1987 revealed cyanide. Harvey was charged in April 1987, eventually pleaded guilty to multiple aggravated murder counts in Ohio on August 18, 1987, and Woods was specifically listed among the Drake patients covered by those pleas.

Does anyone have information about Woods’s time at Drake or remember details from the hospital in 1986 that could shed more light on his case?