I think the people at CAMH are the ones who alerted police.
CAMH staff alerted police about former nurse now charged in Woodstock killings
Staff at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) alerted police about information provided by the former nurse charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of eight nursing-home patients in southwestern Ontario, a source has confirmed to CBC News.
On Tuesday, police in Woodstock, Ont., announced that Elizabeth Tracy Mae Wettlaufer, 49, has been charged in connection with the deaths that occurred between August 2007 and August 2014. The victims were between 75 and 96 years old.
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Police would not say exactly how they died, except that seven of them received a fatal dose of a drug.
A source with knowledge of the investigation told CBC News on Wednesday that CAMH phoned Toronto police in September about information Wettlaufer provided about the deaths of patients.
Because the allegations did not involve any Toronto residents, the force alerted other police agencies.
A spokesperson for CAMH declined to comment early Wednesday afternoon.
Wettlaufer worked for Caressant Care Nursing and Retirement Homes, which operates six facilities in southwestern Ontario. Seven residents died at the company's nursing home in Woodstock, Ont., a small community of about 37,000 residents 140 kilometres southwest of Toronto.
Wettlaufer also worked at the Meadow Park home in London, Ont., which is where the eighth resident died.
Caressant Care said Tuesday that Wettlaufer left the company two and a half years ago and that the company is "co-operating fully with police."
Meadow Park said Wettlaufer left its employment two years ago and also confirmed that it is co-operating with the police probe.
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Elizabeth Tracey Mae Wettlaufer, of Woodstock, Ont., is shown in this still image taken from video provided by Citynews Toronto in Woodstock on Oct. 25, 2016. (Citynews Toronto/Canadian Press)
Police identified the victims from the Woodstock home as:
James Silcox, 84, who died Aug. 17, 2007.
Maurice Granat, 84, who died Dec. 23, 2007.
Gladys Millard, 87, who died Oct. 14, 2011.
Helen Matheson, 95, who died Oct. 27, 2011.
Mary Zurawinski, 96, who died Nov. 7, 2011.
Helen Young, 90, who died July 14, 2013.
Maureen Pickering, 79, who died March 28, 2014.
The victim from Meadow Park was identified as:
Arpad Horvath, 75, who died Aug. 31, 2014.
According to her professional profile at the College of Nurses of Ontario website, Wettlaufer first registered as a nurse on June 8, 1995. She resigned on Sept. 30, 2016, one day after the OPP said their investigation began.
Wettlaufer is under investigation by the College and no longer entitled to practice, the governing body for nurses, practical nurses and nurse practitioners confirmed Tuesday.
Accused active online
On Tuesday, neighbours called news of the charges "shocking" and described Wettlaufer as friendly and unassuming.
"We would chat and have laughs," said Derek Gilbert, who lives in the same apartment building as Wettlaufer. "She seemed like an everyday, normal kind of person."
Wettlaufer was active on social media, posting pictures of her travels and her family on Facebook.
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Elizabeth Tracy Mae Wettlaufer is facing eight first-degree murder charges in the deaths of elderly patients in southwestern Ontario. (Bethe Wettlaufer/Facebook)
She also wrote several posts about her work as a nurse.
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This post appeared on a Facebook page Woodstock police confirmed to belong to Elizabeth Tracy Mae Wettlaufer, the woman facing eight first-degree murder charges.
She also appears to have contributed several poems to a site called allpoetry.com.
The profile name is bettyweston, but her own name is also attached to the poems, and the accompanying photo is one that appears on Wettlaufer's Facebook page.
Links to the poems are not currently working.
One poem titled Inevitable, written about five years ago, talks about taking a life:
She watches some life drain from the notch in his neck vein.
As it soothingly pools it smothers her pain.
Sweet stiletto so sharp craves another cut.
Obeying a call she moves to his gut.
Blade traces a line from navel to spine
grating on rib bones slicing intestine.
Another poem titled Working Happy, from about six years ago, focuses on her care for the elderly:
Maybe it's the rye or the time of night but my day was not so bad.
Filled with work and satisfaction and old people.
See I work with old people and I love their candidacy,
their points, their wrinkles, their frailties their refusing to eat anything but ice cream, even their smell.
With files from Alex Brockman
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/woodstock-nurse-investigation-1.3822235