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Canadian ‘Angel of death’ former nurse, Elizabeth Wettlaufer pleads guilty to murder of 8 patients – told Ontario court her “urge to kill,” was spurred by growing rage over her job and her life

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><header id&equals;"ra-headers">&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0f0101&semi;"><strong>Nurse turned serial killer Elizabeth Wettlaufer&comma; pled guilty to 8 counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of nursing home residents in Canadian court<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0f0101&semi;"><strong>Wettlaufer&comma; 49&comma; admitted killing eight seniors and hurting six others because she was angry with her career and her life&&num;8217&semi;s responsibilities<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0f0101&semi;"><strong>She claimed her growing rage over her job and her life spurred an &&num;8220&semi;urge to kill&&num;8221&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0f0101&semi;"><strong>The killings occurred between 2007 and 2014 at three Ontario long-term care facilities and at a private home<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0f0101&semi;"><strong>The serial killer nurse who worked the night shift&comma; from 11 pm to 7 am&comma; was the boss as the only registered nurse on site&comma; she would deliberately over medicate her victims<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0f0101&semi;"><strong>Toronto authorities began investigating Wettlaufer Sept 2016&comma; after becoming aware of information she&&num;8217&semi;d given to a psychiatric hospital <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0f0101&semi;"><strong>She was charged in the deaths of eight residents at nursing homes in Woodstock and London&comma; Ont&period; in Oct&comma; 2016<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0f0101&semi;"><strong>Police allege Wettlaufer used drugs to kill the seniors while she worked at the long term care facilities<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0f0101&semi;"><strong>Jan 2017&comma; the former nurse faced additional charges related to 6 seniors in her care&period; whom she admitted injecting with insulin<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;header>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"ra-body-wrap">&NewLine;<article id&equals;"ra-body"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-193917" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;06&sol;elizabeth-wettlaufer6&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Elizabeth Wettlaufer6&period;jpg" width&equals;"662" height&equals;"632" &sol;>A Former Ontario nurse&comma; Elizabeth Wettlaufer &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; pled guilty Thursday to first-degree murder in the deaths of eight nursing home residents in one of the worst serial-killer cases in Canadian history&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Elizabeth Wettlaufer also pleaded guilty to four counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The 49-year-old&comma; who appeared in a Woodstock&comma; Ontario&comma; courtroom&comma; admitted to killing eight seniors and hurting six others in part because she said she felt angry with her career and her life&&num;8217&semi;s responsibilities&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Wettlaufer admitted in court that she injected all 14 victims with insulin for no medical reason&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-193915" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;06&sol;elizabeth-wettlaufer7&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Elizabeth Wettlaufer7&period;jpg" width&equals;"720" height&equals;"480" &sol;><strong>Elizabeth Wettlaufer is escorted from the courthouse in Woodstock&comma; Ont&period;&comma; Jan&period; 13<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"ra-body-wrap">&NewLine;<article id&equals;"ra-body"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-193807" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;06&sol;elizabeth-wettlaufer2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Elizabeth Wettlaufer2&period;jpg" width&equals;"1086" height&equals;"612" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The deliberate acts of murder allegedly occurred between 2007 and 2014 in three Ontario long-term care facilities where Wettlaufer worked as a registered nurse&comma; and at a private home&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;At Woodstock’s Caressant Care&comma; Elizabeth Wettlaufer usually worked the night shift&comma; from 11 p&period;m&period; to 7 a&period;m&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;There are no managers or supervisors at that time&comma; and as the only Registered Nurse on site&comma; she was the boss&comma; says Ross Gerrie&comma; president of the Unifor local that represents registered practical nurses and personal support workers at Caressant Care&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The prosecution read from an agreed statement of facts&comma; saying that the defendant admitted to investigators she knew that &&num;8220&semi;if your blood sugar goes low enough&comma; you can die&period;&&num;8221&semi; She also told police she had refrained from logging her use of insulin in order to avoid detection&comma; court heard&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In at least one case&comma; Wettlaufer confessed she was spurred to act by growing rage over her job and her life&comma; which built up inside her until she felt an &&num;8220&semi;urge to kill&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the prosecution told the court&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;By her own admission&comma; Wettlaufer deliberately injected James Silcox&comma; an 84-year-old man with diabetes and Alzheimer&&num;8217&semi;s disease&comma; with insulin the night of Aug&period; 11&period; 2007&comma; &&num;8220&semi;hoping he would die&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the prosecution said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;It was his time to go because of the way he acted&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the former nurse told police&comma; according to the agreed statement of facts&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She also told investigators that afterwards&comma; she felt&comma; &&num;8220&semi;like a pressure had been relieved from me&comma; like pressure had been relieved from my emotions&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-193817" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;06&sol;elizabeth-wettlaufer-lived-in-this-woodstock-residence&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Elizabeth Wettlaufer lived in this Woodstock residence&period;jpg" width&equals;"850" height&equals;"566" &sol;>Elizabeth Wettlaufer lived in this Woodstock residence&comma; where she admitted killing seniors in her care&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Wettlaufer told police that dissatisfaction with her life led her to inject Clotilde Adriano&comma; 87&comma; with insulin&comma; though Adriano survived&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The other victims were Maurice Granat&comma; 84&semi; Gladys Millard&comma; 87&semi; Helen Matheson&comma; 95&semi; Mary Zurawinski&comma; 96&semi; Helen Young&comma; 90&semi; Maureen Pickering&comma; 79&comma; and Arpad Horvath&comma; 75&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The attempted murder victims have been identified as Wayne Hedges&comma; 57&comma; Michael Priddle&comma; 63&comma; Sandra Towler&comma; 77&comma; and Beverly Bertram&comma; 68&period; Wettlaufer was also charged with aggravated assault against Adriano and 90-year-old Albina Demedeiros&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The police investigation into Wettlaufer began last September after Toronto police became aware of information she had given to a psychiatric hospital in Toronto that caused them concern&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-193864" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;06&sol;victim&lowbar;james&lowbar;silcox&period;jpg" alt&equals;"victim&lowbar;james&lowbar;silcox&period;jpg" width&equals;"696" height&equals;"392" &sol;><strong>Victim&colon; James Lancing &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Jim” Silcox died at Caressant Care home in Woodstock on Aug&period; 17&comma; 2007&comma; at the age of 84<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Family members of victims broke down in the courtroom as the accused serial killer entered her pleas&comma; despite earlier warnings Thursday&comma; that they the hearing would gut wrenching&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Some&comma; however&comma; expressed relief that the case would come to a swift conclusion&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Andrea Silcox said before the court hearing that she was worried about what she would discover about her father&&num;8217&semi;s last moments&comma; but said she&&num;8217&semi;d be grateful to avoid a lengthy trial&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I will forgive her&comma; I have to forgive her&&num;8230&semi;my father would want that&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said&period; &&num;8220&semi;Forget&quest; I&&num;8217&semi;ll never forget what happened&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Arpad Horvath Jr&period;&comma; whose father was also among Wettlaufer&&num;8217&semi;s victims&comma; said everyone who lost a loved one will have to live with the pain forever&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;She took away my best friend and my hero and I can&&num;8217&semi;t forgive that&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-193890" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;06&sol;elizabeth-wettlaufer5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Elizabeth Wettlaufer5&period;jpg" width&equals;"1365" height&equals;"1050" &sol;><strong>Cuffed Elizabeth &&num;8216&semi;Beth&&num;8217&semi; Wettlaufer is led into the Woodstock courthouse&comma; Ontario&comma; Canada on June 1&comma; 2017<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-193908" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;06&sol;elizabeth-wettlaufer10&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Elizabeth Wettlaufer10&period;JPG" width&equals;"1180" height&equals;"664" &sol;><strong>Elizabeth Wettlaufer went from being heterosexual and married to lesbian&comma; back to &&num;8216&semi;not being a lesbian anymore&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Shocked neighbors have reacted with shock to the news which contrasts with the &&num;8216&semi;Beth&&num;8217&semi; they knew&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Born Elizabeth Parker&comma; Wettlaufer grew up with a brother in a religious household in the Woodstock area&period; She was a member of her high school’s band and choir&period; A bachelor’s degree in religious education counselling from the London Baptist Bible College&comma; &lbrack;now called Heritage Baptist College&rsqb;&comma; was followed up with her becoming a registered nurse in June 1995&period; She wed her ex-husband&comma; truck driver Daniel Wettlaufer in October 1997&period; They couple had no children&comma; their uncontested divorce was finalized late in 2008&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She would dabble in a lesbian affair that went nowhere&period; After connecting with Sheila Andrews&comma; through a chat room on a Gay website in 2008&comma; she flew to Prince Albert&comma; Sask&period; to spend a week with Andrews at her home&period; Andrews&comma; 49&comma; would later admit that Wettlaufer struck Andrews as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a very nice person&comma;” she avoided physical intimacy because &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the chemistry wasn’t there&comma;” which left Wettlaufer bitter and disappointed&comma; she said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When she got off the plane she almost body-slammed me&comma;” said Andrews&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;She’s like&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’ve been telling everybody how much in love I am with you and we were going to get together and everything&period;’ And I’m just&comma; like&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;Whoa&comma; slow down&comma; sweetheart&period; We’re just meeting&period;’ That’s what kind of scared me off&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;the newly divorced Wettlaufer told Andrews her marriage didn’t work out because &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;she was interested in women&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Andrews said she &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;got a sense” that Wettlaufer was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;in the closet because of her religious upbringing&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;After her divorce&comma; the only serious relationship neighbours recall was in 2011&comma; when a woman moved in with her for four months&period; The woman allegedly claimed after their break up that the reason Wettlaufer gave her for breaking up was that she was no longer a lesbian&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Her neighbours reportedly&comma; started hearing gospel music in the serial killer&&num;8217&semi;s apartment&period; One day&comma; while sitting outside the building on a hot night with friends&comma; the conversation turned to relationships and one recalls Wettlaufer saying&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Oh&comma; I found God and I wasn’t a lesbian anymore&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Records show that Wettlaufer who first registered as a nurse in August 1995&comma; was no longer a registered nurse&period; She resigned Sept&period; 30&comma; 2016&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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