Anniversary: One in a string of illegal deaths in Oklahoma

J. W. Elsiminger was an osteopath in Oklahoma City. He was the suspect in the abortion death of Virginia Lee Wyckoff, a 21-year-old student at the University of Oklahmoa. Virginia died April 24, 1932. Elsiminger was charged with murder in her death. He was implicated in a string of abortion deaths in the area, along with Richard E. Thacker, another Oklahoma City area physician.