Silas Butner, a 62-year-old African American man, died in London, Kentucky, on January 23, 1971, while a patient at Marymount Hospital. Online records identify him as one of the Kentucky victims of Donald Harvey, a young hospital orderly who would later become one of the most prolific convicted serial killers in the United States. Butner had been suffering from kidney problems and was receiving treatment at Marymount when he came into Harvey's care. According to accounts developed years later fr ...
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