The Indiana Department of Corrections says an autopsy has determined that a convicted serial killer from western Indiana died Sunday from apparent natural causes. Fifty-six year old Orville Lynn Majors – formerly of Linton, Indiana – was pronounced dead at a hospital in Michigan City, Indiana after he became unresponsive at Indiana State Prison in that community.
Majors had been sentenced to 360 years in prison for six deaths which occurred in 1999. He was found guilty of murdering six patients at the former Vermillion County Hospital. Majors was a licensed practical nurse when he was convicted of injecting the patients with a lethal dose of potassium chloride. The conviction came as authorities probed nearly 150 suspicious deaths which occurred at Vermillion County Hospital over a nearly two-year period.
Preliminary autopsy results found that cardiac problems apparently caused Majors death on Sunday. Final autopsy results are not complete yet.
