Laura Jackson and Don Martin were good friends with Maurice Granat, 84, Wettlaufer’s second alleged victim. They visited the long-time auto body shop worker at Caressant Care at least once a week.
On Dec. 23, 2007, they received a call at about 4 a.m. from someone at the Woodstock facility saying Granat — known to them as “Moe” — was not well. They rushed to the nursing home.
Martin entered the room and saw Granat struggling with a nurse he says he recognized as Wettlaufer after seeing photos of her arrest. Granat’s arms were flailing and he was making strange noises. Martin held his hand and Granat calmed down.
To Granat’s friends, the nurse appeared gruff. “She just said, ‘Get out of my way. Get out of my way,’” Jackson said.
She left the room and returned moments later with a needle. She shoved Jackson aside and said, “This will soothe him now.”
About 20 minutes later, Granat gasped his final breath. Jackson and Martin have no idea what medication was administered and there is no evidence it led to the death.
Neither Jackson nor Martin thought often about that day, until they saw Granat’s name on the front page of the Star. They were “gobsmacked” and “floored.” And they can’t stop thinking about it.
“It’s spinning in my mind,” Martin said. “I never heard (before) what he sounded like that day. He was struggling with her. Was he fighting her? What was going on before we’d been there?”
