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Frederick LaGois

Case from West Islip, NY dated Oct 09, 1987

Victim Details

Frederick LaGois

Male

West Islip

NY

1987-10-09

60

Frederick

LaGois

07/18/2026

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Frederick LaGois, a 60-year-old man, came into Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip, New York, expecting treatment and time to heal, not a final reckoning. On October 9, 1987, while hospitalized and awaiting surgery for a prostate condition, he died inside the place that was supposed to keep him safe. In the moment it happened, it could have looked like one more sudden medical crisis in a ward full of fragile hearts and failing lungs—an emergency that flared up without warning and then went d ...
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