John V. Combs

John V. Combs, a 68-year-old man from the London, Kentucky, area, died at Marymount Hospital on January 26, 1971, in what initially passed without recognition as a homicide. More than sixteen years later, his death was tied to hospital orderly Donald Harvey, whose admissions exposed a series of killings at Marymount during 1970 and 1971. Combs was the last known patient Harvey killed at the London hospital before leaving his job there.

According to accounts of Harvey's later confession, ...

Donald Harvey

The Marymount Hospital “Serial Killer”