Ontario nurse charged for eight first degree murder in care home deaths
49-year-old Elizabeth Tracey Mae Wettlaufer of Woodstock was charged by the Ontario Provincial Police as they were following a multi-jurisdictional probe involving long term care homes in Woodstock and London.
According to police probe, the victims were administered a drug, but the police do not want to name the drug or the motif for the killings yet.
Seven of the dead victims were residents at he Caressant Care in Woodstock, while one of them stayed at London based Meadow Park.
Police said, Werrlaufer worked at both the residences.
Police declared the charges against Wettlaufer on Tuesday and produced her before the court, where she was remanded into custody.
The investigators released a list of the deceased victims who were all elderly people in the age group of 75-95.
In a company statement released by Lee Griffi, Corporate Communications Manager at Caressant Care, “cooperating fully with police investigating the actions of a former staff member, a registered nurse, who left our Home’s employ approximately two and a half years ago.”
(Reporting by Debarati Mukherjee, Image: Facebook)
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