Photo: Kent County Sheriff’s Department
A notorious convicted female serial killer who helped murder five women in a nursing home “for fun” has been released from prison after nearly 30 years. She is moving to South Carolina – sparking fear in victims’ families, who worry she’ll kill again.
They even inspired an episode ofAmerican Horror Story: Roanokein 2016, about a pair of nurses who kill their patients.
Gwendolyn Graham.Kent County Sheriff’s Department
They killed the women “for fun” and because of a “love bond,” Wood said, outlets including the Associated Press,The New York Timesand local station ABC Columbia reported.
As part of a depraved game, they also chose their victims based on their last names so they couldspell out the word ‘M-U-R-D-E-R’ using the unwitting patients’ initials,The New York Timesreported.
Now 56, Graham is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Gwendolyn Graham, 56.Michigan Department of Corrections
But in October 2019, she was finally granted release, the Associated Press and local station WGVU report.
On Thursday, Wood left the federal prison in Tallahassee.She had been sent there after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and conspiracy, and was sentenced to a prison term of 20 to 40 years, local station Fox 46 reports.
She’s moved to Fort Mill, South Carolina, where she will live with her sister, which is worrying the families of her victims and members of law enforcement who helped catch her.
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John Engman, whose mother-in-law, Mae Mason, was one of Graham and Wood’s victims, is unhappy about her release.
“If I was a neighbor, I would want to definitely know that we have a serial killer living next door,” he said.
source: people.com
