Never too old to kill?

At 100 years old, Elizabeth Barrow (shown at left) thought she was living a good life and had more time to come.  Unfortunately, her 98 year old roommate, Laura Lundquist, had other ideas.

According to Jason Kessler, Woman, 98, indicted in death of 100-year-old nursing home roommate, CNN Justice, Dec. 11, 2009:

A Massachusetts grand jury has indicted a 98-year-old woman, accused of strangling her 100-year-old nursing home roommate, on a second-degree murder charge.

Prosecutors say Laura Lundquist killed centenarian Elizabeth Barrow, a resident of Brandon Woods Nursing Home in Dartmouth, after the two women had an argument over a table Lundquist had placed at the foot of Barrow’s bed. * * *

Barrow complained that the table obstructed her path to the bathroom, authorities said. When a nurse’s aide moved it, Lundquist punched the aide and grumbled that her roommate “might as well have the whole room,” prosecutors said. * * *

A nursing home spokesman said the facility twice presented Barrow with the chance to change either rooms or roommates, but she declined each time. He compared the pair to “sisters,” saying they took “daily walks together … ate lunch together every day, and were heard at night saying, ‘Good night, I love you,’ to each other.”

Special thanks to David S. Luber (Attorney at law, Florida Probate Attorney Wills and Estates Law Firm) for bringing this article to my attention.