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Jun 1, 2017 · In bone-chilling evidence Thursday, the health care serial killer’s crimes were detailed in a Woodstock courtroom as she pleaded guilty to using insulin to murder eight seniors in her care at ...
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Jul 31, 2019 · The report examines how Wettlaufer, a nurse at several long-term care facilities in southwestern Ontario, was able to access lethal doses of insulin to kill her patients, to steal opioids to feed ...
Jun 2, 2017 · The nurse who pleaded guilty to killing eight seniors with fatal doses of insulin is shown here in a taped confession in October 2016. Wettlaufer has admitted guilt to eight murders between 2007 ...
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Wettlaufer killed patients in her care by injecting them with massive amounts of insulin. She chose insulin because it wasn't tracked the same way narcotics are tracked, she told the lawyers. "It wasn't counted and I knew that was something that could kill people. The lack of following up on insulin is what made it available to me," she said. Insul...
Insulin and other drugs are kept in medication rooms in long-term care facilities. At the homes where she worked, Wettlaufer said there was no way to see into the rooms to check if something nefarious was going on. "Even if there had been a window in the med room I could still have taken the insulin and gone somewhere else to dial up, because it's ...
Wettlaufer had a history of mental illness and substance abuse, and was fired from her first nursing job at Geradlton General Hospital in 1996 after stealing Ativan and overdosing. It was not her only suicide attempt. "My head is so much clearer. My emotions are so much clearer. I have so much more remorse for my crime now than I did when I was on ...
"Every patient I ever picked had some dementia and that was part of what became my criteria. If they had dementia, they couldn't report or if they reported, they wouldn't have been believed," Wettlaufer told the lawyers. "Anybody I ever did had dementia. That was part of the not getting caught." "We were told, 'No, if they're in a nursing home they...
After she killed her first two victims in 2007, Wettlaufer told her girlfriend about what she'd done. "She didn't do or say anything about it. She just said, 'Well, you need to stop doing that. Don't do it anymore because you don't want to get caught.' But I don't know if she actually believed me," Wettlaufer told the lawyers. She confessed again i...
Sep 18, 2017 · Elizabeth Wettlaufer is a former nurse who murdered eight elderly patients and attempted to harm six others in southwestern Ontario between 2007 and 2016. One of the most prolific serial killers in Canadian history, she was sentenced to life in prison for the murders in 2017. The case prompted widespread public outrage and made headlines ...
— A former Ontario nurse angry with her career and personal life believed she was an instrument of God as she used insulin to kill vulnerable seniors in her care over the course of nearly a decade. About seven months after her arrest last fall, Elizabeth Wettlaufer pleaded guilty Thursday to eight counts of first-degree murder, four counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated ...
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Jun 26, 2017 · — A former Ontario nurse who murdered eight seniors in her care is expected to appear at a sentencing hearing in Woodstock, Ont., today. ... The 50-year-old admitted to using insulin in all 14 ...
