Mass. woman, 98, accused of killing roommate, 100

In New Bedford, Mass. A 98 year old woman is charged with second degree murder, after she strangled her 100 year old roommate. Laura Lundquist is now in a mental hospital for a full evaluation. Lundquist killed her roommate, 100 year old Elizabeth Barrow, after she felt that she was trying to take over the room. Lundquist had complained that her roommate had to many visitors and had also made threatening and harassing comments to Barrow. Barrow had complained that Lundquist was making her life a living hell. Scott Barrow had ask the nursing home to separate the two, but the staff assured him that they were getting along just fine. The home stated that the two acted like sisters and did every thing together.

What a bunch of crap. My wife has worked in nursing homes for years and it is horrifying to hear some of the stories that she tells me. Most of these people in the nursing homes are treated like crap. They are told what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. It is so sad that they live there whole lives and then get put in a nursing home and the home treats them so bad. In this case the nursing home didn't care about what was going on. That is pretty typical of most nursing homes. They don't care about these people. Most of the time it is a bunch of young kids just out of high school that are taking care of these people, we call them nurses aids. Most of them this is just a job they are just there to get a pay check and go home.

I think that the family should sue the nursing home. I mean the nursing home was aware of the problem and did nothing to correct it. The nursing home should of taken care of this, as soon as they heard about the problem. A poor woman who lived for 100 years just to end up dead because someone was at work to collect a check. That is why I will never put my family in a nursing home. I know what goes on behind those walls.

It is a shame that this poor woman's life ended this way. It is also sad to know that because the people at the nursing home were not doing there job one is dead and the other will live her last few years in a mental hospital. I think that worse thing about the whole thing is that the nursing home is getting away with murder.