BOSTON — A 102-year-old woman who prosecutors say killed her 100-year-old roommate in a Massachusetts nursing home nearly five years ago faces a second-degree murder charge.
Laura Lundquist is the oldest murder defendant in state history.
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Lundquist was 98 when she was charged in 2009 on allegations she strangled Elizabeth Barrow, who was found with a plastic bag tied around her head at the Brandon Woods nursing home in Dartmouth.
Lundquist had a longstanding diagnosis of dementia and was ruled incompetent to stand trial. Since her indictment, she has been held at a state psychiatric hospital, while the murder charge against her remains active.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court is expected to rule soon on an appeal from Barrow’s son in his wrongful-death lawsuit against the nursing home. An arbitrator dismissed the suit.
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