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American serial killer

Orville Lynn Majors (April 24, – September 24, ) was a licensed practical nurse and serial killer who was convicted of murdering his patients in Clinton, Indiana.

Though he was tried for only seven murders and convicted of six, he was believed to have caused additional deaths between and , when he was employed by the hospital at which the deaths occurred and for which he was investigated.^[1] It was reported that he murdered patients who he claimed were demanding, whiny, or disproportionately adding to his work load.^[2]

Early life and career

Majors was born in Linton, Indiana, in He took care of his elderly grandmother as a teen, and that experience led him to go into nursing.^[3] He graduated from Nashville Memorial School of Practical Nursing in and took a job at Vermillion County Hospital in Clinton, north of Terre Haute.

He briefly took a higher-paying job in Tennessee but returned to VCH in ^[4