On December 23, 1985, California state authorities announced that an investigation was under way in the cases of eleven "suspicious" deaths at the Gilmore Lane Convalescent Hospital, in Oroville. (Several more patients died after being transferred to Oroville Hospital for emergency treatment.) The deaths, ascribed to unknown "illness," all occurred in January 1985, at a time when Justice Department officials were already probing the cases of 38 elderly patients, lost between January and April 1984. Health officials reportedly failed to secure autopsy results in the 49 cases, leaving prosecutors to start from scratch with victims already buried or cremated. At this writing, no final result of the investigation has been published, and no suspects have been identified.