GUILTY Canada - Registered nurse facing 8 murder charges, Woodstock, Ont, 25 Oct 2016

[Kamille]

MPP for Woodstock area pushes for public inquiry in case of killer nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer

Progressive Conservatives are keeping up the pressure for answers in the Elizabeth Wettlaufer case, asking Health Minister Eric Hoskins how the deaths of eight seniors could go unnoticed for so long.

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Hoskins said the government is open to “investigating this further,” but is waiting until after Wettlaufer’s sentencing later this month to avoid any possible influence on the court process.

“I’ll have more to say,” Hoskins told reporters Wednesday.

https://www.thestar.com/news/queens...ase-of-killer-nurse-elizabeth-wettlaufer.html

 

[Kamille]

The serial neglect of a serial killer in nursing homes: Cohn

Charged with protecting the public, the College of Nurses seems more concerned with protecting itself, following the murders of eight seniors by convicted nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer.

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Charged with protecting the public through its scrutiny of nurses, the college appeared more preoccupied with protecting the privacy of nurses, and, now, protecting itself from public scrutiny.

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Caught up in its own culture of secrecy and complacency, the college counters that it still won’t explain — even now, after Wettlaufer’s conviction — how it handled or mishandled her file. Notwithstanding its public obligations, it refused repeated requests by the Star’s investigative reporter for a telephone interview, insisting on written questions — which it answered selectively.

https://www.thestar.com/news/queens...of-a-serial-killer-in-nursing-homes-cohn.html

 

[matou]

Sentencing today. Horrible victim impact statements too.

Here is one:

NEWSTALK1010‏Verified account @NEWSTALK1010 10m10 minutes ago


Sandy Millard on her mom's death at #Wettlaufer's hands: "she fought the predator & cried out for more than an hour. No one answered her."

 

[dotr]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/killer-nurse-wettlaufer-sentencing-1.4175164

Live Ex-nurse who killed 8 seniors in her care sentenced to 8 concurrent life terms


Elizabeth Wettlaufer spoke to Woodstock, Ont., court after hearing stories of suffering from victims' families

By Colin Butler, Kate Dubinski, CBC News Last Updated: Jun 26, 2017 1:20 PM

Elizabeth Wettlaufer told a Woodstock, Ont., courtroom Monday that she was "extremely sorry" for killing eight nursing home patients, and then was sentenced to eight concurrent terms of 25 years to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.

Superior Court Justice Bruce Thomas called Wettlaufer a predator who was a "shadow of death" that passed over the elderly victims she was supposed to protect and care for when she was a nurse.
"She was far from an angel of mercy," he said. "Instead, she was a shadow of death that passed over [her victims]."
Wettlaufer, 50, will also have to provide a DNA sample for the national database.

"I looked at her and saw no remorse," says Debora Rivers whose grandmother Mary Zurwaski was murdered by #Wettlaufer

"It certainly is an odd case. We don't see very many cases of women committing murder, certainly not in cases like this," Grant said. "She describes feeling a red surge before she killed, she got some kind of thrill out of it. It's a really rare circumstance to have for anyone, but particularly a woman."

 

[Kamille]

I'm actually kind of glad that she was sentenced to concurrent life terms. That way she fades into oblivion, likely won't get out of prison alive anyway and she doesn't have the notoriety of being the first person in Canada sentenced to 200 years in prison.

I suspect she's going to be having it rather easy though. Probably will be a model prisoner and will get a lot of perks during her years in prison. Not sure that's justice enough.

MOO

 

[Kamille]

Mike Crawley‏Verified account @CBCQueensPark 3h3 hours ago
Ontario's attorney general & health minister announce "independent public inquiry" will examine circumstances of #Wettlaufer case.

https://twitter.com/CBCQueensPark?lang=en

 

[Kamille]

[video=twitter;879403058773590016]https://twitter.com/MarkCarcGlobal/status/879403058773590016[/video]

 

[dotr]

In related horrifying news.
http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Canada/2017/07/04/22735667.html

Caught on video: Elderly man with dementia punched in face 11 times by personal support worker

Jul 4, 2017 A personal care worker at a city-run retirement residence delivered 11 punches to the face of an elderly, immobile and largely non-verbal dementia patient, a video obtained by Postmedia reveals.

The high-definition video camera that recorded the attack was installed by the patient’s family and wasn’t even a secret to staff at the Garry J. Armstrong long-term care home on Island Lodge Road where the assault occurred.

Workers were made aware that the video system was being installed in the room of 89-year-old Georges Karam after the family grew increasingly concerned about the number of unexplained injuries he had suffered since moving into the residence two years ago.

The assault took place at a time of growing concern about Ontario’s long-term care system. Former nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer was recently sentenced to life in prison for the murders of eight patients in long-term care facilities. The province has announced a public inquiry, but NDP leader Andrea Horwath wants that expanded to take a broader look at what she calls a broken system.

Nassrallah said it was especially troubling to learn the employee who carried out the assault specialized in the treatment of dementia patients. He unleashed both a physical and verbal assault on a man who could neither defend himself nor speak out about his treatment, Nassrallah said.

rbbm

 

[Kamille]

In related horrifying news.
http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Canada/2017/07/04/22735667.html






rbbm

I don't even know what to say about this. How can people comfortably leave their elderly loved ones in these homes with stories like this? This type of thing, and most especially what EW did, is just what people fear the most when placing their family members. To get concrete proof that this is happening is devastating.

 

[LayzeeDayzee]

I don't even know what to say about this. How can people comfortably leave their elderly loved ones in these homes with stories like this? This type of thing, and most especially what EW did, is just what people fear the most when placing their family members. To get concrete proof that this is happening is devastating.

Sadly I'm sure there are tons of people who lose sleep over the fact that their elderly parents/loved ones are in extended care homes like this but in most cases they really don't have any choice, the physical/health needs simply cannot be met in a home environment. It's tragic.

 

[greenthumb]

http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/sh/TBk79oWhpi/elizabeth-wettlaufer-nurse-senior-deaths/

Seeing red
How did a mild-mannered nurse from small-town
Ontario become one of Canada's worst serial killers?
By John Lancaster

Oct 6, 2017

 

[dotr]

http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/sh/TBk79oWhpi/elizabeth-wettlaufer-nurse-senior-deaths/

Seeing red
How did a mild-mannered nurse from small-town
Ontario become one of Canada's worst serial killers?
By John Lancaster

Oct 6, 2017

Excellent article, thanks!

 

[SeesSeas]

http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/sh/TBk79oWhpi/elizabeth-wettlaufer-nurse-senior-deaths/

Seeing red
How did a mild-mannered nurse from small-town
Ontario become one of Canada's worst serial killers?
By John Lancaster

Oct 6, 2017

http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/sh/TBk79oWhpi/elizabeth-wettlaufer-nurse-senior-deaths/

Good article.

I don't recall this disturbing information from any previous reporting:

If Wettlaufer was losing control again, she was about to reach her breaking point. But this time, the target tempting her wasn’t the sick, the elderly or the weak. It was children.

Wettlaufer was still picking up temp jobs with Saint Elizabeth Health Care, one of the oldest nursing agencies in Canada, in the summer of 2016, when Saint Elizabeth’s proposed a placement at a school program in Ingersoll that needed help treating children with diabetes.

She would monitor the children’s insulin pumps to make sure they were getting the right amount. Who better for the job, they thought, than a veteran nurse who had spent years administering the drug?

Wettlaufer later revealed to police that she couldn’t trust herself not to kill again, even a child. So she passed on this job opportunity.

 

[SeesSeas]

http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/sh/TBk79oWhpi/elizabeth-wettlaufer-nurse-senior-deaths/

Seeing red
How did a mild-mannered nurse from small-town
Ontario become one of Canada's worst serial killers?
By John Lancaster

Oct 6, 2017

http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/sh/TBk79oWhpi/elizabeth-wettlaufer-nurse-senior-deaths/
Wettlaufer was a deeply conflicted person, one day wanting to repent for her perceived wrongdoings, the next trying to validate her true feelings and identity. By Grade 13, a sense of futility seemed to be setting in, as evidenced in poems she wrote for the yearbook.

[FONT=&amp]A poem Wettlaufer wrote for her 1986 yearbook. (Huron Park Secondary School)[/FONT]​

 

[dotr]

June 4 2018
Inquest to start this week in string of nursing home murders committed by Wettlaufer | CBC News

"A year after disgraced nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer admitted to killing eight patients and trying to kill or harm six more, a public inquiry into her crimes is set to begin Tuesday.

The inquiry — scheduled to last about four months — will take place in St. Thomas, Ont., not far from the southwestern Ontario communities where the victims lived in long-term care facilities."

"This wasn't the fault of one person; this was the fault of the system.- Andrea Silcox, daughter of victim James Silcox"

 

[~greeneyedgirl~]

What a horrible horrible woman, I'm a PSW by education and did my practium for school in a facility. Those people are the most vulnerable and deserve our help the most.
There are no words for what she has done and quite frankly jail isn't enough.

 

[YamBunny]

Canadian killer nurse's confession released

Wettlaufer's handwritten confession has been released.

http://longtermcareinquiry.ca/wp-co...-Statement-of-Fact-Handwritten-Confession.pdf

 

[dotr]

Wettlaufer murder confessions a boon to research, expert on serial killers tells public inquiry
rbbm.
"TORONTO – An Ontario nurse who murdered eight elderly patients in her care has provided great insight into the minds of health-care workers turned serial killers, an American researcher testified Wednesday at a public inquiry.

Beatrice Crofts Yorker, a researcher with California State University Los Angeles who has studied murders in the health-care profession for decades, told the inquiry examining Elizabeth Wettlaufer‘s conduct that the nurse’s admissions to authorities have been a boon to research in the field.

“Nobody has given as much detail as she has,” Yorker testified. “We have some information from family members, health-care workers about personalities and about issues, but when it comes to premeditation, she’s given more insight than any other health-care serial killer.”

The main difference between Wettlaufer and other serial killers, Yorker said, is that the Ontario nurse turned herself in and confessed her crimes before she was scheduled to work with children."

 

[YESorNO]

Killers Who Talk Might Reveal or Conceal
Once caught, some serial killers open up, but possibly not entirely.

"In The Mind of a Murderer, I wrote about mental health experts who’d extensively interviewed extreme offenders. Some of these killers were forthcoming, but others played games. Even when the expert was certain he’d gained the killer’s confidence, it remained unclear how much solid information was actually gathered. Ted Bundy, for example, gave different victim counts to different people. Richard Speck did not have the amnesia he’d faked, and Tommy Lynn Sells doled out details as they suited him. Todd Kohlhepp only recently came clean about murders unmentioned during his early interrogations....

This month, during a hearing in Canada, Beatrice Crofts Yorker, an expert on HCSKs, testified about Elizabeth Wettlaufer’s fatal and near-fatal crimes in healthcare facilities. Crofts Yorker was impressed with how much Wettlaufer had revealed (Casey, 2018). “Nobody has given as much detail as she has," she told the media. "We have some information from family members, health-care workers about personalities and about issues, but when it comes to premeditation, she’s given more insight than any other health-care serial killer.”

After her arrest in Canada in 2016, Wettlaufer had initially claimed she’d acted from compassion, to end suffering on request. However, when she’d pleaded guilty in a videotaped confession after an investigation by Canada’s Ontario Provincial Police, it was clear that compassion was not in the equation...."

Killers Who Talk Might Reveal or Conceal
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When Nurses Kill
Observant coworkers can spot the danger signals.

"....Why would someone who'd worked hard to become a nurse, a caregiver, turn around and harm her patients? The truth is that some people enter healthcare professions not to help others but to gain power, control, or attention. If they decide to harm or kill, victims and methods are readily available. Until recently, it hasn’t been difficult for determined predators to commit and cover up murder in healthcare institutions. They exploited the atmosphere of trust. ..."

When Nurses Kill
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[Satchie]

Dr. Harold Shipman was convicted in 2000 of killing 15 of his patients in the UK. However his total victim count was estimated at 250, 80% of whom were elderly women.

Nurse Stephen Letter was convicted of killing 29 patients in Germany in 2003/04, most of the victims were over 75.

Hospital orderly Donald Harvey confessed to killing 37 patients in the US during the 1970's and '80's.

All the killers used drugs that were easily available through their work.

Evidently, with some very few people, if you put them in a situation where they can secretly kill other people off with drugs, they will do it. Agatha Christie used this as a plot device throughout her career, but I guess people thought 'it could never happen in real life'.

Drugs are now more tightly controlled and accounted for in medical facilities. Except, it seems in this case, insulin.

It's well known insulin can be used to murder someone: the first US case was William Acherd in 1968. In a global front page/successful movie case, Claus von Bulow was accused of using it to try to kill his wealthy wife. There's even a book Insulin Murders, published in 2007, documenting true crime cases: perhaps EW read it. She's not the only nursing home employee to do this: An Australian was convicted of using it to kill three patients in 2013.

So it will likely no longer be possible for medical staff in Ontario to freely use as much or as little insulin on patients as they feel like. I guess it has to happen in your own backyard before you believe it's possible.