Henry Lucero Castro

Henry Lucero Castro, a 65-year-old man, was a patient at Community Hospital of the Valleys in Perris, California, when what initially appeared to be a serious cardiac illness became part of a far more disturbing pattern of deaths inside the hospital's intensive-care unit. Castro, a World War II Army veteran who was described in later accounts as having worked as a heavy-equipment operator, had been admitted on April 17, 1981, after complaining of dizziness and pain involving his chest, neck and ...

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