Ten years ago, in December of 2007, Maurice “Moe” Granat was living in the Caressant Care nursing home in Woodstock, Ontario. Granat was 85, a father of two, grandfather of five and great grandfather of eleven. Friends and family were planning to take Moe home for Christmas, but he never made it.
On December 22, 2007, registered nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer gave Maurice Granat an injection she explained as a “vitamin shot,” but was actually an overdose of insulin, which Canadian Frederick Banting had created to save lives. Moe died the next day but he was not the nurse’s first victim.
Elizabeth Tracy Mae Wettlaufer hailed from Woodstock and came to work at Caressant Care in 2007. There Wettlaufer overdosed Clotilde Adriano and Albina Demedeiros but both survived. The nurse decided to keep on trying.