Hiram Profitt

Hiram Profitt was a male patient in Cincinnati, Ohio, whose death on September 19, 1984, was eventually tied to hospital worker and serial killer Donald Harvey. Online accounts of Harvey's victims do not provide Profitt's age or ethnicity. Profitt died after receiving an excessive dose of heparin, an anticoagulant medication used to prevent blood clots. Later accounts describing Harvey's crimes characterized Profitt's death as an accidental killing within Harvey's much broader series of hospital ...