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Autopsy Shows 100-Year-Old Was Murdered

Nursing home resident Elizabeth Barrow found strangled

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(Newser) – A Massachusetts medical examiner has ruled the death of a 100-year-old nursing home patient a homicide by strangulation. Elizabeth Barrow was found dead in her room Sept. 24, with a plastic bag over her head and no obvious signs of struggle, a law enforcement source tells the Standard-Times of New Bedford. After the autopsy ruled out out suicide, a police rep says, an “open, ongoing investigation” is under way.

Barrow’s son couldn’t fathom why someone would kill the retired school cafeteria worker. “She loved the nursing home. She had a lot of friends there,” he said. “I hope someone gives me some answers.”

Elizabeth W. Barrow
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Berzelius
Oct 8, 09 11:35 AM CDT
That is some wicked ish. I hope whoever did it is feeling guilty and kills themself. Reply
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Wraith
Oct 8, 09 12:17 PM CDT
Perhaps it was one of the one's seen here on the board calling for the "old" people to die and quit costing them money? Just a thought
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JonmarkP
Oct 8, 09 1:51 PM CDT
Obama did it.
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flame821
Oct 8, 09 5:38 PM CDT
in the East Coast states we had a male nurse who thought he was the 'angel of death' and did just this sort of thing. OR I wonder if there is an Alzheimer unit in the nursing home? Some of those patient's dementia get pretty bad.
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LibertyMan
Oct 8, 09 11:38 AM CDT
"Paulie did it!" Reply
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