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Mose Thompson

Case from Cincinnati, OH dated Nov 22, 1986

Victim Details

Mose Thompson

Male

Cincinnati

OH

1986-11-22

65

Mose

Thompson

08/07/2026

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Mose Thompson was a 65-year-old man from Cincinnati, Ohio, whose death on November 22, 1986, was eventually identified as one of the killings committed by hospital orderly Donald Harvey. Thompson was a patient at Cincinnati's Drake Memorial Hospital when Harvey poisoned him with cyanide, introducing the poison through Thompson's gastric feeding tube. Contemporary reporting later placed Thompson among a long series of patients who died while Harvey was working at Drake, where many victims were se ...
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