Wicked Nurse 'used drugs to murder eight elderly patients in care homes

A Canadian nurse Elizabeth, has been accused of using drugs to murder eight elderly patients in care homes during a seven-year killing spree.




According to Mirror Elizabeth Wettlaufer, 49, was charged over the multiple deaths earlier today in Ontario - where she faces eight counts of first-degree murder.

She is accused of taking the lives of five women and three men in the Canadian towns of Woodstock and London between 2007 and 2014.

The alleged victims ranged in age from 75 to 96.

Woodstock Police Chief William Renton told a TV news conference: "The victims were administered a drug" but declined to give any further details.


Wettlaufer appeared in court this afternoon and was remanded in custody.

Renton said officers began probing the deaths in September after receiving a tip-off.


"We are confident at this time that all of the victims have been identified," he said.
The Canadian Association of Retired Persons said it was shocked by the tragic nature of the alleged crime.
"For nurses and staff to be part of a violence problem, we think this is rare... it is extraordinary, and thankfully so," spokesman Anthony Quinn said from Toronto.


Seven of the dead lived in a Woodstock facility run by Caressant Care.
The firm said Wettlaufer had left her job in 2014.

Elizabeth Wettlaufer's Linkedin profile

Doris Grinspun, head of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, said she was devastated.


"An event like this is most, most, most unusual, the first actually in all my 20 years at the association," she said. "These things are horrifying to all of us.
"They are the exception, the very rare exception," she told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.


People residing in the same apartment building as Wettlaufer described her as a pleasant person who lived alone with her dog.

"We would chat and have laughs. She seemed like an everyday, normal kind of person," Derek Gilbert told CBC.


A LinkedIn profile in the name of Elizabeth Wettlaufer said she was a nurse who worked at the Woodstock home from June 2007 to March 2014.
"Administering medications" was listed as one of her responsibilities.