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Margaret M. Mahoney Kuckro, 78, was a long-term patient at Daniel Drake Memorial Hospital in Cincinnati who died on February 15, 1987 after drinking orange juice that contained cyanide. At the time she died, hospital orderly Donald Harvey had not yet been exposed; his role in a series of suspicious in-hospital poisonings only emerged after a March 1987 autopsy on another patient revealed cyanide.

Investigators later linked Kuckro’s poisoning to Harvey, who pleaded guilty in August 1987 to multiple counts of aggravated murder and admitted to numerous killings while working at Drake. There is no indication anyone else was arrested or charged in Kuckro’s killing.

If anyone knew Margaret Kuckro or was at Daniel Drake Memorial Hospital in February 1987, does any detail about her care or those days stand out to you?