‘I think I dated a serial killer’: a P.A. woman’s week with Elizabeth Wettlaufer
When Beth came through the arrival gate at Saskatoon’s Diefenbaker International Airport, she ran over and gave Sheila Andrews a big hug.
Andrews, a 50-year-old kitchen worker, had met Beth through an online dating site about six months earlier. The two had corresponded, hit it off, and made plans to meet. Beth, who lived in Ontario, decided she would come West for the meeting and Andrews drove into Saskatoon to pick her up.
When she first met Beth in June of 2009, Andrews had no idea she would spend the next week showing one of Canada’s most prolific serial killers around her hometown of Prince Albert.
Elizabeth Tracy Mae Wettlaufer had already committed at least two murders when Andrews met her in Saskatoon. A registered nurse at a Woodstock, Ont. long-term care facility, Wettlaufer injected senior citizens with insulin, killing them without arousing suspicion. Her first victim, an 84-year-old army veteran and father of six named James Silcox, was killed Aug. 11, 2007. Her second, 84-year-old Maurice Grant, received a lethal injection just four months later.