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Joseph M. Pike

Case from Cincinnati, OH dated Mar 06, 1987

Victim Details

Joseph M. Pike

Male

Cincinnati

OH

1987-03-06

68

Joseph

M. Pike

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Joseph M. Pike, a 68-year-old man from the Cincinnati, Ohio, area, died on March 6, 1987, while he was a patient in the Cincinnati hospital system. Online accounts identifying victims of hospital orderly Donald Harvey place Pike among the people Harvey deliberately killed during a long series of poisonings and other murders committed against patients under his care. Pike's ethnicity or race is not reliably identified in the available online sources.

Pike's death came near the end of Harve ...
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