Ben Gilbert

Ben Gilbert, an 81-year-old man, died on July 28, 1970, after being attacked while he was a patient at Marymount Hospital in London, Kentucky. His death would not be publicly tied to a murderer until many years later. The person eventually identified as responsible was Donald Harvey, a young hospital orderly who had begun working at Marymount in 1970 and who would later become one of the most prolific convicted serial killers in the United States. Gilbert was one of a series of patients Harvey a ...