Australia - Brenda and Lynton Anderson, married, both 94, allegedly murdered a year apart, South Australia, 2022-2023 *daughter charged*

[Kemug]

I'm thinking it was the CCTV footage opposite the gentleman's home which led the police to the daughter? There is nothing suspicious about a daughter visiting her elderly father, but if the camera shows that no-one else visited the house in the relevant time before Mr Anderson was found unconscious by a carer, that is very telling.

 

[Kemug]

Noarlunga Hospital is a long way from their home, but perhaps they were staying with family when Mrs B was admitted to the hospital.
ETA Oops, I was thinking that Hackham was a NE suburb of Adelaide, maybe I was confusing it with Payneham. It's been along time!

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I imagine her defence might say that the husband gave his wife the drug a year ago, then took his own life.
But to wait almost another year to do it doesn't seem likely to me.

And I thought I read somewhere? that when he was found there was blood on his head.
I can't find it now so it may have been a mistake in an article which was later rectified and updated.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Noarlunga Hospital is a long way from their home, but perhaps they were staying with family when Mrs B was admitted to the hospital.

Perhaps she was staying at her father's house, maybe both times.

I know it says that her father had a carer, but maybe she had moved in to help care, in an unofficial way, like families do.

 

[SouthAussie]

Noarlunga Hospital is a long way from their home, but perhaps they were staying with family when Mrs B was admitted to the hospital.
ETA Oops, I was thinking that Hackham was a NE suburb of Adelaide, maybe I was confusing it with Payneham. It's been along time!

Noarlunga Hospital would have been Mr & Mrs Anderson's local hospital. But it doesn't have a trauma centre and some other facilities. It is a relatively small hospital.

Flinders Medical Centre is a much bigger hospital, and the next-closest one to where the Andersons lived. And it has all of the trauma and other facilities.

(Just for some background)

 

[Kemug]

I imagine her defence might say that the husband gave his wife the drug a year ago, then took his own life.
But to wait almost another year to do it doesn't seem likely to me.

And I thought I read somewhere? that when he was found there was blood on his head.
I can't find it now so it may have been a mistake in an article which was later rectified and updated.

The blood on his head may be due to falling when he became unconscious.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

The blood on his head may be due to falling when he became unconscious.

I did think that, but I also now think he may have had a struggle with someone

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Daughter in court over couple's medication murders

The daughter of an elderly Adelaide couple has appeared in court charged with their murders with allegations the victims were deliberately overdosed with prescriptio...

www.seymourtelegraph.com.au

Appeared in court

Bail application rejected.

 

[Crumble]

7 News claims the daughter gave her parents an overdose of her own insulin as she's a diabetic. I asked my friend who is a nurse and she said insulin would not be her first choice if it were a mercy killing. Seems like a bad choice form a criminal point of view as well. Using insulin would lead suspicion directly to her. MOO

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Daughter in court over couple's medication murders

The daughter of an elderly Adelaide couple has appeared in court charged with their murders with allegations the victims were deliberately overdosed with prescriptio...

www.seymourtelegraph.com.au

Prosecutors alleged the 62-year-old had administered her own insulin to Brenda Anderson and Lynton Anderson, both aged 94.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Oops @Crumble. Didn't see your post as I was posting.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Is there some innocent reason why she may have used insulin ?

 

[SouthAussie]

Is there some innocent reason why she may have used insulin ?

I would think that she would know what insulin overdose does, as she was a diabetic.
Maybe she thought it was a "peaceful" way for them to die?


"In extreme cases, insulin overdose causes severe hypoglycemia resulting in loss of consciousness, coma, severe and irreversible brain injuries, or death"

The Other Face of Insulin—Overdose and Its Effects

Insulin is the most effective glycemic-lowering drug, and for people suffering from type 1 diabetes it is a life-saving drug. Its self-dosing by patients may be associated with a higher risk of overdose, both accidental and deliberate. Insulin-induced ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[Dotta]

Murdering one's own parents is one the most heinous acts IMO.

Elderly, trusting and dependent on care of others.

Many cultures consider parricide as one of the worst crimes.

Leaving Dad alone and heartbroken after wife's death is torture in my opinion.

And then she (allegedly) murdered him also.

Why did a daughter become a monster?

JMO

 

[annpats]

I imagine her defence might say that the husband gave his wife the drug a year ago, then took his own life.
But to wait almost another year to do it doesn't seem likely to me.

Had the daughter have been a bit more criminally smart, and had poisoned both her parents together, at the same time, it would've looked like a suicide pact or murder suicide.

I'm glad the daughter has been caught, and hope she hasn't killed any more people in her job as an aged care assistant.

 

[Kemug]

I did think that, but I also now think he may have had a struggle with someone

I so hope not, especially if it was his daughter - he and his wife not knowing who killed them has comforted me.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

And then she murdered him also.

She hasn't been convicted yet.

So I'm hoping it wasn't a case of greed...

If she did it, no matter how misguided, I'm hoping she thought her parents were suffering and thought she was doing the right thing.
We don't know yet. Both of her parents may have been struggling and made their wishes known to her.

But we just don't know.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Had the daughter have been a bit more criminally smart, and had poisoned both her parents together, at the same time, it would've looked like a suicide pact or murder suicide.

That's what I was thinking.

 

[Dotta]

I'm hoping she thought her parents were suffering and thought she was doing the right thing.

(Alleged) murdering is never "the right thing" IMO

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Daughter accused of murdering her parents allegedly administered lethal doses of medication, court hears

Raelene Polymiadis — who is accused of administering her parents with lethal doses of medication a year apart — appears in the Adelaide Magistrates Court and is denied bail.

www.abc.net.au

A 62-year-old woman charged with murdering her elderly parents, allegedly gave them lethal doses of insulin and attempted to frame one of the deaths as a suicide, a court has heard.

In arguing against bail, prosecutors told the court that Ms Polymiadis's mother Brenda, had a fall on February 23, 2022.

She was taken to the Flinders Medical Centre, where police allege Ms Polymiadis administered her mother with insulin on two occasions, the second of which led to Ms Anderson's death on March 16.

They allege that a year later, the 62-year-old administered her father, Lynton, with insulin while he was at his Hackham home, and then scattered his prescription Oxazepam — a drug used to treat insomnia —across the house in what police described as a "poor attempt to make it look like a suicide".

The day before her father was found on the kitchen floor with Oxazepam in his system, an examination of the accused's phone reveals that she had been Googling the effects of Oxazepam," the prosecution said.

But the court heard a post-mortem of Mr Anderson revealed that while he had Oxazepam in his system, it wasn't a fatal dose and it was insulin that killed him.