Peter Woodcock - Canada's Youngest Serial Killer

The story of the child murderer and serial killer Peter Woodcock is not for the faint of heart. If reading about subjects like this makes you squeamish, please don't read any further.

Peter Woodcock was born in Peterborough, Ontario in 1939. His mother was a young 17-year-old factory worker and she had difficulty with the child. He would not eat and cried constantly. At a month old his mother gave him up for adoption.

Peter continued to cry all the time and would screech whenever someone approached him. He would be bounced around between temporary foster homes, to prevent him from forming an attachment to any particular family until a more permanent home could be found.

By his first birthday, he was still terrified of people and his speech was described as strange whining animal noises. He suffered abuse in these early days at the hands of his temporary foster parents, having had to go to the hospital for a neck injury at 2 years old after a beating.

Elizabeth Wettlaufer

When a family member has to go into assisted living, or "end of life" care, you trust that the caregivers looking after your loved ones have their best interests at heart. Chances are if your end of life caregiver was Elizabeth Wettlaufer, your end of life would come sooner than expected.

Elizabeth Wettlaufer was a registered nurse in Southern Ontario that admitted to murdering 8 seniors and attempting to murder 6 others during the years of 2007 and 2016. She would inject lethal doses of insulin into her victims, ensuring a prolonged complicated death.

Her first known crimes began when she worked as a nurse at Caressant Care in Woodstock, Ontario. She would admit to injecting two of the patients, Clotilde Adriano and Albina Demedeiros with insulin but at this point, she didn't know the correct amount for a lethal dosage. They would later pass, but it was not connected to the overdose of insulin.