We have a system. Innocent until proven guilty.
On Sept. 24, 2009 at 6:20 AM Elizabeth Barrow was discovered dead in bed.
She was in a two bed room in a nursing home.
She had a Walmart plastic bag over her head.
She had a shoelace under her body.
In the other bed in the room was Laura Lindquist, sleeping.
Laura Lindquist is accused of choking Elizabeth Barrow to death.
No one reported any noise coming from the room.
Could Elizabeth Barrow have committed suicide?
Could Laura Lindquist have assisted her friend Betty in the suicide?
In 2007 when her husband Raymond died, Elizabeth went home with her son Scott
for the services, she expected to be there for a few days, but was returned after only
one night.
She was disappointed.
A couple-three weeks before her death, after being returned to the facility, by her only
child, Scott, Betty told one of her care givers at the nursing home that her son had someone else in his life, and she felt she wasn’t needed any more.
Betty and Laura became roommates after the death of Betty’s husband.
Betty and Laura were friends for many many months before Betty’s death.
They were together in a small room for hours every day.
Betty was probably the better logical thinker.
Laura was known to sometimes submit to Elizabeth’s requests.
Betty loved murder mysteries, and as an avid reader, had read them a lot in her life.
At night Betty and Laura would often say “I love you” to each other before going to sleep.
Not long before her death, Betty was found crying by a care giver.
she had wet herself and was devastated. She was a proud woman.
Did she want to decide her time? Did she think it was her time after 100 years?
She was, by all indications, in full control of her mind.
Every week in the United States hundreds of people commit suicide.
Someone else can always be blamed, be it the Walmart bag maker or the poor nurse.
Most of the time “most likely” prevails, but then oh oh “stuff happens”.
A lot of us don’t call it “stuff”.
Some people in life look for compensation if they smell money, they try to make a case of blame instead of accepting, like most of us do, that “stuff happens”. Life goes on.
This should be a case of just moving on.