Orville lynn majors biography
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Angel of Death Orville Lynn Majors: Who was the serial killer-nurse?
He was Indiana's quietest, most low-key serial killer, a pet shop owner and hospital nurse with access to the potentially deadly drugs potassium chloride and epinephrine.
He was convicted of six murders, but authorities believe he may have killed as many as 70 elderly patients as they convalesced at the Vermillion County Hospital between and
And now Orville Lynn Majors, dubbed "the angel of death" by the anonymous tipster who first alerted police to his activities, is himself dead. Majors died Sept. 24 of natural causes in the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City where he was serving a year sentence. He was
Majors never discussed his case publicly after his conviction. He maintained his innocence, attributing his presence at an unusually large number of hospital deaths to the many overtime hours he worked and to "bad luck."
His victims were all elderly, which led to speculation he was practicing euthanasia
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The story of Indiana's 'Angel of Death,' Orville Lynn Majors
When patient deaths spiked at Vermillion County Hospital, an investigation revealed something nefarious: They weren't coincidental.
A years long investigation revealed a hospital employee — Orville Lynn Majors — was injecting patients with heart-stopping drugs. Majors, dubbed the "Angel of Death," was convicted of murdering six patients and was sentenced to years in prison in
Majors died in prison Sept. 24, He was
Though Majors was only convicted for the murders of six patients, it’s believed he was a serial killer likely responsible for many more — over deaths at the hospital were investigated, according to Indianapolis Star archives.
Suspicious deaths at area hospital
Majors was from Linton, Indiana, which had about 5, people at the census.
In addition to being a nurse at the Vermillion County Hospital, he worked as a visiting nurse for a home health care agency and owned a pet shop in Linton. He was inspired t
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Orville Lynn Majors, who was convicted of killing six people while he was a sjuksköterska at a rural Indiana hospital, has died while serving a year sentence, state prison officials said Monday.
The year-old Majors was having breathing problems and became unresponsive Sunday at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, according to the Indiana Department of Correction. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Preliminary autopsy results show Majors had heart problems and died of natural causes, the department said.
Majors was convicted in on murder charges that he gave lethal injections of heart-stopping drugs to ailing patients in the mids at the former Vermillion County Hospital in Clinton, about 60 miles west of Indianapolis nära the Indiana-Illinois state line. The jury couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict on a seventh murder count.
He was suspected of causing dozens of more deaths.
Prosecutors said Majors injected the patients with epinephrine and pota