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The Nation - News from Aug. 13, 1987

A 35-year-old former nursing orderly, charged with killing a hospital patient, has told authorities in Cincinnati that he killed 34 other people, according to broadcast and published reports. Donald Harvey allegedly killed the people, many of whom were hospital patients with incurable ailments, by poisoning them, wrapping bags over their heads and injecting air into their veins, unidentified law enforcement sources told a Cincinnati television station.

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