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Aug 9, 2024 · In the past, victims of “nightmare” health-care serial killing horrors have almost always involved incapable patients, Bowman said — newborns or the elderly.
- Sharon Kirkey
The families of Elizabeth Wettlaufer’s victims believed that the system had let them down by putting the health professional before the patient. Comments from family members of victims reflected this anger: “They put money and reputation in front of a human life.” 12 Health care serial murder is an extreme failure of patient safety processes.
- Chris Frank
- 2020
- Insulin Increasingly Used to Kill
- Warning Sign: Deceptive Behaviour
- Motives Never Fully Explained
- Expert's Suggestions
- Confession Finally Came in 2016
Yorker's research indicates a trend in the way some of the murders in care facilities are being committed. She has stated about one-third of the crimes are carried out by injecting patients with lethal amounts of insulin, and around 60 per cent are carried out by registered nurses. The inquiry has already heard that the Caressant Care long-term car...
Yorker's research also suggests that health-care professionals who preyed on their patients often showed indicators of deceptive behaviour in the workplace leading up to their crimes. In Wettlaufer's case, the inquiry has heard about a pattern of dishonesty relating to her work history and problems with employers. Yorker said that's consistent with...
While Wettlaufer has never fully explained her motives for killing some of her patients, she described feeling "a red surge" of anger that she claimed led her to target the elderly victims. She also confessed to having addictions to various opiates and said she would frequently steal drugs from her patients or employers.
Yorker said Ontario's long-term care facilities could make improvements in several key areas to prevent similar killings in the future. They include: 1. Better tracking of medication. 2. Educating health-care providers about what is an expected or good death, and what should be considered an atypical or abnormal death. 3. Routine data collection of...
The inquiry has heard that by 2014 there were rising concerns Wettlaufer was putting patients at risk by making medication errors. She was fired from Caressant Care, but continued working elsewhere as a nurse. Neither police nor her employers claim to have had any clues she was a serial killer until she confessed, which sparked a massive police inv...
Oct 26, 2016 · Whereas most conventional serial killers are predominantly male, Arntfield says about half of health-care killers are female. Catching health-care killers. Authorities began to investigate Donald ...
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 ...
Jun 3, 2017 · "Health-care serial killers frequently have the highest body count of all serial killers because they have daily access to victims," says Arntfield, who recently wrote a book on serial killers ...
Dec 1, 2022 · Healthcare serial killing involves the intentional killing of multiple patients by a healthcare professional. Ultimately, the practitioner-patient relationship is a trust-based one, where the patient places trust in doctors, nurses, and the healthcare system [1]. This opens a vulnerability to those with ulterior motives.
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