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Here is the dramatic story of Catherine Wood, a suburban wife and mother, and Gwendolyn Graham, her lesbian lover, two nurse's aides at the Alpine Manor nursing home in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who smothered five helpless patients to death. Photo insert.

Alpine Manor was the finest nursing home in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Clean, efficient, and safe, elderly patients and their loved ones could always rely on the care they received there. Until November 29, 1988, when the shocking news exploded in the local media. Alpine Manor nurses'... Read Full Overview

Here is the dramatic story of Catherine Wood, a suburban wife and mother, and Gwendolyn Graham, her lesbian lover, two nurse's aides at the Alpine Manor nursing home in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who smothered five helpless patients to death. Photo insert.

Describes how two nurses aides made a bizarre love pact that resulted in the death of five elderly patients at the Alpine Manor nursing home in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the trial that brought to light astonishing evidence of sexual violence and insane jealousy. Reprint.

Here is the dramatic story of Catherine Wood, a suburban wife and mother, and Gwendolyn Graham, her lesbian lover, two nurse's aides at the Alpine Manor nursing home in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who smothered five helpless patients to death. Photo insert.

For months, Cathy Wood has fed the Alpine Manor residents, bathed them, and even moistened their eyes with artificial tears. To her, without their memories the residents live in a state worse than death-and she has decided to relieve them of their pain. Wood and her lover,... Read Full Overview

For months, Cathy Wood has fed the Alpine Manor residents, bathed them, and even moistened their eyes with artificial tears. To her, without their memories the residents live in a state worse than death-and she has decided to relieve them of their pain. Wood and her lover,... Read Full Overview