Elizabeth Wettlaufer

Wettlaufer was raised in Woodstock, Ontario. After graduating Huron Park Secondary School in the mid 1980s, she earned a bachelor's degree in religious education counselling from London Baptist Bible College before studying nursing at Conestoga College.

While she was a nurse at Caressant Care long-term-care home in Woodstock, Ontario, Elizabeth Wettlaufer began injecting some of the patients with insulin. In some cases, the amount was not enough to kill the patient; Wettlaufer was charged with, and confessed to, aggravated assault or attempted murder for those cases.

Her first assaults occurred sometime between June 25, 2007 and December 31, 2007. Wettlaufer confessed that she injected sisters Clotilde Adriano (age 87) and Albina Demedeiros (88) with insulin. While they later died (in 2008 and 2010 respectively), neither of their deaths were attributed to Wettlaufer. She confessed to two counts of aggravated assault in these matters.

The first case in which Wettlaufer injected a patient with enough insulin to cause their death was on August 11, 2007, when she murdered James (Jim) Silcox (84), a World War II veteran and father of six. Through March 2014, Wettlaufer also murdered the following patients at Caressant Care:

• Maurice (Moe) Granat (84)
• Gladys Millard (87)
• Helen Matheson (95)
• Mary Zurawinski (96)
• Helen Young (90)
• Maureen Pickering (79)

While at Caressant Care, Wettlaufer also injected Michael Priddle (63) and Wayne Hedges (57) "with intent to murder". She confessed to two counts of attempted murder in these cases.

Wettlaufer left employment at Caressant Care in 2014, but in part-time work at other facilities and at patients' homes, she injected three more people with insulin:

• Killed Arpad Horvath (75) a Meadow Park facility in London, Ontario
• Injected Sandra Towler (77) "with intent to murder" at a retirement home in Paris, Ontario
• Injected Beverly Bertram (68) "with intent to murder" at a private residence in Ingersoll, Ontario

Wettlaufer entered an inpatient drug rehabilitation program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, a psychiatric hospital in Toronto in September, 2016. While at CAMH, Wettlaufer made "concerning" comments about the eight deaths to hospital staff, who then alerted Toronto Police, who themselves alerted police in Woodstock. After providing police with a 2-hour-long confession, Wettlaufer was formally charged with the eight murders on October 25. After further investigation, she was also charged with four counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault on January 13, 2017. She waived her right to a preliminary hearing, and confessed to all charges in court on June 1, 2017.