Stella Lemon

Stella Lemon was an 87-year-old white female patient at Daniel Drake Memorial Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, whose death on March 16, 1987, became part of one of the most extensive hospital serial-murder investigations in American history. Contemporary reporting identified Lemon as one of the patients killed by hospital orderly Donald Harvey. According to the case record, Harvey gave Lemon cyanide approximately three or four weeks before she died. Later accounts describe the poison as having been ...