Elizabeth Wettlaufer murdered eight seniors in Ontario nursing homes over a period of nine years. Following the public inquiry, Alex Roslin explores how budget cuts, poor staffing and ageism in the long-term care system created an environment for the serial killer to run amok.
(ZOOMER Magazine) November 2018, by Alex Roslin—Elizabeth Wettlaufer made an odd discovery when she was hospitalized in the psychiatric ward. Thinking about murder made her anger go away. Sort of. Wettlaufer had a lot of anger — so much that she could barely concentrate. She was also quite depressed and had been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive behaviour.
She was in the hospital because she had tried to kill herself with an overdose of medications. When that failed, she had stolen cleaning fluid from a hospital with the idea of drinking it to commit suicide. But then, she realized something....
Read the article here, get a copy of the magazine here and read my Zoomer blog posts about the provincial inquiry into Wettlaufer's murder spree here.
