100-year-old healthy woman strangled to death--A murder mystery. Who did it?

[StoneScratcher]

This story really bothers me. Elizabeth Barrow turned 100 this past August. She has been living in a nice nursing home for the past four years. She loves to shop, and in some local news reports, her son had said how, if she were placed behind a shopping cart, she'd take right off! Her son had taken her out the night before she had died. They went out to eat, and he said she loved to eat, was very active, and healthy. She had just bought her winter clothes! Imagine that...

But the next day, she was found with a plastic bag over her head. She didn't have a private room--she shared her room with a 90-year-old woman.

At first, they thought it was a suicide, that Elizabeth Barrow had killed herself--

BUT! When the autopsy was done, it was found that she had been STRANGLED!

She was murdered! A healthy 100-year-old woman had seen so much in her long life, had, as her last sight, the face of her murderer.

Who did it? Why? This story really saddens me.

Here's a link which has a video of some of the details I gave above, and also has a short segment with an interview with Elizabeth Barrow's son.

Do you think the son did it? The 90-year-old lady who shared a room with her? Someone on the staff?

So sad...

http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/2009/10/08/Police-Woman-found-dead-in/1255008060.html

[RogerDodger]

That's kind of like getting tackled on the one yard line.

[StoneScratcher]

That's kind of like getting tackled on the one yard line.

Nicely put. Exactly. Why would anyone do this? http://forums.hannity.com/images/icons/icon9.gif She was targeted, it seems.

[StoneScratcher]

OMG! I haven't heard this until now!

The 90-year-old lady who shared a room with her is being investigated!

The roommate of a 100-year-old Massachusetts woman who was found strangled in her nursing home bed, is being investigated, a source closed to the investigation tells Boston television station WHDH.

http://www2.turnto10.com/jar/news/local/article/son_of_100-year-old_woman_mom_was_outgoing/24650/

[Drawz]

Without more details my guess would be someone on the staff.

[Sinister Rouge]

It bothers me that the thread title is "Strangled to Death." That's redundant.

[birddog1]

It bothers me that the thread title is "Strangled to Death." That's redundant.

I was under the impression that one could be strangled without dying, much like you could become come choked without dying.

[Sinister Rouge]

I was under the impression that one could be strangled without dying, much like you could become come choked without dying.


I had a journalism prof who got hung up about this. Strangulation means death. It's like saying someone drowned to death.

[EnchantedFrog]

I had a journalism prof who got hung up about this. Strangulation means death. It's like saying someone drowned to death.
No. Strangulation does NOT mean death.

[Sinister Rouge]

No. Strangulation does NOT mean death.
Yes it does.



Main Entry: stran·gle
Pronunciation: \ˈstraŋ-gəl\
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): stran·gled; stran·gling \-g(ə-)liŋ\
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French estrangler, from Latin strangulare, from Greek strangalan, from strangalē halter — more at strain (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strain)
Date: 14th century
transitive verb 1 a : to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (as a hand or rope) : throttle (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/throttle) b : to obstruct seriously or fatally the normal breathing of c : stifle (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stifle)
2 : to suppress or hinder the rise, expression, or growth of <repression strangles free speech>
from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strangle

[mysticbeauty_nbeast]

Yes it does.



from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strangle

A human being can survive being strangled. Medical fact. One can survive drowning. Medical fact. Thus the word usage...to death....within stories that involve drowning or strangulation.

Just saying....

~Mysty

[NascarGirl2448]

Lives that long only to be killed in such a brutal manner. That is tragic. I hope they find out who did it.

[Sinister Rouge]

A human being can survive being strangled. Medical fact. One can survive drowning. Medical fact. Thus the word usage...to death....within stories that involve drowning or strangulation.

Just saying....

~Mysty


One can survive being choked. One can survive aspirating water into the lungs.
Strangulation and drowning both imply death, as my link showed.

Either way, I am sorry for taking this thread so far off topic.
This is truly a sad story.