100 year old nursing home resident killed by 97 y.o. roommate

[IGotWorms 4,059]

Elizabeth Barrow celebrated her 100th birthday at a backyard gathering with her son and three grandchildren in the coastal Massachusetts town where she raised her family and cooked lunches in a school cafeteria.

 

A month later, in September 2009, Mrs. Barrow was found dead at a local nursing home, strangled and suffocated, with a plastic shopping bag over her head. The killer, the police said, was her 97-year-old roommate.

 

Workers at the nursing home, Brandon Woods in South Dartmouth, Mass., had months earlier described the roommate in patient files as being at risk to harm herself or others.

 

After a police inquiry, the roommate despite her age and dementia was charged with murder. The authorities did not focus on the nursing home, though. Brandon Woods claims that, except for some minor arguments, the two women got along nicely. When the roommate was deemed unfit to stand trial and committed to a state hospital, the sensational case that shocked this corner of New England essentially disappeared.

 

More than six years after the killing, Mrs. Barrows only son, Scott, is still trying to hold the nursing home accountable. The woman had a history of problems, Mr. Barrow said of the roommate in an interview this month. She should not have been living in that room with my mother.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/business/dealbook/pivotal-nursing-home-suit-raises-a-simple-question-who-signed-the-contract.html?_r=0&referer=http://apple.com/spotlight-suggestion

[kutulu 1,681]

Tragic

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,361]

maybe it was a mercy killing

[Mookz 1,349]

Probably sick of the constant Willard Scott namedropping.

[wiffleball 4,790]

I am not surprised. My aunt Turned batshit crazy Toward the end.Honestly, if she did the same thing, I would not have been surprised.So far, I have been pretty lucky with regard to my mom and her dementia, But I'm starting to see the mean Poke through. Scares the s*** out of me.