Alpine Manor in Walker, Michigan, was the scene of a shocking series of deaths in 1987 that involved staff members rather than outsiders. One of the victims was 95-year-old Myrtle Luce, one of five elderly female residents who were smothered. The two nurse’s aides implicated were Gwendolyn Graham and Catherine Wood.

The case came to light in 1988 after Wood’s ex-husband reported disclosures she had made. Wood gave authorities an account implicating Graham as the primary actor and herself as a lookout. Medical exams on exhumed victims found no definitive physical evidence of suffocation, but the county medical examiner classified the deaths as homicides and warrants were issued. Both aides were arrested in December 1988.

Wood later entered a plea agreement and testified that Graham planned and carried out the killings; Graham denied the charges. A jury convicted Graham on November 3, 1989, of five counts of murder and one count of conspiracy, and found Wood guilty on related charges. The reported motive was a twisted love bond between the two women.