Murder Monday #6 Gwen Graham and Cathy Wood
Gwen Graham, born on August 6, 1963, in Texas, and Cathy Wood, born on March 7, 1962, in Michigan, met at the Alpine Manor nursing home where they worked as nurses aides. Their relationship quickly grew to friends, then lovers and murder partners. According to Wood's account, in January 1987, Graham smothered a patient with Alzheimer's while Wood was the lookout. The death appeared to be natural, so no autopsy was done. Over the next few months, Graham murdered four more patients with Alzheimer's and at first, they were trying to select victims so to spell "murder," but eventually counted their murders as a "day," and they would tell each other "I will love you forever and a day" or "I will love you forever and four days" as they accumulated kills. Wood also claims that Graham collected souvenirs from the victims, which were never found, and that Graham was the dominant in their relationship. Their relationship ended when Graha...