This Woman Ran A Nursing Home, But Her Patients Were Dying At An Alarming Rate

Nursing homes are supposed to care for the elderly, but at Amy Archer's Home for the Elderly and Infirm? Residents were dying at alarming rates. Amy Archer and her husband, James, first began looking after the elderly in 1902. In 1907, they formally opened their own nursing home, but James died just three years later. In 1913, Archer married the wealthy Michael Gilligan. After three months, he also died, leaving his entire estate to his wife. Later, it would be found that he and up to 50 of Archer's patients had died of arsenic poisoning, in what was to become...

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