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Kathryn Maxwell, an 85-year-old white woman, was found dead on February 12, 1983, in her room at the Kearsley Home, a nursing facility in Philadelphia. Initially, her death was attributed to natural causes, and her body was donated to the University of Pennsylvania medical school for educational purposes. However, following a series of suspicious deaths at the same facility, authorities exhumed her body for further examination. An autopsy revealed that she had been suffocated and sexually assaul ...Read More
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Victim Details

Kathryn Maxwell

Female

White / Caucasian

Philadelphia

PA

1983-02-12

85

Kathryn

Maxwell

11/17/2025