Defending Donald Harvey: The Case of America's Most Notorious Angel-of-Death Serial Killer

Martin, Bruce

ISBN 10: 1578602092 / ISBN 13: 9781578602094

Published by Clerisy Press, Emmis Books, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Defending Donald Harvey: The Case of America's Most Notorious Angel-of-Death Serial Killer
• Publisher: Clerisy Press, Emmis Books
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1578602092
• ISBN 13: 9781578602094
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Over the course of eighteen years, Donald Harvey murdered at least fifty-nine people while working as a nursing assistant in Ohio and Kentucky hospitals. His crimes shocked the nation; even today, Harvey's name is invoked whenever those we trust in the medical system commit horrendous crimes. Now for the first time, Harvey's court-appointed defense attorney, William Whalen, and co-author Bruce Martin, reveal facts formerly protected by attorney-client privilege in Defending Donald Harvey. With Harvey's full cooperation, Whalen and Martin provide frightful insights into the mind of the cherub-faced killer. They detail his abused childhood; the confused search for identity that plunged him into Satanism and Nazism; the bizarre behavior reported by his coworkers but ignored by his employers; and of course his heartbreaking, brutal crimes. The book also includes an afterward by award-winning journalist Pat Minarcin, who broke the story that opened a Pandora's box of multiple killings.

About the Author

William Whalen was the court-appointed public defender for Donald Harvey. He was with the Hamilton County (Ohio) Prosecutor’s office for fourteen years, two as assistant municipal prosecuting attorney and twelve as assistant prosecutor. Since returning to private practice in 1984, he has specialized in criminal defense.

Bruce Martin brings broad and diverse career experience to his writing; he has been a chemical engineer, human relations manager, behavioral scientist, college professor and corporate executive, as well as a mystery writer whose work has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Mystery Readers Journal, Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine, and others, as well as two published books. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.