1 00:00:05,213 --> 00:00:08,466 REPORTER: Woodstock Police received information 2 00:00:08,550 --> 00:00:11,052 that eight people aged 65 to 96 3 00:00:11,136 --> 00:00:14,389 had been murdered at area nursing homes over a seven-year span. 4 00:00:16,641 --> 00:00:18,935 They're dealing with a serial killer. 5 00:00:20,270 --> 00:00:22,355 (CHILLING MUSIC) 6 00:00:37,954 --> 00:00:40,040 (OMINOUS MUSIC) 7 00:00:54,512 --> 00:00:56,181 (STATIC CRACKLING) 8 00:01:01,644 --> 00:01:04,022 MAN: The thing inside of me, it's like... 9 00:01:05,565 --> 00:01:07,692 The appetite, it's like a wolf that's... 10 00:01:09,861 --> 00:01:12,364 ..feeling...the hunger. 11 00:01:55,740 --> 00:01:58,034 (WETTLAUFER SIGHS HEAVILY) 12 00:02:01,830 --> 00:02:03,915 (FOREBODING MUSIC) 13 00:02:34,362 --> 00:02:37,198 Wettlaufer believes she's the chosen one, 14 00:02:37,282 --> 00:02:40,535 that God has chosen her to do important work, 15 00:02:40,618 --> 00:02:44,581 that God has identified who should die next. 16 00:02:45,790 --> 00:02:49,461 I think what that really is, is just good old-fashioned narcissism. 17 00:02:49,544 --> 00:02:53,256 It's making herself more important than she is as a person. 18 00:02:54,507 --> 00:02:57,260 We never think of health care professionals 19 00:02:57,344 --> 00:03:00,221 to be the type of individuals that would consciously 20 00:03:00,305 --> 00:03:02,849 kill the people they're in charge of taking care of. 21 00:03:02,932 --> 00:03:07,187 So, she's got that as a, kind of interesting cover working for her. 22 00:03:14,235 --> 00:03:19,908 So, this is an excerpt from notes that, um, Nurse Wettlaufer wrote. 23 00:03:21,117 --> 00:03:26,664 And she says, 'James was known for inappropriately touching the staff. 24 00:03:26,748 --> 00:03:30,460 That evening, I got the urge to overdose James. 25 00:03:30,543 --> 00:03:32,921 I was angry that he was so inappropriate.' 26 00:03:35,131 --> 00:03:38,009 It comes across as very sterile clinical. 27 00:03:38,093 --> 00:03:41,513 It's as if James is a problem. James needs to die. 28 00:04:40,947 --> 00:04:43,033 (CHILLING MUSIC) 29 00:04:43,116 --> 00:04:47,579 It might be a revenge killing because Wettlaufer talks about 30 00:04:47,662 --> 00:04:50,957 how James was inappropriate with the nursing staff. 31 00:04:51,041 --> 00:04:54,753 She's ignoring the fact of his condition. 32 00:04:54,836 --> 00:04:59,132 If he made a pass at her, that may have been the last straw. 33 00:04:59,215 --> 00:05:00,925 But the step into psychopathy, 34 00:05:01,009 --> 00:05:03,678 is deciding to kill him for that behaviour. 35 00:05:31,915 --> 00:05:34,167 My guess is what she's feeling relief about 36 00:05:34,250 --> 00:05:36,002 is an internal sense of loathing. 37 00:05:36,086 --> 00:05:40,256 It's a sense of self-hate. It's a sense of rejection socially. 38 00:05:41,049 --> 00:05:42,717 To kill Silcox, 39 00:05:42,801 --> 00:05:46,012 allows her to release that sense of conflict. 40 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,724 Rage usually starts early. 41 00:05:49,808 --> 00:05:53,561 She's, probably slowly but surely since childhood, 42 00:05:53,645 --> 00:05:55,313 been an angry person. 43 00:05:55,397 --> 00:05:58,483 And she finally found a place 44 00:05:58,566 --> 00:06:02,529 where she could safely enlist her predatory skills. 45 00:07:09,429 --> 00:07:11,514 (OMINOUS MUSIC) 46 00:07:17,020 --> 00:07:20,648 This is about her second victim and it says, 47 00:07:20,732 --> 00:07:23,943 'I was told by one of the nurses that Maurice had a bad habit 48 00:07:24,027 --> 00:07:27,614 of grabbing the staff's breasts and asses. 49 00:07:27,697 --> 00:07:30,742 One afternoon, I was working, and I felt angry.' 50 00:07:32,077 --> 00:07:36,122 There's anger that is triggered by something related to sex. 51 00:07:36,206 --> 00:07:40,543 It's not specific revenge on this patient, 52 00:07:40,627 --> 00:07:45,048 but he now represents something that she's going to eliminate, 53 00:07:45,131 --> 00:07:49,219 and so, that triggers her psychopathic behaviour. 54 00:08:26,006 --> 00:08:30,176 When Wettlaufer says, 'I felt a lot of guilt', it's not over the murder. 55 00:08:30,260 --> 00:08:32,470 She feels guilt because there's a conflict 56 00:08:32,554 --> 00:08:35,598 between the part of her that went into nursing to help people, 57 00:08:35,682 --> 00:08:39,644 and the part that took someone's life because she was angry at them. 58 00:08:40,395 --> 00:08:44,441 It's also interesting that she uses the term 'ass'. 59 00:08:44,524 --> 00:08:47,736 Ass is a vulgar word. There's a clue there. 60 00:08:49,154 --> 00:08:51,364 She doesn't really seem like 61 00:08:51,448 --> 00:08:55,660 she's socially adept or skilled, uh, with other people. 62 00:08:55,744 --> 00:08:58,580 People reveal themselves through the language they use. 63 00:09:36,493 --> 00:09:39,204 Hydromorphone is an opiate. 64 00:09:39,287 --> 00:09:42,540 The choice to use an opiate and get high, 65 00:09:42,624 --> 00:09:44,918 I think was a, a different direction 66 00:09:45,001 --> 00:09:48,129 of trying to get that same stimulation or thrill-seeking 67 00:09:48,213 --> 00:09:50,590 that she got from killing those two patients. 68 00:09:51,466 --> 00:09:53,718 What often happens on narcotics, 69 00:09:53,802 --> 00:09:57,097 your inhibitions are reduced 70 00:09:57,180 --> 00:10:00,809 to the place where some of those bad thoughts can come back. 71 00:10:00,892 --> 00:10:03,186 The more she does that, 72 00:10:03,269 --> 00:10:07,023 the more likely it is that the rage would re-emerge. 73 00:10:17,033 --> 00:10:21,788 She says, uh, 'Gladys had severe dementia and no longer talked. 74 00:10:21,871 --> 00:10:26,292 She was very stubborn and horribly difficult to give pills to.' 75 00:10:27,252 --> 00:10:30,130 So, her victim is a woman in this case. 76 00:10:31,715 --> 00:10:35,343 We learn something new... Women are eligible to be killed. 77 00:11:03,913 --> 00:11:05,999 (FOREBODING MUSIC) 78 00:11:29,230 --> 00:11:31,316 (CHILLING MUSIC) 79 00:11:31,399 --> 00:11:34,986 After laying off killing for about three years, 80 00:11:35,070 --> 00:11:39,032 the bar seems lower for whom she's willing to kill. 81 00:11:39,949 --> 00:11:44,037 She's choosing the weakest and the most vulnerable, 82 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,498 to act this rage out on. 83 00:11:46,581 --> 00:11:49,918 These people can't fight back. They can't hurt her. 84 00:11:50,001 --> 00:11:52,587 Some of them can't even talk. 85 00:11:53,755 --> 00:11:57,592 She celebrates this woman decking another guy. 86 00:11:57,676 --> 00:12:00,762 You can hear she laughs. She's, she's invigorated by it. 87 00:12:00,845 --> 00:12:04,849 But then, um, this woman that she can identify with, 88 00:12:04,933 --> 00:12:07,018 now becomes a pain in the ass, 89 00:12:07,102 --> 00:12:09,479 because she's demented and giving her a problem. 90 00:12:09,562 --> 00:12:14,442 This is where I think psychopathy becomes even more prominent. 91 00:12:14,526 --> 00:12:17,320 It doesn't matter now whether you're a man or a woman 92 00:12:17,404 --> 00:12:20,532 making sexual or non-sexual comments. 93 00:12:20,615 --> 00:12:23,159 The common denominator is you're irritating. 94 00:12:23,243 --> 00:12:27,122 And if you irritate her, she decides you gotta go. 95 00:12:28,665 --> 00:12:30,750 (OMINOUS MUSIC) 96 00:12:38,299 --> 00:12:40,885 Wettlaufer started to write poetry. 97 00:12:40,969 --> 00:12:43,304 Here is one of those poems. 98 00:12:45,140 --> 00:12:48,643 'She watches some life drain from the notch in his neck vein. 99 00:12:48,727 --> 00:12:51,980 As it soothingly pools, it smothers her pain. 100 00:12:52,063 --> 00:12:55,942 Sweet stiletto, so sharp, craves another cut.' 101 00:12:57,318 --> 00:12:59,029 I really see that as, 102 00:12:59,112 --> 00:13:01,906 murdering people helps her feel better. 103 00:13:01,990 --> 00:13:04,701 And it makes me really wonder if there is 104 00:13:04,784 --> 00:13:08,079 some sadistic piece of her 105 00:13:08,163 --> 00:13:10,749 that enjoys watching them struggle. 106 00:13:46,659 --> 00:13:49,913 On the surface, it makes her look like the super nurse on the unit. 107 00:13:49,996 --> 00:13:52,332 But what we know is that she also knew 108 00:13:52,415 --> 00:13:55,085 that she was essentially giving her, her last meal. 109 00:13:55,168 --> 00:13:58,004 And she had every intention of killing her later that night. 110 00:13:59,214 --> 00:14:02,759 She didn't have to give her a blueberry pie and ice cream. 111 00:14:02,842 --> 00:14:07,681 So she's playing with her. She delights in killing someone. 112 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,434 And that's a very perverse delight. 113 00:14:12,644 --> 00:14:15,021 You might wonder, why bother being kind? 114 00:14:15,105 --> 00:14:17,273 I think her image of herself as a nurse 115 00:14:17,357 --> 00:14:19,484 is also someone who's supposed to be nice. 116 00:14:19,567 --> 00:14:23,363 In her mind, she's like, 'I'm gonna do something nice for her since she has to go.' 117 00:14:23,446 --> 00:14:25,240 'I might as well give her ice cream.' 118 00:14:25,323 --> 00:14:29,869 'So, what do you like to eat? What's your favourite dessert?' 119 00:14:29,953 --> 00:14:34,249 'Pie and ice cream.' She goes, 'I'll go get you some.' 120 00:14:34,332 --> 00:14:37,210 And forgets to add, 'After that, I'm killing you.' 121 00:14:37,293 --> 00:14:40,255 Right, so I think she does oscillate in this thing. 122 00:14:40,338 --> 00:14:42,632 In her mind, I think she can justify and say, 123 00:14:42,716 --> 00:14:45,218 'I'm nice to her', but it doesn't have to do with her. 124 00:14:45,301 --> 00:14:48,138 She's just the next one that has to go. 125 00:14:48,221 --> 00:14:52,684 So, it's this impersonal view of the victim in that sense. 126 00:15:19,753 --> 00:15:24,007 To actually state that she laughed out loud after killing her, 127 00:15:24,090 --> 00:15:27,344 I mean, what kind of person does that? 128 00:15:28,470 --> 00:15:31,222 The person didn't even annoy her. 129 00:15:32,349 --> 00:15:35,727 Why is she frustrated on her job? What's unsatisfying? 130 00:15:35,810 --> 00:15:38,396 Normally, you have a talk with the supervisor, right? 131 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:41,024 You talk to somebody. You go, 'I don't like my job.' 132 00:15:41,107 --> 00:15:43,568 'Maybe I'll get a new one. I'll do something.' 133 00:15:43,651 --> 00:15:45,320 She doesn't. 134 00:15:45,403 --> 00:15:48,907 She just gets this feeling very primitively in her chest. 135 00:15:49,616 --> 00:15:53,161 And if she has that feeling and she's around a particular individual 136 00:15:53,244 --> 00:15:57,040 it seems like that's how it gets pegged to, Helen, at the time. 137 00:15:57,123 --> 00:15:59,334 She happens to be around her, 138 00:15:59,417 --> 00:16:02,003 gets the feeling and says, 'Oh! You're the one.' 139 00:16:02,087 --> 00:16:06,007 Wettlaufer's showing us what it is to be a psychopath. 140 00:16:07,175 --> 00:16:10,261 She enjoys the high. She enjoys the power. 141 00:16:10,345 --> 00:16:12,764 This isn't about the patients at all at this point. 142 00:16:12,847 --> 00:16:17,227 Wettlaufer has discovered something about herself she didn't know... She enjoys killing. 143 00:16:24,401 --> 00:16:26,486 (SOMBRE MUSIC) 144 00:16:26,569 --> 00:16:29,280 This is an, uh, excerpt from the confession letter 145 00:16:29,364 --> 00:16:32,784 of, uh, Wettlaufer about Mary Zurawinksi. 146 00:16:33,868 --> 00:16:39,624 'Mary bugged me because she was outspoken and resistive to care. 147 00:16:39,708 --> 00:16:43,003 I was feeling very angry in general. 148 00:16:43,086 --> 00:16:46,047 She died the next afternoon.' 149 00:16:46,131 --> 00:16:48,800 She's returned to some of the old play book signals. 150 00:16:48,883 --> 00:16:53,138 If the patient is annoying... the patient's gotta go. 151 00:17:40,393 --> 00:17:43,438 She was fun to work with but she's also saying 152 00:17:43,521 --> 00:17:46,691 that Mary essentially gave her permission to kill her. 153 00:17:46,775 --> 00:17:49,486 The impulse control is very poor at this point. 154 00:17:49,569 --> 00:17:51,696 Just because someone says, 'I want to die' 155 00:17:51,780 --> 00:17:55,033 doesn't mean you have permission to kill them or you should kill them. 156 00:17:55,116 --> 00:17:59,120 But it enables her psychopathy, in the sense that she doesn't even have to be annoyed. 157 00:18:00,288 --> 00:18:02,374 It's about revenge, writ large, 158 00:18:02,457 --> 00:18:06,002 revenge about whatever happened to me in the past. 159 00:18:06,086 --> 00:18:07,754 I'm gonna bite the world back. 160 00:18:07,837 --> 00:18:09,547 She's plotting everybody's murder 161 00:18:09,631 --> 00:18:12,300 while being sweet and taking care of them, 162 00:18:12,384 --> 00:18:14,719 and then ushers them right off to their death. 163 00:18:30,235 --> 00:18:32,320 (DRAMATIC MUSIC) 164 00:18:34,364 --> 00:18:36,449 (SINISTER MUSIC) 165 00:18:59,681 --> 00:19:02,767 This is what she has to say about Maureen and killing her. 166 00:19:02,851 --> 00:19:05,437 'Maureen had a lot of behaviours. 167 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:08,356 She would hit other residents or pull their hair. 168 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:12,152 Then I got the idea that if I could cause her some brain damage, 169 00:19:12,235 --> 00:19:14,988 she wouldn't be such a handful.' 170 00:19:15,071 --> 00:19:19,868 Wettlaufer is changing her motivations for killing. 171 00:19:19,951 --> 00:19:21,995 Now, she's dealing with patients 172 00:19:22,078 --> 00:19:24,998 where she doesn't even feel the urge necessarily to kill them. 173 00:19:25,081 --> 00:19:27,459 She just wants to control the situation. 174 00:20:10,835 --> 00:20:12,712 (CHILLING MUSIC) 175 00:20:29,938 --> 00:20:32,691 It's terrifying to think about a nurse doing that. 176 00:20:32,774 --> 00:20:34,901 Wettlaufer is making the decision 177 00:20:34,984 --> 00:20:37,445 to handle these patients as if they're objects. 178 00:20:38,321 --> 00:20:41,241 You really see an arrogance coming over Wettlaufer. 179 00:20:41,324 --> 00:20:44,619 Now, it's just about making sure she doesn't experience stress. 180 00:20:44,703 --> 00:20:48,289 She's not even saying, 'It's a sign from God, I should kill her.' 181 00:20:48,373 --> 00:20:51,001 She's going, 'I just want to mutilate her brain, 182 00:20:51,084 --> 00:20:53,753 so she stops being such a pain in the ass.' 183 00:20:53,837 --> 00:20:56,548 Which is hostile and aggressive. 184 00:20:56,631 --> 00:20:58,800 We are seeing this progression 185 00:20:58,883 --> 00:21:01,928 from killing men who are sexually aggressive and abusive. 186 00:21:02,012 --> 00:21:04,848 And then it progresses to general irritability. 187 00:21:04,931 --> 00:21:08,435 She then picks on a victim who is defenceless. 188 00:21:08,518 --> 00:21:10,270 This is psychopathy. 189 00:21:53,229 --> 00:21:55,315 subtitles by Deluxe 190 00:21:55,398 --> 00:21:57,859 It's important to note that she turned herself in 191 00:21:57,942 --> 00:22:00,653 because she had an opportunity to work with children. 192 00:22:01,571 --> 00:22:04,324 She says it's because she wanted to stop killing. 193 00:22:04,407 --> 00:22:07,827 But it's not as easy to kill children without people asking questions. 194 00:22:07,911 --> 00:22:11,706 Even, the pretence that this is driven by God 195 00:22:11,790 --> 00:22:13,458 is, is, is off the table. 196 00:22:14,459 --> 00:22:17,295 She's mastered the art of being a nice person 197 00:22:17,379 --> 00:22:21,591 so she covers very skilfully how malignant she is. 198 00:22:21,675 --> 00:22:26,429 She really is an angel of death and she's highly psychopathic.