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Fugitives: Caught on Tape - Police Pursue Shoplifting Suspect
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This day in crime
12.29.1997
Orville Lynn Majors, a nurse dubbed the “Angel of Death,” is arrested
12.29.1997
Orville Lynn Majors was a practical nurse who earned the moniker “Angel of Death” for murdering elderly patients in the rural Indiana hospital where he worked between 1993 and 1995. He was arrested in 1997 after a two-year investigation that found patients were 42 times more likely to die when he was on duty. He was convicted of six counts of murder and died in prison in 2017 at age 56.
Notorious Cases
Notorious Cases
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Crime on the Screen
Crime on the Screen
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Crime Solving & Forensics
Crime Solving & Forensics
How DNA Solved the Yogurt Shop Murders
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A nationwide network exists to protect seniors, police and more.
A Smoothie Straw IDed a Suspect 40 Years After a Long Island Teen’s Murder
DNA advances led to a new lead in Theresa Fusco's 1984 murder.
Law & Justice
Law & Justice
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R.Kelly claimed North Carolina prison staff led him to overdose.
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His three victims were bludgeoned more than 100 times.
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Paul Cox confessed to killing Lakshman and Shanta Chervu in 1988.
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