Latest / Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast / Healthcare Serial Killer Elizabeth Wettlaufer
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- 0:02Speaker 1: How's it going.
- 0:03Speaker 2: I'm Nicole and I'm Ben, and you're listening to Wicked
- 0:07Speaker 2: and Grim.
- 0:08Speaker 1: A true crime podcast morning. The following podcast material for
- 0:16Speaker 1: a mature audience listeners just watching this?
- 0:37Speaker 2: Well, Hello, how's it going?
- 0:39Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone? I don't even know what episode we're on.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Actually I was going to say the number, but I forget.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Isn't this eleven?
- 0:46Speaker 3: I think it's eleven eleven?
- 0:48Speaker 2: I think it's episode eleven. Wow, yeah, we were in
- 0:52Speaker 2: the double digits. We're in the double numbers our first,
- 0:55Speaker 2: you know, double number one and one, You know what
- 0:56Speaker 2: I mean?
- 0:57Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I actually we should have said something last,
- 0:59Speaker 1: so don't almost.
- 1:00Speaker 3: That's exciting.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Well we're saying it now. Yeah, we're past ten. The
- 1:05Speaker 2: sun shining too, by the way, that snow is mel melting. Yes, Janks,
- 1:09Speaker 2: you mean cokes.
- 1:11Speaker 1: And we both have the day off.
- 1:12Speaker 2: I have the whole week off.
- 1:14Speaker 1: Oh lucky, lucky.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I'm doing like home renovation stuff and catching
- 1:18Speaker 2: up on the to do list.
- 1:20Speaker 1: So yeah, still work when you have the week off.
- 1:22Speaker 3: Do you actually ever have the week off?
- 1:24Speaker 2: Not unless you unless we go on like an actual vacation.
- 1:29Speaker 2: If we're home with a week off, we're still.
- 1:31Speaker 1: Working totally and you can't really travel right now.
- 1:34Speaker 2: So uh, vacation is spent at home doing more work.
- 1:39Speaker 3: Yeah, that was like last year.
- 1:41Speaker 1: We had an awesome vacation plan to Disneyland. Oh and
- 1:45Speaker 1: we stayed home to work on the basin because we
- 1:48Speaker 1: can go.
- 1:49Speaker 3: Like this shit's been going on for a long time.
- 1:52Speaker 2: We had to open up that old wound. I was
- 1:55Speaker 2: supposed to go to Star Wars Land. I was supposed
- 1:58Speaker 2: to have my own custom built light saber. I was
- 2:00Speaker 2: supposed to Ah, man, well.
- 2:03Speaker 1: We'll reschedule, we'll replanning better. Yeah, I mean once everyone
- 2:07Speaker 1: can like they're going to just be traveling city, right,
- 2:12Speaker 1: everyone's gonna be going everywhere.
- 2:14Speaker 2: Okay, considering like normal traveling parameters, where would you travel
- 2:20Speaker 2: to you right now if you have the.
- 2:21Speaker 1: Option, Oh, like we didn't have to be COVID.
- 2:27Speaker 2: Wasn't a thing, and we had this week off, where
- 2:29Speaker 2: would you want us to start traveling to this week?
- 2:31Speaker 2: Of course, like our normal bank account budget that sort
- 2:33Speaker 2: of stuff.
- 2:34Speaker 1: Honestly, I would just go to the Disneyland trip.
- 2:36Speaker 3: That was a dope trip.
- 2:38Speaker 1: It was gonna be so awesome to the Yes, yeah, you.
- 2:44Speaker 2: Probably Vancouver Island, although I mean Disneyland now that you
- 2:47Speaker 2: mention it, yeah, that's gonna be over Vancouver Island. But
- 2:49Speaker 2: I would have said to Fino.
- 2:51Speaker 1: For some taco, Fino.
- 2:52Speaker 2: The tacos over there, Give me some tacos on the
- 2:55Speaker 2: beach to the good. So good man, Now I want tacos.
- 3:00Speaker 2: Can we have tacos for dinner tomorrow?
- 3:02Speaker 1: It is Taco Tuesday.
- 3:03Speaker 2: It is taco Tuesday. Yes, what kind of tacos? Which
- 3:07Speaker 2: we do? Chicken, beef, fish, fish? Fish? We do fish tacos?
- 3:11Speaker 2: Should we do like shrimp tacos?
- 3:16Speaker 3: I don't know, you choose?
- 3:17Speaker 2: Okay, shrimp tacos. With with we're gonna do guacamol. We're
- 3:22Speaker 2: gonna do like a little guacamole dip thing on the
- 3:24Speaker 2: side for some like nacho chips. That's what we're doing.
- 3:27Speaker 2: That's our dinner.
- 3:27Speaker 3: Okay.
- 3:28Speaker 1: Now that we've literally made everyone like.
- 3:30Speaker 2: Hungry, welcome to the cooking show.
- 3:33Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I'm going to dive in.
- 3:36Speaker 2: Let's do it.
- 3:38Speaker 1: And basically, if you weren't afraid of aging before this case,
- 3:42Speaker 1: you're probably going to be afraid of aging.
- 3:44Speaker 2: Afraid of aging? Okay, Well, my knee like hurts with
- 3:46Speaker 2: every day that passes, and that scares me.
- 3:48Speaker 1: So I'm going to be educating you on some.
- 3:51Speaker 2: Dark stuff, all right, I'm ready.
- 3:54Speaker 1: For this stuff. I didn't even realize was an issue
- 3:56Speaker 1: or a thing.
- 3:57Speaker 3: So I educated myself too.
- 3:59Speaker 2: I heard of this case, and you've told me a
- 4:01Speaker 2: few things about it as well.
- 4:02Speaker 1: I have. I have. I actually wasn't very secretive this time.
- 4:05Speaker 1: So the story is about Elizabeth Tracy may Wetlaw fer
- 4:10Speaker 1: or Beth as I'm going to refer to her, okay,
- 4:13Speaker 1: And it takes place in Woodstock, Ontario.
- 4:17Speaker 2: So.
- 4:17Speaker 1: Beth was born on June tenth, nineteen sixty seven, to
- 4:21Speaker 1: parents Doug and Hazel Parker. She and her brother were
- 4:25Speaker 1: raised in Woodstock, Ontario, and grew up in a religious household,
- 4:28Speaker 1: with their parents being quite controlling with very conservative values.
- 4:32Speaker 2: It seems like that's like not an abnormal thing for
- 4:35Speaker 2: religious household, especially like back in the day sort of
- 4:38Speaker 2: thing to be very conservative and like just the whole
- 4:42Speaker 2: like abundance of that situation that we just like painted, you.
- 4:45Speaker 1: Know, yeah, I know, I feel like we've almost painted
- 4:48Speaker 1: this manger. Before Beth attended Huran, I think it's called
- 4:54Speaker 1: park Secondary School in the mid nineteen eighties, and in
- 4:58Speaker 1: her high school yearbook said she hoped to ady drama
- 5:00Speaker 1: in university. Cool fun fun. During high school, Beth internally
- 5:06Speaker 1: struggled with her sexuality and felt a lot of guilt
- 5:09Speaker 1: for it, as her church didn't approve of same sex relationship.
- 5:14Speaker 2: Yeah, thankfully though, like, we're coming to long ways now,
- 5:17Speaker 2: like twenty twenty one. I've even seen like posts and stuff.
- 5:20Speaker 2: I mean, it's Facebook. How accurate can this be? But
- 5:22Speaker 2: I've seen Facebook posts where it's like, oh, you know,
- 5:24Speaker 2: these churches are beginning to support these people and so
- 5:28Speaker 2: and so forward.
- 5:28Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, well so that was in the eighties,
- 5:30Speaker 1: So yeah, we've definitely come.
- 5:31Speaker 2: Oh we've come a long way.
- 5:32Speaker 1: So come a long way. If she had come out
- 5:35Speaker 1: to her family, she would have been rejected. Yeah, basically
- 5:39Speaker 1: we pretty much just said that shunned. So instead instead
- 5:43Speaker 1: she turned to experimenting with drugs and alcohol.
- 5:46Speaker 2: Oh that's a fair compromise.
- 5:48Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. I mean honestly, though, if you were like
- 5:52Speaker 1: hiding something from your family that you needed to, like,
- 5:56Speaker 1: I wouldn't.
- 5:56Speaker 3: Be able to do that.
- 5:57Speaker 2: Oh no, yeah, h like no, I'm not blaming this
- 5:59Speaker 2: on on her that I know.
- 6:01Speaker 1: It's a terrible thing to turn to. But it's just like,
- 6:03Speaker 1: just tried eating her up inside.
- 6:04Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she's got some shit she's she's trying to
- 6:06Speaker 2: deal with and she needs an outlet somewhere.
- 6:09Speaker 3: And there's her outlet.
- 6:10Speaker 2: Yeah. There we go outlets usually in the fridge.
- 6:13Speaker 3: Yeah, especially lately chocolate milk.
- 6:15Speaker 2: Give me chocolate milk. I can drink all my worlds.
- 6:17Speaker 1: Just finished a four Leader jug of chocolate milk in
- 6:20Speaker 1: twenty four hours and it was worth it.
- 6:22Speaker 2: Every ounce was worth it.
- 6:23Speaker 3: Does anyone else like chocolate milk?
- 6:25Speaker 1: I bet you there's no one else that likes it
- 6:27Speaker 1: as much as you. People could finish it as quickly.
- 6:29Speaker 2: It's literally my weakness.
- 6:30Speaker 1: If there's someone else there, send us a message. But
- 6:32Speaker 1: I don't think that message.
- 6:34Speaker 2: And you drink And I'm not saying, like, can you
- 6:36Speaker 2: go out and try to drink four Leaders of chocolate
- 6:39Speaker 2: milk in twenty four hours? Do you just casually drink
- 6:42Speaker 2: four Leaders of chocolate.
- 6:43Speaker 3: Milk like it's no big deal?
- 6:44Speaker 2: Because I do?
- 6:46Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
- 6:48Speaker 1: After high school, Beth went to journalism school for a year,
- 6:52Speaker 1: decided that wasn't for her and switched over to London
- 6:55Speaker 1: Baptist Bible College, where she earned a bachelor's degree in
- 6:59Speaker 1: religious studies with a minor in counseling. Okay, it wasn't
- 7:04Speaker 1: until later that she decided to go into nursing, and
- 7:07Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety five graduate weight.
- 7:11Speaker 3: I was saying that really funny.
- 7:12Speaker 1: Graduated from It was because I was coming to how
- 7:15Speaker 1: to pronounce this college and I don't.
- 7:17Speaker 2: Know how to graduate?
- 7:18Speaker 1: Eight graduated from Constoga College.
- 7:22Speaker 2: Constoga.
- 7:23Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, people are just gonna know that
- 7:25Speaker 1: I am shit at pronouncing words and there's a lot
- 7:27Speaker 1: of words in here that I wouldn't know.
- 7:28Speaker 3: Idea.
- 7:29Speaker 2: I've stumbled. I don't know how many times. It's countless
- 7:31Speaker 2: at this.
- 7:31Speaker 3: One because the last names and stuff.
- 7:33Speaker 2: Right, Oh man, that's the worst.
- 7:34Speaker 1: So she graduated as a registered nurse in nineteen o five,
- 7:38Speaker 1: saying she had found her true calling.
- 7:41Speaker 2: Cool cool good for her m HM.
- 7:43Speaker 1: In October of nineteen ninety seven, Beth, going against her desires,
- 7:47Speaker 1: married a long haul truck driver named Daniel wet Laffer.
- 7:51Speaker 1: I like saying wet Laffer. I'm into that Lafer.
- 7:55Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 7:55Speaker 4: Why wet Laffer.
- 7:57Speaker 2: It's just I don't know.
- 7:58Speaker 1: The marriage. Unfortunately, didn't work out between them, causing and
- 8:02Speaker 1: this caused best downhill spiral.
- 8:05Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not surprised the marriage didn't work out.
- 8:07Speaker 3: Why.
- 8:08Speaker 2: I mean, she doesn't like dick. He's got a dick.
- 8:12Speaker 3: She doesn't like men.
- 8:14Speaker 1: So they separated in two thousand and seven and divorced
- 8:16Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight.
- 8:18Speaker 2: Gotcha, when when was their marriage?
- 8:20Speaker 3: What year.
- 8:22Speaker 1: They got married? They were actually married for a while,
- 8:24Speaker 1: So they got married in nineteen ninety seven.
- 8:26Speaker 2: Okay, so it was like ten years they were together
- 8:28Speaker 2: for Well, it's impressive. Yeah, for someone who's of a
- 8:32Speaker 2: completely different sexuality to be in a heterosexual marriage for
- 8:36Speaker 2: ten years, that's got to take some fucking inner strength.
- 8:40Speaker 1: And they didn't have any children, and they didn't like
- 8:45Speaker 1: nothing bad of her, which I'm going to be diving
- 8:48Speaker 1: into didn't start until after they separated. So I'm like, Okay,
- 8:53Speaker 1: he was good for her.
- 8:54Speaker 3: I feel like That's just what I feel like.
- 8:57Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, So they separated in two thousand and seven,
- 9:00Speaker 1: divorce in two thousand and eight. In two thousand and seven,
- 9:03Speaker 1: Beth was hired onto the staff at Crescent Care, a
- 9:08Speaker 1: privately owned long term care home in Woodstock, Woodstock, Ontario.
- 9:12Speaker 2: Yeah, not like the music festival Woodstock. A bunch of
- 9:17Speaker 2: old people rocking out in Woodstock.
- 9:18Speaker 3: Really awesome.
- 9:20Speaker 1: She was initially regarded by coworkers to be caring and professional. However,
- 9:25Speaker 1: Best still struggled with substance abuse and alcoholism, and this
- 9:29Speaker 1: was showing up in her work. She faced accusations of
- 9:32Speaker 1: throwing up to work drunk, and at one point was
- 9:35Speaker 1: said to be found passed out during night shift in
- 9:37Speaker 1: the facility's basement.
- 9:39Speaker 2: Damn, she's just living all of our dreams right now.
- 9:41Speaker 4: Asn't she fall in.
- 9:43Speaker 1: The sleep in the basement at work?
- 9:46Speaker 3: That sounds so nice.
- 9:48Speaker 2: I don't really want to do the work today. I
- 9:50Speaker 2: don't really want to just drinking and passing out. Oh
- 9:53Speaker 2: I wish, Oh my god, I wish.
- 9:56Speaker 1: She was a woman with a lot of pent up
- 10:00Speaker 1: anger caused from her marriage, ending stress and responsibility from
- 10:03Speaker 1: her job, and frustrations caused by her patients. In March
- 10:09Speaker 1: of twenty fourteenth, Beth was fired from Crescent Care for
- 10:13Speaker 1: giving the wrong medication to a parent or to a patient.
- 10:17Speaker 1: She had previously been suspended four times for medication related errors.
- 10:22Speaker 2: Though, can we just like take a moment here four
- 10:26Speaker 2: times suspended from this medication error. There is some serious
- 10:32Speaker 2: flaw in the safety.
- 10:34Speaker 1: I know that's a long that's a lot, but then okay,
- 10:38Speaker 1: grant you like a lot of Like even at your work,
- 10:40Speaker 1: isn't it usually like three strikes you're out. So really
- 10:43Speaker 1: it was like only well, I guess two extra times
- 10:47Speaker 1: only okay, and okay, that's bad.
- 10:49Speaker 3: It's as she when people's gloves are.
- 10:52Speaker 2: Only two extra times. But yeah, it's usually like okay,
- 10:54Speaker 2: first time it's a warning. Second time you get like
- 10:58Speaker 2: written up. Third time it's like you get sent home.
- 11:01Speaker 2: After that it's like, yeah, you're fired.
- 11:03Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 11:04Speaker 1: Yeah, so she did it five times basically geez, which
- 11:08Speaker 1: isn't great.
- 11:09Speaker 2: And to be fair, like you listen to any sort
- 11:12Speaker 2: of and like I have safety background training, so this
- 11:15Speaker 2: might be a little more obvious to me, but it
- 11:17Speaker 2: should be obvious to everyone. If there is an issue,
- 11:20Speaker 2: you need to identify why that issue occurred.
- 11:23Speaker 1: So if it wouldn't be hard to tell what her
- 11:26Speaker 1: issue was.
- 11:27Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, so there's there's some things happening there to her,
- 11:30Speaker 2: so you go to identify Okay, she's done this, and
- 11:33Speaker 2: the first time it could be just attributed to like, oh,
- 11:36Speaker 2: fucking shit happens, right, but second time, okay, something. If
- 11:40Speaker 2: something happens two times in a row, it's not an accident,
- 11:43Speaker 2: or at least most likely not an accident. Right, three
- 11:46Speaker 2: times in a row, it's definitely not an accident. Right,
- 11:49Speaker 2: something's going on to the cause. Yeah, and exactly that
- 11:53Speaker 2: root cause analysis.
- 11:54Speaker 1: But they didn't do that until the fifth time, and
- 11:56Speaker 1: then they just fired her ass. I don't know why
- 12:00Speaker 1: that's funny, but it is.
- 12:06Speaker 3: Okay.
- 12:07Speaker 2: First time, you're okay. Second you're okay, Third you're okay.
- 12:10Speaker 2: Four five still oh wait, no, okay, now, no, you're
- 12:13Speaker 2: gone fire your ass. That's hilarious.
- 12:17Speaker 1: After leaving Cress and Care, Beth, as you could imagine,
- 12:20Speaker 1: had some difficulty holding down a job and moved between
- 12:24Speaker 1: several facilities. One place she did work was Metow Park
- 12:28Speaker 1: Care Center in London. While there, she became addicted to
- 12:33Speaker 1: hydro morphone hydromorphine. Okay, no, I actually think it's okay.
- 12:39Speaker 1: I looked up the pronunciation of this and I think
- 12:41Speaker 1: I've been pronouncing it wrong.
- 12:45Speaker 2: Sorry, Kat was just climbing all over like our mic stands.
- 12:47Speaker 1: There because I thought it was pronounced hydromorphine. But it
- 12:51Speaker 1: was saying it was hydro morphone like phone at the end.
- 12:54Speaker 4: Huh.
- 12:55Speaker 1: I don't know. There's probably gonna be a nurse on listening.
- 12:58Speaker 1: That's like, this is how you pronounce it, if anyone,
- 13:02Speaker 1: because yeah, I actually thought it was hard hydromorphine, but
- 13:05Speaker 1: then I like googled it to speak or whatever, and
- 13:07Speaker 1: it was hydromlephone.
- 13:12Speaker 3: Anyway.
- 13:13Speaker 1: So it's a painkiller that she she would take from
- 13:17Speaker 1: her patients, and she would take it from her plate
- 13:21Speaker 1: her patients and replace it with lack laxatives. Laxatives, yeah,
- 13:27Speaker 1: because like it was she was they didn't know, and
- 13:31Speaker 1: so she was just replacing it with another like pill,
- 13:34Speaker 1: and that's what she replaced it to. And like they
- 13:36Speaker 1: were elderly and didn't know when.
- 13:38Speaker 2: Well, that's just a shitty situation.
- 13:41Speaker 1: I'm like, that's brutal.
- 13:43Speaker 2: That is messed up. I'm just gonna take your medication
- 13:47Speaker 2: for myself. Oh, by the way, here's here's a laxative.
- 13:50Speaker 2: You're gonna be pooping for the next twelve hours, like
- 13:52Speaker 2: the poor souls.
- 13:54Speaker 1: It wasn't until twenty sixteen that we would get the
- 13:57Speaker 1: full picture of what exactly best down Hill's spiral looked
- 14:01Speaker 1: like here comes. On September sixteenth, be Beth ultimately decided
- 14:06Speaker 1: to leave nursing the probably call. It was actually a
- 14:10Speaker 1: really good call, I think. Yeah, the reason being that
- 14:13Speaker 1: one of her employers reassigned her from caring for elderly
- 14:17Speaker 1: patients to administering insulin to children with diabetes diabetes, and
- 14:24Speaker 1: she feared she wouldn't be able to resist from hurting them.
- 14:28Speaker 1: That's fucked up, So there's a little foreshadow.
- 14:31Speaker 2: But I mean, at least she had somewhat of control
- 14:34Speaker 2: that it could have been a lot worse.
- 14:36Speaker 1: I know. Yeah, so she decided that she would not
- 14:40Speaker 1: harm children.
- 14:40Speaker 2: But what's what's going through her boss's head there, Like, realistically, oh,
- 14:44Speaker 2: you have a history of giving these elderly people the
- 14:48Speaker 2: wrong medication, so we're going to give you to kids instead.
- 14:54Speaker 1: But see that person, Okay, this is like you're kind
- 14:57Speaker 1: of diving in a little bit deep here. But that
- 14:59Speaker 1: person might not even have fully known her whole history
- 15:02Speaker 1: from Crescent Care, I guess because it was actually asked
- 15:06Speaker 1: I think at the union or whatever, like after everything
- 15:09Speaker 1: came out if and like her history and stuff, and
- 15:16Speaker 1: they wouldn't say anything because of privacy. So it was
- 15:19Speaker 1: not even clear if, like if what her reports are
- 15:22Speaker 1: being fired and stuff had even got passed on to
- 15:25Speaker 1: like her new employers and stuff, which is really messed up. Yeah,
- 15:31Speaker 1: so they might not have even known that's that she
- 15:33Speaker 1: had previously gotten fired and why she had gotten fired.
- 15:36Speaker 2: That's really fucked up. I understand the union is there
- 15:38Speaker 2: to protect the employee, but however, you're also it's there
- 15:43Speaker 2: to make sure everyone is safe and protecting.
- 15:45Speaker 1: No, I know, I didn't love that. So she quit
- 15:49Speaker 1: her job. Okay, so this is after she refused to
- 15:52Speaker 1: work with the children. She quit her job and checked
- 15:55Speaker 1: herself into rehab at cam H in Toronto. And very
- 15:59Speaker 1: shortly after after checking into rehab, like we're talking like
- 16:02Speaker 1: within hours, Best started confessing information to a psychologist that
- 16:07Speaker 1: was quite alarming, so alarming that the Toronto Police had
- 16:12Speaker 1: to be notified.
- 16:14Speaker 2: Dun dun Duhn.
- 16:19Speaker 1: Initially confessing in a four page written letter. Beth also
- 16:23Speaker 1: personally emailed the College of Nurses to resign from being
- 16:26Speaker 1: a nurse, as she said she had deliberately harmed patients
- 16:30Speaker 1: in her care. Beth later participated in a two and
- 16:35Speaker 1: a half hour videotape confession with detective Nathan Hergott, and
- 16:42Speaker 1: from two thousand and seven to twenty sixteen, Beth confessed
- 16:46Speaker 1: to murdering eight patients and attempting to harm six others. Jeez,
- 16:53Speaker 1: and if it wasn't for this confession, these families would
- 16:56Speaker 1: never have known the real reason that their elderly loved
- 16:59Speaker 1: ones die.
- 17:01Speaker 2: That's crazy, okay, because you pretty much watched this two
- 17:05Speaker 2: hour confession like what happened?
- 17:07Speaker 1: Hey, I didn't watch the full thing because it's like
- 17:09Speaker 1: pretty dry.
- 17:10Speaker 2: Right, well, of course it's non stop video in a
- 17:13Speaker 2: confession room.
- 17:14Speaker 1: It was very interesting because I felt like she was
- 17:16Speaker 1: like so calm, and it was just almost like she
- 17:21Speaker 1: had just felt like it was her time to confess
- 17:23Speaker 1: or something like. It just seemed like she didn't really
- 17:25Speaker 1: have any hesitation about all her confessions, which I thought
- 17:29Speaker 1: was like weird, that is weird, Like it's she just
- 17:33Speaker 1: seemed I mean, it's I will will put it the
- 17:36Speaker 1: link up for it, so if you want, if you
- 17:38Speaker 1: have two and a half hours of your life that
- 17:40Speaker 1: you want to commit to watching that you can. Like
- 17:44Speaker 1: she paced a few times, but it was almost just
- 17:47Speaker 1: because I think she was like tired of sitting there, right,
- 17:51Speaker 1: But like she just seems so chill with like confessing everything.
- 17:54Speaker 1: And I thought that was really weird because I feel
- 17:57Speaker 1: like if I was confessing to the ship she did,
- 17:59Speaker 1: I wouldn't been that calm.
- 18:00Speaker 2: I would not be calm at all. I'd be like,
- 18:02Speaker 2: I fucking killed people and now I'm telling you I'm fucked.
- 18:05Speaker 2: Like I would be scared shitless. Yeah, there's god, Like
- 18:10Speaker 2: that's got to be a sign of like she's a
- 18:12Speaker 2: psychopath or some sort on top of whatever else.
- 18:16Speaker 1: Well, I mean she had a lot of like depression
- 18:19Speaker 1: and mental issues and stuff.
- 18:20Speaker 2: Yeah, but to be calm and confessing to killing eight people,
- 18:25Speaker 2: I know.
- 18:25Speaker 1: Well okay, well, like we're gonna dive into it more,
- 18:27Speaker 1: dude here. But like she felt like she felt bad,
- 18:30Speaker 1: but it was just like yeah, I was like, this
- 18:31Speaker 1: is what I did.
- 18:32Speaker 2: Yeah, But there's a difference between being yeah, I feel
- 18:35Speaker 2: bad and oh I feel so.
- 18:37Speaker 1: Bad, Like you know, I know, I feel like I
- 18:39Speaker 1: would have been sobbing. Okay, but maybe she did and
- 18:41Speaker 1: I didn't go that deep. But like she seemed pretty
- 18:44Speaker 1: chill at the beginning.
- 18:45Speaker 2: Yeah, if she's not showing remorse, I'm pretty sure she
- 18:47Speaker 2: doesn't actually have much remorse.
- 18:49Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So to dive into this, it was shortly
- 18:55Speaker 1: after she started working at Crescent Care when she began
- 18:59Speaker 1: murdering patience. And what she was doing to murder these patients.
- 19:04Speaker 2: You ready, I'm ready?
- 19:06Speaker 1: Was she was experimenting with injecting patients with insulin, heavy
- 19:11Speaker 1: doses of insulin to overdose them.
- 19:13Speaker 2: So fucked.
- 19:15Speaker 1: There's reasons why she chose insulin, but.
- 19:19Speaker 2: I'm curious on why.
- 19:21Speaker 1: Best first assaults occurred between June twenty fifth and December
- 19:25Speaker 1: thirty one of two thousand and seven. She confessed to
- 19:28Speaker 1: injecting sisters. Oh this is where the names could start here.
- 19:34Speaker 2: Just do your best, do your best. We got you,
- 19:36Speaker 2: We're going to support you through this.
- 19:37Speaker 1: Uh Clydia. I think it's her name, our Audrino or something.
- 19:43Speaker 1: She was eighty seven and Albino Demorris was eighty eight,
- 19:49Speaker 1: so she injected them with insulin. While they later died,
- 19:53Speaker 1: Neither of their deaths were attributed to death or to
- 19:56Speaker 1: best to death.
- 19:58Speaker 2: Neither of their death were attributed to death.
- 20:00Speaker 1: So they were two of the lucky ones. She didn't give.
- 20:03Speaker 2: Them enough and they like yet, so they survived.
- 20:06Speaker 1: They survived. The first case in with Beth in which
- 20:10Speaker 1: Beth did kill was with the patient James Silcox, who
- 20:14Speaker 1: died on August eleventh, two thousand and seven, at Crescent Care.
- 20:19Speaker 1: James was a World War Two veteran, married for sixty
- 20:23Speaker 1: three years, which I loved, and a father of six.
- 20:27Speaker 1: In her kid yeah, actually that's a lot of kids, say,
- 20:30Speaker 1: I never even really put that together, but that's a
- 20:32Speaker 1: lot of kids. In her confession to the detective Nathan Hurgot,
- 20:38Speaker 1: she said, I gave him a dose of fifty milligrams
- 20:41Speaker 1: of insulin. He's not diabetic. I used a bor oled
- 20:45Speaker 1: insulin pen and gave him an insulin shot well through
- 20:49Speaker 1: the Throughout the night, he was yelling out I love
- 20:52Speaker 1: you and I'm sorry not to me, but just you
- 20:56Speaker 1: could hear him calling out in his room and that's
- 20:59Speaker 1: what he was saying. At three point thirty, the personal
- 21:03Speaker 1: support worker came to me and said that he was gone.
- 21:07Speaker 1: So I did what we were supposed to do. I
- 21:09Speaker 1: went and listened to his heart and Chess called the
- 21:11Speaker 1: doctor called the family because that's what they wanted. Family
- 21:15Speaker 1: came in to sit with him for a while. The
- 21:18Speaker 1: doctor later ruled that he had died from an embolism
- 21:21Speaker 1: associated with the surgery that he recently had.
- 21:25Speaker 2: Okay, what the fuck is that even an embolism?
- 21:28Speaker 1: I think that's like a clot or something, isn't it.
- 21:32Speaker 2: Oh that's why he asked you.
- 21:33Speaker 3: I don't know. I didn't look it up.
- 21:35Speaker 1: So he had died from like something caused from the surgery.
- 21:38Speaker 1: I think it's a clot.
- 21:39Speaker 2: Gotcha? Okay.
- 21:40Speaker 1: Plot. The family commended Beth for her work, and when
- 21:46Speaker 1: the detective asked how that made her feel, she said
- 21:50Speaker 1: absolutely awful.
- 21:52Speaker 2: Well, no kidding, it should. If she felt absolutely awful
- 21:58Speaker 2: for that, then why did she continue?
- 22:00Speaker 1: You Well, she also said that the overdose felt like
- 22:04Speaker 1: a pressure had relieved from her just overall, like a
- 22:08Speaker 1: pressure was lifted from her emotions. So she had this
- 22:12Speaker 1: like immense pressure, and after she killed it was relieved,
- 22:17Speaker 1: you know what, like going to the bathroom.
- 22:18Speaker 2: Maybe she should try drinking four leaders of chocolate milk
- 22:21Speaker 2: that makes me feel better rather than killing someone. Just milk.
- 22:27Speaker 1: Well, if only like you had known her, you could
- 22:29Speaker 1: have said this to her.
- 22:30Speaker 4: Maybe you could have said, dude, just.
- 22:33Speaker 1: Go buy a floor leader jug of choks.
- 22:35Speaker 2: Okay, that easy. Put on some Bob Marley Street, little beds,
- 22:40Speaker 2: you know.
- 22:41Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 22:43Speaker 1: Okay, So during this time I should note that she
- 22:47Speaker 1: was looking for love online and she did have a
- 22:50Speaker 1: few same sex relationships, one being with Sheila Andrews from
- 22:54Speaker 1: Northern Saskatchewan.
- 22:56Speaker 2: Okay, her her being a complete psychopath murderer aside. I
- 23:01Speaker 2: am happy she was able to get into the same
- 23:04Speaker 2: sex marriage thing, because it sounds like that was a
- 23:06Speaker 2: big struggle through her life.
- 23:08Speaker 3: Well she never got married, dude.
- 23:09Speaker 2: Well, sorry that same sex were relationship.
- 23:11Speaker 3: Okay.
- 23:14Speaker 1: Sheila was interviewed on a documentary through the Fifth Estate
- 23:17Speaker 1: called The Unraveling of Nurse Elizabeth Wettlawfer, which is actually
- 23:21Speaker 1: really good and people should go and watch it. Sheila
- 23:24Speaker 1: said Beth decided she liked girls, which is what split
- 23:27Speaker 1: up her marriage. She seemed proud of being a nurse
- 23:30Speaker 1: and enjoyed the power being in charge at night because
- 23:35Speaker 1: she normally worked Nighthis, yeah, Sheila said, there was a
- 23:38Speaker 1: troublesome side to Beth, and she knew very soon after
- 23:41Speaker 1: they met in person for the first time that this
- 23:44Speaker 1: wasn't going to work out. She said Beth poted a
- 23:47Speaker 1: lot and had little temper tantems when she didn't get
- 23:50Speaker 1: her own way. She had a lot of childish issues
- 23:53Speaker 1: about her, and there was something off with her vibe.
- 23:57Speaker 1: She didn't have a good vibe.
- 23:59Speaker 2: Yeah, vibe them with that.
- 24:01Speaker 3: Yeah, you can.
- 24:03Speaker 2: Trust your gut. If someone doesn't have a good vibe,
- 24:06Speaker 2: don't go with it.
- 24:06Speaker 1: Actually, yeah, there could totally be a reason for that.
- 24:09Speaker 2: Yeah, it turns out that they're they're killing eighty year
- 24:11Speaker 2: old people with insulin shots.
- 24:13Speaker 1: Yep, that was the vibe that was off there.
- 24:15Speaker 2: How do you give off that sort of vibe?
- 24:19Speaker 3: Maybe she was just really good at picking up vibes.
- 24:22Speaker 1: Maybe Beth also had a passion for writing and posting
- 24:26Speaker 1: graphic poems under the name Betty Watson Weston Weston on
- 24:32Speaker 1: all poetry dot com. You can actually go and find
- 24:35Speaker 1: her poems.
- 24:36Speaker 2: Oh really yeah, how heavy are these poems?
- 24:39Speaker 1: So?
- 24:39Speaker 4: Okay?
- 24:39Speaker 1: There was so many reports about this one poem, and
- 24:43Speaker 1: so I went to this website and I couldn't see
- 24:45Speaker 1: it there. So I feel like it might have gotten
- 24:47Speaker 1: maybe down or something, or it's like you might have
- 24:49Speaker 1: to be a member to see it. I don't know,
- 24:51Speaker 1: but I was able to get it for you.
- 24:53Speaker 2: Oh you fooled me there. I was thinking, You're like, yeah,
- 24:57Speaker 2: I wasn't able to find it, but I got this
- 24:58Speaker 2: one instead.
- 24:59Speaker 1: No, I'm a for to the max here.
- 25:00Speaker 2: You pulled the old switcheroo there, Good job, good job.
- 25:04Speaker 1: So yeah, this was the darkest one. You ready, Oh
- 25:07Speaker 1: my goodness, it's so creepy.
- 25:08Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm ready for it. But let's
- 25:10Speaker 2: let's let's hear it dished out. Le's see if you
- 25:11Speaker 2: can take it.
- 25:12Speaker 1: And I don't know if I'm very good reading poems,
- 25:13Speaker 1: but let's draw here. Okay. She watches some life drain
- 25:18Speaker 1: from the notch in his neck vein. As it soothingly pools,
- 25:22Speaker 1: it smothers her pain. Sweet stiletto so sharp, craves another cut.
- 25:28Speaker 1: Obeying a call, she moves to his gut blade traces
- 25:32Speaker 1: a line from nabel to spine, grating on ribbones, slicing
- 25:37Speaker 1: and test tine.
- 25:40Speaker 2: Your face that is a whole nother kind of fucked
- 25:43Speaker 2: up right there? Holy shit, Oh my gosh, leave me.
- 25:46Speaker 1: People can see your face like it's like, oh right,
- 25:51Speaker 1: Like who writes the poem like that?
- 25:54Speaker 2: I was kind of feeling bad for Beth up until
- 25:58Speaker 2: this point.
- 25:59Speaker 3: Oh were you?
- 26:00Speaker 2: Yes? Like trust me out? Like she should fucking rot
- 26:03Speaker 2: in jail for life what she's done. But I'm like,
- 26:06Speaker 2: she's seriously going through some shit, Like you know, I'm
- 26:08Speaker 2: almost feeling bad for this. No, fuck this, bitch, I'm sorry,
- 26:12Speaker 2: I'm out.
- 26:12Speaker 1: Okay, that's actually so funny because I feel like Sam
- 26:15Speaker 1: almost crying here. That poem just hit me hard. But
- 26:20Speaker 1: I felt kind of bad for her too at times,
- 26:22Speaker 1: which is so fucked up. Like why I was researching
- 26:25Speaker 1: was like, why do I feel bad for her?
- 26:27Speaker 2: Well, it seems like she's going through a lot of shit. However,
- 26:31Speaker 2: that's no excuse to do this to other people just
- 26:33Speaker 2: because you're going through something.
- 26:34Speaker 1: It's absolutely no excuse, absolutely no excuse. Okay, And we're
- 26:39Speaker 1: about to dive into the rest of the other murders,
- 26:42Speaker 1: which is really unfortunate. So through to March twenty fourteen,
- 26:47Speaker 1: Beth murdered six more patients at Crescent Care and attempted
- 26:51Speaker 1: to murder two more.
- 26:53Speaker 2: And this was all in March.
- 26:54Speaker 1: Sorry, no, this was like through to twenty seven to
- 26:59Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. This was while she was at Crescent Care.
- 27:02Speaker 1: Because afterwards she laughed and there were some others gotcha.
- 27:06Speaker 1: In December two thousand and seven, that fatally injected Morris
- 27:11Speaker 1: Moe were not with Insolin. He was eighty four years old.
- 27:15Speaker 1: Apparently Mo had grabbed her breast, and when she ordered
- 27:20Speaker 1: him to stop, he believed her. He removed his hand
- 27:22Speaker 1: and laughed, which is like.
- 27:24Speaker 3: I mean, he's from eighty four years old, that's funny.
- 27:27Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's not funny.
- 27:28Speaker 1: Funny, but it's not funny. But like, he probably didn't
- 27:31Speaker 1: even really know exactly what he was doing.
- 27:33Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of stories I've heard from creepy
- 27:37Speaker 2: old dudes and stuff in care homes. Though it's not acceptable.
- 27:42Speaker 1: It's not unacceptable, but it wasn't it wasn't going to
- 27:46Speaker 1: go any further than that. Yeah, so she's where was
- 27:51Speaker 1: I Yeah? So, I mean the fact that he laughed
- 27:53Speaker 1: probably pistraph she.
- 27:54Speaker 2: Touched me off to someone grabbed my tit and do that?
- 27:57Speaker 2: Fuck that get out of here? What you.
- 28:02Speaker 1: Crap?
- 28:03Speaker 2: It would?
- 28:03Speaker 1: Okay, holy let's get this together, she said again. She
- 28:07Speaker 1: felt an overall sense of anger and pressure, a strong
- 28:10Speaker 1: urge to end his life to relieve these emotions. So
- 28:15Speaker 1: that's what she did again.
- 28:16Speaker 2: Chocolate milk, Oh my goodness.
- 28:19Speaker 1: On October fourteenth, twenty eleven, Gladys Millard aged eighty seven,
- 28:24Speaker 1: was Best's next victim. Best described her someone with dementia
- 28:29Speaker 1: who wouldn't take her pills and was very stubborn. She said,
- 28:33Speaker 1: as always, one evening, I just got that red surging
- 28:37Speaker 1: feeling that she was going to be the one. I
- 28:40Speaker 1: would focus on one patient, and then I would get
- 28:42Speaker 1: that red surge, which is what made me think it
- 28:45Speaker 1: was God. No comment.
- 28:50Speaker 2: I have a lot of comments for that, but I'm
- 28:52Speaker 2: not going to say anything. I have strong feelings towards
- 28:57Speaker 2: not all religious communities, but I have strong feelings towards
- 29:01Speaker 2: a lot of the major things that certain religious communities
- 29:06Speaker 2: tend to try and enforce. Let's put it that way.
- 29:10Speaker 1: Well, and honestly, that's not that's not God. If you're
- 29:12Speaker 1: believing God, I feel like that'd be the devil, right.
- 29:15Speaker 1: So I don't know, though Beth would say these deaths
- 29:18Speaker 1: were peaceful, peaceful deaths, reading the stories of the victims,
- 29:24Speaker 1: the deaths to me did not sound like they were peaceful. Gladys,
- 29:28Speaker 1: for example, was injected at five am by Beth fought
- 29:32Speaker 1: and struggled with being injected because I'm sure she didn't
- 29:36Speaker 1: like think that was right, Like she probably doesn't normally
- 29:38Speaker 1: get injected, right because I don't have it in here.
- 29:40Speaker 1: But lots of times Beth would be like, oh, this
- 29:42Speaker 1: is like a vitamin.
- 29:46Speaker 2: Okay, then where's my flintstones?
- 29:47Speaker 1: Like my chewbo flintstones. Yeah, everyone's like seeing how young
- 29:52Speaker 1: you are. Right now you're chopping to melkare flintstones.
- 29:55Speaker 3: You don't actually take those.
- 29:56Speaker 1: But so by seven am I'm talking about Gladys here,
- 30:02Speaker 1: she was unresponsive and needing to be moved to palliative care.
- 30:06Speaker 1: So that's like two hours later it was noted she
- 30:09Speaker 1: was red, sweaty, incoherent and had low vital signs.
- 30:14Speaker 2: That's overdose. She's in show no.
- 30:17Speaker 1: So by nine she was still sweating profusely, she was
- 30:21Speaker 1: cold and clammy, foaming at the mouth, pale, and her
- 30:25Speaker 1: body was twitching. And then she later passed away at
- 30:29Speaker 1: four or five geez, so like she got like that's
- 30:32Speaker 1: pretty much like eleven hours.
- 30:35Speaker 2: Yeah, of shit, of a violent overdose.
- 30:38Speaker 1: And like, also, I feel like, like foaming at the
- 30:42Speaker 1: mouth and shit, does that happen to someone when they
- 30:44Speaker 1: just die?
- 30:45Speaker 2: I don't think.
- 30:48Speaker 1: I'm just surprised that that's not something that got looked into.
- 30:52Speaker 2: It happens to me when I see chocolate milk. Sorry,
- 30:55Speaker 2: I'm I'm been throwing this chocolate milk joke in there
- 30:57Speaker 2: a lot hashtag worth it.
- 30:59Speaker 3: I love chocolate.
- 31:00Speaker 2: I'm done though when I swear.
- 31:02Speaker 3: Jeez, you're like obsessed.
- 31:04Speaker 2: It's good.
- 31:04Speaker 1: So anyway, like that to me, just reading that does
- 31:08Speaker 1: not seem like.
- 31:09Speaker 3: A peaceful death.
- 31:11Speaker 2: No death, not like.
- 31:12Speaker 1: Like she yeah, that signs like overdose like this like
- 31:16Speaker 1: oh anyway, sorry, I'm just oh next Helen Matheson ninety seven.
- 31:24Speaker 1: She died on October twenty seven, twenty eleven. Beth said
- 31:27Speaker 1: she didn't remember a lot about her. She was very quiet,
- 31:30Speaker 1: very determined. She seemed to be waiting to die. We
- 31:35Speaker 1: talked about how much she liked, oh, we're talking about
- 31:38Speaker 1: more food here. She talked about how much she like
- 31:39Speaker 1: blueberry pie and ice cream. So on best lunch break
- 31:43Speaker 1: she went to purchase or to Walmart to purchase these
- 31:45Speaker 1: things for her, which I love, Like that's so cool.
- 31:49Speaker 1: But then that night she overdoses her.
- 31:52Speaker 2: Wow. Wow. She literally was like she's just playing god
- 31:58Speaker 2: at this point. She's like, Yeah, I'm gonna decide you
- 32:01Speaker 2: die tonight. I'm going to give you your last meal. I'm
- 32:04Speaker 2: deciding what your last meal is, even though I mean, yeah,
- 32:07Speaker 2: of course she liked that stuff, but she's she's a
- 32:09Speaker 2: power freak, obsessed with power control.
- 32:13Speaker 1: Yeah, like it's just disgusting really, and that kind of
- 32:17Speaker 1: reminded me, like, I don't know if I should say
- 32:19Speaker 1: this with that time.
- 32:19Speaker 3: We had to kill that.
- 32:20Speaker 1: Mouse and we gave it cheese before it died.
- 32:24Speaker 3: But I mean, it's a mouse, not a freaking human being.
- 32:27Speaker 2: Well, that thing had like a step wrong with it.
- 32:31Speaker 3: Yeah, drastic, we gave it. It's like a last little meal. Okay.
- 32:36Speaker 1: Next, So Mary Zira Winsky she was ninety six on
- 32:42Speaker 1: March seven, twenty eleventh. Beth determined Mary was her next
- 32:45Speaker 1: victim because Mary had apparently asked Beth to place her
- 32:49Speaker 1: in her deathbed and she believed she was going to die.
- 32:52Speaker 1: So that was enough for Beth and she's like, yeah.
- 32:55Speaker 3: Next victim.
- 32:57Speaker 1: Helen Young ninety years old. She died on July fourteenth,
- 33:01Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. She served in World War Two, where she
- 33:05Speaker 1: met her husband. They had no children, but she was
- 33:08Speaker 1: an outspoken lady who loved animals and traveling. She often
- 33:13Speaker 1: asked for help and frequently stated that she wanted to die,
- 33:17Speaker 1: so Beth determined she was her next victim. It's like
- 33:19Speaker 1: you just could never ever say anything about like I
- 33:22Speaker 1: want to die or whatever to this lady nodding, she'd
- 33:24Speaker 1: be like.
- 33:24Speaker 2: Okay, she gets to make the calls. She's power tripping.
- 33:28Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, she does seem like she likes the power. Hey.
- 33:31Speaker 2: Yeah, well her ex even said that that she really
- 33:35Speaker 2: liked to be in control.
- 33:36Speaker 1: Yeah, that was probably maybe only one aspect of her life.
- 33:40Speaker 1: She felt like that too, just from the history of it.
- 33:45Speaker 1: So again, not what I would call peaceful death. Helen's
- 33:48Speaker 1: face was red, her arms and legs were bent inward,
- 33:52Speaker 1: her eyes bulging, and she was moaning loudly. She also
- 33:56Speaker 1: had a seizure of result.
- 33:58Speaker 3: Of the insulin jeez, I'm like, oh, it almost makes
- 34:01Speaker 3: me sick.
- 34:03Speaker 1: Marine Pickering seventy nine, So she died on March twenty fourteen.
- 34:10Speaker 1: Marine would often wander around into like other patient's rooms
- 34:14Speaker 1: and stuff, and she would also be aggressive, like she
- 34:17Speaker 1: would go in the rooms and like yell at them.
- 34:20Speaker 1: I guess so she needed one to one care, but
- 34:25Speaker 1: that wasn't always available. Beth was irritated that she had
- 34:28Speaker 1: to focus so much attention on Marine because at the
- 34:32Speaker 1: one particular night she didn't have the one on one
- 34:35Speaker 1: care because there wasn't someone available, so she got the
- 34:39Speaker 1: urge to kill her, but she told herself, no, I
- 34:43Speaker 1: don't want her to die.
- 34:44Speaker 3: So I was like, that's good.
- 34:46Speaker 1: But if I could somehow give her enough of a
- 34:49Speaker 1: dose to give her a coma, something to change her
- 34:52Speaker 1: brain waves, maybe make her less mobile and less hard
- 34:56Speaker 1: to handle. Wow, So that was ultimately what you wanted
- 35:01Speaker 1: to do with Marine. But instead, Oh where was I here?
- 35:06Speaker 4: Okay?
- 35:07Speaker 1: So she that was on March twenty second that she
- 35:11Speaker 1: did the dosage, and then Marine still died, but not
- 35:14Speaker 1: until March twenty eighth, so it was like such a
- 35:16Speaker 1: prolonged death.
- 35:17Speaker 2: Oh my god, this woman. Yeah, I don't feel bad
- 35:20Speaker 2: for her at all anymore.
- 35:22Speaker 1: Oh, Like that one is brutal.
- 35:24Speaker 2: She's just annoyed by this woman being like, yeah, you're
- 35:27Speaker 2: not even worth me killing, but I'm gonna just cripple you.
- 35:30Speaker 1: Yeah. She wanted just to like have her not be
- 35:32Speaker 1: so annoying.
- 35:34Speaker 2: I wish this bitch was so not annoying.
- 35:36Speaker 1: Ugh, which I just so. And then she attempted to
- 35:40Speaker 1: murder Michael Priddle sixty three and Wayne Hedges fifty seven
- 35:46Speaker 1: because there were a little few gaps in the years there,
- 35:49Speaker 1: and so like that's when she attempted to kill them.
- 35:54Speaker 1: She left employment at Cress and Karen twenty fourteen because
- 35:56Speaker 1: she was fired, but in part time work at other
- 35:59Speaker 1: facilities and at patients' homes. She injected three more with insulin.
- 36:05Speaker 1: So she killed arped Horvath seventy five at Meadow Park
- 36:09Speaker 1: Facility in London, Ontario, on August thirty first, twenty fourteen.
- 36:14Speaker 1: She attempted to kill Sandra Towler seventy seven at a
- 36:19Speaker 1: retirement home in Paris, Ontario, on September twenty fifteenth. And
- 36:24Speaker 1: the last one attempted to kill Beverly Bertran, who was
- 36:28Speaker 1: sixty eight, at a private residence on August twenty sixteen.
- 36:34Speaker 1: And this one's quite interesting. I didn't have it in
- 36:36Speaker 1: there because she was like going to private residences, right,
- 36:40Speaker 1: So like, how is she going to have this insulin
- 36:43Speaker 1: readily available to her?
- 36:44Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, she would have definitely had to like stalk
- 36:46Speaker 2: this up, wouldn't she.
- 36:47Speaker 1: So this person did I can't remember if this person
- 36:50Speaker 1: actually had no this person did have diabetes, but she
- 36:54Speaker 1: didn't want to use this person's insolent stash because then
- 36:58Speaker 1: they would know that like somewhere. So she actually went
- 37:02Speaker 1: into another broke into another like private resident who needed care.
- 37:08Speaker 1: This person was in the shower at the time, heard
- 37:10Speaker 1: like someone break in. Came out of the shower and
- 37:14Speaker 1: like Beth was going through all her drugs and shit,
- 37:17Speaker 1: and she's like, what are you doing? Oh, I just
- 37:19Speaker 1: like forgot something here and like stole the insulin from
- 37:23Speaker 1: her to the next day, tried to overdose Beverly.
- 37:28Speaker 2: Wow, like the premeditation there.
- 37:30Speaker 3: I was like, holy freak, that's nuts.
- 37:33Speaker 2: That's crazy.
- 37:34Speaker 4: Yeah, oh wow.
- 37:38Speaker 1: So of the murders, she told detective, I felt horrible.
- 37:42Speaker 1: I felt angry at myself. I felt like I had
- 37:45Speaker 1: failed myself. I felt like I had failed or that
- 37:48Speaker 1: God had failed me.
- 37:50Speaker 2: No, you felt God. Yeah, if anyone failed anyone, it's
- 37:53Speaker 2: the other way around. You failed God.
- 37:55Speaker 1: So get this though, this is something I was freaking shocked.
- 38:00Speaker 3: Oops.
- 38:00Speaker 1: I knock my mic himself for conshocked. Beth had previously
- 38:05Speaker 1: confessed to killing patients several times before this ultimate confession.
- 38:11Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I've heard of that. What the hell happened here?
- 38:15Speaker 1: So she tried to stop the murders and had told
- 38:17Speaker 1: friends and a former partner, but no one took her seriously.
- 38:23Speaker 1: She also continued to go to church and eventually told
- 38:27Speaker 1: a pastor that she was killing people by giving them overdoses.
- 38:32Speaker 1: The pastor and his wife prayed over her and said,
- 38:36Speaker 1: this is God's grace, but if you ever do this again,
- 38:41Speaker 1: we will have to turn you into police.
- 38:45Speaker 2: What yeah, what?
- 38:50Speaker 1: Uh? So they just let it go, but if she
- 38:54Speaker 1: did it again then they would have to turn her in.
- 38:58Speaker 1: But the ones prior to her telling them God's grace,
- 39:02Speaker 1: don't do it again.
- 39:03Speaker 2: What the fuck is with people and just making up
- 39:05Speaker 2: their own rules as they go?
- 39:07Speaker 1: I know? Like that because and the thing is like
- 39:09Speaker 1: if they reported that, people would have been saved, Like
- 39:13Speaker 1: I not report that the streak is wrong with you.
- 39:16Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't care, Like if you think
- 39:19Speaker 1: like okay, but even just thinking that's God's way, there's
- 39:22Speaker 1: something fucked out up about that, Like you're not You
- 39:25Speaker 1: don't get to an elderly age to be overdosed by insulin, right,
- 39:29Speaker 1: that just doesn't happen.
- 39:30Speaker 2: God's not going to decide that if God wants you
- 39:33Speaker 2: to die at an elderly age. He's going to take
- 39:36Speaker 2: you at an elderly age. He's not going to say, Okay,
- 39:38Speaker 2: you know what, this bitch over here who needs to
- 39:41Speaker 2: drink more chocolate milk is going to ingest you with
- 39:42Speaker 2: some inject you with insulin.
- 39:44Speaker 1: I know, like it's just like almost it makes me angry. Okay,
- 39:49Speaker 1: but let's move on from them now that I'm my
- 39:52Speaker 1: palms are sweating and I'm all heated up here.
- 39:54Speaker 2: Palms are sweaty, and knees weak, arms are heavy. Vomit
- 39:58Speaker 2: already his mom's spaghetti. That's Eminem eight Mile.
- 40:02Speaker 1: Okay, best said the killing No, I don't listen to
- 40:08Speaker 1: Eminem Eminem's I don't listen.
- 40:11Speaker 2: I've ever seen eight Mile the movie.
- 40:13Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 40:14Speaker 2: Oh my god, how am I married to you?
- 40:16Speaker 1: Okay, this is okay, we're in the middle of a podcast, Ben,
- 40:19Speaker 1: but literally, like your every movie, it's like.
- 40:22Speaker 3: How am I married?
- 40:23Speaker 1: You?
- 40:23Speaker 3: Haven't watched that?
- 40:24Speaker 2: Yeah, and it baffles me everything.
- 40:26Speaker 1: You need to make a list, so I watch these ship.
- 40:28Speaker 2: Movies they're not ship movies, and that list is going
- 40:31Speaker 2: to be miles long, like.
- 40:33Speaker 3: Miles Well it started.
- 40:34Speaker 1: I can't believe I haven't started it yet moving on.
- 40:39Speaker 2: Yes please, Bes said the podcast not a domestic.
- 40:44Speaker 1: Beth said the killings were not the result of medical
- 40:47Speaker 1: errors or done while she was addicted to the painkillers.
- 40:51Speaker 1: In her confession, Beth admitted that she knew the difference
- 40:55Speaker 1: between right and wrong okay, but she was visited by
- 41:00Speaker 1: surges she could not control.
- 41:02Speaker 3: She said, God or.
- 41:03Speaker 1: The devil or whatever wanted me to do it. After
- 41:07Speaker 1: one murder, she felt the surging and then heard heard
- 41:12Speaker 1: her own laughter inwards. It was like a crackling from
- 41:16Speaker 1: the pit of hell, Like.
- 41:19Speaker 3: That sounds go.
- 41:23Speaker 2: Yeah, no, shit, what the fuck is that? Like this
- 41:26Speaker 2: is all in her confession, So she's literally laughing on
- 41:29Speaker 2: the inside. I guess she knows what's wrong, but she's
- 41:32Speaker 2: laughing on the inside, you know, and.
- 41:33Speaker 1: Something something else. It's just like shit, Like I have
- 41:38Speaker 1: this feeling, like is that really all? Like who knows
- 41:41Speaker 1: if there weren't more right that she's like maybe even
- 41:44Speaker 1: just freaking forgot or even did when she was like
- 41:48Speaker 1: drunk or high or whatever.
- 41:50Speaker 2: Or she's just like, you know, I've confessed to eight,
- 41:52Speaker 2: I've already feel shit enough. I'm not gonna tell them
- 41:54Speaker 2: about the other fucking ten people, or.
- 41:57Speaker 1: Maybe like after for an hour and a half in
- 41:59Speaker 1: the confession, she needed a glass of chocolate milk, so
- 42:01Speaker 1: she just decided to stop it at those exactly right,
- 42:04Speaker 1: Like shit, I feel like there could have been more,
- 42:09Speaker 1: but anyway, that's just a shitty thought. So Beth worked
- 42:13Speaker 1: for years without supervision. Her colleagues sounded the alarm on
- 42:17Speaker 1: several occasion for medication airs. Beth, Oh, where am I here?
- 42:23Speaker 3: Sorry?
- 42:26Speaker 4: I did okay?
- 42:33Speaker 1: Yeah, So her colleagues had like brought up a lot
- 42:36Speaker 1: of issues that made resonance at risk, and as mentioned,
- 42:41Speaker 1: Beth was suspended a few times and fired, right, but
- 42:45Speaker 1: no one here, I'm back in my thought. Sorry, but
- 42:48Speaker 1: no one suspected that Beth was actually like intentionally harming
- 42:52Speaker 1: those under hair care, not the residents or the families,
- 42:55Speaker 1: not those who worked alongside Beth, and not those who
- 42:58Speaker 1: managed and supervised her.
- 43:00Speaker 2: What about those people that Beth literally told face to
- 43:02Speaker 2: face that I am jecting people killing them.
- 43:05Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 43:06Speaker 1: Caurescent Care even gave Beth a reference letter after she
- 43:11Speaker 1: was fired. But mostly so that's why I think those
- 43:15Speaker 1: other places might not even know that she was like crazy, right,
- 43:19Speaker 1: But mostly in part because the home wanted to avoid
- 43:22Speaker 1: a grievance from the Ontario Ontario Nurses Association. So see
- 43:28Speaker 1: like I was like, that's bullshit. Beth herself told lawyers
- 43:35Speaker 1: that she chose insulin because it wouldn't be miss and
- 43:39Speaker 1: isn't tracked as closely as say, a narcotic, but her
- 43:44Speaker 1: use of the drug also aided in best crimes going
- 43:47Speaker 1: undetected even if an autopsy was performed, and being that
- 43:52Speaker 1: all of her victims were elderly and their deaths didn't
- 43:55Speaker 1: come across suspicion suspicious, most didn't have an autopsy. It's
- 44:00Speaker 1: not easy to identify if someone had died due to
- 44:04Speaker 1: an insolent overdose. According to the province's chief forensic, pale
- 44:08Speaker 1: And Tall, no forensic what would they be called?
- 44:17Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm drawing a blank on it. Pathologists,
- 44:24Speaker 2: all these dinosaurs over here, all these old people.
- 44:27Speaker 1: Brutal so there's no post mortem test for low blood sugar,
- 44:32Speaker 1: and the symptoms are associated with other conditions. It's also
- 44:37Speaker 1: difficult to distinguish natural and synthetic insulin in the body.
- 44:42Speaker 1: Deaths cause from an insolent overdose can also take days
- 44:45Speaker 1: to occur, occur, occur, I said it.
- 44:50Speaker 2: Right, almost sound like a core ears. I don't know, so.
- 44:54Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like kind of why she chose insulin, and like, yeah,
- 44:59Speaker 1: it was always in back rooms, it was easy to grab.
- 45:01Speaker 1: It was never recorded really, like because I think probably
- 45:05Speaker 1: no one really ever.
- 45:05Speaker 3: Thought someone would.
- 45:06Speaker 2: It's readily available. Yeah.
- 45:08Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 45:10Speaker 1: So, after providing police with her two and a half
- 45:14Speaker 1: hour long confession, Beth was formally charged with the eight
- 45:18Speaker 1: murders on October twenty fifth, twenty sixteen. On January thirteen,
- 45:24Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, upon further investigation, she was charged with four
- 45:29Speaker 1: counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault.
- 45:34Speaker 2: Jeez, her wrap sheet's pretty freaking long. Holy shit.
- 45:38Speaker 1: She waived her right to a preliminary hearing and confessed
- 45:43Speaker 1: to all charges in court on June first, twenty seventeen,
- 45:46Speaker 1: which I was like, good for her, Like, she's not
- 45:48Speaker 1: making this friggin be a drawn out, bullshit court session.
- 45:52Speaker 3: So I was like, I appreciate that.
- 45:54Speaker 2: I appreciate that, but I don't prepare her.
- 45:56Speaker 1: Yet still herself, she still shit, but it's like.
- 46:00Speaker 2: That at least she didn't waste taxpayers money as well.
- 46:03Speaker 1: Thank you for that. She only wasted their money in
- 46:06Speaker 1: in and.
- 46:08Speaker 2: Our oxygen for breathing.
- 46:10Speaker 1: June twenty sixth, twenty seventeen, Best was sentenced to eight
- 46:14Speaker 1: concurrent life terms in prison with no possibility of parole
- 46:18Speaker 1: for twenty five years.
- 46:21Speaker 2: I mean, still she shouldn't have parole at all.
- 46:23Speaker 1: Yeah, but like she said, she's eight sentences, so I
- 46:26Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. I was going to look
- 46:29Speaker 1: that up, but I don't know if that means she'll
- 46:32Speaker 1: ever even get that parole because she was charged for
- 46:34Speaker 1: like eight life sentences, but I don't know she.
- 46:38Speaker 2: Gets parole after that time, right ten.
- 46:42Speaker 3: I would be shocked if she ever got out, though.
- 46:45Speaker 2: I hope she does been shocked. I hope she fucking
- 46:48Speaker 2: rots in there.
- 46:49Speaker 1: But I mean there's been a like that Arena Burk
- 46:54Speaker 1: and how her killer got out like Uttle Larkie.
- 46:57Speaker 4: Shouldn't happen anyway.
- 47:01Speaker 1: You all know how we feel about people not just
- 47:05Speaker 1: rotting in jail apparently.
- 47:06Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 47:07Speaker 1: After best sentencing, it was announced that the provincial government
- 47:11Speaker 1: would commission a public inquiry into the safety and security
- 47:15Speaker 1: of residents in the long term care home system.
- 47:18Speaker 2: I would hope so good good, And I feel like they.
- 47:20Speaker 1: Pretty much forge had to do that. If they did that,
- 47:22Speaker 1: then they didn't do anything.
- 47:24Speaker 3: They looked like strict.
- 47:25Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it should have already been in place properly.
- 47:28Speaker 1: Probably it took two years, but in twenty nineteen that
- 47:32Speaker 1: report was released. I'm not going to go into like
- 47:34Speaker 1: a lot of detail, but it was stated that we
- 47:39Speaker 1: cannot assume that because Beth is behind bars, that the
- 47:42Speaker 1: threat to the safety and security of those receiving care
- 47:45Speaker 1: in the long term term care system has passed. Like,
- 47:49Speaker 1: there's still threats, right, There's still could be other best
- 47:53Speaker 1: health And this is where I'm going. This is something
- 47:55Speaker 1: At the beginning, I was like, I didn't even realize
- 47:56Speaker 1: this was a thing, health care serial killing. Like healthcare
- 48:02Speaker 1: serial killing, I didn't even know that was a thing all.
- 48:04Speaker 2: Apparently it is.
- 48:05Speaker 1: Incidents are document documented and dated back to the early
- 48:09Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds. Since nineteen seventy ninety, healthcare serial killers have
- 48:16Speaker 1: been convicted in the United States, Britain, Western European countries,
- 48:20Speaker 1: and now because of or because of Beth, Canada, German. Okay,
- 48:25Speaker 1: this blew my mind. German healthcare serial killer. I think
- 48:29Speaker 1: his name is Nils Hegel and this could be another
- 48:33Speaker 1: case that we do. Initially sentenced for murdering six patients,
- 48:37Speaker 1: but as of twenty twenty, it was believed he claimed
- 48:41Speaker 1: the life of three hundred victims over fifteen years. Damn.
- 48:47Speaker 2: Holy so it said.
- 48:49Speaker 1: Serial killing by healthcare providers is rare and the known
- 48:53Speaker 1: number of them is very small, but the number of
- 48:56Speaker 1: their victims is not small because they have all these
- 49:01Speaker 1: readily available.
- 49:03Speaker 2: Supply of weapons, everything, ways of hiding it. Damn. Oh
- 49:09Speaker 2: my god, people are fucked up. You think you're going
- 49:11Speaker 2: too the healthcare system to help people? Yeah, I never
- 49:15Speaker 2: want to go to a hospital again. Never.
- 49:18Speaker 1: I know. I was just like, that's crazy. I just
- 49:22Speaker 1: when when she said that it was like healthcare serial killers, Like,
- 49:26Speaker 1: I was like, holy shit. I didn't even know that
- 49:28Speaker 1: was a frickin thing.
- 49:29Speaker 2: That's fucked up.
- 49:31Speaker 1: Okay, So back to the inquiry, there were ninety one
- 49:33Speaker 1: recommendations made, including to increase funding and staffing at the
- 49:37Speaker 1: province's nursing homes and improve how medication is stored and tracked.
- 49:43Speaker 4: Duh.
- 49:44Speaker 3: I feel like that's just duh.
- 49:46Speaker 1: Yeah. It was heard many times that Beth would be
- 49:49Speaker 1: the only nurse overseeing up to ninety nine patients and
- 49:53Speaker 1: that recruiting and retraining nurses at long term care facilities
- 49:58Speaker 1: was a constant battle.
- 50:00Speaker 2: I mean, I get that short staff, your short staff.
- 50:03Speaker 2: There's not much you could do about that.
- 50:04Speaker 1: But I know after Beth confessed, the province's health minister
- 50:09Speaker 1: actually shut down Crescent Care to new patients, like while
- 50:12Speaker 1: it was being investigated in such and staff and made
- 50:15Speaker 1: admitted it was the first time in years that they
- 50:18Speaker 1: were actually able to give patients the care and attention
- 50:21Speaker 1: that they needed.
- 50:22Speaker 3: I was like, ah, I think.
- 50:23Speaker 1: That's like probably a Canada or probably a.
- 50:25Speaker 2: World worldwide thing.
- 50:27Speaker 3: We're ald issue.
- 50:28Speaker 1: But anyway, Ben was Ben, Ben did I do?
- 50:34Speaker 3: What did you do?
- 50:36Speaker 1: Beth was awesome, That's what I did. Beth was also
- 50:40Speaker 1: charged with professional misconduct by a disciplinary panel with the
- 50:47Speaker 1: College of Nurses of Ontario on July twenty fifth, twenty seventeen,
- 50:51Speaker 1: even though she was already found guilty in criminal in
- 50:54Speaker 1: a criminal trial and had voluntary like surrendered right her
- 50:59Speaker 1: nursing license. The formal hearing was required, Bet declined to
- 51:04Speaker 1: participate in the hearing and was found guilty on court
- 51:08Speaker 1: on court documents from the criminal trial, as well as
- 51:11Speaker 1: her previous confession. Her conduct was deemed disgraceful and dishonorable
- 51:17Speaker 1: by the panel. Yeah, rightfully so and her nursing.
- 51:24Speaker 3: Just wait, where was it?
- 51:25Speaker 1: Okay? Yeah, so she basically was unbarred, like she was
- 51:28Speaker 1: not able to practice nursing anymore.
- 51:30Speaker 2: Good she shouldn't.
- 51:33Speaker 1: The chair of the five person panel that her best
- 51:36Speaker 1: case said it was one of the most brutal and
- 51:40Speaker 1: disgraceful conduct the panel had ever considered.
- 51:44Speaker 2: I hope, I hope that's the most brutal case they
- 51:47Speaker 2: ever come across.
- 51:48Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 51:48Speaker 2: Wow, that's just sickening.
- 51:51Speaker 3: So that's that.
- 51:52Speaker 2: Wow, that's your trash.
- 51:56Speaker 1: I know, it makes it just makes you sick that
- 51:59Speaker 1: it's just like these this was done in like care
- 52:02Speaker 1: homes with like elderly people that at that point in
- 52:05Speaker 1: your life, like you should just I mean it's not
- 52:07Speaker 1: easy and stuff, but like you shouldn't have to be
- 52:09Speaker 1: having to deal with this sort of stuff. Yeah, I mean,
- 52:12Speaker 1: you shouldn't at any age. But it's like you earned
- 52:14Speaker 1: you earned it, You're in your time.
- 52:16Speaker 2: And a hundred percent I agree. And I mean nowadays
- 52:20Speaker 2: we have medical assisted deaths as well, So I mean
- 52:22Speaker 2: there are people if they really do want to go,
- 52:25Speaker 2: they will Yeah.
- 52:26Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. That wouldn't have been a thing I.
- 52:28Speaker 2: Know, but nowadays, but if like Beth can fuck off
- 52:33Speaker 2: is what I'm saying. I know people need to to
- 52:35Speaker 2: their life will, their lives will run the course, and
- 52:38Speaker 2: if it's not, then it's not in Beth's hands or
- 52:41Speaker 2: anyone else's hands to decide. It's in their own hands. Yeah,
- 52:44Speaker 2: nowadays with medical assisted death or I guess in God's
- 52:48Speaker 2: hands to take them away on his own time, if
- 52:50Speaker 2: there is one. I don't know.
- 52:53Speaker 1: So here's to hoping that Beth stays in jail for
- 52:57Speaker 1: the long term.
- 52:58Speaker 2: Yeah, and maybe she discovers chocolate milk.
- 53:02Speaker 1: There you go. Anyway, thanks for listening, and stay wicked.