A 49-year-old nursing home worker in Ontario has been charged with eight counts of first-degree murder spanning several years.
Elizabeth Tracey Mae Wettlaufer of Woodstock, Ontario, appeared in court on Tuesday morning.
The victims were residents in two long-term care facilities where Ms Wettlaufer worked and were between 75 and 96 years old.
Police said seven of the victims were given a fatal dose of a drug.
The victims were five women and three men and were all residents of Caressant Care in Woodstock and Meadow Park in London, Ontario.
"The victims were administered a drug... there are obviously a number of drugs that are stored and are available in long-term care facilities," Woodstock Police Chief William Renton said at a news conference.
The chief declined to comment on a possible motive, but did add that investigators are confident that they have identified all victims.
The deaths took place between 2007 and 2014. Police have identified the victims as:
- James Silcox, 84 (died 2007)
- Maurice Granat, 84 (died 2007)
- Gladys Millard, 87 (died 2011)
- Helen Matheson, 95 (died 2011)
- Mary Zurawinski, 96 (died 2011)
- Helen Young, 90 (died 2013)
- Maureen Pickering, 79 (died 2014)
- Arpad Harvath, 75 (died 2014)
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