Sunday, December 13, 2009

98-year-old indicted for murder of 100-year-old woman

A Massachusetts grand jury has indicted a 98-year-old woman on second-degree murder charges stemming from the strangling her 100-year-old nursing home roommate.

Prosecutors say Laura Lundquist killed centenarian Elizabeth Barrow, a resident of Brandon Woods Nursing Home in Dartmouth, after the two women had an argument over a table Lundquist had placed at the foot of Barrow's bed. Barrow was found dead September 24 with a plastic shopping bag tied loosely around her head. Barrow previously complained the table obstructed her path to the bathroom, prosecutors said. When a nurse's aide moved it, Lundquist punched the aide and complained that her roommate "might as well have the whole room". Her roomate complained repeatedly about Lundquist saying she was making her life "a living hell". Lundquist countered saying she would outlive her roommate. It seems she was right.

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