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Lawrence Berndsen

Case from Cincinnati, OH dated Apr 23, 1986

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Lawrence Berndsen

Male

Cincinnati

OH

1986-04-23

Lawrence

Berndsen

08/07/2026

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Lawrence Berndsen was a male Cincinnati-area patient whose death became connected to one of the most disturbing medical murder investigations in Ohio history. Online accounts of serial killer Donald Harvey identify Berndsen as a patient at Cincinnati's Drake Memorial Hospital in April 1986. His age and ethnicity are not reliably provided in the available sources. Harvey was working at Drake as a hospital aide at the time, a position that gave him routine access to seriously ill and vulnerable pa ...
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