Former Woodstock, Ont., nurse facing 8 murder charges in deaths of elderly patients
Elizabeth Tracy Mae Wettlaufer, 49, worked at Caressant Care Nursing and Retirement Homes
A former Woodstock, Ont., nurse killed eight elderly patients in southwestern Ontario nursing homes, Ontario Provincial Police allege.
Elizabeth Tracy Mae Wettlaufer, 49, is facing eight counts of first-degree murder in deaths between August 2007 and August 2014, police said during a Tuesday morning news conference in Woodstock.
The victims were between the ages of 75 and 96. Police would not say how they died, except that seven were administered a fatal dose of a drug.
Wettlaufer was employed by Caressant Care Nursing and Retirement Homes, which operates six facilities in southwest Ontario. Seven of the victims died at the company's location in Woodstock, a community of some 37,000 people about halfway between London and Hamilton.
She was also employed at the Meadow Park facility in London, where the other victim died.
Woodstock police confirmed to CBC News that a Facebook page registered to "Bethe Wettlaufer" belongs to the suspect.
On Sept. 28, 2015, a post on that page featured the words: "My own voice called to me in the darkness. Others hands lifted me when I chose the light. One year ago I woke up not dead. 365 days clean and sober."
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