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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37758621
A 49-year-old nursing home worker in Ontario has been charged with eight counts of first-degree murder spanning several years.

Elizabeth Tracey Mae Wettlaufer of Woodstock, Ontario, appeared in court on Tuesday morning.

The victims were residents in two long-term care facilities where Ms Wettlaufer worked and were between 75 and 96 years old.

Police said seven of the victims were given a fatal dose of a drug.

The victims were five women and three men and were all residents of Caressant Care in Woodstock and Meadow Park in London, Ontario.

"The victims were administered a drug... there are obviously a number of drugs that are stored and are available in long-term care facilities," Woodstock Police Chief William Renton said at a news conference.

The chief declined to comment on a possible motive, but did add that investigators are confident that they have identified all victims.

Caressant spokesman Lee Griffi said the accused was a registered nurse and left their employment approximately two and a half years ago.
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The deaths took place between 2007 and 2014.
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Police said they do not know if there are other victims, but that the nurse worked in other facilities. They are urging the public to come forward if they have any information.
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If i was that old i'd be thankful for this kind of treatment.

I'm not going to die in a care centre. I ran my face off today. At sixty i'll still be running, seventy running, eighty I'm aiming for fast walking with a little dog in the woods where the sun gets in but the shade reigns supreme.
 
This article has beaucoup background info, social media posts, and a über creepy commentary/poem about her elderly patients:
http://www.680news.com/2016/10/25/alleged-serial-killer-elizabeth-tracey-mae-wettlaufer/

Two stints in rehab, with the most very recent release including a peace bond with ten requirements -
N.b. number 6 on the 810.2 bond:
"Not to possess insulin, medications or any drug as defined by the Controlled Drug and Substances Act unless they are prescribed by you by a physician, or over the counter medication, for your own personal care.".
If insulin is her killing method, she picked an easy drug to access, and one that would make her patients suffer quite a bit before coma and eventual death finally releases them from pain.
Something just screams to me that these weren't mercy killings; she wasn't putting these patients out of their misery - perceived or otherwise - she seriously enjoyed what she was doing to these poor people, and in making them suffer in silence. It's a shame that Canada doesn't have a DP or LWOP, because unless she dies in prison, she'll be out among the public in just a couple of decades.
 
Since medicine is socialized there, does the gov't cover lawsuit losses? Cuz these family members need to get fuckin paid, and the inept hospitals with their lack of oversight and pisspoor hiring practices are responsible.
 
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...er-killed-seven-people-documents-suggest.html
A coroner refused to conduct an autopsy on a “suspicious” death in the nursing home where registered nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer murdered seven of her eight victims, according to Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care documents obtained by the Star.

The allegation is contained in notes made by ministry inspectors while preparing to investigate the Caressant Care nursing home in Woodstock, Ont., a month after Wettlaufer was charged with the multiple murders in October 2016.

The notes, obtained through a freedom-of-information request, list several patients who have died at the home, their names redacted in the documents. At the end of the redacted names is a comment suggesting that both an emergency room doctor and a Caressant registered nurse believed the coroner should investigate a death.

“Identified by ER physician as should be a coroner’s case, identified by (RN) Karen Routledge as suspicious, asked for an autopsy, coroner did not feel this was appropriate,” says the inspection note, emailed by inspector Rhonda Kukoly to her colleagues on Nov. 18, 2016.

The incident was confirmed in an overview report released Tuesday by the public inquiry into how Wettlaufer was able to kill and harm nursing home residents undetected for years until she confessed to her crimes, without prompting, in September 2016.

The overview report outlines the involvement of the Office of the Chief Coroner and local coroners with Wettlaufer’s victims. It does not describe the death referred to in the document as suspicious. But it notes that it occurred March 28, 2014, and names the victim as Maureen Pickering, killed when Wettlaufer gave her a lethal injection of insulin.
“It appears that a local coroner was also contacted in relation to Maureen Pickering’s death ... because of a recommendation made by the Woodstock Hospital Emergency Physician who had treated Ms Pickering five days earlier in Hospital, but the local coroner declined to investigate the death,” says the overview report, compiled by officials with the public inquiry.

The report says Routledge, the registered nurse, also called local coroner Dr. William George.

“Dr. George called back and did not feel this was a coroner’s case,” the report says.

The report also notes that local coroners were contacted about two earlier victims of Wettlaufer’s at Caressant Care. One was James Silcox, who was Wettlaufer’s first murder victim in August 2007. The other was Wayne Hedges, who Wettlaufer attempted to kill with insulin between September and December 2008. He died Jan. 24, 2009. The local coroner was called because Hedges was the 10th person to die in the home, and the third in 24 hours.
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Wettlaufer herself completed the form about his death sent to the coroner’s office. Dr. George, the local coroner, investigated Silcox’s death in September 2007. He ruled that he died as “a result of complication following a fall in which he sustained a right hip fracture,” the overview report states.

After Pickering’s murder, Wettlaufer killed another resident in a nursing home in London, and attempted to kill two other people in her care.
The three cases reported to local coroners raise questions about whether a chance to catch Wettlaufer before she continued killing was missed.
The deaths of Wettlaufer’s six other victims at Caressant Care were reported to the coroner’s office, but Caressant staff did not contact a coroner directly because circumstances were deemed to not meet the criteria for doing so.

Dr. Rich Mann, regional supervising coroner for western Ontario, refused to comment when contacted by phone by the Star. Cheryl Mahyr, issues manager at the Office of the Chief Coroner, said privacy laws prevent her office from commenting on any investigation that might be conducted. She noted that deaths at long-term-care facilities get reported to the coroner’s office, but not all get investigated.
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“Because of their training and their knowledge, they don’t necessarily require an autopsy to determine cause and manner of death,” Mahyr said, noted that Ontario coroners are licensed medical doctors. “They can make those determinations, more often than not, based on medical history and circumstances of the death.”

Ontario’s chief coroner, Dr. Dick Huyer, will be testifying at the public inquiry, which began Tuesday, into how Wettlaufer was able to kill and harm nursing home residents undetected for years until she confessed in September 2016.

Wettlaufer pleaded guilty a year ago to killing eight residents under her care in two nursing homes, and seriously harming six others. She was sentenced to life in prison, with no chance of parole for 25 years.

The public inquiry will also place the spotlight on the College of Nurses of Ontario, responsible for protecting the public from bad nurses. It failed to investigate Wettlaufer when Caressant Care informed the college the nurse was fired in March 2014 because of medication errors that put the life of a resident at risk.
 
The public inquiry will also place the spotlight on the College of Nurses of Ontario, responsible for protecting the public from bad nurses. It failed to investigate Wettlaufer when Caressant Care informed the college the nurse was fired in March 2014 because of medication errors that put the life of a resident at risk.

Medication errors, their report said. I wonder if they suspected worse at the time .....
 
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