William Collins was an 85-year-old patient at Daniel Drake Memorial Hospital in Cincinnati who died on October 30, 1986, after drinking orange juice that contained dissolved cyanide. His poisoning was later attributed to orderly Donald Harvey, who admitted placing cyanide in Collins’s drink. At the time Collins died his death did not immediately trigger suspicion because he was an elderly, seriously ill hospital patient.

Collins’s case became part of a much larger investigation after a March 1987 autopsy on another Drake patient, John W. Powell, revealed cyanide. Police focused on Harvey, who eventually confessed to numerous poisonings and pleaded guilty to multiple counts of aggravated murder in August 1987; Collins’s death was included among those he acknowledged. No other person was arrested or prosecuted for Collins’s killing.

Does anyone have information about Collins’s time at Drake Hospital or memories of hospital staff from that period that could shed more light on his case?