A 98-year-old woman was indicted December 11 in New Bedford,Massachusetts, on a 2nd-degree murder charge that alleges she strangled her 100-year-old nursing home roommate because she thought the woman was “taking over the room.”
Laura Lundquist is believed to be the oldest murder defendent in Massachusetts state history. The victim, Elizabeth Barrow was found dead in her bed on September 24 with a plastic Walmart bag over her head. An autopsy showed that she had been strangled before the bag was placed over her head.
Elizabeth Barrow had just celebrated her 100th birthday
this past August 21. (Barrow family photograph)
The Day reports:
Bristol District Attorney Sam Sutter said Lundquist suffered from paranoia and “harbored hostility towards the victim” and thought Barrow “was taking over the room they shared.”
Sutter said Barrow complained in the weeks prior to her death that Lundquist was making her life “a living hell.” The night before Barrow was killed, Lundquist put a table at the foot of her bed to block her way to the bathroom, then punched a nurses aide who removed it, he said.
Lundquist also told Barrow she would soon get her bed by the window because she would outlive her, Sutter said.
WFXT-TV Ch. 25 Boston filed this video report on the indictment:
The Associated Press has the full STORY.
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