The handwritten confession of a Canadian killer nurse has been released as part of a public inquiry into long-term care homes for seniors.<\/p>\n
The inquiry was launched by the province of Ontario following Elizabeth Wettlaufer’s conviction on eight counts of first degree murder.<\/p>\n
Wettlaufer was arrested in October 2016 for a string of deaths in two nursing homes spanning several years.<\/p>\n
Her victims were between the ages of 75 and 96 and were killed over 2007-14.<\/p>\n
She was caught confessing her crimes to doctors after checking herself in for emergency psychiatric care.<\/p>\n
In her confession,\u00a0scrawled over four pages in sloppy cursive handwriting<\/a>, Wettlaufer describes feeling deep anger at her victims, whom she injected with fatal doses of insulin.<\/p>\n Her first victim was James Silcox, an 84-year-old patient who struggled with dementia. He was killed in September 2007.<\/p>\n “That evening I got the urge to overdose James,” Wettlaufer wrote.<\/p>\n “At approximately 7:30 pm I decided to overdose him with insulin, hoping he would die.”<\/p>\n She recalled feeling angry at the man who, she said, had sometimes acted inappropriately.<\/p>\n “Throughout the night, after I overdosed him, James called out ‘I’m sorry’ and ‘I love you’,” she wrote.<\/p>\n Wettlauffer was also convicted on four counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault.<\/p>\n She was sentenced to life in prison last year with no chance of parole for 25 years.<\/p>\n On the last page of her confession, Wettlauffer listed six other names with dates between 2007 and 2016 under the title “People who didn’t die”.<\/p>\n The letter is part of a collection of documents released in the inquiry, which will make recommendations on what failings led to Wettlauffer to be able to commit these crimes as a registered nurse, according to inquiry Commissioner Eileen Gillese.<\/p>\n Public hearings are expected to continue through 24 September.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"