
ORVILLE LYN MAJORS SERIAL
"The fact that he was found guilty and the fact that he was going to spend the rest of his life in prison, I feel confident did give them some ease and some relief," Yelton said. Convicted serial killer Orville Lynn Majors, the Indiana licensed practical nurse who earned the nickname The Angel of Death, died in a state prison Sunday. Yelton said he knows many of those families wished they had certainty that Majors was involved in their loved ones' deaths.
ORVILLE LYN MAJORS TRIAL
Yelton recalled that many relatives of patients who died attended Majors' trial even though he wasn't charged with killing their family members. Orville Lynn Majors (born April 24 1961) is a former licensed practical nurse and serial killer from Linton Indiana who was convicted of murdering his. (Photo by Taro Yamasaki//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images) now West General Community Hospital. his sister (R), & mom Anna Bell at American Legion hall. "At least one day the whole unit died - all four people in the unit died." INDIANAPOLIS, IN Orville Lynn Majors, who was convicted of killing six people while he was a nurse at a rural Indiana hospital, has died while serving a 360-year sentence, state prison. Serial murderer, nurse Lynn Majors (2L), playing bingo w. "These were not normal deaths," Frey said Monday. Orville Lynn Majors (born 24 April 1961) is a former licensed practical nurse from Clinton, Indiana who was convicted of murdering his patients.

At least 15 bodies were exhumed over the next two years to test drug levels.įrey said he believed it was clear Majors was responsible for many of the deaths, even though prosecutors narrowed their focus to only the cases they believed had the strongest evidence that Majors gave his patients unauthorized and lethal injections. Harold Shipman, Genene Jones, Efren Saldivar, Beverley Allitt. Hospital administrators asked police to investigate in 1995 after another nurse's study found the ICU's death rate increased from 31 or less each year in the early 1990s to 120 in 1994. Orville Lynn Majors, Richard Angelo, Michael Swango, Dr. Orville Lynn Majors (ApSeptember 24, 2017) was a licensed practical nurse and serial killer, who was convicted of murdering his patients in Clinton, Indiana. Most of those were settled through a state compensation fund for patients, he said. Survivors of about 80 patients who died while Majors was at the hospital in Clinton filed wrongful-death lawsuits, said Terre Haute attorney Eric Frey, who represented many of the families.
