Nurse charged with killing retirement home residents

A nurse has been arrested and charged with murdering eight elderly residents under her care at retirement homes in Canada’s Ontario province, police said Tuesday. The alleged killings occurred between 2007 and 2014 at two private facilities where Elizabeth Wettlaufer worked, authorities said. The 49-year-old faces eight counts of first-degree murder. The male and female […]

A nurse has been arrested and charged with murdering eight elderly residents under her care at retirement homes in Canada’s Ontario province, police said Tuesday.
The alleged killings occurred between 2007 and 2014 at two private facilities where Elizabeth Wettlaufer worked, authorities said.
The 49-year-old faces eight counts of first-degree murder.
The male and female victims aged 75 to 96 “were administered a drug,” Ontario Provincial Police detective superintendent Dave Truax told a nationally-televised press conference.