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RSS Feeds180 people died on serial killer Elizabeth Wettlaufer´s shifts in one nursing home. Was that a red flag?
(The Star Movies)

 
 

10 november 2018 05:37:54

 
180 people died on serial killer Elizabeth Wettlaufer´s shifts in one nursing home. Was that a red flag?
(The Star Movies)
 


When serial killer Elizabeth Wettlaufer confessed to murdering eight nursing home residents under her care, government inspectors scrambled to find evidence of more victims.By Oct. 7, 2016 — two days after the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care was notified of Wettlaufer’s confession — inspectors had obtained a list of all the residents who died during her scheduled shifts at two southwestern Ontario nursing homes.At the Caressant Care home in Woodstock, where she worked as a registered nurse from June 2007 to March 2014, Wettlaufer confessed to killing seven elderly residents. Inspectors learned that another 180 residents died during her shifts, according to ministry documents obtained by the Star through a freedom-of-information request. Wettlaufer’s method of killing was a lethal injection of insulin, which can result in many hours of physical distress before the victim dies. So, inspectors also searched Caressant files for residents who died within 24 hours of the killer’s shifts, and found 55 of them.At the Meadow Park nursing home in London, where Wettlaufer worked for about four months after being fired by Caressant, the same exercise was conducted. They discovered that 14 residents died during or shortly after her shifts, including the resident she confessed to killing, Arpad Horvath.Wettlaufer did her killing on her eight-hour evening and night shifts. At night she was the only registered nurse on site. Was she responsible for any of the other 248 deaths that occurred on or near her shifts, deaths she didn’t confess to?Wettlaufer has denied killing more people. But the striking number of deaths on her shifts reveals the full investigative challenge police faced when, in September 2016, she confessed without prompting to killing eight nursing home residents, and assaulting or trying to kill six others.The numbers also reflect the importance of data collection for raising red flags in nursing homes. The commission ex ...


 
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