April 24, 1961 - Orville Lynn Majors
Healthcare killers occupy a particular category of historical infamy because their crimes invert the trust placed in a caregiver by patients at their most vulnerable. Majors worked as a licensed practical nurse at a small Indiana hospital during the early 1990s, and the spike in patient deaths that coincided with his shifts drew eventual scrutiny from investigators. Convicted of six murders and tried for seven, the suspected total of deaths attributed to his presence on the ward was considerably higher, underscoring how institutional settings can delay or complicate the detection of such patterns.
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Orville Lynn Majors (April 24, 1961 – September 24, 2017) was a licensed practical nurse and serial killer who was convicted of murdering his patients in Clinton, Indiana. Though he was tried for only seven murders and convicted of six, he was believed to have caused additional deaths between 1993 and 1995, when he was employed by the hospital at which the deaths occurred and for which he was investigated. It was reported that he murdered patients whom he claimed were demanding, whiny, or disproportionately adding to his work load.
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